Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten is pleased to announce the Luleåbiennalen 2024 – On the threshold of 1:1. The artistic directors Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida gather artistic and architectural positions, investigating the drastic changes in Norrbotten’s built and natural environments and relating them to analogous contexts worldwide, fostering interchanges that might provide new possibilities.

Onkar Kular and Christina Zetterlund, Artistic Directors for the Luleå Biennial 2022, are guest editors for the latest issue of IASPIS digital publication Urgent Pedagogies #6: Earthed Imagination.

Since the beginning of 2023, Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten are working on collecting, cataloguing and publishing materials from all of the previous editions of Luleåbiennalen here on our new website.

During their first research trip to Norrbotten in March 2023, Artistic Directors of Luleåbiennalen 2024 Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida conducted a presentation about their previous curatorial projects and took part in a conversation about the newly initiated work with the upcoming biennial. Now, you can see a short video from the conversation here.

Right now, the artistic directors of the Luleåbiennalen 2024, Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida, are in Norrbotten for the first time. As part of the preparations for the 2024 biennial they visit different places, organizations and artists to get to know the region.

Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten is pleased to announce that Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida have been selected as Artistic Directors for the Luleåbiennalen 2024 with the overarching theme of architecture and art.