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Terike Haapoja: Introduction to History According to Cattle, in Animals as Experiencing Entities, Theories and Historical Narratives (Springer)

Gustafsson&Haapoja’s 2019 sound installation Waiting Room is on view at Montoro12 gallery, Brussels.

Gustafsson&Haapoja’s Embrace Your Empathy (2016) is part of the exhibition at Prsten Gallery, Zagreb

The sculptural installation Inhale–Exhale is now part of the permanent environmental exhibition Periferia in Hyytiälä, Finland.

Gustafsson&Haapoja: Untitled (Alive) is part of the exhibition Little John, Pragovka Gallery, Prague 14.4. – 296. 2023.

Terike Haapoja: Museum of Nonhumanity, an article on animalisation and the climate crises, in Radical History Review (Duke)

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.

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.

“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.

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.

A lecture ‘Museums and Other Institutions in a Multispecies World’ in the University of Oregon online lecture series.

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

New work On Belonging on view at Kindl, Berlin, as part of the exhibition Resonant Bodies, 23.5 – 20.6. 2021.

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.

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.

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.

Muse – Dialogues on Love and Art presents new video work and documented conversations. Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, 9.11. – 6.12. 2020

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).

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.

New essay: The Lover, the Muse, the Reader – On Thinking Together
on thisisnotablog.co.

Waiting Room, a new project by Gustafsson&Haapoja, at Zone2Source Amsterdam until November 10th.

Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen
23.8.2019 – 30.9. 2019

Gustafsson&Haapoja: Embrace Your Empathy
15.8. – 15.9. 2019
Wäinö Aaltosen museo, Turku

A new essay Three Modalities of Futurelessness by Terike Haapoja is published on thisisnotablog.co.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

EARTH RIGHTS, Kunsthalle Turku 2.–24.2.2019.
Opening hours: Wed-Sun 12-18.
Kunsthalle Turku, Vanha Suurtori 5, 20500 Turku.

Taipei Biennale
Post Nature
11..17.2018 – 10.3. 2019.
Curators Mali Wu, Francesco Manacorda

Eco-Visionaries
– New Media and Ecology After the Anthropocene
House of Electronic Arts, Basel
30.08.2018 – 11.11.2018

Salon Dalhman,Berlin
You Are Just a Piece Of Action
Portraits from the Miettinen Collection
14. 07. – 01. 09. 2018

And Tomorrow And
Index,Stockholm
curated by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
25 August–25 November 2018

Gustafsson&Haapoja are showing Embrace Your Empathy at an exhibition The Shores of the World in Prague, through August 17.

Terike Haapoja will give the opening keynote lecture in InSEA 2018 congress, Aalto University, Helsinki, on June 18 2018.

The archive of Gustafsson&Haapoja’s Museum of Nonhumanity is on view at Animals and Us, an exhibition at Turner Contemporary, UK.

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.

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.

Hyperallergic’s Alina Cohen on Museum of Nonhumanity at Moss, Norway.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Museum of Nonhumanity Opening: Helsinki, Suvilahti, 1.9.2016 Project website: museumofnonhumanity.org A new project by History of Others will be launched 1.9. 2016     A new temporary museum is to open in Helsinki in September. The museum will present the history of the distinction between humans and other animals, and the way that this imaginary boundary […]

History of Others is Flow Festival’s Visual artist of the year. 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 dehumanisation, and will open in the Suvilahti area’s – where Flow is also held – Tiivistämö building […]

A large scale installation The Foundation by Terike Haapoja is part of the Gegen Against exhibition in  Salon Dalhman, Berlin, curated by General Minds, until 19.2.2016. The exhibition “Gegen against” employs art to discuss the relationship between the individual and the contemporary world politics. Individual values and practices are reflections of a particular perspective to […]

History of Others’ large scale project The Museum of the History of Cattle will be presented in the Exo-Evolution exhibition in ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 31.10.2015 -28.2.2016. http://zkm.de/event/2015/10/globale-exo-evolution “The exhibition focuses on the artistic use of new technologies and opens up views into the future, in various modules. It shows us our new reality, which is shaped […]

Altern Ecologies  – Emergent Perspetives at the Ecological Threshold in the 55. Venice Biennale Edited by Taru Elfving and Terike Haapoja Book launch in Venice Biennale 10.8.2015 The state of emergency caused by the environmental crisis has drawn forth the necessity to re-evaluate the centres of gravity in our world, including the means and ends […]

Terike Haapoja will be presenting in two events in Venice Biennale 2016: Who Needs Museums and Biennales? A panel discussion organised by G.U.L.F Panelists Andrew Ross, Okwui Enwezor, Terike Haapoja, Kaarin Taipale, Marco Baravalle August 9th 4-6om The nineteenth-century reasons for exhibiting art in public no longer apply. Paternalistic ideas about educating the masses through art appreciation […]

A lecture by Terike Haapoja in ZKM Tribunal against the crimes of the 20th century. The lecture discusses non-human legal personhood, the history of other species and dehumanisation. 45min + discussion. Open the video from the link below: https://zkm.de/en/media/video/the-tribunal-terike-haapoja   The conference paper is available in: http://www.terikehaapoja.net/the-history-of-othering/

History According to Cattle Edited by: Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja Publishers: Into Publishing, punctum books, History of Others The world history is written by winners: humans. Still, history includes a multiplicity of agents and processes: other animals, natural forces, microbes and cosmic events, whose perspectives have remained invisible to the recorders of the triumph of […]

The final piece of art historian and writer Tj Demos ‘s series of blog postings on the concept and reality of the Anthropocene. The series provides a refreshing, productively critical approach to the language around the concept of the Anthropocene, while analyzing major geo/polical issues and art. Warmly recommended. History of Others is glad to be noted […]

