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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Lodged in the Body

Inuit must learn from tradition and living memory in order to look ahead, was the message at a recent seminar on Greenlandic performance traditions.

She’s Still Here

Hannah Ryggen remains the most compelling part of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial.

Fake Like Snow

Carola Grahn brings a pitch-perfect wit to Sámi feminism at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.

Crocodiles in the City

Copenhagen is currently home to several semi-aquatic reptiles. They speak volumes about attitudes and mummification. And of what an exhibition may be.

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All articles by Riikka Stewen

Human and Animal Ecospheres

Checkpoint Helsinki Receives Makeover

Touching Fragments of History

Recently published

Lodged in the Body

She’s Still Here

Fake Like Snow

Crocodiles in the City

‘The artwork isn’t necessarily diplomatic’

Fool’s Play

Art von Trier

The Centre Cannot Hold

Art with Maja

I Want a Courageous Museum

We Are Doomed

Myths and Fables in the Nordic Pavilion

The Optimist

Fata Morgana

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