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The Academy of Arts in Tromsø is a department at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University Norway. The Academy was started in 2007.

The Academy is a subdivision of the The Arctic University Museum of Norway and Academy of Fine Arts. Situated in the arctic city of Tromsø, the Academy offers a particular vantage point towards an increasingly significant geopolitical region; The Arctic—with its rich history of exploration, science, trade, culture, and cohabitation between indigenous and Norwegian populations. The Academy host the

world’s northernmost fine arts school which in addition to Fine Art includes programmes in Landscape Architecture and Creative Writing. The Academy is a relatively small institution, which makes for a good shared atmosphere by students, professors, lecturers and other staff members. Joint excursions and other activities further enhance the social environment.

05/12/2025

Welcome to the presentation of Indisciplinary Currents, a podcast series made by the students at the Art Academy in Tromsø and hosted by SASUSU Radio!

The event is public and will take place in SASUSU Radio's radio and listening room at Kurant Visningsrom. In addition, the event will be streamed online on www.sasusu.com.

Friday, 5 December
SASUSU Radio, Kurant, Hansjordnesgata 1B, 9009 Tromsø
12:30 – Food: Borscht soup (vegan)
13:00 – Introduction/radio show to SASUSU Radio and presentation of the Indisciplinary Currents podcast series, with Axel Arestav, Katharina Bökenbrink, Trygve Tveita, Sanjey Sureshkumar, and Mattin.

Indisciplinary Currents is a podcast series produced by students at the Tromsø Art Academy and they are hosted by SASUSU community radio. The series provides a platform for the artists, together with invited researchers from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway – to explore central issues connected to their interests and practices. Each episode addresses a specific topic that speaks to their artistic research and relates to the wider community within the context of Tromsø and its surroundings.

These are the first three episodes of the series:
Axel Arestav in conversation with Dag Rune
Katharina Bökenbrink in conversation with Sara Lupini
Trygve Tveita in conversation with Bror Olsen

They deal with topics as diverse as art and rectorship, sustainable tourism, and how animism shapes perceptions of nature in Northern Norway. Some of the podcasts are in English and others in Norwegian.

01/12/2025

DEATNU / TANA / TENO – den store elva
Velkommen på utstillingsåpning for Studio 3 - territorielle praksiser, torsdag 11. desember kl 17-19! Masterstudenter i landskapsarkitektur (MLA2) presenterer sine prosjekter langs Deanučázádat / Tanavassdraget.
Kom og feir studentenes flotte arbeid sammen med oss!

DEATNU / TANA / TENO - the big river
Welcome to the exhibition opening for Studio 3 - Territorial Practices, Thursday 11 December, 17:00-19:00!
Landscape architecture master students (MLA2) will present their projects along Deanučázádat / Tanavassdraget / Tana River.
Please join us in celebrating the excellent work of our students!

Lærere / teachers: Magdalena Haggärde, Mari A. Aston Bergset & Marc Ihle

01/12/2025

DESIGNING FOR WATER MANAGEMENT ON TROMSØYA
Welcome to the end-of-semester exhibition opening of Studio 1: Urban Practices, on Thursday, 11 December, 16:00 - 19:00!

Our first-year group (MLA1) will present landscape designs for water management on Tromsøya, featuring 15 projects across 5 watersheds. Please join us in celebrating the excellent work of our students!

26/11/2025

LARCH + ART talk with Joar Nango 1st of December 15:15-17:00 at Kunstakademiet, Grønnegata 1. Welcome!

Joar Nango (Sámi, born in 1979, Áltá, Norway; lives and works in Tromsø, Norway) works with site-specific installations and self-made publications that explore the boundary between architecture, design and visual art. His work relates to questions of Indigenous identity, often through investigating contemporary architecture. Joar has explored modern Sámi spaces through the self-published zine Sámi Huksendáidda: the Fanzine, the design project Sámi Shelters and the mixtape/clothing project Land & Language. He is a founding member of the architecture collective FFB and is currently setting up a network of Sámi architects across Sápmi through the ongoing Indigenous architecture library project.

12/11/2025

Artist talk with Lasse Marhaug on Monday 17th of November, 15:15 at the Aula at the Musikkonservatoriet . Open for all, welcome!

