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. 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 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. 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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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. 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. 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) The frontier of climate change as seen through the eyes of world-renowned Sami artist and activist Britta Marakatt-Labba. Read more. 19 Apr 2023. Climate change as seen through the eyes of world.
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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. 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
Britta Marakatt-Labba. Britta Marakatt-Labba (b. 1951), is a visual artist living in Övre Soppero, Sápmi, Northern Sweden. She grew up in a family of reindeer herders and then studied art at Sunderby Folkhögskola and at the School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg, receiving a Bachelor's degree in Textile Art in 1978. VDOMDHTMLhtml> Britta Marakatt-Labba: 'Images Are Always Stories' | Afterall Afterall is a research and publishing organisation that focuses its research activities on the value of contemporary art and its relation to wider society.
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0:00 / 11:56 Britta Marakatt-Labba: Under the Vast Sky Ikon Gallery 1.78K subscribers Subscribe 17 Share 828 views 9 months ago Ikon presents the first UK exhibition by renowned Sámi (Swedish). 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.
