Past
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Kirsi Mikkola
Spin n' Beam October 31 - November 23, 2025 Kirsi Mikkola's art conveys both uncompromising expressive vigor and profound vulnerability. Contrary elements often collide: dizzying energy and tumultuous anarchy coexist with hushed sensitivity Read more -
Eeva Peura
Bounded by Darkness October 31 - November 23, 2025 Recently, Eeva Peura has embraced an ever-expanding range of subjects in her paintings, which often feature recurring motifs such as animals, theatrical stages, and intricate marble details. Inner worlds take shape in visions of flowing water, silk-threaded deer, watchful wolves, and blossoming forms. Peura invites viewers into a melancholic, surreal... Read more -
Marika Mäkelä
Light of the Sand September 26 - October 26, 2025 Marika Mäkelä’s new paintings take us on a journey to places both familiar and unknown. Often, it is precisely the unknown that reveals the familiar in a new light. This exhibition is a synthesis of her experiences: influences gathered from many places merge into worlds of their own. Disparate realities... Read more -
Raili Tang
August 22 - September 21, 2025 Raili Tang’s latest paintings literally capture interwoven layers of time. Read more -
Stephan Balkenhol
August 22 - September 21, 2025 The minimalist sculptures of German artist Stephan Balkenhol radiate a quiet, archaic power. Though his figures often assume formal poses and wear expressionless faces, they are anything but detached. Instead, they convey a restrained yet compelling intensity. Balkenhol’s primary focus is the human condition—whether his subjects are actual people or... Read more -
Marjatta Tapiola
Metamorphoses June 6 - August 17, 2025 Marjatta Tapiola often takes inspiration for her paintings from literature, from sources such as the Greek Minotaur myth or the work of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Read more -
Emma Helle
Dresscode for Rivers March 28 - May 4, 2025 Emma Helle has drawn inspiration for the reclining figures in her new sculptures from personified river deities she has encountered on her travels, most recently in Roman fountains. Like many cities, Rome was founded on a river, for flowing water is literally the source of all life, but also a... Read more -
Iria Leino
March 28 - May 4, 2025 It is a unique privilege for a contemporary art gallery to become part of the history of modern art. Galerie Forsblom has been granted the rare opportunity to explore an undeservedly forgotten and undervalued artistic estate in which history is palpably present. It is with special excitement and anticipation that... Read more -
Kerttu Saali
Lightbeams and a Blizzard February 21 - March 23, 2025 Kerttu Saali (b. 1994) has adopted a darker palette and more intense style of expression in her latest paintings. Her characteristic curvilinear shapes and twisting lines stretch across the canvas, alternately converging and diverging to form abstract compositions, or “sites”, as the artist describes them. Read more -
Raili Tang
Flower of Life November 29, 2024 - January 12, 2025 Raili Tang has been painting the seasons and incorporating organic references in her compositions for many years. Although figurative expression holds secondary relevance for the artist, her paintings convincingly capture a vivid sense of nature’s flux. Her latest paintings depict a variety of flowers – often of a fanciful, fictitious variety, but some are also inspired by real flower species. Floral motifs have a long legacy in art history. Artists have been conveying rich symbolism through flowers for centuries, but for Tang, the thing of paramount importance is the act of painting itself, whether done with a paintbrush, palette knife or even a glove. Tang is a physical painter whose process combines exuberant abandon and sensitive dialogue with the canvas. Sometimes her paintings are completed in one quick session, other times it takes longer for them to find their final form. Her overlapping layers of color interact in complex ways, supporting, challenging, surprising and drawing strength from each other, expressing the full spectrum of human emotions in their chorus of hues.
Tang is a colorist who believes that colors say more than words ever could. A single painting might contain countless nuances expressed purely with color. The best way to enjoy Tang’s art is to give oneself time to immerse oneself deeply in its bewildering richness and to soak up the energy that flows from it. While many of Tang’s paintings express joy, they also convey other emotions; a touch of melancholy often lingers in the background, suggesting that life is best when exploring and appreciating the full richness of its colors and nuances. A new feature that has emerged alongside Tang’s signature expressive style is the appearance of delicate color accents alluding to Impressionism. Playing with combinations of warm and cool hues is an enjoyable process for Tang, and the viewer can palpably sense the ease with which coloristic nuances flow from her brush.
Raili Tang (b. 1950) has exhibited her work widely in Finland and internationally. Her paintings are held in Finland’s major museum collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, the Wihuri Foundation, the Saastamoinen Foundation, and the HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Tang was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal in 2015. Read more
