{"id":991,"date":"2021-11-19T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T10:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/?page_id=991"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:39:10","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/bakgrund\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new way point on our journey<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This exhibition will introduce you to twelve Indigenous artists from S\u00e1pmi, Canada, and Alaska. They invite us to join them on their spiritual and artistic quest to find answers and a sense of community. With their guidance, we are able to follow a journey along an Arctic motorway of culture and everyday life, that stretches from the past to the future, without passing a single border.<\/p>

This exhibition of Indigenous art will be touring North America and Europe from 2022 to 2025. It will then be put on permanent display in Sweden, in the town of Gran\u00f6, in V\u00e4ster\u00adbotten county.<\/p>

It is a natural choice for Arctic Highways<\/em> to settle as a permanent exhibition in Gran\u00f6 in 2025. This town is situated by the shores of the 470-km-long Ume River, which has always been a natural summer and winter trail between the coast and the mountainous region. People have travelled unbounded up and down the river for centuries. This is where S\u00e1mi culture and Swedish rural culture have always met for trade and commerce. Ancient historical sources describe the midwinter- \u201dLapp-fests\u201d that were held here. As early as the 1500s, Swedish kings knew the town of Gran\u00f6 as an important meeting place. Even today, the S\u00e1mi herd their reindeer to the town for the winter pasture.<\/p>

The small town of Gran\u00f6 is now becoming one of the most important places to meet the history, culture, and nature of northern Europe. Furthermore, through the creation of a global exhibition for Indigenous art Arctic Highways<\/em> - we will bring people together, laying the foundation for an international \u00adIndigenous peoples\u2019 stage that is unique in the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mr Jan Wejdmark<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Born and bred in Gran\u00f6, in V\u00e4sterbotten, north-\u00adeastern Sweden, is a forest-owner with deep roots in the rural district, where his family have lived and worked for 15 generations. Wejdmark holds an MSc degree in real estate and law, including environmental studies, from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm.<\/span><\/span> (KTH).<\/p>

He is the initiator and founder of the Meeting Place Gran\u00f6<\/span><\/span> and funding patron of Artic Highways.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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En ny h\u00e5llpunkt p\u00e5 v\u00e5r resa Denna utst\u00e4llning presenterar tolv urfolkskonstn\u00e4rer fr\u00e5n S\u00e1pmi, Kanada och Alaska. De bjuder in oss att f\u00f6lja dem p\u00e5 en andlig och konstn\u00e4rlig resa i s\u00f6kandet efter svar och gemenskap. Med deras v\u00e4gledning kan vi f\u00e4rdas l\u00e4ngs en arktisk v\u00e4g av kultur och vardagsliv som str\u00e4cker sig fr\u00e5n det f\u00f6rflutna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-991","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/991\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}