LIAF Curator Filipa Ramos. Courtesy LIAF and NNKS
Filipa Ramos Appointed Artistic Director of LIAF 2027
May 28 – June 27, 2027
Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF)
Lofoten Archipelago, Norway
The Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) has announced the appointment of Filipa Ramos as Artistic Director of its 2027 edition, which will take place from May 28 to June 27, 2027 across the Lofoten archipelago in Norway.
As one of the most important biennial in Scandinavia, LIAF has developed a distinctive position within the international landscape through its site-sensitive approach and its engagement with the complex ecological, cultural, and geopolitical conditions of the Arctic region. Taking place above the Arctic Circle, the Biennial offers a context in which artistic practice unfolds in close dialogue with environmental processes, local communities, and global discourses.
The 2027 edition will be shaped by Ramos’s ongoing research into the relationships between humans, animals, and environments, with a particular focus on sound and practices of listening as a way of bringing together different forms of life, histories, and ways of knowing.
“We are delighted to announce that Filipa Ramos will curate the 2027 edition of Lofoten International Art Festival. Building on her long-standing research into how art reimagines forms of coexistence between humans, animals, and environments, her proposal for LIAF 2027 explores how sound and attentive practices of listening can bring together beings, places, and histories. The LIAF Steering Committee and North Norwegian Art Centre are excited to welcome Filipa Ramos to collaborate with us here on the Lofoten archipelago, and we look forward to supporting her and experiencing her project come to fruition.”
Karolin Tampere, Chair, LIAF Steering Committee and Luba Kuzovnikova, Director, North Norwegian Art Centre
Ramos’s proposal emerges from a deep engagement with the specificities of Lofoten as a place shaped by overlapping environmental and cultural narratives:
“Situated above the Arctic Circle, within outstanding naturecultures, the Lofoten archipelago is constantly felt, heard, and narrated. Wind moves across the ridges, bird calls mark the passing of seasons, visitors bring and carry away different accents, boats punctuate everyday life. These flows are a reminder that a place is made of voices, histories, and relations.
I am honoured to assume the Artistic Direction of the next edition of LIAF and to work for, with, and within a territory where artistic and environmental realities are so closely connected. Emerging from my long-standing engagement with ecology and quest to foster forms of multispecies environmental justice, my proposal for LIAF 2027 departs from the belief that art opens unique ways of listening, observing and being-with. Embracing forms of prolonged listening and fostering exchanges between humans and more-than-humans, the Biennial will be dedicated to attentive practices of listening and the ways they may bring individuals together, compose different narratives, and shape new imaginaries.”
A curator and writer, Filipa Ramos teaches at the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel. Her research examines how artistic practices can reimagine forms of coexistence across species and environments, a line of inquiry recently explored in her book The Artist as Ecologist (2025).
Her recent projects include the artistic direction of LOOP Festival in Barcelona and the ongoing symposia series The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, developed with Lucia Pietroiusti. Together, they have curated exhibitions such as Songs for the Changing Seasons at the 1st Vienna Klima Biennale (2024) and Persones Persons at the 8th Biennale Gherdeïna (2022). In 2024, Ramos also curated BESTIARI, artist Carlos Casas’s presentation for Catalonia at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Organised by the North Norwegian Art Centre in collaboration with the LIAF Steering Committee, the Lofoten International Art Festival continues to position itself as a discursive and socially engaged platform, fostering dialogue between local and international contexts while addressing the complexities of place.
Further details on the 2027 edition will be announced in due course, keep following LIAF’s social media outlets and their website.
