The Assemblage at presentation of Kin’s collection

Last year a few works from my project titled “The Assemblage” were acquired for the Kin, Kiruna, Sweden. And now they will be shown at the second presentation of museum’s collection. The exhibition of new acquisitions also includes the works of Salad Hilowle, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Elle Hansa/Hans Ragnar Mathiesen, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Oleksandra Ravska, Aqui Thami, Jon Tomas Utsi and Lena Ylipää.

Kin Museum of Contemporary Art has an expanding collection of over two hundred artworks dating from the 1960s to the present day. With the Barents region as its geographical starting point, the museum collects and displays contemporary art in a diversity of artistic expressions, media, and practices. Kin’s guiding principle is to “dig where you stand” — to start from one’s immediate context and then reach outward to engage with other perspectives, fostering a cross-fertilization between the nearby and the distant. The local is intertwined with the regional, national, and global in an ongoing conversation. Thus, the collection grows with artworks that reflect the museum’s exhibitions and other art projects that have taken place at Kin or have been initiated by the museum.

Photo: Johan Ylitalo