Intellect

Riikka Haapalainen holds an MA in art history and BEd in educational science (adult education). Currently, she is lecturer at the Aalto University's Art Department where she is in charge of the MA programme for Curating, Managing, and Mediating Art. She has previously been the Head of Education in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki and researcher at the Finnish National Gallery's Art Museum Development Departmet. She is  writing her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Helsinki. Her research deals with the social aesthetics of the everyday life and participatory aspects of contemporary art. Haapalainen has published on history of art, art history writing and museum education.