In a new article Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida, curators of the Luleå Biennial 2024, talk about resistance and solidarity in relation to several of the artworks from the biennial this past spring.

The collaborative project between Sámi and Māori practitioners, first presented in Sápmi / Sweden as part of the 2024 Luleå Biennial, will now be shown at Objectspace.

During the winter of 2024–2025, parts of the artwork hálijdibme badjelándas / wishes from the highlands by Tilde-Ristin Kuoljok is available toexperience in Stockholm. 

The project Händelsernas Centrum presents “Move Sirdde Flytta”: a children’s book about the urban transformation of Kiruna.

Until September 30th you can experience the artwork Sadaqah Jariyah – On behalf of Nils Amund Raknerud, by artist Fadlabi for the 2024 Luleå Biennial, in Luleå.

Eveliina Sarapää will, this autumn, be a part of the very first Triennial of Architecture at Färgfabriken in Stockholm.

The Luleå Biennial 2024 wrapped during the last weekend of May, but parts of the biennial live on!

The Sami institution Verdde is inaugurated with Luleåbiennalen as its first partner!

Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten and Luleåbiennalen inaugurates Flyttzon, a new work by Lena Stenberg.

The closing weekend of Luleåbiennalen includes programs in Kiruna, Luleå and Boden.

Since its inauguration in early March 2024, Luleåbiennalen have recieved rave reviews from the press.

Umeå School of Architecture will be installing on Storgatan in Luleå, April 5–8. Don't miss the inauguration of the installation The waterfall that went silent, on April 9!

Helene Alm, reporter from the Swedish National Radio and local radio P4 Norrbotten, visits the opening of the Luleå Biennial: On the threshold of 1:1, and interviews our Artistic Directors and participating artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat!

Yesterday, March 4, The Swedish National Television's Cultural News Kulturnyheterna was opened with a feature from the Luleå Biennial.

The Luleå Biennial 2024 Team extends a warm welcome to our big opening party at Lillan in Luleå! RSVP here.

The Luleå Biennial's Artistic Directors have been interviewed by Kunstkritikk's Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl.

The Luleå Biennial 2024 is opening soon! Our Artistic Directors and some on the participating artists have arrived to Norrbotten, and the installations are in full progress.

On February 2, 18.00–19.00 CET, artist duo wiklundwiklund performed a performative reactivation of a no-longer existing town, Messaure.

You are invited to the temporary and performative reactivation of a no-longer existing town, Messaure. Artist duo wiklundwiklund brings back the lights to the town’s site, creating a public moment of encounter and an homage to the many lives deeply tied to this place.

The opening days of Luleåbiennalen 2024 will take place in Kiruna, Luleå and Boden between 1–3 of March, and you are invited to take part in activities including guided tours, performances, and talks between artists and artistic directors.

The artist Fadlabi (b. 1975, Sudan) presents his artwork Sadaqah Jariyah – On behalf of Nils Amund Raknerud on the Ice Road's wind shelters in Luleå in connection to Luleåbiennalen 2024.

Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten is pleased to announce the Luleåbiennalen 2024 – On the threshold of 1:1. The artistic directors Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida gather artistic and architectural positions, investigating the drastic changes in Norrbotten’s built and natural environments and relating them to analogous contexts worldwide, fostering interchanges that might provide new possibilities.

Onkar Kular and Christina Zetterlund, Artistic Directors for the Luleå Biennial 2022, are guest editors for the latest issue of IASPIS digital publication Urgent Pedagogies #6: Earthed Imagination.

Since the beginning of 2023, Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten are working on collecting, cataloguing and publishing materials from all of the previous editions of Luleåbiennalen here on our new website.

During their first research trip to Norrbotten in March 2023, Artistic Directors of Luleåbiennalen 2024 Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida conducted a presentation about their previous curatorial projects and took part in a conversation about the newly initiated work with the upcoming biennial. Now, you can see a short video from the conversation here.

Right now, the artistic directors of the Luleåbiennalen 2024, Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida, are in Norrbotten for the first time. As part of the preparations for the 2024 biennial they visit different places, organizations and artists to get to know the region.

Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten is pleased to announce that Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida have been selected as Artistic Directors for the Luleåbiennalen 2024 with the overarching theme of architecture and art.