Britta Margareta Marakatt-Labba (born 18 September 1951 in Idivuoma, Karesuando, Sweden) is a Swedish Sámi textile artist, painter, graphic artist, and a member of the Máze Group . Early life and education Marakatt-Labba is one of nine children born into a reindeer-herding family. Text: Håkan Stenlund She celebrates her 40th anniversary as an artist, Sámi narrator Britta Marakatt-Labba. This is also how long it has taken Swedes to discover her art. The breakthrough was international for this resistance artist who tells her story with the needle as a brush.
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Britta Marakatt-Labba 1951, Sweden TUE - SUN 23/04 > 25/09 11 AM - 7 PM FRI - SAT UNTIL 25/09 11 AM - 8 PM TUE - SUN 27/09 > 27/11 10 AM - 6 PM Arsenale Admission with ticket The artist Britta Marakatt-Labba was born into a family of reindeer herders in Sápmi, one of the northernmost regions of the world and home to the Sámi Indigenous community. Britta Margareta Marakatt-Labba, född 18 september 1951 i Idivuoma i Karesuando, är en svensk- samisk textilkonstnär, målare och grafiker . Biografi och konstnärskap Britta Marakatt-Labba växte upp i en syskonskara på nio barn i en renskötarfamilj i Lainiovuoma sameby vintertid och i Rostadalen i Norge sommartid. Hennes far omkom i en olycka 1956. Interview by Alison Hugill // June 23, 2020 Britta Marakatt-Labba, a Sámi textile artist and painter, grew up in a reindeer-herding family in the Northernmost region of Sweden. Britta Marakatt-Labba is above all a storyteller. For over four decades she has produced work centred on "an enduring and unending articulation, endorsement and dissemination of Sámi culture - past, present, and future, vernacular, spiritual, material.
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For half a century, Britta Marakatt-Labba (b. 1951, Sápmi) has been one of Sápmi's most prominent artists. Determined to raise the profile of Sami culture and history, she works primarily with embroidery, but also with watercolours, sculpture, installations and graphics. The exhibition presents a rich and diverse visual universe which. Ikon presents the first UK exhibition by renowned Sámi (Swedish) artist Britta Marakatt-Labba. Under the Vast Sky features embroidered pieces, including panoramas chronicling the history, culture and cosmology of the Sámi, the Indigenous population of the northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia. 19 Apr 2023 Climate change as seen through the eyes of world-renowned Sami artist and activist Britta Marakatt-Labba. The Collections. Publicerad 2022-11-09. The 2022 Portrait of Honour depicts the artist Britta Marakatt-Labba, known around the world for her embroidered images of Sami landscapes with both a poetic and a political message. The portrait is the work of Marja Helander, whose photographs of Sami landscapes, people and culture have won multiple awards.
Britta MarakattLabba Under the Vast Sky Exhibition Ikon
21.10.2017 - 30.09.2018 The vivid and evocative art of Britta Marakatt-Labba is storytelling unlike any other. Using motifs from Sami history and mythology, she breaks down conventions and stereotypes on Sami art, culture and identity. And that is why she's the first artist we present in the Artist room in our collection exhibition. Stoahkan (Play) Anders Kreuger annotates a selection of embroidered canvasses by Britta Marakatt-Labba, suggesting we read them as contemporary history painting. Britta Marakatt-Labba: 'Images Are Always Stories': Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry: Vol 45
Ikon presents the first UK exhibition by renowned Sámi (Swedish) artist Britta Marakatt-Labba.Under the Vast Sky features embroidered pieces by Marakatt-Labb. Britta Marakatt-Labba is a Swedish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1951. Their work is currently being shown at Skissernas Museum in Lund. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Nordic Museum have featured Britta Marakatt-Labba's work in the past.
Britta MarakattLabba sommarpratar om samisk konst och svensk apartheid i ”Sommar i P1
23 February - 29 May 2022 by DAVID TRIGG There is something undeniably charming about the miniature stitched worlds of Britta Marakatt-Labba, whose delicately embroidered scenes chronicle the history, culture and cosmology of the Sámi community, one of the largest Indigenous groups of northern Europe. Britta Marakatt-labba was born in 1951 in Idivuoma, outside of Kiruna in northern Sweden. She grew up in a siblingschool of nine children in a reindeer herding family in Saarivuoma Samby. Marakatt Labba studied at Sunderby College, The Industral Art School in Gothenburg and at the Sámi University in Kautokeino.
