Mimi Josefsen: Who am I?

Mimi Josefsen: Who am I?

Culture

All her life Mimi Josefsen has been searching for herself. “Who am I?” is a fundamental question most of us try to answer throughout our lives but for Mimi Josefsen this question has another depth. For many years she felt that something was not quite right with her....
A Northern Life

A Northern Life

Culture

Portraits from North Greenland In the spring of 2022, NUKIGA took a trip around North Greenland to visit the towns and settlements, the people, and to listen to their stories, which has now become the portrait series “A Northern Life – Portraits from Greenland”. The...
Interview w Naja Abelsen

Interview w Naja Abelsen

Culture

Naja Abelsen is a Greenlandic artist living on the small Danish island Ærø. NUKIGA’s Laila Lund Altinbas visited Naja in her atelier. Watch below interviews (in Danish).  Del 1: OM AT OMFAVNE MANGFOLDIGHEDEN – både i os selv og andre Kunstneren Naja Abelsen...
Interview w Sissi Møller

Interview w Sissi Møller

Culture

Greenlandic artist Sissi Møller won first price in our public shares competition. Sissi Møller is educated both at the Nuuk Art School and at the Copenhagen Art School. NUKIGA’s Laila Lund Altinbas has interviewed her about her art, the way she works, and how...
Interview with Lisbeth Karline

Interview with Lisbeth Karline

Culture

Lisbeth Karline is a Greenlandic/Danish artist. In this interview series of 5 she talks about her art and how she works as an artist. Lisbeth is interviewed by art historian Laila Lund Altinbas for NUKIGA. Have a look below. Part 1: Finding the common thread –...
Greenlandic dialects

Greenlandic dialects

Culture

There are roughly four different dialects in Greenland – the Western Greenlandic (the main dialect), Southern Greenlandic, Northern Greenlandic and the Eastern Greenlandic. Even though there are only about 56,562 people living in Greenland, because of the vast...