Read an interview with Arctic Highways curators in the online magazine ”Inuit Art Quaterly”
The exhibition ”Arctic Highways” is making its final stop in North America. The exhibition is on show in Santa Fe at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) and runs until 2nd March 2025. The exhibition opened in Santa Fe as part of the ”Santa Fe Indian Market” 16th-18th August 2024, a major annual event held in more […]
The Arctic Highways exhibition has now opened in Santa Fe. At the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA)
The exhibition ”Arctic Highways” has now reached its seventh and final stop in North America before it returns to Europe and finally to Granö in Västerbotten. Jan Wejdmark, initiator of the exhibition, and Patsy Philips, director of the IAIA museum, inaugurated the exhibition. All of the exhibition's curators – Tomas Colbengtson, Gunvor Guttorm, Dan Jåma, Britta Marakatt-Labba – were present at the inauguration […]
Arctic Highways - Part of this year's ”Santa Fe Indian Market” 16-18 Aug 2024
For the 102nd time, the ”Santa Fe Indian Market” is being organised. Three days when Santa Fe's stages, parks, and ”La Plaza” are filled with markets, art, dance, music, fashion, seminars, and discussions. A thousand artists belonging to the indigenous peoples of America come to this classic event every year. This year, the opening of Arctic Highways is part of the programme. Thomas [...]
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People. Friday, August 16, 2024-Sun, March 2, 2025. IAIA, Santa Fe
The public opening will take place on August 16th from 5–7 pm, with a special member-only preview with light hors d'oeuvres and spirits from 4–5 pm. To become a MoCNA member and attend the member-only preview, join online or by phone on (505) 428-5925. Arctic Highways includes photography, duodji (Sámi handicraft), sculpture, fibre art, and videos, […]
Arctic Highways was a success in Minneapolis. The exhibition is now moving on to Santa Fe, where it opens on 16 August 2024.
The exhibition period for the art exhibition Arctic Highways at The American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, which had been on display since 4th February 2024, concluded on 26th May 2024. As you can read in previous posts, the exhibition was a success in terms of both visitor numbers and media attention. Furthermore, the exhibition inspired new exhibitions and activities to be started on the theme of indigenous peoples. […]
Tomas Colbengtson receives The Queen Sonja Print Award 2024
Tomas Colbengtson, curator and one of the artists in the Arctic Highways art exhibition, has been selected as this year's recipient of The Queen Sonja Print Award. The award ceremony will be held in Bodø, Norway, in early June. Other award recipients are Anselm Kiefer (Lifetime Achievement Award) and Maria Kayo Mpoyi (Inspirational Award). The Queen Sonja Print Award was established by Her Majesty Queen […]
Watch the film about ASI and how Arctic Highways has inspired more exhibitions with an Indigenous theme.
When the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis chose to showcase the art exhibition Arctic Highways, ripples were created that led to several other exhibitions now being shown. The common theme is that the exhibitions, in various ways, focus on indigenous peoples. ASI has a TV production company – Pioneer PBS – as a partner, and they have produced a film that […]
”The media loves this exhibition!” – media recap report compiled by the American Swedish Institute
This is what ASI wrote in the email that landed with us a few days after the opening of the Arctic Highways art exhibition in Minneapolis on February 3rd, 2024: ”We have had an amazing start to Arctic Highways / Mygration / Okizi / Our Nature exhibitions. It was a pleasure to have Tomas and Stina in Minneapolis, and I want to […]
The calm before the storm – in a few hours the ”First Look” event for Arctic Highways begins in Minneapolis
Tomorrow, Saturday 3rd February, the art exhibition Arctic Highways opens at the American Swedish Institute in downtown Minneapolis. It will be the sixth time the touring exhibition has had its vernissage since it premiered in Washington DC in March 2022. After that, it was shown in Yukon, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. But already this evening – 2nd February – the event is being held [...]
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