About Sandra

Sandra creates work on how the state of mind shifts constantly, akin the materials and forces of nature. While her entities invite you to engage rather than just look at them. They are an appeal for open-mindedness and sensory engagement.

Before focusing fully on art and sculptural design pieces, she ran her interior and spatial design studio, Noun, for 15 years, transforming old or forgotten spaces into immersive environments. These boring colossuses and public spaces, soulless buildings, and abandoned industrial warehouses she transformed into vibrant human connections. But after a pivotal accident in 2019, she shifted focus to her own artistic foundation—working sculpturally with textiles, glass, and mixed media.

Today, she lives and works in Amsterdam in her lush green studio and home, co-parenting 2 children and is married to Job Keja.

An expression of
our creativity

As described by Stirpad Magazine: “Sandra creates work about how moods are constantly changing, similar to the materials and forces of nature. While her entities invite you to participate rather than merely look at them. They are a call for open-mindedness and sensory engagement. Her objects are more than static forms: they are dynamic entities designed to evoke tactile, visual, and emotional responses.”

Over the past five years, Keja Planken’s works have been exhibited in innovative galleries such as her own Messmerizing Gallery, The Millenhouse Gallery Amsterdam, Rhett Baruch Gallery Los Angeles, Isola Gallery Milano, and NewHouse Gallery Amsterdam—as well as museums and fairs around the world. Highlights include PAN Amsterdam with Atkris, Amsterdam Art with NewHouse Gallery, Rhett Baruch Gallery in Los Angeles, Collectible in Brussels, the Huidenclub x Elle Decor show, DesignBiennale Rotterdam x Elle Decor, Dutch Design Week, Salone del Mobile, and the museum show “Makerssecrets” at the National Textile Museum.

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