This decorated milk shelf from Aunesgården has a far-reaching history. The shelf itself, with its many moulds, highlights everyday objects and practical utensils. It also draws attention to a demanding artisanal food tradition that makes the most of limited resources, and the way life has been lived in the areas surrounding Övertorneå.
The works of crafter Berit Berin can usually be experienced at Berits halmmuseum (Berit's Straw Museum) in a room at Sörbyn Sundsnäs homestead museum. During the Luleå Biennial 2022, Berin's works are shown at Havremagasinet.
Doris Wiklund, who was born in Kiruna in 1930, is a weaver and educator.
Elena Mazzi was invited to a residency arranged by the Luleå Biennial in collaboration with GLAS – Glaciär arkeologi i Sápmi (Glacial archaeology in Sápmi).
Erika Nordvall Falck is an ethnologist who lives in Jokkmokk.
Georg Tiller is a filmmaker, producer, writer, and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria.
Gulahallan ja birgen, an exhibition by and featuring Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Gunvor Guttorm, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen.
The historic paintings of Helmer Osslund will be shown in the new library in Kiruna.
Himali Singh Soin is a multidisciplinary artist based between London and Delhi.
Ida Isak Westerberg was trained in weaving and artistic embroidery at Friends of Handicraft in Stockholm and has been living and working in Älvsbyn in Norrbotten since the fall of 2018.
Johannes Samuelsson is an artist and documentary photographer working in Umeå.
Julia Rensberg is from the Southern Sámi Ruvthen Sijte, and grew up in Mora. Today, she lives and keeps a workshop outside of Jokkmokk.
Karin Keisu from Tornedalen and Josse Thuresson from Stockholm have been working together as an artist duo since 2018.
Katarina Pirak Sikku is an artist based in Jokkmokk.
Katarina Spik Skum is a duojár and textile artist based in Jåhkåmåhkke (Jokkmokk).
Lena Ylipää lives in Lainio, in the eastern part of Kiruna municipality. Ylipää works with a wide variety of materials, but finds herself returning to drawing with increasing regularity.
Liu Chuang works primarily with film, sculpture, ready-mades and installation. His works often integrate long-term history and ecological arcs for imagination, tracing the social, cultural and economic transformations of contemporary China.
MADAM is a crafts collaboration between cabinetmaker Marie Carlsson and furniture restorer Magdalena Marano.
Mikhail Tolmachev was born in Moscow, lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin. In his practice, he looks into the constantly evolving status of a document and politically mediated production of truth and reality.
Olof Marsja, born in Gällivare, Sweden, works with sculptural expressions that place an emphasis on materials and the use of figures as a critical approach to the era of digitisation and dematerialisation.
Acknowledging the often localised craft, skill and knowledge of self preserving food, jars of pickled food borrowed from the collections of Norrbottens museum will be shown at Havremagasinet, Länskonsthall.
Post Workers Theatre (Dash Macdonald, Demitrios Kargotis & Nicholas Mortimer) is an artist collective that investigates the future of politically engaged performance by reimagining historic forms of creative resistance in order to address inequalities in contemporary labour practices.
Rosa Taikon was a jewellery artist based in Flor near Ytterhogdal in the Swedish province of Hälsingland.
Silje Figenschou Thoresen is an artist working in Kirkenes in Østfinnmark in Northern Norway.
The Søstrene Suse collective consists of journalists Astrid Fadnes, Ingrid Fadnes, Eva Maria Fjellheim, and Susanne Normann.
Susan Schuppli is a researcher and artist based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change.
At Galleri Syster there are several objects on display in collaboration with Korpilombolo Arts Association, one of these being a bread bin by woodcarver Tekeste Solomon Gebremariam.
Tomas Magnusson is based in Mörsil, where he works as a Sami craftsman. He creates objects inspired by South Sami traditions out of wood, horn, and hides.
Weaving Kiosk is run by Rosa Tolnov Clausen, who is a textile designer and PhD researcher who works in the intersection of craft and design.