Young Arctic Artists

Ninni Korkalo is a visual and media artist living and working in Rovaniemi. She studied Fine Arts at the Imatra Art School (Imatra, Finland), having graduated in 2008. Korkalo graduated as Master of Arts From University Of Lapland from the Applied Visual Arts Master program. She works with moving image, intervention and events. Her works have been shown in exhibitions in Finland and abroad since 2005. Basis of Korkalo´s work is the curiosity on humanity and the possibility in art to suggest and research ways to be merciful towards oneself and other. Her current work is a study on self-love. Korkalo has worked as project manager, producer, curator and a coordinator in several projects, specially in socially engaged art projects since 2009. She is a member of Artists Association of Lapland, Northern Mediaculture Associacion Magneetti, Piste Collective and national Artists´Assocition Muu. 

Jordan Bennett is a Mi’kmaq visual from Stephenville Crossing, Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland). He lives and works on his ancestral territory of Mi’kma’ki in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia with his partner in life and art Amy Malbeuf.  In the past 10 years Jordan has participated in over 75 group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. He has been the recipient of several awards and honours most notably short listed for the 2018 Sobey Art Award, long listed for the 2016 and 2015 Sobey Art Award, a Hnatyshan Foundation REVEAL award and presented with the 2014 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Councils Artist of the Year. Bennett holds a BFA from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University and an MFA from The University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Laura Heuberger (b.1993) is a Swiss/Italian artist currently based in Umeå, Sweden. She studied New Technologies for the Arts and New media in Bologna, Milan and Tallinn during her BA. She completed her MA in Fine Arts in Umeå, Sweden. She is interested in themes surrounding cybernetics, logistics and human cognition, and produces works in digital form, occasionally complemented by an installation. She recently participated to an Art Residency with AVA in Hong Kong, China.

Oleg Khadartsev is a founder and creative director of Fridaymilk, artist and experimental filmmaker in Murmansk. As part of the team and in individual projects, Khadartsev tries to research and reflect about migration from the Northern regions and to find new reasons and motivation to make people stay in the North. Oleg Khadartsev has been a programming director of Inversia audiovisual festival since its beginning in 2017 as well as a creative director of Uncapitals. Recent artistic project of Khadartsev is Radioarctica, a long-term sound/visual almanac project, which explores the life of people who was born, came, stayed or returned to the North. It is a collective voice of people who live in the Northern territories, it is a general polyphonic, multilingual radio-wave about the northern people, who are courageous to stay and live in the severe conditions of Arctic.

Sanna Korteniemi is Lapland-based artist, living and working in Rovaniemi. Sanna in their practice uses sculpture and drawing. During their artistic process, they puts a strong attention on writing and notation practice as a tool to reflect and discuss questions that arise during their research. They hold a master degree of fine arts from the University of Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts. Korteniemi's works were exhibited in Finland, Estonia and Norway.

Elina Waage Mikalsen is an artist and musician from Tromsø, currently resident in Oslo. In 2015 she was nominated for the Young Artists of the Year at the Indigenous Festival Riddu Riđđu. The spring of 2017 she completed her bachelor in contemporary art at Nordland Art and Film Collage, under the Academy of Fine Arts in Tromsø. She has since then worked independently as an artist, exhibited and taken part of discourses related to the indigenous art-scene and curating practices. 

Marjo Pernu is a visual artist who works and lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. In her works she explores and develops 2,5-dimesional collage technique using natural materials like birch bark. Pernu calls her technique image building.

Guro Rex originally from the last sip of the fanta exotic, but at the moment live close to dog food fabric. She almost died several times and was raised by heat elements in the late 1960’s. in her dreams she met her soulmate; the tiniest purple seahorse ever. The moment that changed her life was when the seahorse handed her a glazed curd cheese bar with mango flavor and she is never going back to prison again.