ARcTic Festival Luleå 1991

The biennial was initiated by KILen - Konstnärer i Luleå ("KILen - Artists in Luleå", later simply know as Kilen) as a snow sculpture festival at Gültzauudden (the Gültzau cape) in Luleå. For a number of days, each invited artist worked on site in Luleå and created a sculptural piece made from a 3x3x3 m snow cube.

Program excerpts:

International Snow Sculpture Symposium

Participants:
Vaclav Serak and Jiri Lastovicka, Czechoslovakia.
Urpo Kärri and Penti Aho, Finland.
Patrick Dal Cin and Jean Luc Barrel, France.
Pierre Tessier and Suzanne Ricard, Canada.
Pavel Koriagin and Alexander Vasilkov, the Sovjet Union.
Lu Bin and Xu Geijin, China.
Thomas Queoff and Michael Sponholtz, USA.
Dino Gaspari and Gabriella Gaspari, Italy.
Jaak Sloans and Lembit Palm, Estonia.
Petr Riha and Karel Riha, Czechoslovakia.
Soley Eiriksdottir and Harpa Björnsdottir, Iceland.

Isstallation ('Ice-stallation')

An exhibition by Fotograficentrum Norrbotten ('Norrbotten Photographic Center'), with photographs mounted in blocks of ice. Participants:
Erik Holmstedt
Annika Eriksson
Anders Alm
Monika Karlsson
Mikael Weinz
Lena Lahti
Bo Hallqvist
Matti Tuuri
Curt Bröms
Hans Granqvist

Norrbotten Snow Sculpture Championship

With participating contestants from each of the municipalities in the region.

Already from the beginning, the biennial has had a clear international ambition with invited artists coming to attend from all over the world. For a long time, the biennial was the only platform in Norrbotten which presented international art to the local audiences.

The documentation of the earliest editions of the biennial are not digitizede, but we are continuously working on expanding and updating the archive here on our website and hope to be able to share more images with you shortly.