North Norwegian Art Centre will from 2020 until 2022 commission and present a series of art projects in Vardø, a town located in the county of Finnmark in northern Norway.
Vardø (Northern Sami; Várggát, Kven: Vuorea, Finnish: Vuoreija) is the easternmost town of Norway. It has a population of approximately 2000 people and is the only town in Finnmark where you can experience a continuous pre-war architecture originating from before the Second World War. It is the region´s oldest fishing village and was known as the Pomeranian capital, as it was a centre for trade with Russia in the 19th century. In more recent times Vardø is home for the Steilneset memorial, the Nordic championship of snowball throwing (part of the Yukigassen). In Vardø, Kystopprøret (the coastal uprising) has also originated – a movement that strongly criticizes how the the common marine resources have been privatized and brought out of the region.