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Article in: Animals as Experiencing Entities – Theories and Historical Narratives
Terike Haapoja: Introduction to History According to Cattle, in Animals as Experiencing Entities, Theories and Historical Narratives (Springer)
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja: Waiting Room in Montoro12 gallery, Brussels
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s 2019 sound installation Waiting Room is on view at Montoro12 gallery, Brussels.
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja in How to Look at Natures? Art and the Capitalocene. Croatia
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s Embrace Your Empathy (2016) is part of the exhibition at Prsten Gallery, Zagreb
View MoreInhale-Exhale in: Periferia, permanent exhibition at Hyytiälä Forest Station
The sculptural installation Inhale–Exhale is now part of the permanent environmental exhibition Periferia in Hyytiälä, Finland.
View MoreTo Be Given Over (2023- in progress)
To Be Given Over (2023)
View MoreArt and Eternity (working title | in progress)
Art and Eternitymulti-channel video installationwork in progress / 2023 My father Zoltan Popovits and his sister Marika Popovits fled the Soviet army from Hungary in 1944, when my father was 4 and Marika 6 years old. The family ended up as refugees in Germany, and later to Australia, finally emigrating to Denver in 1950s. Since 1965 my father has […]
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja: Untitled (Alive) in the exhibition Little John, Pragovka Gallery, Prague
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Untitled (Alive) is part of the exhibition Little John, Pragovka Gallery, Prague 14.4. – 296. 2023.
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity
Museum of Nonhumanity. In: Radical History Review, 1/2023
View MoreArticle in Radical History Review 1/2023
Terike Haapoja: Museum of Nonhumanity, an article on animalisation and the climate crises, in Radical History Review (Duke)
View MoreSymposium at Reykjavik Art Museum “Visitations: Art, Agency and Belonging”
This symposium, hosted by Reykjavík Art Museum, will be a closing event for Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson’s award-winning project, Visitations: Polar Bears Out of Place (2019-22). As special guests of the artists, and contributors to the new Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson monograph, Debatable Lands, artists Mark Dion (US) and Terike Haapoja (US/Finland) will discuss their own work.
View MoreBeijing Art and Technology Biennale BATB: ‘Synthetic Ecology’
The inaugural Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (BATB) will be held at 798CUBE from September 22. 2022 to January 31. 2023. With its theme Synthetic Ecology, this inaugural edition will include works by Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Patricia Piccinini, Ralf Baecker, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, Rimini Protokoll, Špela Petrič, Susan Schuppli, Suzanne Anker, Terike Haapoja, Ursula Biemann and others.
View More‘And I Trust You’ Exhibition at Miettinen Collection, Berlin
“And I Trust You” curated by Anna Miettinen and Linda Peitz Works from the Miettinen Collection & Sammlung Peters-Messer includes works from the 2017 series Gravitation.
View MoreConversation with Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson
Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson’s new monograph Debatable Lands includes a conversation between Haapoja and Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson. The book is published in accordance with their exhibition Visitations at Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland. Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson were awarded with the Icelandic Artists of the Year Award in 2022.
View MoreEssay in Differens Magazine
Differens Magazine’s issue Inside Animals / Animals Inside includes the essay Beyond Animality by Terike Haapoja, on Gustafsson&Haapoja’s 2016 project Museum of Nonhumanity.
View MoreLecture, University of Oregon, May 2
A lecture ‘Museums and Other Institutions in a Multispecies World’ in the University of Oregon online lecture series.
View MoreTerike Haapoja awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
Terike Haapoja is among the recipients of the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
View MoreMuseum of the History of Cattle at MAAT, Lisbon
Visual Natures – The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, open at MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, 30.3. – 5.9. 2022
View MoreTowards a time after “the animal” (2020) TEST
Terike HaapojaTowards a Time After “the Animal”Published in Museum of Nonhumanity (ed. Gustafsson&Haapoja, 2020) Museum of Nonhumanity is a utopian museum in the form of a 70-minute, 10-channel video installation that displays the division between human and animal, and the resultant oppression. The content of the video installation is made up of archive materials, selected […]
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja: No Data (2021)
GUSTAFSSON&HAAPOJA: NO DATA (2021)
View MoreEntropy in Earthly Observatory, Chicago Art Institute
Entropy (2004) is on view at the exhibition Earthly Observatory at SAIC, curated by Andrew Yang and Giovanni Aloi. 8/30 – 12/13.2021.
