{"id":4450,"date":"2024-03-27T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/?post_type=exhibition&p=4450"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:35:14","slug":"joar-nango-girjegumpi","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/en\/exhibitions\/joar-nango-girjegumpi\/","title":{"rendered":"Joar Nango: Girjegumpi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Girjegumpi<\/em> is a nomadic, collaborative library put together over the last fifteen years by architect and artist Joar Nango.<\/p>\n

It is an archive comprising an expanding collection of more than 500 books embracing topics such as Sámi architecture and design, traditional and ancestral building knowledge, activism, and decoloniality. This archive also includes artworks, films, tools, reused materials, and more.<\/p>\n

This year Nango, alongside a team of collaborators, unfolds this structure, social space, and source of knowledge around architecture in Sápmi at the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia<\/em>. The pavilion officially represents Finland, Norway and Sweden through ArkDes, the National Museum of Norway, and the Museum of Finnish Architecture.<\/p>\n

As an itinerant, collective library, the project has evolved and expanded with site-specific adaptations as it has travelled to different locations in Sápmi and the broader Nordic region. This journey involves multiple collaborations, including artists and craftspeople including Katarina Spik Skum, Anders Sunna, Ken Are Bongo, and Anders Rimpi, among others. As a gathering space, it hosts large groups of people. As a reading room, it offers an environment for solitary study and reflection. As a critical project, it builds spaces for Indigenous imagination.<\/p>\n

Nomadic by design, Girjegumpi<\/em> is a living project addressing the relevance of Indigenous culture in architectural discourse and construction today: the importance of collaborative work, building techniques and use of resources in rapidly changing climate conditions, the use of locally grounded material flow and sensitive approaches to landscapes and nature. It highlights the architect’s position towards a more polyphonic understanding of the world.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library<\/em> travels to Venice. Watch the film about the project.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Collaborators<\/p>\n

H\u00e5vard Arnhoff, Ken Are Bongo, Petter Bratland, Stefano Crosera + Margherita Pasqualato (Cantiere Daniele Manin), Mathias Danbolt, Ole-Henrik Einejord, Astrid Fadnes, Jenni Hakovirta, Eirin Hammari, Elin Haugdal, Petri Henriksson, Tone Huse, Robert Julian Hvistendahl, Iver J\u00e5ks + Jon Ole Andersen, Anne Kare Kemi, Annik Kristiansen Hagen, maka design, Grete Johanna Minde, Karen Inger Anne Nango, Nils John Nango, Anne Henriette Nilut, Ole Thomas Nilut, Raisa Porsanger, Tobias Aputsiaq Prytz, Anders Rimpi, Katrine Rugeldal, Wimme Saari, S\u00e1mi Architecture Dictionary Group, Arne-Terje S\u00e6ther, Katarina Spik Skum, Mary\u00a0Ailonieida\u00a0Somb\u00e1n Mari, \u010cetil Somby, Anders Sunna, Anna-Stina Svakko, Eystein Talleraas, Petter Tjikkom, Magnus Antaris Tuolja<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n