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Since 2023 Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten presents artwork along the ice track between the Northern and Southern harbor of Luleå in collaboration with the municipality. In 2025, artist Siri Baggerman will create new work for the ice track.
The art on the Luleå ice track is an ongoing project by Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten, initiated in conjunction with Luleåbiennalen 2024. During the last few weeks of 2023, a string of wind shelters were installed along the ice track in Luleå—just like every year. Only this time, they looked a bit different. Three of the shelters were painted in geometric patterns and bright colours, and adorned with calligraphy in Arabic. Together, they constituted the artwork Sadaqah Jariyah – On Behalf of Nils Amund Raknerud by Luleå based artist Fadlabi. This artwork became the very first public installation presented as part of Luleåbiennalen 2024, and throughout their time on the ice they attracted a lot of attention from locals as well as visitors.
In 2025, Luleåbiennalen entered into a renewed agreement of collaboration with Luleå municipality which entails a continued effort to present contemporary art along the ice track. Artist Siri Baggerman has been invited to create the next installation, which will be presented in Luleå already this winter. Baggerman (b. 1978) is an artist with roots in Bađatluokta Sæterjord, a Sea Sámi area on the Norwegian side of Sábme, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. With colourful expressions and motifs of everyday—sometimes humouristic—events, she often returns to depicting themes such as double identities and collective memory.
“Dálkkádatrievdan—climate change—is a new word in the North Sámi language, but its effects are already visible. Presenting work on frozen sea feels symbolic: the ice is no longer something we can take for granted. For Sámi communities, climate change threatens not just the land, but their knowledge, language, and way of life.”
Siri Baggerman. Photo: self portrait
The Reindeer, Siri Baggerman, 2022. Photo: Skansen
Siri Baggerman. Photo: self portrait
The Reindeer, Siri Baggerman, 2022. Photo: Skansen
Siri Baggerman. Photo: self portrait
The Reindeer, Siri Baggerman, 2022. Photo: Skansen
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Since 2025 the work and presentations on the ice track are conducted as a part of the leader project Horisonter ("Horizons"). The project aims to explore and activate the ice track in Luleå through artistic processes and productions. Situated in a natural environment, where every-day activities take place, the project facilitates and highlights conversations regarding place, identity, indigeneity, nature and future through expressions of contemporary art and with an indigenous perspective on land and water.
Horisonter is co-funded by the European Union and Leader Spira Mare.
