As part of the project Curera initiated by Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten, five students from the Master's Program in Curating Art at Stockholm University recently developed a proposal for the relocation of Kiruna’s public art to the new city park. While the planning process is long, and while this park will only materialise at some undetermined point in the future, we neither want to nor need to wait.

In this soon-to-be sculptural area, the future artistic heart of Kiruna, a site-specific manifestation will prime the space for what is yet to come, breathing life into a construction site destined to be Kiruna’s new city park. The event will not merely mark the physical movement of sculptures but will also symbolize the bridging of past and future as well as the intersection of art and nature, while fostering collective aspirations of unity and community.

Together with the artist Anna Zingmark (b. 1990, Gällivare) we will explore the area where the future park is being built, tracing its contours, marking its boundaries and imagining its future possibilities. The manifestation aims to create a sense of collective ownership of Kiruna’s new city park as a space for art, and thus we invite you to actively participate in this ceremonial inauguration.