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Riikka Latva-Somppi is currently a doctoral candidate in Aalto University, Department of Design, EMPIRICA-research group 2018-2022. Her thesis work is supported by Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.
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Exhibition Ceramics Facing the New in EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art 14.4.2021-27.2.2022 (coming up)
Exhibition Soil Matters in The Designmuseum, Helsinki 4.9.2020-10.1.2021 (co-curator)
read more about the exhibition.
Exhibition In Good Hands in The Designmuseum, Helsinki 24.1. 22.3.2020 (co-curator)
in The Craft Museum of Finland 12.9.-5.12.2020
in The Ostrobothnian Museum 19.2.-18.4.2021
Working as artist-researcher and curator in the Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil-project
Working with Soil-group shortlisted for the International Whitegold Prize
Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil in Exhibition Laboratory 25.10.-17.11.2019
Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil in Beta-Gallery, 10.-26.10.2019 Designs for a Cooler Planet, Helsinki Design week
Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil in Research Pavilion #3 in Venice
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UNIARTS: 6.2.2019 Artists digging up contaminated soil
Lue lisää suomeksi:
Aalto: 22.10.2018 Ympäristökysymykset esille keramiikkataiteen keinoin
SYKE: 25.10.2018 Suomalaiset keramiikkataiteilijat tekevät pilaantuneen maan näkyväksi Venetsian Tutkimuspaviljongissa
Aalto: 11.2. 2019 Taiteilijat saastuneen maan äärellä
SYKE: 15.9.2019 Keramiikkataide tuo näkyväksi ihmisen maaperään jättämät jäljet
EXHIBITIONS 2018
PYHÄNIEMI 2018 fine art exhibition in Pyhäniemi Manor (curator), Hollola, FI 30.6.-12.8.2018
Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future (curator),
Bröhan-Museum, Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco und Funktionalismus, Berlin, GE, 20.1. – 18.4.2018
National Museum of Slovenia – Presernova, Ljubljana, SL, 15.5. – 31.7.2018
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Prague, CZ, 2018
Radical Relevances, Aalto University, Espoo 25.-27.4. 2018
Scandinavian Glass Starting All Over, Glass Museet Ebeltoft 20.4.-23.9.2018
EXHIBITIONS 2017
Olo - Maerkbart, Øregaard Museum, Hellerup, DK 22.6.-10.9. 2017, Artists-O
Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future (curator), Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland, GB 24.6. -22.7.2017
PYHÄNIEMI 2017 fine art exhibition in Pyhäniemi Manor (curator), Hollola, FI 1.7.-13.8.2017
10th Cheong Ju Craft Biennale, Cheong Ju, South-Korea 13.9.-22.10.2017Ajavahe, Time Difference, Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, The Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Tallinn, EE 21.4.-23.7.2017
State of the Art – Valtion taideteostoimikunta 60 vuotta: Menneen ja tulevan välissä, Päämajamuseo, Mikkeli, FI 24.2.–21.5.2017
Solo, Elintärkeä, Galleria G12, Kuopio, FI 25.2.-16.3.2017
Oi Suomi katso!, LOKAL Helsinki, FI 15.1-19.2.2017
Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future (curator), Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Selb, GE, Stoke-on-Trent, GB
EXHIBITIONS 2016
Läsnäolon laboratorio / The Laboratory of Presence, Galleria HUUTO, Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, FI 3.-18.12.2016
Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future (curator), Fiskars, FI 10.11-7.12.2016
ORGANIKA, Riikka Latva-Somppi and Maxim Velkovsky, Galerie Kuzebauch, Prague, CZ 1.9.-8.10.2016
Olo - Maerkbart, Kouvola Art Museum POIKILO, FI 29.92016.- 8.1.2017, Artists-O
Ja sama nykyaikaisesti käsitettynä / State of the Art, Visavuori Museum, FI 30.9.2016-5.2.2017
EUROPEAN GLASS CONTEXT 2016, Bornholm Art Museum, DE, 10.9.-13.11.2016
PYHÄNIEMI 2016 fine art exhibition in Pyhäniemi Manor (curator), Hollola, FI
FORM FOLLOWS FUN aCTION with Mervi Haapakoski, Kanneltalo gallery Helsinki, FI 2.-11.3.2016
Behind the Seen, Porvoo Art Hall, FI 15.4.-5.5.2016
Porcelain Ware, Drawing gallery D5 Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, FI 4.5-26.8.2016
EX IGS, Glass Centre, Sazava, CZ 31.3.-19.6.2016
PUBLIC ART TO TIKKURILA
Latva-Somppis public art in Tikkurila, Vantaa was published in August 2016
Public art project by four artists, group A4: Jaana Brinck, Riikka Latva-Somppi, Merja Ranki and Outi Turpeinen, curated by Vantaa Art Museum 2011-2016, read in ING Magazine May 2013