Pirkko Siitari
Curator
Specialized in:
curating programs and exhibitions of contemporary art, directing art museums
Why do you create?
I could not work as a curator with out creativity. It´s part of my everyday life, my way
of living. I`m collaborating with artists and other creative people which challengies my
thinking and makes me look at the world from different perspectives.
Inspring:
Grandchild, dance, forests, literature.
Bio
Pirkko Siitari is currently working as an independent curator. She is a former Head of Exhibitions at HAM Helsinki Art Museum (2016-2022). She worked as a director of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (2010-2015) and as a Chief Curator for Collections at the same museum (2008-2010). She was a director of of Kerava Art Museum (2004-2008) and she worked as a ChiefCurator of the Finnish Museum of Photography (1999-2004). In the 90’s, she was the director of the Northern Photographic Centre in Oulu for nine years.
Among her many curatorial projects are (a selection): The Acts of Care, Finland Pavilion, Gwangju Biennial, South Korea 2024 (with K. Kivinen), The Same Sea, Helsinki Biennial, (with T. Tappola), Vallisaari island and HAM 2021, Chill Seeping from
the Walls Gets between Us, Katharine Grosse, (with S. Tuulikangas), HAM 2021, I (am), Pawel Althamer (with S.Tuulikangas), HAM 2019, Nature as a Playground, HANMI, Museum of Photography, Seoul, South Korea 2018.
MA Pirkko Siitari studied at the Jyväskylä University history and art history.
She has also studied art theory at Jan van Eyck Akademy Maastrich in Netherlands.