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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Scarred Eyes

Tracey Emin’s art may often be dismissed as self-centered or banal, but her unsentimental life’s work delivers the necessary reminder that the private remains common.

The Ash Cloud in My Mind’s Eye

Everything on Reykjavík’s art scene centres on Iceland’s fierce, all-enveloping landscape – even when it’s about something else entirely.

Bursting Bubbles in a Rococo Age

Hélène Fauquet’s gleaming little treasure trove opened in Paris as the city burned and Art Basel Paris was forced to close early.

Commercial Drift

As established Oslo galleries fold, the artist-run scene edges ever closer to the market.

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All articles by Riikka Stewen

Human and Animal Ecospheres

Checkpoint Helsinki Receives Makeover

Touching Fragments of History

Recently published

Scarred Eyes

The Ash Cloud in My Mind’s Eye

Bursting Bubbles in a Rococo Age

Commercial Drift

‘The first task is to keep it exciting for yourself’

Expeditions into the Self

Disco, Delay, Desire

The Art of Defeat

Humanity Viewed from the Milky Way

Commercial Drift

Bursting Bubbles in a Rococo Age

In the Breakers

It Will Always Be the Devil Staring Back From the Other Side of the Lens

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

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