Since 2023, I am the artistic director of the ongoing project Aerpie – Contemporary Sami Art and Culture in the Urban Space. Aerpie means heritage in South Sámi, and focuses on activities and artistic research around indigenous and minority art/craft in ecological perspectives. Aerpie was initially run in collaboration with Stockholm Sami Association, but is now independent, but a part of the artist´s run space Slipvillan Art Center, Långholmen, Stockholm.
Aerpie is a collaborative partner to Konstfack University of Art, Craft and Design in the new artistic research environment Textile Heritage since autumn 2024.
https://www.slipvillan.org/aerpie
https://www.konstfack.se/sv/Forskning/Forskningsprojekt/Textila-arv
PROGRAM
2025
Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat is a practice-based transdisciplinary artistic research project around animated Sámi landscapes, based at Åbo Akademi, Åbo, Finland. It is a collaboration between Frank Berger, composer and theologian, Finland, and Emma Göransson Almroth, artistic researcher, and functions as an act of decolonisation in a hybrid form, composed of textile art, music, and theology. During 2025, Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat is performed at Sigtunastiftelsen, Sweden, the Franciskus-festival at Kökar, Åland, and at the Abogagora festival for Art and Science, Turku/Åbo Cathedral, Finland.
https://www.aboagora.fi/2025/06/10/spirit-land-vuoinnalas-eanadat/
Grand Finale of artisrtic research project Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat , Turku/Åbo Cathedral Sept 11th 2025. Photo: Pekka Vasantola.
Spring
Aerpie particpates in artistic research seminar at Konstfack. Professor Gunvor Guttorm, Sámi Allaskuvla, Kautokeino Norway.
Autumn
Presenting artist´s collective P:A:N:G., Professional Artists Needelwork Group, during Stockholm Craft Week.
2026
Voices of the Land. Collaborative project around Textile, Contemporary Dance and Voice in the Landscape of Långholmen.
PAST
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/