How can Tromsø create sustainable conditions—economic, social, and institutional—that encourage artists to remain in the region rather than migrate toward national centers.
Thursday, November 27th. 17:00-18:30 Tromsø kunstforening (Mellomvegen 82, 9007 Tromsø)
In this panel we will have a conversation about How does Tromsø’s art scene currently support locally based Norwegian and non EU artists, and what barriers push them toward relocating to southern hubs like Oslo? How can Tromsø create sustainable conditions—economic, social, and institutional—that encourage artists to remain in the region rather than migrate toward national centers?
Bianca Hisse
Born and raised in Brazil, she currently works from Oslo. Her artistic practice investigates the way places have been choreographed by social and political issues, employing performance as a tool for imagination and resistance. Blurring the boundaries between visual arts and dance, her research delves into how diaspora histories and macro-movements across geographical or imagined borders are entangled.
Lin, Pei-Han
Lin, Pei-Han is a multidisciplinary artist whose research-based works encompass painting, moving image, sculpture, textile, architecture, installation, sound, and text. Lin is dedicated to exploring the intersections of culture, memory, and identity; inviting viewers to engage in critical dialogue and deep reflection on the complexities of cultural heritage. Her research emerges within politics, environmental justice, and human rights, and combines data forensics with aesthetics of protest and vulnerability. Lin holds a B Arch in Architecture Design from Shin Chien University, Taiwan, and MFAs from the Art Academies in Trondheim and Tromsø, Norway. Her work has been exhibited widely across Norway, and internationally.
Patricia Carolina
Patricia Carolina (MX) is an artist and organizer based in Oslo. She works primarily with video, text and textile. Intricately weaving together ideas on language, progress and loss, her practice follows the relation between water, underground structures and the domestic landscapes. Nets of support, power and kinship are also important structures. As a migrant artist, she is invested in creating cultural infrastructure with and for others. In 2022 she became an active member of the mutual support network Verdensrommet for migrant artists in Norway. Carolina graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts (BA 2019) and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (MFA 2022). Her works have been shown in Norway, Finland, Mexico, Estonia, Brazil and Iceland.
Ruth Aitken
Ruth Alexander Aitken (b. 1990) is a Tromsø-based, Scottish curator and artist working with themes around labour, economics and resource distribution, always through the lens of our relationship to the environment and with a goal of lowering the threshold to art. She has a BA(Hons) in Time Based Art and Digital Film from Duncan Of Jordanstone (2012), and an MA in Contemporary Art from Tromsø Kunstakademiet (2018), has worked extensively with various independent projects, and currently works as a curator and producer at Tromsø Kunstforening/Romssa Dáiddasiida.