Outdoor Exhibitions
Nuuk Art Museum and the Sami artist collective Daiddadallu have initiated a collaboration to match Greenlandic and Sami artists in several exhibitions that will open on the occasion of the Suialaa Arts Festival 2025.
Three outdoor exhibitions with Greenlandic Arnajaraq Støvlbæk and the two Sami artists Hilde Skancke Pedersen and Máret Ánne Sara. The exhibitions focus on different themes, but have in common that they work with the memory of the close and the significant.
Arnajaraq Støvlbæk's exhibition is originally a decoration proposal for the police station in Ilulissat. The exhibition is photographs of beads and bead plates and shows the artist's idea of what a person needs in a possible meeting with the authorities - namely closeness - regardless of whether one is accused or a relative. Arnajaraq’s works can be seen on the north side of block 9-7.
Hilde Skancke Pedersen's exhibition Áhkut (2021) consists of 7 large gouache paintings that portray 7 elderly women from Kautokeino. They cycle, shop and wear their traditional Sami clothing. The artist sees the work as a tribute to women and not least Sami women, who have functioned as glue in Sami society, both within the family, in work at home, in reindeer herding and in political life. Hilde’s works can be seen in front of Nuuk Art Museum at Kissarneqqortuunnguaq.
Márat Ánne Sara's wall decoration "Nanu Rávnnjit Nu Rašši" made for the Guovdageaidnu town hall in 2023, is an artistic representation of the Alta-Kautokeino watercourse. The work uses čorvošat or áksánat, as they are called. An antler from a reindeer that is still attached to the frontal bone. The artist often works with a closeness to the individual/material and life/death. Each antler in the work is in reality an individual that has been killed by either traditional slaughter or natural death and not through industrialized slaughter, where horns are sawed off larger animals to make room for them in slaughterhouse trailers. For reindeer herding Sami, who are specialists in recognizing different antlers, the work will seem close and recognizable, but for an audience without this knowledge and connection to the culture, it will be an entrance to new knowledge on both a traditional, cultural and political level. Máret Ánne Sara’s wall decoration can be seen on the facade of Nuuk Art Museum.