Lasse Marhaug (b. 1974) is a Norwegian sound and visual artist who has been active for over 35 years. He works with different mediums like video, photography, print, recordings, live performances, installations, and publishing. Marhaug has released more than three hundred recordings and toured extensively across the world. His main practice has been solo works, but he has also collaborated with a wide range of artists. He has composed music for film, television, theatre and dance performances. In the last ten years Marhaug has produced a number of multi-channel, video and installation works, which often deal with his relationship to nature and sound of his home in Arctic northern Norway. He also works as a graphic designer, producer, writer, and curator.

06/11/2025

Artist talk with Michael Johansson on Monday 10th of November, 15:15 at the Black Box, Kunstakademiet (Grønnegata 1). Open for all, welcome!

Michael Johansson works with everyday objects that most of us recognize, but in ways that feel both surprising and familiar. With an interest in compressing and reorganizing the world around us, he arranges outdated items into carefully stacked, rectangular structures often directly tied to the place where they appear. By grouping objects within the same colour spectrum, he creates a visual unity that can evoke fragments of a past life, or resemble a meticulously packed storage space where every part seems inseparable from the whole.

In this process, the objects step away from their original use and take on a new role, forming a setting where the ordinary meets the unexpected. In public space, this transformation gains an added dimension. A passerby might both read the scene as an accidental occurrence or as an intentional construction — an ambiguity that lingers long after the moment of encounter.

31/10/2025

At this year’s Tromsøutstilling, our dear student Leonore Paulsen is showcasing two works — a photograph and a sculpture. A total of 25 artists have contributed to this exhibition. The opening yesterday was fantastic, with many art enthusiasts in attendance. If you missed it, the exhibition will be on display at Kulturhuset until November 28 — you’re warmly welcome to stop by! 🖼️👩🏼‍🎨

https://fb.me/e/5RSXPdO3y

29/10/2025

Online artist talk with Ingá Elisá Påve Idivuoma on Monday 3th of November, 15:15 at the Black Box, Kunstakademiet (Grønnegata 1). Open for all, welcome!

Ingá Elisá Påve Idivuoma is an artist from Porsanger, currently based in Karesuando, Sweden.

Her artistic practice is rooted in duodji, the traditional Sámi craft. She primarily works with leather and textiles, often preparing reindeer hides herself and incorporating the material into various creative projects.

Ingá Elisá works as a university lecturer in duodji at Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu, where she is engaged in teaching, as well as research and development. She is currently leading a project titled “Revival of Sea Sámi Material Culture – Research on Sealskin as Material and Making

24/10/2025

Artist talk with Ernie Roby-Tomić on Monday 27th of October, 15:15 at the Black Box, Kunstakademiet (Grønnegata 1). Open for all, welcome!

Ernie Roby-Tomić is an audiovisual, installation, performance artist, and musician hailing from the heavenly hollers of the Appalachian region. His works are a coalescence of emergent 3D technologies, video games, energy extraction industries, workers’ rights, and sleep research.

By mining data from video games and Geographic Information Systems, Roby-Tomić binds electric fantasies to the materiality of the minerals mined for power, and the axes of labor entangled in its extraction. Material in video games and geo-specific topologies are recontextualized as signifiers of fatalism in geo-specific locations known as “sacrificial zones”. He co-leads the Appalachian art collective Crik Holler.

Roby-Tomić holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from West Virginia University in sculpture and printmaking and a Master’s of Fine Arts from the University of Florida in Art + Technology. He works currently with Sámi University of Applied Sciences in the Sámi AI Lab as a lecturer and project leader.

20/10/2025

Artist talk with Dream Academy today, 15:15 at the Black Box, Kunstakademiet (Grønnegata 1). Open for all, welcome!

Dream Academy (published by Archive Books, produced by Kurant) explores the politics of art education in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as its focal point. The book documents how the self-organized art scene in Northern Norway and Sápmi worked from the 1970s onward to establish art education in the region, and the dreams that underpinned the founding of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007.

In the aftermath, the editors established Drømmeakademiet (“The Dream Academy”), which explores the possibilities for self-organized art education in Tromsø by asking fundamental questions about what art education can be, and what functions such education might serve today. Drømmeakademiet is based on the idea that art education is a form of lifelong learning where artistic practice, theoretical reflection, and everyday life intersect. It is open for everyone to come and go, and all are welcome regardless of academic background.

Both Henrik Sørlid and Camilla Fagerli graduated from the Art Academy in Tromsø, and they also ran the artist-run exhibition space Kurant together. Henrik is currently active as an artist, critic, and writer in Tromsø, while Camilla is the artistic and managing director of Tromsø Kunstforening – Romssa Dáiddasiida.

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