Ksenia Voy Kheninen (b. 1990) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, working in sculpture. Her work is built primarily in porcelain alongside found objects, textiles, elements of drawing and text. Trained in textiles in the Netherlands, she brings that material thinking into how she handles surface, layering, form and sensibility. She is vice-chair of the ceramic artists' association Savea, where her studio practice is based.
She grew up in East Karelia as an Ingrian Finn, in a region where the question of which cultures and languages belong has never been fully settled. She moved to Finland at fifteen, carrying the particular homesickness of someone formed by a place that was already disappearing. That experience is the ground the work grows from.
Her work develops in longer sculptural series, each holding a distinct personal, emotional or political subject. Her work deals with memory and cultural continuity, the interior life of the Other, generational empathy with object as a witness. Her current series Sekretiki takes its name and structure from a childhood practice in the region where she grew up: small hidden arrangements built in the ground, covered with glass and soil, looked at briefiy and covered again. Private, known only to the maker. This becomes a method: porcelain containers holding layered compositions of soil, images, found objects, and organic materials that continue to change. They are things built to be partially seen and partially withheld. The first installment was presented in March 2026 at a group show at Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki.