Riikka Thitz is a curator based in Helsinki, Finland. She works at the intersection of the performing and visual arts, focusing on different forms of contemporary performance.

In addition to her curatorial practice, she has extensive experience in developing new structures and processes to support artistic work. Since 2021, Riikka has served as the part-time curator of the Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance. She also co-runs the multidisciplinary arts association i dolci, which also produces most of her freelance projects.

Riikka has previously held production and communications positions at the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux in Brussels; the Moving in November contemporary dance festival, and Kiasma Theatre in Helsinki. Between 2015 and 2022, she also worked as a producer on Finnish independent contemporary dance and performance productions.

Riikka holds an MFA in Exhibition Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland, and an MA from the Euroculture programme from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

In 2026, her freelance work is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

My curatorial practice explores the relationships between art, landscape, and the built environment, as well as how social structures, the material world, and embodied perception shape the experience of space and time. I am interested in how the cultural environment inhabited by humans emerges at the intersections of diverse human and more-than-human processes, and how these relationships can be made tangible through art.

I understand curating as a dramaturgical process that creates relationships between artworks, audiences, places, and the world that surrounds them. I approach my projects as site-responsive: exhibition and performance spaces are always historical, social, and material environments that shape both the works and their reception. At the heart of my practice is the question of how the processes and modes of presentation in the performing and visual arts can influence one another.

My work draws on landscape dramaturgy, an approach that expands the understanding of the world towards a multisensory, fragmented, and embodied experience, as well as towards temporal and spatial scales that exceed the limits of immediate human perception. Through these scales, art itself can also be observed and constructed differently.

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

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

For freelance projects and all matters related to i dolci, you can reach me at riikka.thitz (a) gmail.com.

For enquiries related to the Helsinki City Theatre, please refer to my contact information on the City Theatre’s website.