Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF

Lofoten international Art Festival – LIAF – is a biennale for contemporary art that dates back to 1991. This was the same year Luleå Biennale began, so the two share the distinction of being the first biennials in Scandinavia. LIAF's 2024 edition opens on 20 September in Svolvær. It will consist of an extensive exhibition across a number of venues as well as lectures and readings, performance, concerts and artist talks.

LIAF presents works by international and local artists in a site-aware context. The biennale acknowledges the complexity of places and seeks to be an open, experimental and accessible meeting place for artists, contributors, collaborators, school classes and the public.

Since 2009, the festival has been organized and administered by North Norwegian Art Centre. LIAF 2024 is curated by Kjersti Solbakken.

The festival has no set venue but is recreated every second year by exploring its surroundings in Lofoten and integrating itself into them. Works of art have been displayed at or in locations as diverse as a mountain top, a park, a garage, a library, a fish rack and a private home. The festival's aims are to expand, explore and gain new insight through art. The events are always free.

More information about the programme, partners and supporters: nnks.no