Aerpie – Center for Contemporary Sami Art, Stockholm.
In 2023, I initiated a node for Sami contemporary art in the center of Stockholm. Aerpie means heritage in South Sami. The name links to Sami cultural traditions, which always have strong roots back in the family lines and to Mother Earth, even when focused on the present, the future and the renewal of artistic expression.
The center focuses on displaying art/crafts and promoting identity-strengthening activities, functioning as a culture bearer for urban Sami people. Aerpie is a meeting place in contemporary society, dedicated to art/crafts, environmental issues and Indigenous Human Rights.
Aerpie is nomadic, currently located at Slipvillan Art Center at Långholmen, a small green island in the Centre of Stockholm.
2023-24 Slipvillan is granted funding for Aerpie in collaboration with Stockholm Sami Association by Stockholm City Cultural Administration.
PROGRAM
2025
Autumn
Presenting artist´s collective P:A:N:G., Professional Artists Needelwork Group, part Stockholm Craft Week.
May 9th
Aerpie particpates in artistic research seminar at Konstfack. Professor Gunvor Guttorm, Sámi Allaskuvla, Kautokeino Norway.
2024
Faces of the Past – Objects of the Present 240309-31
An exhibition produced by Aerpie in collaboration with Gaaltje Sami museum, Östersund.
South Sami portrait photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, colored by photo artist Per Ivar Somby, Tromsö, are placed in relation to a number of selected objects with references to Sami living conditions today in terms of nature, culture and spirituality.
Opening Saturday March 9th 12-18 PM
Lecture Sunday March 10th 15 PM. “Subjects–objects in South Sami photographic portraits”, by Eva Silvén, Ph D, former curator at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, and author of the book Friction. Ernst Manker, Nordiska Museet and the Sami cultural heritage.
Colors of Colonialism 240420-0512
Lena Stenberg. An exhibition about resistance and hope in the traces of Colonialism.
3-dimensional work, installations, photography
Opening Saturday April 20th, 12-18 PM
2023
Talking to Trees
Site Specific Writing and Art Work. Workshop.
Leader: Emma Göransson Almroth, artist, researcher, writer
Welcome!
Information: Emma Göransson, Artistic Director
Tel 070 886 71 48
https://slipvillan.org/hem/aerpie/