AAI

Arctic Art Institute was initiated in 2014 by a group of artists and curators born and raised in the High North and educated in Oslo, Helsinki, St. Petersburg and London. Since then, the AAI has been an incubator for creative expression aimed at indigenous epistemologies and support of artists as agents of social change.

Creating places for discussions about silenced heritage, decolonization, climate change and ecofeminist liberation has been central for its work, including the Arctic Art Forum, an international platform for independent artists Northern voices in arts and culture.

The Institute has had multiple collaborative projects with institutions around all the Arctic region and beyond. Since 2022, it's a nomadic research and curatorial platform working towards the goals of sharing Northern lesser-known histories that have been peripheral to the Western canon.