History of Others is happy to be included in this wonderful and already acclaimed volume Art and the Anthropocene – Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies by Heather Davisand Etienne Turpin. Essays and articles by Ursula Biemann, Anselm Franke, Donna Haraway, Natasha Myers, Oliver Kellhammer, Rich Pell and many many others. You can order a paperback copy or download […]

An article by Tom Jeffreys in The Learned Pig on The Trial: http://www.thelearnedpig.org/oikeusjuttu-the-trial/1536

The Trial, a new project by The History of Others had it’s premiere on the 13th of November in Helsinki as part of Baltic Circle festival. read more

The 5-channel video installation Community will be on show in a solo exhibition in The Nordic House, Faroe Islands, 2.2. – 22.2. 2014 . More info www.nlh.fo  

Terike Haapoja will be a resident in ISCP, Brooklyn, NYC, 1.1. – 30.6. 2013. http://www.iscp-nyc.org/  

The History of Others, a collaboration of Terike Haapoja with author, playwright Laura Gustafsson, has been awarded with the Kiila-prize of the year 2013. The prize is given by Kiila association board annually to an artist or a project with significant artistic or societal impact. The former prizes have been given to Kristian Smeds, Leena […]

Art and culture journal mustekala.info’s issue “After the Animal” is out. Editor Terike Haapoja. Contributions by Perttu Saksa, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ilkka Hanski, Kukka Ranta, Richard Pell and Bryndis Snaebjörnsdottir&Mark Wilson&Ron Broglio. The issue examines the effects of the disappearance of species due to mass extinction and the collapsing of the essentialist concept of “the animal” […]

  The Museum of the History of Cattle is the first part of a large scale art and research project The History of Others by terike Haapoja and Laura Gustafsson. The Museum of the History of Cattle opened its doors 30.11.2013 in Helsinki. More info: The Museum of the History of Cattle  

UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS / 2013 “After the Animal”, Mustekala.info, issue 4/13, launched 15.12.2013 Terike Haapoja will be the editor of Mustekala.info issue 4/2013. The issue, titled “After the Animal” takes as its starting point the fact that the era of Anthropocene will be defined by the disappearance of animals due to extinction. The articles, interviews and […]

Selected articles on Venice Biennale and Terike Haapoja’s exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/review-55th-venice-biennale-giardini-venice-8636394.html http://thehousenews.com/art/??-???-????????/ http://www.vagant.no/en-sentimental-vetenskap/ http://www.kunstkritikk.com/kritikk/a-tree-that-hit-the-art/ http://www.artfagcity.com/2013/06/07/a-strange-spiritual-turn-at-the-55th-venice-biennale/ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/charlottehigginsblog/2013/may/31/venice-biennale-diary-charlotte-higgins-deller http://flavorwire.com/397779/the-best-venice-biennale-2013-artwork-you-havent-heard-about/6 http://www.swide.com/art-culture/exhibition/venice-biennale-2013-artists-review-josef-koudelka-alfredo-jaar-ai-weiwei/2013/6/2 http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur–nojen/i-bildernas-flod/ http://www.derwesten.de/kultur/bei-der-kunst-biennale-in-venedig-regnet-es-stuehle-und-gold-id8033285.html http://www.kunstforum.as/2013/05/biennale-for-55-gang/ http://www.wanderurbanwilds.com/2013/05/20/new-models-for-environmental-artists-2/ http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/venice-biennale-the-nationals-nordic-pavilion/ http://www.wildculture.com/article/wild-culture-venice-biennale-2013/1196 http://www.nytid.fi/2013/06/bygga-bjork-tala-med-trad/ http://www.theglamattitude.com/spip.php?article2233 http://venicebiennale.australiacouncil.gov.au/a-postcard-from-the-venice-biennale/ http://museuminabottle.com/2013/09/02/looking-wonder-venice-biennale/#more-900    

The symposium “A Counter Order of Things” investigates a variety of issues and questions that could lead to a topical and more dynamic profile of the concept of research and interaction between art, science, and activism connected to a being-in-the-world removed from the Linnaeus tree of taxonomical knowledge. Speakers include Gerald Raunig, TJ Demos, Anselm Franke, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir, Terike Haapoja among others. […]

The Independent has listed Terike Haapoja´s exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion one of the biennale´s highlights. Read the review here  

Venice Biennale 1st June – 24th November 2013 Venice, Italy Terike Haapoja will be representing Finland in Venice Biennale 2013 together with artists Antti Laitinen. Haapoja’s exhbition will take over the Nordic Pavilion in the Giardini pavilion area. The exhibition is curated by Mika Elo, Marko Karo and Harri Laakso. More information: www.frame-fund.fi Marko Karo, […]

The second issue of 2013 of the finnish journal for contemporary performance Esitys-lehti available now. The issue focuses on the theme of the animal. Editors Terike Haapoja and Pilvi Porkola. The issue will look at how animals and animality as well as the political status of non-human animals are changing the way we understand and look […]

Watch Terike Haapoja’s talk on art, society and activism in IHME-päivät, Helsinki 2013 (in finnish)

Group exhibition  in Jyväskylä art museum  15.3. – 28.4. 2013. Artists Terike Haapoja, Päivi Hintsanen and  Jeanette Schäring.  Lecture by Terike Haapoja on 22.3. See more info of Checkpoint Leonardo -exhibition.  

The Exhibition After the Arc: An Island Findings by Team B  curated by Joanna Sandell will be on show in the Finnish institute in Stockholm from 13.3. on and in Botkyrka Kunsthall from 13.4. on.  The exhibition includes works from finnish artists Terike Haapoja, Antti Laitinen, Salla Tykkä, Jani Ruscica and Sasha Huber. www.finlandsinstitutet.se www.botkyrkakonsthall.se