We are happy to announce that Anniken Huitfeldt, the Norwegian Minister of Culture, will open the Barents Spektakel 2012.
The opening will take place on February 8, Wednesday, on the Town Square at 18:00.

Finnmark Dagblad and Finnmarken will choose the Finnmark citizen of the year.
Luba Kuzovnikova, art director of Pikene på Broen, is one of 10 candidates, and you can vote for her here!

Luba Kuzovnikova, art director of Pikene på Broen, is in Madrid, curating the program of the Russian performance art at the Art Center ”La Casa Encendida”. It takes place in November 24-26, and is arranged as a parallell program within the exhibition “Red Cavalry: Creation and Power in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1945”.

Eva Bakkeslett has just finished an intense period in the BAR International artist-in-residence program. In six days she has been driving approximately 630 km to visit Vadsø, Pasvik and Nikel.

Welcome to the opening of the «Games of Barents Minds» installation by Blue Noses in Bjørnevatn Primary School! The opening and the «first throw» by Cecile Hansen, the mayor of Sør-Varanger municipality, on November 16th, Wednesday at 10.30!

Ilya Mukosey, an architect/ artist from Moscow, is exploring Kirkenes and the area around, planning to build a new airport… of snow and ice.

How to get in the Christmas mood already in October? Start buying Christmas gifts! And the best of them – festival pass for Barents Spektakel 2012!

Artists Kristina Junttila and Leena Kela are coming to Kirkenes with the performance/ laboratory “Kahviland” exploring the phenomenon of coffee drinking. They would like to invite you and to be invited for a cup, for a pot or even for a bucket of coffee!

Architect Jan Gunnar Skjeldsøy and doctoral student in ecocriticism Christian Hummelsund Voie have spent three weeks on the Russian tundra and in Kirkenes exploring the Arctic and outlining the development of the Space Calendar project.

The festival web page is opened, and it means, you can stay tuned and follow the updates of the festival program!

Sonic documentary “Arctic Tactics” by Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot made under the Barents Spektakel 2011 festival is coming to Oslo.

Welcome to the exhibition opening at Sør-Varanger Library on 
Wednesday, August 3rd, 12:00!
Come and play the game about the future of the Barents Region!

Everebody in Kirkenes is welcome to Pavilion Park where Tulle Ruth will present her experimental sound project in July 7-9!

Stefano Cagol’s solo show “Concilo” is a Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.

Dmitri Vilensky and Olga Egorova from Chto delat? is on the way to the High North.

As the current location of the World’s Smallest Hotel by Sami Rintala collides with a pumping station, which is to be built by Sør-Varanger municipality on the same spot, the hotel will be moved to a storage area until it will get a new allotment.

We are happy to invite you to the exhibition openings, Transborder Cafe, concerts, performances and other events that will take place in Murmansk in April 13 – 24!

We thank our dear guests, our fantastic participants and our great partners for unbelievable time during the Barents Spektakel/ Barents Days 2011 festival!
Keep on minding the map!

The Barents Spektakel 2011 festival was formally opened by the Queen on Wednesday evening in the Kirkenes town square.