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 our 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 place-responsive: exhibition and performance spaces are always historical, social, and material environments that shape the works and their reception. At the heart of my practice is also the question of how the processes and modes of presentation of the performing and visual arts can influence one another.

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

Since 2021, I have served as the part-time curator of the Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance programme. I also co-run the multidisciplinary arts association i dolci with harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson and choreographer Anna Mustonen.

I hold 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.

In 2026, my work is supported by The Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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