EXHIBITIONS

Tuula Lehtinen

Illuminations November 28, 2025 - January 11, 2026 Tuula Lehtinen’s paintings transport us to the Baroque era – to salons and parlours draped in heavy folds of fabric that divide space, conceal and reveal, and create tension between the visible and the hidden. Read more

Raisa Raekallio & Misha del Val

You Wouldn’t Believe What I Saw on My Evening Walk Yesterday November 28, 2025 - January 11, 2026 In Raekallio's and del Val's new artwork series, snow emerges as a dominant motif, within which surprising and incongruous figures appear: a skiing mystic, a nun, a philosopher – alongside whimsical objects such as fruit, flip-flops, or a laughing Great Grey Owl. Read more

Raana Lehtinen

Lomassa | In Between November 28, 2025 - January 11, 2026 Raana Lehtinen’s paintings hover in a borderland between realism and expressive dream. Her works radiate a tantalizing sense of imagination – an element of fairy-tale. Within her distinctive world, seemingly spilled spontaneously across the canvas, everything feels harmonious, and even the ordinary turns luminous. Read more

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

Eemil Karila

They Become Trees May 9 - June 1, 2025 Eemil Karila’s paintings are emotional spaces that breathe in the rhythm of nature. Read more

Stig Baumgartner

Pyramid and Superego March 28 - May 4, 2025 The vibrantly colorful geometrical structures in his paintings are like monuments placed upon pedestals, some of them proudly balanced, others wobbly and imperfect. 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

Kristina Riska

Uncertainties November 29, 2024 - January 12, 2025 Kristina Riska’s artistic process harnesses both the delicate malleability and the willful nature of clay. Read more

Hannu Väisänen

Rose Window November 29, 2024 - January 12, 2025 A compositional scheme structured around an off-center circle is the uniting feature of the paintings in Hannu Väisänen’s latest exhibition. The artist describes his new works using the term tondo, which refers to a circular painting or relief. Tondi was popular, especially in high Renaissance painting, but Väisänen draws his... Read more