Riikka Stewen Archives - Kunstkritikk

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Human and Animal Ecospheres

Olga Chernysheva’s work shown at Kohta in Helsinki conveys both maxims to live by and ephemeral encounters with minuscule events.

Checkpoint Helsinki Receives Makeover

Artistic director of Checkpoint Helsinki, Paul O’Neill, relaunched the organisation as a curatorial agency with plans to commission longer-term and durational projects.

Touching Fragments of History

The Finnish photographer Heli Rekula translates a geographical journey into a narrative about the trauma experienced by Carelians after the Second World War.

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Inhuman Images

War is the artist’s muse in Vanessa Baird’s retrospective at Munch Museum in Oslo.

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

Katalin Ladik’s first major presentation in the Nordics underscores the transformative power of the voice.

‘The role of the artist is to show the bottom of the ocean’

Palestinian artist and film director Kamal Aljafari visits Oslo for the opening of his retrospective at Kunstnernes Hus.

A Museum for a New Era

Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art was already a respected institution. The reopening in a new building leaves no doubt that it is one of Europe’s top museums.

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All articles by Riikka Stewen

Human and Animal Ecospheres

Checkpoint Helsinki Receives Makeover

Touching Fragments of History

Recently published

Inhuman Images

The Thinking Woman’s Shaman

‘The role of the artist is to show the bottom of the ocean’

A Museum for a New Era

A Museum for a New Era

Mood over Content

Extremely Contemporary

‘The role of the artist is to show the bottom of the ocean’

Long Live Surrealism!

Contemporary Romantic

‘I went into a very dark hole for a long time’

Paris Art Week Report

Artist Plants New Forest in Denmark

Abuses of Genius

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