Maija Helasvuo’s work deals with the sculptural formulation of the vague, the fleeting, helplessness and other elusive phenomena, often in contrast to the massiveness of the material or the roughness of the processing. The artist works with visual metaphors that can refer to art history and social interaction at the same time. Together with Mika Karhu and other Finnish artists, she has been running the Finnish-German art space Toolbox since 2012, a project that promotes artistic exchange between Finland and Germany.

Maija Helasvuo, born in 1968 in Karelia, studied art at the Hyvinkää Art Schook, the Lahti Institute of Fine Art and the Turku Fine Art Academy.