Publisert 10.04.2025
Visual artist Lada Suomenrinne’s art project Emergency Weather was part of the festival exhibition at Barents Spektakel at the end of February in Kirkenes, Norway.
Emergency Weather is a visual narrative about returning to a remote village — one that is home. The works are part of a larger art project and were produced as part of a production and residency collaboration and initiative from the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute. Besides the exhibition, Suomenrinne also participated in an artist talk with Astrid Ardagh and Hanne Hammer Stien.
Barents Spektakel was arranged by the curator collective Pikene på Broen and became a meeting place for everyone with an interest in arts and contemporary issues related to the High North. The festival’s theme for this year was “Remote Control”, and it raised questions such as how remote locations foster art and culture and who decides where to draw the boundaries between the periphery and center.
We would like to thank Lada Suomenrinne and Pikene på Broen for the great collaboration and very much look forward to seeing how Suomenrinne’s project evolves!
The residency opportunity for and project with Lada Suomenrinne were realised as part of pARTir, a collaborative initiative of the Finnish cultural and academic institutes promoting sustainable international mobility in 2024 and 2025. pARTir is funded by the European Union’s Next Generation EU initiative.
Read our interview with Lada Suomenrinne here.
