Yokun Art Centre is the next venue for the Arctic Highways travelling exhibition

Following a very successful premiere screening in Washington on 3 March, Arctic Highways is now landing at the Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse (CA) with an opening from 9 September to 4 November 2022. Twelve Indigenous artists from Sápmi, Canada and Alaska are responsible for the content of the four-year travelling exhibition, which will conclude as a permanent exhibition in the village of Granö in Västerbotten. 

The travelling exhibition Arctic Highways premieres at House of Sweden in Washington DC on 3 March 2022. Twelve indigenous artists from Sápmi, Canada and Alaska will kick off a four-year travelling exhibition that will conclude as a permanent exhibition in the village of Granö in Västerbotten.

Indigenous peoples around the world existed long before the borders of nation-states were established. With the nation-states, the indigenous peoples' natural lands were erased. Despite this, indigenous peoples and their culture have survived, but not without having to fight for their lives. Britta Marakatt-Labba is one of the curators and artists behind Arctic Highways:  

– I shape my stories with needle and thread. Early on, I realised that we Sámi lack stories in form and images. We have been skilled at preserving oral traditions. Indigenous knowledge – the silent and silenced knowledge – should have a place globally. The art map Arctic Highways tells Indigenous peoples' own history, based on their experiences, in their own expressions.  

Arctic Highways is a journey where we get to follow twelve artists on an Arctic highway of culture and life that stretches from the past into the future, without ever crossing a border:  

The Yukon Arts Centre is proud to be hosting the Arctic Highways exhibition tour, as the sole exhibitor in Canada, says Mary Bradshaw. Earlier this summer, Whitehorse hosted the Arctic Arts Summit, which brought together representatives from Arctic nations and Indigenous Peoples. We are honoured to continue and foster this north-to-north dialogue with Sámi and Inuit artists and curators of Arctic Highways.  

Artists Tomas Colbengtson, Dan Jåma and Olof Marjsa will be present at the exhibition opening in Yukon.

The whole Arctic Highways exhibition can be seen at: www.motesplatsgrano.se

For more information:
Yvonne Rock, Project Manager and Senior Advisor
0709-58 71 25
Yvonnerock.stockholm@gmail.com