Galerie Forsblom (FI)

Galerie Forsblom is one of the leading contemporary art galleries in the Nordic region. Founded in 1977 by Kaj Forsblom, the gallery has played a key role in introducing internationally acclaimed artists to Finland while presenting both emerging and established Nordic artists to national and international audiences.

The gallery presents an ambitious exhibition programme of up to 20 exhibitions annually in Helsinki, Finland, with a programme shaped by long-term collaborations and the introduction of new artistic positions. Galerie Forsblom maintains a strong international outlook through regular participation in major international art fairs.

Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
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Galerie Forsblom presents works by Anna Fasshauer, Susanne Gottberg and Kim Somervuori, each engaging the threshold between image, object, and space. Fasshauer’s painted aluminium wall sculptures bend and fasten into rhythmic, almost doodle-like formations, balancing industrial material with an organic, improvisational ease. Gottberg’s paintings unfold as tactile surfaces that both receive and return the viewer’s gaze, while Somervuori’s layered compositions reflect the circulation of images in contemporary visual culture. Together the works create a space where surface, gesture and perception meet in quiet tension.

Kim Somervuori (FI)

Kim Somervuori’s paintings are characterised by an imaginatively rich visual language, a controlled undulating composition, and a rugged painterly touch combined with a strong colorist palette. In his works, spatiality merges with layering, pronounced materiality, and themes that draw on art history, literature, subcultures, and phenomena of popular culture. His background in graffiti carries onto the canvas, particularly through linguistic elements, with words and wordplay regularly surfacing in the compositions. Somervuori often uses leftover paints, and chance plays an essential role in the mixing of colors and in building the vibrancy of the image and its surfaces.

Kim Somervuori (b. 1975) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2012. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. His works are included in several collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Saastamoinen Foundation, and the Paulo Foundation. He received the William Thuring Prize in 2015.

Rythm is a dancer

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Tero Jussila

This machine builds artists

Acrylic oil pastel and marker on canvas
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Tero Jussila

Banal Flowers

Acrylic and crayon on canvas
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Tero Jussila

Portrait of Kim Somervuori

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom

Susanne Gottberg (FI)

Susanne Gottberg’s paintings explore spatiality as both physical and experiential. At the heart is painting itself, composed of touch, materials, and accumulated gestures. Each work generates its own field, echoing and merging with the room around the viewer. It asserts a strong presence while deepening the dimension it contains, sparking a dialogue between the image, its depicted interior, and the surroundings. The encounter unfolds on the picture plane: a surface suspended between inner and outer realms. Gottberg uses layered techniques in oil on canvas and pencil on wood, with wood itself actively shaping both the artwork and the surrounding space.

Susanne Gottberg (b. 1964, Finland) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 1989. She has presented numerous solo exhibitions across Europe, and works are included in major Nordic public collections, including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Gothenburg Art Museum, Trondheim Art Museum, and the Public Art Agency Sweden.

Detachment

Oil on canvas
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Jussi Tiainen

Echoes

Pencil on wood
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Jussi Tiainen

Still Still

Pencil on wood
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Jussi Tiainen

Studio view with works

2025

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Jussi Tiainen

Portrait of Susanne Gottberg

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom. Photo by Teppo Lakaniemi

Anna Fasshauer (DE)

Anna Fasshauer’s aluminium sculptures are created by bending, bumping, denting, and rolling the material. Fasshauer works straight aluminium sheets as if they were paper or plastic, yet the material itself remains essential: she seeks to preserve its recognizability. These abstract sculptures, standing on the floor or protruding from the wall, carry a subtle sense of humor, as the cold, rigid, industrial material transforms into something almost human. The works emphasize the charged contrast between material and expression.

Anna Fasshauer (b. 1975) graduated from the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London in 2001. She has exhibited her work in group and solo shows worldwide, including venues such as the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, Kunstverein Offenburg and Kunstverein Arnsberg in Germany, and the Goethe Institute in Beirut.