Galerie Forsblom will be closed from June 8 to August 9, 2026 due to renovation works at Suomitalo, the building housing the gallery. From August 10 to 13, new exhibitions will be installed at the gallery.
The gallery will reopen on Thursday August 13 with the opening reception of exhibitions by Mie Olise Kjærgaard, Emma Helle, and Markku Keränen. The exhibitions will be on view through Friday, August 14 to Sunday, September 13, 2026.
During the summer, we warmly welcome inquiries regarding available works from our sales collection and home viewings. We offer complimentary delivery for home viewing within the Greater Helsinki area.
In the paintings of Danish artist Mie Olise Kjærgaard (b. 1974) women take center. They sail, skate, ride, build, and play music, often with children in tow, moving with urgency and joy. Kjærgaard’s work celebrates the female body as an active, intuitive force, charged with freedom, danger, rebellion, and play. Humor cuts through the seriousness – not to soften, but to sharpen.
Emma Helle (b. 1979) is a Finnish sculptor who casts the spotlight on marginalized creatures and examines the question of representation in her work: whose stories are told. Her sculptures construct alternative narratives, drawing not only on art history but also on folklore and classical mythology. The surfaces of the sculptures range from rough to smooth, from glazed and richly colored to bare and raw surface.
Markku Keränen’s (b. 1947) paintings celebrate color and playful treatment of form. His compositions bring abstract forms to life, creating a vivid illusion of movement on the canvas. The motion pulsates rhythmically and perpetually, both across the canvas and depth-wise. The movement never seems to stop, rippling from ball to ball, each one endowed with a distinctive character.
For inquiries of home viewings and works by Kjærgaard, Helle and Keränen, please contact:
Marjatta Latvanen, Sales Director
marjatta@galerieforsblom.com
+358 40 530 7956
