About

Riikka Thitz is a Helsinki-based curator working at the intersection of performing and visual arts. Her practice explores how performance and exhibition modalities shape the forms, temporalities, and spaces of presenting art. She is particularly interested in the frictions and dialogues that emerge when different artforms meet—architecturally, conceptually, and experientially.

Grounded in site-responsive approaches, Riikka’s work emphasizes bodily experience, multisensory engagement, and the materiality of art. She incorporates dramaturgy as a tool to navigate and articulate the complex interdependencies between artworks, spaces, and audiences.

Since 2021, Riikka has worked as the part-time curator of the Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance programme. She also co-runs the multidisciplinary arts association i dolci with harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson and choreographer Anna Mustonen. The association has acted as the production platform for several of her freelance projects. In 2023-2024, Riikka was selected for the 11-month curator residency of the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) on Suomenlinna Island.

Riikka holds an MFA in Exhibition Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, and an MA in Euroculture from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. She has previously held roles in production, communications, and programme management, both in freelance productions and at institutions such as the Moving in November festival and Kiasma Theatre in Helsinki, and the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux in Brussels.

Riikka is currently a Deputy Member of the Executive Board of the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.

The site-responsive Waterways (Vesireitit) performance series takes place in Ruokolahti and at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio in August-September 2025.

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

riikka.thitz (a) gmail.com