Festung Kirkenes

Fløtten, Finn. Festung Kirkenes – Okkupasjon og frigjøring av Sør-Varanger. 1993. Bjørnevatn, K. Jochimsen.    

Joar Nango

Installation view at Lorck Schive Kunstpris 2023 at Trondheim Kunstmuseum. (4th of June 2023, passing by during the TOUR) Joar Nango (b. 1979) is a Sámi-Norwegian artist and architect. Nango’s work inhabits the frontier of architecture, design and art, exploring issues of native identity through the contradictions in contemporary architecture and the built environment. His […]

Norwegen der Länge nach – 3000 Kilometer zu Fuß bis zum Nordkap

Michalowicz, Simon. Norwegen der Länge nach – 3000 Kilometer zu Fuß bis zum Nordkap. 2015. München/Berlin, Piper Verlag GmbH. When preparing the TOUR and deciding to walk first in direction of north and through Norway this book is probably almost something like a classic to read in Germany. Somehow, however, I read many other books […]

Fram Museum

When walking through Oslo during the TOUR I visited the “Fram Museum”. Here the original boat – the Fram – that Fridtjof Nansen planned and used for his expeditions is exhibited next to a huge amount of items that he invented or used. The museum gives a lot of information in texts and pictures, but […]

Reijo

When walking through Northern Finnland during the TOUR I visited Reijo Raekallio. I mostly knew his humorous drawings from newspapers, but now got to know his paintings of reindeer, trees and the coming together of people with nature – very often dancing together.Next to his studio and living space he built a gallery space with […]

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