Duo Exhibition: Moa Holm Niklasson & Karin Wikström
23–26 April 2026
Booth 52 | Magasin 9 | Frihamnen, Stockholm
For Market Art Fair 2026, Galleri Helle Knudsen will present a duo exhibition featuring established painter Karin Wikström and recently graduated sculptor Moa Holm Niklasson. The exhibition will explore memory, emotion, and traces of human experience across two- and three-dimensional forms. Wikström’s enigmatic, tender paintings depict humans, animals, and hybrid figures in poetic, sometimes dreamlike scenes, where subtle humor and quiet melancholy coexist. Niklasson’s clay sculptures transform fleeting emotions into tangible forms, creating collections of gestural figures that reflect inner impressions and intimate relationships. Together, their works engage in a dialogue across media and experience, where vulnerability, longing, and memory inhabit shared imaginative worlds.
Karin Wikström (b. 1959, Östersund) lives and works in Gothenburg. She studied at the KV School of Art, Hovedskous Painting School, and the Valand Academy of Fine Arts. Wikström’s paintings explore fleeting farewells and the traces they leave behind. Her world is inhabited by humans, animals, and hybrid figures, each gaze challenging yet sorrowful, each creature both familiar and strange. Her work is enigmatic and tender, inviting reflection without offering definitive answers. Karin Wikström’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and art institutions throughout Sweden, most recently in the exhibition ’Kissing them goodbye’ at Galleri Helle Knudsen (2025) and before that in a solo exhibition at Liljevalchs+ (2022). Wikström is represented in both public and private collections, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Malmö Art Museum, Borås Art Museum, and the Public Art Agency Sweden.
Moa Holm Niklasson (b. 1996) lives and works in Stockholm. In the spring of 2025, she completed her Bachelor’s degree at Konstfack with a focus on ceramics and glass. Holm Niklasson transforms fleeting emotions and memories into tangible forms. Her sculptures capture pride, shame, curiosity, and tenderness, often forming collections that converse with each other. Through instinctive creation, she explores relationships with others, memory, and the self, giving form to what might otherwise fade. During the summer of 2025, Moa Holm Niklasson participated in the graduation exhibition ’Blixtvisit’ at Sven-Harrys Art Museum, and in the fall of 2025, Galleri Helle Knudsen presented her debut exhibition ’Samlingen’. Before that, her work was presented in group exhibitions such as Konstfack’s Spring Exhibition and Östersjöfestivalen at Berwaldhallen.