Riikka Thitz is a Helsinki-based curator working at the intersection of performing and visual arts. Her practice focuses on embodied and multisensory experiences of art, with particular attention to how historical and social structures, physical landscapes and presentation contexts shape and are shaped by artistic work. Grounded in site-responsive methodologies, she examines how exhibition and performance formats influence the temporalities, rhythms, and spatial conditions through which art is encountered. Riikka approaches curating as a dramaturgical process, using dramaturgy to articulate the shifting relations between artworks, audiences, and the environments—both human and nonhuman—in which they unfold.

Riikka’s recent projects include Vesireitit, a group exhibition at Lappeenranta Art Museum (2026) and a series of site-responsive artworks at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, and in Ruokolahti (2025); the site-responsive research project Sea of Mountains in Alta Val Seriana, Bergamo, Italy (2023–2024); the group exhibition Solar Noon at Taattisten tila, Merimasku (2023); and Ebb and Flow, the inaugural exhibition of the Kuva/Tila gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (2021).

Since 2021, Riikka has served 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. She holds an MFA in Exhibition Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland, and an MA in Euroculture programme from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

The Vesireitit group exhibition takes place in Lappeenranta Art Museum in February-May 2026.

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

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