SYKTYVKAR. Ethnofuturists is an art movement that has spread in northwest Russia and Estonia after the perestroyka. With the collapse [...]

LULEÅ. Artist Lisa Vipola wears a self-made Sami costume. She grew up in a Sami environment in northern Sweden and [...]

KEMI. If you you go to Aine’s in Tornio, it will be an art museum. If you go to Aine’s [...]

HAPARANDA. Last weekend, the sound festival HapaRaTor made its debut in Haparanda. People listened to sound from Russian villages, Tunisian [...]

SYKTYVKAR. Skilled handicraft can be found in many places and environments. The belts around our waists are such objects, where [...]

ROVANIEMI. Works of Rovaniemi-born artist Kari Huhatamo can be found all over FInland, and out in Europe. His abstract and [...]

UMEÅ. To protect citizens from diseases and bad and ugly environment is one of the authorities´tasks. Sometimes their ambitions stretch [...]

TROMSØ. The winter solstice, when the sun is at its lowest, and not visible at all north of the Arctic [...]

VITSANIEMI. Gunhild Stensmyr has a vision. She wants to create a modern art museum  in the Torne Valley, where artists [...]

  LULEÅ. The time-consuming embroidery handicraft was formerly looked upon as a domestic female activity with low status, but has [...]

KEMI. What is political art today? In radical political times, like the late 60′s and early 70′s it was easy [...]

TORNIO. Aine art museum in Tornio is full of birds – big owls, black ravens, sparrows, tits, waterfowl. But also [...]

TROMSØ. Svein Flygari Johansen is back in northern Norway again. Or at least, his latest contribution to the art world [...]

UMEÅ/LULEÅ. Last weekend Art of the Streets rolled into Umeå, and this Saturday the Graffiti Coach Tour will do the [...]

SKELLEFTEÅ. The Skellefteå art hall has kicked off  the autumn season with the exhibition  Gierdu – movements in the Sami [...]

UMEÅ. Even the most hardcore city slicker can get a kick out of nature when visiting the Umedalen Sculpture Park [...]

HELSINKI/OULU. Central Helsinki will have a new landmark and attraction next Thursday, 23rd of August. Artist Reijo Hukkanen from Oulu [...]

KIRUNA. Mining town of Kiruna is changing. When digging out the iron below the earth, cracks and ground movements occur [...]

HAMARØY. The Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, northern Norway is an architectual “must see” attraction devoted to writer Knut Hamsun (1859 [...]

ORANKI. Art can be found in many unknown and surprising places. Around small village Oranki, northeast of Pello in Finnish [...]

  HAPARANDA. The border town of Haparanda has for some years invested in public art – one million Swedish crowns [...]

Ii. The artworks of Art Ii Biennale of  Northern Environmental and Scultpture Art are now completed and opened to the [...]

KIRUNA. Swedish mining town Kiruna will be very different in the future. The excavation for iron ore continues more than [...]

HAPARANDA. Performance artist Lynn Lu from Singapore throws more water on the sauna stones. The hot air smells of tar, [...]

II. “North as such is art. Here nature and people get strength from each other, support each other [...]“, Leena [...]

BODEN. In 2010, the city of  Boden took a giant step forward on the art scene. The huge oats warehouse, [...]

UMEÅ Arts Campus is growing. Last weekend the new museum for contemporary art and visual culture, seven floors for exhibitions [...]

  KEMI. French cartoonist Christophe Blain has gained fame for his comic books about the pirate/painter Isaac. Blain is one [...]

TORNIO. Aine art museum was full of happy people on Sunday. Comments like “Delicious!”, “Have you tried this?” and “Oh, [...]

LOVIKKA. Lovikka is a small village in northern Sweden, famous for its wollen mittens. This special kind of mittens was [...]

KEMI. DAYS RISING Riitta Helevä – Petri Yrjölä Kemi Art Museum, Finland 2/3 – 15/4  2012 Petri Yrjölä was nominated [...]