GALLERY VALO ARKTIKUM, ROVANIEMI (FI)
In the year of 2013 the Luleå Art Biennial expands to X-Border Art Biennial. As the only art biennial in the world the X-Border Art Biennial will be arranged in three different countries, using exhibition spaces in Lulea, Sweden; Rovaniemi, Finland and Severomorsk, Russia. The X-Border Art Biennial is a cooperation between University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland; The center of socio-cultural technologies of the closed administrative territorial formation of the town of Severomorsk, Russia and Luleå Art Biennial / Kilen Art Group, Luleå, Sweden. We want to let the world’s artists explore and illuminate the issues of borders, identity, cultural diversity and knowledge in an era of globalization.
The X-Border Art Biennial is a cooperation between University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland; The center of sosio-cultural technologies of the closed administrative territorial formation of the town of Severomorsk, Russia and Luleå Art Biennial / Kilen Art Group, Luleå, Sweden.
Initiator and project manager for the X-Border Art Biennial is the Luleå Art Biennial, Scandinavia’s oldest and the world’s northernmost International Art Biennial, a meeting place and a laboratory for contemporary art. For 21 years, more than 700 artists from all around the world have had the opportunity to realize their ideas in Lulea. X-Border Art Biennale continues the Luleå biennials quest to develop a platform for international contemporary art, with its goal of creating a major international art center in northern Europe.
Initiator and project manager for the X-Border Art Biennial is the Luleå Art Biennial, Scandinavia’s oldest and the world’s northernmost International Art Biennial, a meeting place and a laboratory for contemporary art. For 21 years, more than 700 artists from all around the world have had the opportunity to realize their ideas in Lulea. X-Border Art Biennale continues the Luleå biennials quest to develop a platform for international contemporary art, with its goal of creating a major international art center in northern Europe.
