Joar Nango, Girjegumpi in Jokkmokk, 2018.
Photo: Astrid Fadnes
The Sámi are Indigenous people of Northern Europe. Their traditional lands extend across the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland), covering northern Norway and parts of Sweden, Finland, and northwestern Russia. Traditionally they have been reindeer herders, moving semi-nomadically.
Joar Nango is one of only a few practicing Sámi architects in the world.
For the Sámi, Nango says, architecture is something that isn’t monolithic and static but adaptable and mobile, responding to landscapes and the seasons. Qualities from which other cultures can learn.
Nango has travelled to Aotearoa New Zealand to present, with collaborators, the exhibition Building an archive of Indigenous architecture at Objectspace in Tāmaki-Makaurau Auckland.
Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Libraryat the Nordic Countries Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2023
Photo: LAURIANGHINITOIU
Based in Norway, Nango formally trained as both an architect and artist. He makes collaborative site-specific art installations and publications that explore the boundaries between architecture, design and visual art.
His work has been presented at major contemporary exhibition documenta 14 and his Sámi Architecture Library Girjegumpi was at the Venice Architecture Exhibition in 2023.
Joar Nango joins Culture 101’s Mark Amery.
The exhibition Building an archive of Indigenous architecture will close for the summer break on 20 December, and re-open on 14 January, and is free to visit until 16 March.
Joar Nango, Girjegumpi in Jokkmokk, 2018. (PHOTO: Astrid Fadnes)
Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library by Joar Nango and collaborators at the Nordic Countries Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2023 (PHOTO: LAURIANGHINITOIU)
Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Libraryat the Nordic Countries Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2023 (PHOTO: LAURIANGHINITOIU)
Installation view of Building an archive of Indigenous architecture by Joar Nango and collaborators, 30 Nov 2024–16 Mar 2025 at Objectspace (PHOTO: SAM HARTNETT)
Installation view of Building an archive of Indigenous architecture by Joar Nango and collaborators, 30 Nov 2024–16 Mar 2025 at Objectspace (PHOTO: SAM HARTNETT)
Gathering at Objectspace, photograph by David St George (PHOTO: David St George)
Gathering at Objectspace, photograph by David St George (PHOTO: David St George)
Visiting Sámi collaborators (left to right): Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Katarina Spik Skum, Joar Nango, Eveliina Sarapää, and Gunvor Guttorm, photograph by David St George (PHOTO: David St George)
Joar Nango at Objectspace (PHOTO: David St George)
1. Joar Nango at Objectspace, photograph by David St George (PHOTO: David St George)
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