View MoreMuse in Intensive Places exhibition, Fotokuu Tallinn
Muse (2020) in Intensive Places exhibition, as part of Tallin Photography Festival, Tallinn, 14.9. – 17.10. 2021. Curated by Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits.
View MoreFrom Seeing to Acting in Amsterdam
Entropy (2004) on view as part of From Seeing to Acting, at Looiersgracht 60. Curated by Radical Reversibility.
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja: Becoming in Fotograf Festival, Prague
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s 3-hour video installation Becoming is part of Fotograf Festival “Earthling”, Prague 2.9. – 17.10.2021. Curated by Lukáš Likavčan.
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja: Becoming in New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Gustafsson&Haapoja are presenting two large projects: Becoming (2020) and Embrace Your Empathy (2016) at the Living Matters exhibition, September 2 — October 10, 2021 The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja: Becoming in Droog Gallery, Amsterdam
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s Becoming (2020) is on view at Droog Gallery, Amsterdam, as part of the exhibition The World as We Don’t Know It, 23 September 2021 – 12 January 2022. Curated by Curated by Renny Ramakers.
View MoreOn Belonging
Essay, commissioned for AISTIT – senses, Berlin-Helsinki-Paris, 2021
View MoreOn Belonging – new work in Resonant Bodies exhibition at Kindl, Berlin
New work On Belonging on view at Kindl, Berlin, as part of the exhibition Resonant Bodies, 23.5 – 20.6. 2021.
View MoreOn Belonging (2021)
ON BELONGING (2021)
View MoreKohti ”eläimen” jälkeistä aikaa
Teoksessa Seppä, Anita ja Johansson, Hanna: Taiteen kanssa maailman äärellä, 2021
View MoreBefore any Work is Done, Art is a Way of Being
In: Everyone Is an Artist. Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beyus.
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Exhibition Catalogue, 2021
The Museum of the History of Cattle in Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
The Museum of the History of Cattle, Gustafsson&Haapoja’s first collaboration that was launched in 2013, will be on view ar Kalmar konstmuseum 6.2. – 9.5. 2021. Curated by Sara Hemmingson.
View MoreGustafsson&Haapoja, solo show in Kyoto
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s newest project, the video installation Becoming, is on view at a solo show in Kyoto University of Arts Gallery 29.1. – 15.5. 2021.
View MoreArtist monograph: Terike Haapoja: Vulnerability, Community, Animality
Terike Haapoja – Vulnerability, Community, Animality is the first major monograph of Haapoja’s work, presenting works and collaborative projects from 2004 to 2020. Available from Garret Publications.
View MoreSolo exhibition – Gallery Forum Box Helsinki
Muse – Dialogues on Love and Art presents new video work and documented conversations. Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, 9.11. – 6.12. 2020
View MoreThe Lover, the Muse, the Reader – On Thinking Together
Essay on: thisisnotablog.co
June 4. 2021
A new publication Bud Book – Manual for Earthly Living by Gustafsson&Haapoja
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s solo exhibition Museum of Becoming at Helsinki Art Museum HAM is accompanied by a new publication: Bud Book – Manual for Earthly Living (Garret, 2020).
View MoreMuse (2020)
MUSE (2020)
View MoreHow to Become Human – From Climate Crises to Crisis of Humanity
In: Bud Book – Manual for Earthly Living
Ed. Gustafsson&Haapoja, Garret / HAM 2020
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Museum of Becoming, a solo show in Helsinki Art Museum
Gustafsson&Haapoja’s museum exhibition at Helsinki Art Museum HAM is open 1.6. 2020 through January 9. 2021. The exhibition includes Museum of Becoming, and intervention to Helsinki Art Museums collection, and a new commissioned installation Becoming.
View MoreTowards a Time After “The Animal”
In: Museum of Nonhumanity (Ed. Gustafsson&Haapoja, 2020)
Taiteen kanssa maailman äärillä (Toim. Seppä, Anita ja Johansson, Hanna. Parvs, 2021)
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Becoming (2020)
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Becoming
Video installation (2020)
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Waiting Room (2019)
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Waiting Room
Sound installation (2020)
New essay: The Lover, the Muse, the Reader – On Thinking Together
New essay: The Lover, the Muse, the Reader – On Thinking Together
on thisisnotablog.co.
Waiting Room, a new project by Gustafsson&Haapoja
Waiting Room, a new project by Gustafsson&Haapoja, at Zone2Source Amsterdam until November 10th.
