SVOLVÆR.- “We are delighted to announce that Filipa Ramos will curate the 2027 edition of Lofoten International Art Festival. Building on her long-standing research into how art reimagines forms of coexistence between humans, animals, and environments, her proposal for LIAF 2027 explores how sound and attentive practices of listening can bring together beings, places, and histories. The LIAF Steering Committee and North Norwegian Art Centre are excited to welcome Filipa Ramos to collaborate with us here on the Lofoten archipelago, and we look forward to supporting her and experiencing her project come to fruition.” —Karolin Tampere, Chair, LIAF Steering Committee and Luba Kuzovnikova, Director, North Norwegian Art Centre

“Situated above the Arctic Circle, within outstanding naturecultures, the Lofoten archipelago is constantly felt, heard, and narrated. Wind moves across the ridges, bird calls mark the passing of seasons, visitors bring and carry away different accents, boats punctuate everyday life. These flows are a reminder that a place is made of voices, histories, and relations.

I am honoured to assume the Artistic Direction of the next edition of LIAF and to work for, with, and within a territory where artistic and environmental realities are so closely connected. Emerging from my long-standing engagement with ecology and quest to foster forms of multispecies environmental justice, my proposal for LIAF 2027 departs from the belief that art opens unique ways of listening, observing and being-with.

Embracing forms of prolonged listening and fostering exchanges between humans and more-than-humans, the Biennial will be dedicated to attentive practices of listening and the ways they may bring individuals together, compose different narratives, and shape new imaginaries.”

Curator and writer Filipa Ramos teaches at the Institute Art Gender Nature of the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel. Her research examines how art reimagines forms of coexistence between humans, animals, and environments, a line of inquiry pursued in her recent book The Artist as Ecologist (2025). Current projects include the artistic direction of LOOP Festival in Barcelona and the ongoing symposia series The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, created with Lucia Pietroiusti, with whom she also curated Songs for the Changing Seasons at the 1st Vienna Klima Biennale (2024) and Persones Persons, the 8th Biennale Gherdeïna (2022). In 2024, she curated BESTIARI, artist Carlos Casas’s representation of Catalonia at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Lofoten International Art Festival—LIAF is the longest-running art biennial in Scandinavia, tracing its history back to 1991. It takes place in Lofoten, an archipelago located on the north west coast of Sápmi/Norway, just above the Arctic Circle. With a site-sensitive approach, LIAF commissions new projects and presents works by both local and international artists. The biennial Festival acknowledges the complexity of place and seeks to be a discursive, engaged and social platform to create dialogue between local and global communities.

Lofoten International Art Festival—LIAF is organized by and administered by North Norwegian Art Centre in collaboration with the LIAF Steering Committee.

For further inquiries, please contact: Christopher Brautaset (Head of Communications, North Norwegian Art Centre), christopher@nnks.no / Karolin Tampere (Chair, LIAF Steering Committee), karolin.tampere@nnks.no.

North Norwegian Art Centre receives core funding from the Norwegian Government through an allocation from the Ministry of Culture and Equality, Nordland County, Troms County and Finnmark County.