Anna Fasshauer, Kim Somervuori, Aino Lintunen

Anna Fasshauer: Sculpturology
German artist Anna Fasshauer creates sculptures by bending, hammering, and rolling aluminum. Foregrounding embodiment, the intensely physical nature of her process is central to her practice: through sheer strength, her body reshapes the material, producing bumps and dents that transfigure its form. The hammer, in particular, is crucial – merging powerful force with anarchic energy, its blows sculpt the aluminum, endowing it with a textured, altered surface. The resulting hammered texture is at once rough and beautiful. Visible weld seams act as metallic glue, holding the parts together; resembling scar tissue, they are both structurally essential and integral to the work’s aesthetic.

Fasshauer works with aluminum not only for its mechanical properties but also for its everyday familiarity. She begins each piece with a pristine industrial material, deliberately disrupting its smoothness and straightness. Her process of reconstruction is always preceded by destruction. The sculptures convey a vivid sense of movement, inviting viewers to circle around them. Though essentially abstract, this suggestion of motion endows the works with a figurative quality and a distinctive, recognizable character. Both her free-standing and wall-mounted pieces carry a subtle undercurrent of humor, transforming a cold, rigid, industrial material into something surprisingly human.


Kim Somervuori: Mingus
Kim Somervuori approaches painting with unabashed curiosity. His process is relaxed and intuitive, embracing surprise as central to his practice. He draws thematic inspiration from a wide range of sources, from art history and literature to subcultures and popular culture. Stylistically, his work moves between the expressive, the figurative, and the abstract. Its pronounced materiality lies in rough, layered textures that possess a living quality, asserting their presence and drawing the viewer in. These textures, together with the contrastive elements of his seemingly unfinished visual vocabulary, create a sense of balance while subtly challenging it


Aino Lintunen: Floorless Room
Aino Lintunen describes her practice as process-driven painting. She begins by feeling out a direction through drawing and writing. Excessive planning feels constrictive, however; as the process unfolds, the painting itself begins to suggest its own path. Led by the brush, Lintunen’s themes emerge spontaneously, generating new meanings as the work takes shape. The painting often follows its own logic, sometimes veering in unruly directions far from the artist’s original intention. The outcome is invariably a surprise, even to its maker: the brush challenges her to see reality in entirely new ways.  

Galerie Forsblom
6.5.-7.6.2026

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