Embroidered piece featuring a landscape, people, and a burning building. — Britta Marakatt-Labba, Historjá, 2003-2007 Photo: Andreas Harvik/Annar Bjørgli/Nasjonalmuseet © Britta Marakatt-Labba Bildupphovsrätt 2025

Introduction: Britta Marakatt-Labba

14.6 2025

Stockholm

Learn more about the exhibition “Britta Marakatt-Labba – Where Each Stitch Breathes/Juohke sákkaldat vuoigŋá” with Hanna Horsberg Hansen, a specialist and researcher in Sámi art. Hear about Britta Marakatt-Labba’s artistry and the stories embroidered into her work.

For nearly fifty years, Britta Marakatt-Labba has highlighted Sámi culture and history in embroideries, graphic art, installations and sculptures. Her embroidered landscapes depict Sámi traditions and everyday life, but also colonialist abuse and a nature threatened by exploitation.

Listen to Hanna Horsberg Hansen, a researcher in Sámi art, introduce the exhibition “Britta Marakatt-Labba – Where Each Stitch Breathes/Juohke sákkaldat vuoigŋá“.

Introduction: Britta Marakatt-Labba – Where Each Stitch Breathes/Juohke sákkaldat vuoigŋá

Date

Saturday 14 June 2025

Time

14.00. The tour lasts approximately 45 minutes

Place

The Cinema, floor 2

Price

Free of charge, no pre-registration required

Contact: Alexander Kateb, Moderna Museet

Hanna Horsberg Hansen, Professor Emerita of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She is a pioneer in research on Sámi art and has developed interpretations and narratives of Sámi art within various art historical contexts, broadening its understanding. Her research has critiqued art history as a discipline shaped by a specific Western perspective on art and history.