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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Storm Over Greenland’s National Gallery

“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Fewer artists and a deeper focus make the 16th Gwangju Biennale a rare, organic experience.

The Art of Defeat

Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.

In the Breakers

Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.

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All articles by Riikka Stewen

Human and Animal Ecospheres

Checkpoint Helsinki Receives Makeover

Touching Fragments of History

Recently published

Storm Over Greenland’s National Gallery

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

The Art of Defeat

In the Breakers

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

In the Breakers

The Art of Defeat

Storm Over Greenland’s National Gallery

La Grande Bouffe

Dora Budor’s Small Moments of Tenderness

Mythologies

The Misanthrope Who Came in from the Cold

The Word for Summer Is Surface

Autumn Reflections

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