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity at SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen
23.8.2019 – 30.9. 2019
Gustafsson&Haapoja at Wäinö Aaltosen museo
Gustafsson&Haapoja: Embrace Your Empathy
15.8. – 15.9. 2019
Wäinö Aaltosen museo, Turku
Essay – Three Modalities of Futurelessness
A new essay Three Modalities of Futurelessness by Terike Haapoja is published on thisisnotablog.co.
View MoreEco-Visionaries, Matadero, Madrid
Eco-Visionaries – Art for a Planet in a State of Emergency
June 13–October 6, 2019, Opening: June 13, 7:30–9:30pm, Matadero Madrid
Three Modalities of Futurelessness
Essay on: thisisnotablog.co, May 2019
View MoreCoexistence exhibition, Kiasma, Helsinki
Coexistence – Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma’s Collections is Kiasma’s 2019 collection exhibition exploring the possibility of sustainable coexistence between humans, other species, and the environment.
View MoreEcotopia – Unlearning Animality
In: Shifter 24: Learning and Unlearning.
Edited by Avi Alpert and Sreshta Rit Premnath, 2019.
The New School, April – GIDEST seminar with Terike Haapoja
In her GIDEST seminar, through a presentation of her installation work as well as other projects, Haapoja will discuss how attempts to include nonhuman beings in social structures challenge underlying notions of humanity and personhood.
View MoreLecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Terike Haapoja: Between Thingness and Being Lecture Monday, March 18, 4:00 p.m. The LeRoy Neiman Center 37 S. Wabash Ave., first floor, Chicago, IL http://www.saic.edu/events/terike-haapoja
View MoreHabeas Corpus (2019)
Habeas Corpus
Photographs (2019)
Interview Birgitta Wahlberg (FI)
Haastattelu, Toisten Puolue (2011) Terike Haapoja ja Birgitta Walhberg Terike Haapoja: Oli kiinnostavaa kuinka sanoit että kun juuri filosofit johtavat keskustelua heidän oikeuksistaan, niin niiden vieminen käytäntöön on toinen asia. Birgitta Walhberg: Mielestäni on kiinnostavaa että kun puhumme heistä oikeudellisessa merkityksessä oikeustieteilijät eivät ole osallistuneet siihen keskusteluun millään tavalla, vaan sitä käyvät yhteiskuntatieteilijät ja filosofit. […]
View MoreInterview Aleksi Neuvonen (FI)
Haastattelu, Toisten Puolue (2011) Aleksi Neuvonen ja Terike Haapoja Terike Haapoja: Kun nyt ajatellaan, että on olemassa perusoikeuksia jotka kuuluvat kaikille, niin tämä “kaikille” on itse asiassa aika rajallinen joukko. Eri ihmisryhmienkin perusoikeuksia on rajattu eri yhteyksissä, mutta kysymys toisten lajien perusoikeuksista on siellä keskiössä. Ajatus siitä, että heillä olisi lakiin kirjttuj perusoikeuksia on aika […]
View MoreOpening Speech
The Party of Others Opening speech, Terike Haapoja Helsinki, 2011 I have followed the development of the pre-election political discourse in Finland with horror. Xenophobic and openly racist speech that places “our” interests before even the most basic needs of the “other” has been silently legitimized with references to freedom of speech. One has to […]
View MorePanel, New York 21.Feb: How to Live: EARTH
How to Live: EARTH
Panel, The 8th Floor, New York
Featuring:
Matthew Friday of SPURSE, Panelist
Terike Haapoja, Panelist
Eve Andrée Laramée, Panelist
Linda Weintraub, Panelist
Lenore Malen, Moderator
Roundtable, NYU 14. Feb: Ecology as INTRAsectionality
A Roundtable discussion with artists Elaine Gan, Terike Haapoja, Sarah Kanouse, MTL / Amin Husain & Nitasha Dhillon, Not an Alternative, Aviva Rahmani + organizers Tj Demos and Emily Eliza Scott. Free entry.
View MoreEarth Rights exhibition in Kunsthalle Turku
EARTH RIGHTS, Kunsthalle Turku 2.–24.2.2019.
Opening hours: Wed-Sun 12-18.
Kunsthalle Turku, Vanha Suurtori 5, 20500 Turku.
A History According to Cattle
A History According to Cattle Terike Haapoja In the beginning there’s a void. A void between us and history, between words and our muted existence. How to cross this void when language is by definition something we don’t possess? You think that because of your writing you are the author of the world, but you’re […]
View MoreParty Platform 2011
The Party of Others platform 1. INTRODUCTION •The intrinsic value of animals and nature is the basis of the future society •The Party of Others – an advocate for those without a voice •Statement of principles 2. SOCIETY BELONGS TO ALL • Community of species • From exploitation to the principle of reciprocity • Silent […]
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity in Taipei Biennale 11.17.2018 – 10.3.2019
Taipei Biennale
Post Nature
11..17.2018 – 10.3. 2019.
