Jukka Virkkunen (b. 1986) is a Finnish artist living in London. Virkkunen received BA in Graphic Design from the Universidade Norte do Paraná (Brazil) in 2015 and MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (UK) in 2020.
Virkkunen works in various mediums, including painting, drawing, video, performance, and installation, approaching making with physicality, intuition, and spontaneity. His practice engages with concepts drawn from autobiographical, art historical, and Nordic mythology, and involves a combination of spiritual, philosophical, and material investigation – the latter being a process of endless repurposing and combination of different materials and techniques.
Many of his works have been part of bigger installations or other paintings, and have been repurposed and reused. The finished works result from many physically intense actions in the studio.
Working primarily in silence, Virkkunen limits external distractions, leaving all emotive, and energetic feelings on the canvas, where ideas and materials are in a constant loop of destruction and birth.