Høysalen:
Hovrengåetie/Himmelhuden, The Sky Skin, Náhkkegoahti
Tromsø
19.12.24
—
11.04.25
About the exhibition
Høysalen (The high hall) will regularly accommodate new works from the collection and function as a kind of project space, showing complicated installations from the collection that mainly highlight female and queer artists in the collection from Sápmi/Northern Norway.
The first work is Sissel Mutale Bergh's Hovrengåetie/Himmelhuden, The Sky Skin, Náhkkegoahti (2022). Mutale Bergh is a visual artist with a South Sámi background, currently living in Trondheim. She studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and the University of Technology in Durban, South Africa. Her work is often about her South Sámi history, how it has been erased, and how it can be revived and given new power. The installation Hovrengåetie/Himmelhuden, The Sky Skin, Náhkkegoahti, is specifically about the Sámi legend of the heavenly hunt and how language can be an entry point to a rediscovery of pre-colonial and pre-Christian Sámi cosmology.