Galleri Helle Knudsen

Stockholm

About the gallery

Galleri Helle Knudsen was founded in Stockholm in 1999.

Galleri Helle Knudsen shows contemporary art focusing on painting and original graphics. The gallery collaborates with mainly established artists but is also committed to highlighting young emerging artists, continuously showing debut exhibitions, and issuing at least three art scholarships a year in collaboration with the gallery's art association.

Featured artists

Britta Marakatt-Labba (SE)

About the presentation

Britta Marakatt-Labba’s presentation ’The Unsaid’ is a story chronicling the history, culture, and cosmology of the Sámi.

For over four decades she has produced work centered on an enduring and unending articulation, endorsement and dissemination of Sámi culture – past, present, and future. She has the ability to affirm, pronounce, tell, share and advocate this heritage and its ongoing transformations, and still acknowledge the colonial wounds and confront centuries of oppression.

Introduction

Britta Marakatt-Labba

Britta Marakatt-Labba was born in 1951 and grew up in a reindeer herding family in Saarivuoma Sami village. She began her artistic career in 1979 after completing her studies at the School of Art and Design in Gothen burg. Early on, she became involved with other Sámi newly trained artists in building and forming a Sámi artists’ organization.

Today Britta lives and works in Övre Soppero and has been an active artist for over 30 years. She made her big international breakthrough in 2017 when her 24-meter-long embroidery ”History” was shown at Documenta 14. The work was created between 2003-2007 and depicts Sami history and mythology in snapshots. The embroidery is today permanently hanging in the University of Tromsø.