Curators Mali Wu, Francesco Manacorda
Eco-Visionaries, Basel
Eco-Visionaries
– New Media and Ecology After the Anthropocene
House of Electronic Arts, Basel
30.08.2018 – 11.11.2018
Works from Miettinen Collection in Salon Dalhman, Berlin
Salon Dalhman,Berlin
You Are Just a Piece Of Action
Portraits from the Miettinen Collection
14. 07. – 01. 09. 2018
Video work by Gustafsson&Haapoja at Index, Stockholm
And Tomorrow And
Index,Stockholm
curated by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
25 August–25 November 2018
Gustafsson&Haapoja at The Shores of The World, Prague
Gustafsson&Haapoja are showing Embrace Your Empathy at an exhibition The Shores of the World in Prague, through August 17.
View MoreOpening Keynote in InSEA Congress, Helsinki 18.6.
Terike Haapoja will give the opening keynote lecture in InSEA 2018 congress, Aalto University, Helsinki, on June 18 2018.
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity in Turner Contemporary, UK
The archive of Gustafsson&Haapoja’s Museum of Nonhumanity is on view at Animals and Us, an exhibition at Turner Contemporary, UK.
View MoreWitnessing Mortality – Heather Davis in conversation with Terike Haapoja
Witnessing Mortality – On Duration, Being-With and the Anthropocene Heather Davis in conversation with Terike Haapoja HD: I was looking back through your work and reading this beautiful book, which is actually a long conversation between Donna Haraway and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. In it Donna Haraway says: “From my point of view the affirmation of […]
View MoreTaru Elfving: TAKE A DEEP BREATH – The urgency of the impossible in the work of Terike Haapoja
TAKE A DEEP BREATH The urgency of the impossible in the work of Terike Haapoja Taru Elfving The entrance to the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013 was a passage into another world, a moonlit garden where trees spoke back and the soil breathed. Here words about a fly became flickering flies on […]
View MoreAnita Seppä: Art as an Act of Love with the Radically Other
Art as an Act of Love with the Radically Other The Post-Humanist Art of Terike Haapoja Anita Seppä In the current world, the activists of artistic research must react to a series of extraordinary changes that are largely results of human activities. We, the human-animals, have created a globally-spread and constant drive for economic growth, […]
View MoreTj Demos: Animal Cosmopolitics: The Art of Terike Haapoja
Animal Cosmopolitics: The Art of Terike Haapoja T.J. Demos How, then, to acknowledge the silent majority of the society? How to imagine a reality that is not based on exclusion but gives equal standing for all? -Terike Haapoja, The Party of Others, 2011 In the criminal court case “State versus Perho hunters,” a group of […]
View MoreSymposium Beyond Binaries at ISCP New York
The symposium Beyond Binaries: Towards New Constructs of Personhood and Gender approaches the challenge of deconstructing two central binaries of Western culture: binary gender and the human-animal divide.
View MoreGravitation and Studies on Freedom at ANTI Festival
Terike Haapoja was the recipient of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art in 2016. As part of the award, Haapoja will return to the festival with three new projects.
View MoreGravitation (2017)
Gravitation
Photograhps (2017)
GRAVITATION – exhibition, Salon Dahlman, Berlin
Terike Haapoja: GRAVITATION
Exhibition and book preview
Salon Dalhman, Berlin 11.9. – 23.12. 2017
Hyperallergic on Museum of Nonhumanity
Hyperallergic’s Alina Cohen on Museum of Nonhumanity at Moss, Norway.
