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Astrup Fearnley Museet has acquired Britta Marakatt-Labba's large sculpture Urmodern (“The Primordial Mother”), bronze and granite, 224 × 112 × 102 cm, 2024. Urmodern is rooted in Sámi mythology, in which every stone, plant, and body of water carries its own spirit. In this worldview, the cosmos is created and protected by goddesses, highlighting the central role of women in Sámi cosmology. The sculpture embodies this primal force through a granite base that supports the godd

The University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, has appointed four new honorary doctors, one of whom is Britta Marakatt-Labba. Marakatt-Labba's most famous work, Historjá , is located at UiT Campus in Tromsø; it has been loaned out several times to both world biennials and other prestigious museums. The award will be presented on March 25, 2026, and in connection with this, the honorary doctors will give a guest lecture that will also be streamed here . Britta Mara

Gallery Helle Knudsen is pleased to announce that the TATE museums in London have acquired a work by the Sámi artist Britta Marakatt-Labba: Instängslad/Enclosed, embroidery and appliqué on linen, 35 x 148 cm, 2024 Instängslad depicts a landscape slowly enveloped by fog – a metaphor for loss and destruction. In this evocative scene, women wearing traditional red Sámi horned hats fall into dark mine shafts scattered across the forest. As they are drawn down into the earth's dep