On 14 October 2020, from the Sámi Parliament in Kárášjohka in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) announced that Sámi artists Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara and Anders Sunna will represent Sápmi, their Sámi homeland, and transform the Nordic Pavilion into the Sámi Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022. This is a historic moment: the first time that Sámi artists are presented exclusively in a national pavilion at the Art Biennale, and the first time the Sámi are recognised as a nation in a pavilion bearing their name.
For more info in Sámi, Norwegian and English visit here.
Exciting opportunity for Norwegian and Norway-based visual artists and curators! Apply for Mondriaan Fund’s Orientation Trip 2025. This year’s trip will take place from 25 October to 8 November, visiting India (Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata) and Thailand (Bangkok).
The successful candidate will contribute to evolving OCA’s programme with a strong interest in creating new platforms, models, structures, and ways to engage with international audiences.
We had the pleasure of speaking with Nikhil Vettukattil about his artist residency at Artica Svalbard in Longyearbyen during the autumn of 2023. OCA is one of the key partners of Artica Svalbard who offer one of the northernmost artist residency programmes in the world. During his time in Longyearbyen, Vettukattil worked on a project examining food systems, the 'Nordic diet', and the effects of climate change in the context of extreme environments.
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