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity in Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
Museum of Nonhumanity, History of Other’s (Haapoja & Gustafsson) large scale exhibition and participatory project will be part of Santarcangelo Festival, Italy, 16.6. – 10. 2017. The utopian museum declares dehumanization to be past, while presenting the history of the distinction between humans and other animals, and the way that this imaginary boundary has been used […]
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity in Momentum Biennale
Museum of Nonhumanity, History of Other’s (Haapoja & Gustafsson) large scale exhibition and participatory project will be part of Momentum Biennale, Norway, 16.6. – 10. 2017. The utopian museum declares dehumanization to be past, while presenting the history of the distinction between humans and other animals, and the way that this imaginary boundary has been used […]
View MoreSolo exhibition – Chronus Art Center (CAC) Shanghai
The exhibition Closed Circuit – Open Duration, last seen in the 55. Venice Biennale, will be on view in Chronus Art Center in Shanghai 3.6. – 3.9. 2017. The exhibition consists of 6 works that use new media to explore our relationship with nature, technology and mortality. The exhibition is curated by Zhang Ga. http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/???·?????????????-2/ Established […]
View MoreEsineiden villi alkuperä
Julkaistu teoksessa: Route Couture, toim. Karoliina Paappa, Leea Pukki, Lari Lätti, Stina Riikonen. Like, 2017.
View MoreEverything Comes Back to the Body
In: ANTI-Festival journal 2017
Statement for the award exhibition of ANTI-Festival International Prize for Live Art 2016
Talk at Creative Time Summit DC: Occupy the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf1AfYzIVW0
View MoreTerike Haapoja and Laura Gustafsson awarded with Finnish State Media Art Award
History of Others, the collaboration between Terike Haapoja and writer Laura Gustafsson is awarded with Finnish State Media Art Award 2017. The annual State art awards are one of the most prestigious art awards in Finland. http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000004939961.html
View MoreAnimal Mirror exhibition in ISCP, New York
The Animal Mirror presents artworks that take non-human animals as their subject matter, reflecting a range of cultural and societal issues of the twenty-first century. The participating artists reveal the ever-shifting relationships between humankind and other species, extending the idea of non-human animals as creatures of mediation. The works offer insights into animality by questioning human […]
View MoreTerike Haapoja awarded with ANTI Prize for Live Art 2016
The ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art was awarded for the first time in Kuopio during ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2014, on 24th September. In December 2014, ANTI announced the continuation of the Prize. The future of the Prize is secured with the Saastamoinen Foundation, which generously supports it – making the Prize one […]
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity in One Quartz Magazine
In her first article for One Quart Elspeth Mitchell reviews her experiences in the exhibition The Museum of Non-Humanity. She also discusses her impressions of the Finnish art scene in 2016 from her perspective as a researcher. Read the full article here: Notes on a Scene: The Museum of Nonhumanity
View MorePresentation in Creative Time Summit DC
Creative Time Summit DC: Occupy the Future The Creative Time Summit of 2016 will focus on democracy and it’s expansions. The world’s largest annual conference on art and social justice will take place in the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington DC on 14-16 October, and give the stage to artists, activists and researchers at the […]
View MoreTJ Demos on the work of Terike Haapoja and History of Others
A new essay by TJ Demos on rights on nature and the work of Terike Haapoja and History of Others. The essay will be published in the upcoming monography on Terike Haapoja’s work. Please see also TJ Demo’s new book Decolonizing Nature (Sterberg Press, 2016). TJ:Demos: Animal Cosmopolitics: The Art of Terike Haapoja T.J. Demos is […]
View MoreMuseum of Nonhumanity, new project by History of Others
Museum of Nonhumanity declares dehumanization to be history? A new project by History of Others Project launch: Suvilahti, Tiivistämö, Helsinki 1.9.2016, open through September and available for touring Project website: museumofnonhumanity.org A new temporary museum by History of Others opens in Helsinki in September. The museum presents the history of the distinction between humans and animals, […]
View MoreEmbrace your Empathy at FLOW
Gustafsson&Haapoja is FLOW Festival’s visual artist of the year 2016 See full program: FLOW festival New series of work under the title Embrace Your Empathy! is be a prelude to Gustafsson&Haapoja’s new project Museum of Nonhumanity. The museum focuses on the history of dehumanization and will open in the Suvilahti area’s – where Flow is also held – Tiivistämö […]
View MoreTerike Haapoja shortlisted for ANTI Prize for Live Art
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded again in Kuopio in October. Four outstanding contemporary artists or collectives are competing for the world’s only Prize for Live Art; the nominees are Action Hero (UK), Terike Haapoja (FI), My Barbarian (US) and Public Movement (IL). The winner will be chosen by a jury consisting of international art professionals. The jury is chaired […]
View MoreHistory of Others at FLOW festival
HISTORY OF OTHERS IS FLOW FESTIVAL’S VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2016 See full program: FLOW festival New series of work under the title Embrace Your Empathy! will be a prelude to History of Other’s new project Museum of Non-Humanity. The museum focuses on the history of dehumanization and will open in the Suvilahti area’s – where Flow […]
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