About

Riikka Thitz is a Helsinki-based curator whose work centres on the bodily experience of being in the world. Riikka’s practice is based on the idea of interweaving the public presentation methods of performing arts and visual arts, and working with these changes. Her projects range from exhibitions and performances to site-responsive projects.

Riikka is interested in how the modalities of performance and exhibition affect the forms and temporalities of presenting art, as well as the spaces in which they occur. She focuses on the frictions that appear when different art forms meet both architecturally and conceptually.

Riikka’s practice is driven by site-responsive approaches that acknowledge the unique interplay and rhythms between spaces, artworks, and the audience, as well as by sensing and feeling materialities. The emphasis of her practice is on bodily experience and multisensory engagement, reflecting an awareness of how art can be perceived beyond a visual experience.

Dramaturgy is incorporated in Riikka’s practice as a tool for analysing and exploring the multisensory, felt experience of the world that often escapes language. Dramaturgy has given her a vocabulary to structure the complex interdependencies that shape her understanding of art and the world.

Riikka currently works part-time as a curator for the Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance. Together with harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson and choreographer Anna Mustonen, she also runs the multidisciplinary arts association i dolci, which creates and supports collaboration between dance, music, and visual arts.

Riikka holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Exhibition Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (2021) and a Master of Arts double degree in Euroculture (2008) from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She has previously worked in production, communication and programme management positions in art organisations such as Moving in November festival, Kiasma Theatre and the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux in Brussels. Furthermore, she has acted as a producer in several freelance contemporary dance and performance productions.

Media picks

Oivallinen ripustus, näyttelyn eheä dramaturginen kuljetus sekä teosten pohdiskeleva välisyys johdattivat tarkastelemaan kosmisia ja planetaarisia syklejä, hajaantumisia ja kasaumia sekä niiden mittakaavoja.

Tuija Huovinen / Mustekala, 6.1.2024

Perinteisten kesänäyttelyiden rinnalle kirmasi Solar Noon Taattisten tilalla Naantalissa.

Edit Media, 31.12.2023

Aistien tilassa – Haastattelussa Riikka Thitz

Sanna Lipponen / EDIT, 23.1.2022

Ebb and flow använder sig utmärkt av de spatiala möjligheter som det nya Kuva/Tila-galleriet erbjuder. (—) Thitz urvalsprocess känns inte uppenbar, och är just därför lyckad.

Helen Korpak / HBL, 10.12.2021

Contact me

riikka.thitz (a) gmail.com