Sini Rinne-Kanto and Riikka Thitz will participate in the curator programme of the art festival Trondheim Open.
The visitors will be offered the opportunity to connect with local artists, art professionals, and organisations.
Sini Rinne-Kanto is a Finnish curator, researcher, and doctoral candidate based in Paris. Rinne-Kanto is a co-founder of The Community, and her recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions Houses of Tove Jansson (Paris, 2023) and AllTogether (Paris and Venice, 2022), as well as the inaugural edition of the Salon by NADA & The Community art fair (2024). She was guest curator of the Surprise Guest exhibition at the 2024 Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale. In August this year, Rinne-Kanto spent two weeks in Åsgårdstrand as part of the Researcher in Residence Programme (RiR).
Riikka Thitz is a Helsinki-based curator whose work centres on the bodily experience of being in the world. Riikka currently works as a curator for the Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Exhibition Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (2021) and a Master of Arts double degree in Euroculture (2008) from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Thitz has been in residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) in Trondheim this October with support from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
About Trondheim Open
Trondheim Open is an art festival that welcomes the public into the studios: Every two years, more than a hundred of the region’s artists join the festival to open their doors and meet the public on their home turf – where the art is made. Trondheim Open is owned by the unions Trøndelag Bildende Kunstnere (TBK) and Norske Kunsthåndverkere Midt-Norge (NKM). This year’s edition will take place from 25 October to 3 November.
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Rinne Kanto and Thitz’s visits to Trondheim Open are supported by the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institution. Thitz’s visit is kindly initiated by HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.