Opening at Tromsö Kunstförening

🗓️ Saturday May 30, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
🔊 Sound performance by Espen Sommer Eide
✨ Conversation about the exhibition with Hilde Methi

For History, Change Position is a commemorative exhibition celebrating the artistic activity and cultural exchanges that were enabled through the porous Norwegian-Russian border that existed in the period between 1990 until 2022.

The exhibition coincides with the launching of the "Border Art Archive", an internet-based project collecting artworks and curatorial projects from this period, spanning from the end of the Cold War to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The archive focuses on the border regions of East Finnmark, Murmansk oblast, and adjacent areas on the Finnish side. The archive will also recount local art histories branching out to many different places, to which artists from a wide variety of countries have contributed. The Border Art Archive will convey a legacy of a milieu and era that is now past. What have we really left behind? And which stories will we pass on.

With Geir Tore Holm, Helena Wikström, Frans Pomassl, Berit Overgaard, Morten Torgersrud, Vladimir Mogilevtsev, Kristin Tårnesvik, Yvette Brackmann, Anne Lise Stenseth, Vera Chebotar, Oleg Vassiliev, Espen Sommer Eide, Ivan Galuzin, Oleg Samoilov, Vemund Thoe, Jury Grishenko, Laura Anderson Barbata, Glafira Severianova, and Signe Lidén .