Barents Triennale

15 years after the Barents Region was launched as a new spatial entity in the High North, the exhibition PAN-BARENTZ invites you to explore the Barents identity at the crossroad of art, architecture, urbanism and politics.
PAN-BARENTZ present a series of statements, investigations, readings and interpretations made by artists and architects on and of identity in the Barents region.

Artists:
Blue Noses (Viacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov) (Moscow), Contemporary Santa Claus Artist Association (Eemil Karila & Kalle Lampela) (Rovaniemi – Berlin), Olga & Alexander Florensky (St Petersburg), Håkon Jensen (Tromsø), Svein Flygari Johansen (Oslo), Eemil Karila & Julija Goyd (Berlin), Los Torreznos (Rafael Lamata & Jaime Vallaure) (Madrid), Joar Nango (Trondheim), Andreas Nilsson & Mikel Cee Karlsson (Malmö), The Painting & Drawing Society (Olga and Alexander Florensky, Alexander Dashevsky, Irina Zatulovskaya), Amund Sjølie Sveen (Oslo), Antti Tenetz (Rovaniemi), Stian Ådlandsvik (Oslo).
Architect teams:
0047 (Oslo), BuroMoscow (Moscow), NORD (Copenhagen), Dept. of Urban Design and Planning NTNU (Trondheim), Testbedstudio (Stockholm).

Curated by Luba Kuzovnikova (Pikene på Broen), Øystein Rø
and Espen Røyseland (0047).

Exhibition tour (2009 – 2010): Oslo – Tromsø – Murmansk – Rovaniemi – Moscow.

Book Release:
Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009 is a collaborative effort to discuss selected key cities and urban phenomena in the Barents Region. The project is directed by 0047 in co-operation with The Barents Art Triennale and Pikene på Broen.
Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009 includes projects by BuroMoscow, NORD, Testbedstudio, Department of Urban Design and Planning, NTNU and 0047. Texts by Alexander Sverdlov, Morten Strøksnes, Aileen Espíritu, Joar Nango, Magnus Jørgensen, Gert Gundersen, Dennis Zalamans and Gisle Løkken.

Exhibition PAN-BARENTZ is part of the III Barents Art Triennale produced by Pikene på Broen (Kirkenes) in cooperation with 0047 (Oslo), the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi), Koncentrat (Kiruna) and Anadolu Kultur (Istanbul). The III Barents Art Triennale also includes Barents Urban Survey, site-specific artworks in Kirkenes, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Kiruna and Kars i Turkey, workshops, and an international conference in Kirkenes.

The project is supported by EU Culture program 2007-2013, Norwegian Ministry of Culture, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Arts Council, KORO, Kulturkontakt Nord, Barents Secretariat, BarentsKult, Fritt Ord, Husbanken.

Find more information at www.panbarentz.com.