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KIRKENES CONFERANCE 2025 - 21. May 2025
Fisheries policy preview & question and ansear session with the Minister of Fisheries Marianne Sivertsen Næss. In collaboration with artist Siri Hermansen and Komafest from Vardø, Pikene på Broen invites to a pre-show, vorspiel and Q & Asession with Fisheries Minister Marianne Sivertsen Næss, where together we try to unravel the tangled fisheries policy. The event takes place in Siri Hermansen´s exhibition " Freedom of the Seas" at Terminal B Kunsthall.
SIRI HERMANSEN "SCAR FORMATIONS" Commanders house, Falstad Centre 21. june - 7. october 2025
Siri Hermansen´s art Exhibition "Scar formations" is presented in the Commanders house at the Falstad centre. The exhibition contains several works that address how we process and manage traumatic memories, and how we relate to events in the present based on historical experiences.
International Artistic research seminar in Milano at ACADEMIA DI BRERA 11. - 12 June 2025
Siri Hermansen spoke at the international artistic research seminar Phenomenology of the Archive for artistic at Academia di belli arti di Brera, in MIlano. The seminar was Curated by Lucrezia Cippitelli and Lorella Scacco.
EXHIBITON - FREEDOM OF THE SEAS -
Terminal B Kunsthall / Pikene på Broen 8. May - 21. June 2025
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas invites you into an exhibition that explores how power, capital, and globalization challenge the right to the ocean – a right that has long been the very foundation of coastal communities in Norway. Through video works, documentary conversations, photography, and installations, simple yet uncomfortable questions are raised: Who can actually make a living from fishing today? What is a fishing quota worth? And who truly owns the rights to the resources in the ocean? Freedom of the Seas is an invitation to listen, reflect, and discuss who the sea really belongs to – and what is at stake when it is turned into a commodity.
The exhibition is curated by Ingrid Valan.
SAAR 2025 - Kiruna 17. - 22. august 2025
Siri Hermansen acted as a supervisor at SAAR 2025 - Nordic summer academy for artistic research.
SAAR is a collaborative Nordic project supporting doctoral research in artistic practice, facilitated by partner countries from Finland, Sweden, and Norway. This year's summer school was hosted by Stockholm University of the Arts, featuring an intense and diverse program carefully curated by Petra Bauer and Hanna Husberg in collaboration with the Kin Museum for contemporary art.
ARTSCENE.NO - "Scar as Opertunity: Siri Hermansen and the emotional.
"It seems like a brilliant move to invite Siri Hermansen to enrich and contextualize the Falstadsenteret".
Art critic, Johanna Gullberg
Actualisation of the history through art.
At the Gleditsch Conference 2025, we will explore how artistic freedom can be maintained and developed in the face of contemporary challenges. We will focus on what "artistic freedom" really means, and who has the power to define it. Is it the artists themselves, the institutions, politicians, or the audience? We ask whether artistic freedom is truly accessible to everyone, or if it is, in practice, a privilege for those who already hold power and positions. Participators; Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor, Erik Ulfsby, Heiki Riipinen, Kristian Dahlberg Hauge, Siri Broch Johansen / Juho-Sire and Siri Hermansen.
ARENDALSUKEN 2025 -12. august 2025 ART, MEMORY, AND DEMOCRACY: WHAT CAN ART CONTRIBUTE DURING UNRULY TIMES?
In this panel discussion, several actors from the art field come together, all engaged in memory work with the specific goal of contributing to democratic development through artistic processes and expressions. Together, we ask: What is the role of art and artists in today's memory culture? How can art provide space for reflection, participation, and resistance in a time marked by unrest? And what value do such contributions hold in the public conversation about community, responsibility, and democracy? Ingeborg Hjorth, Falstad Center Nina Wester, independent director, Elisabeth Hansen, director Trøndelag Theater, Trude Iversen, senior curator Koro, Siri Hermansen, independentartist.
Freedom of the Seas" 19. - 24. October 2025,
DKS - tour in Finnmark County
Together with art mediater Kristin Risan, Siri Hermansen will screen her film "Freedom of the Seas in Vardø VGS, Kirkenes VGS, Båtsfjord, Honningsvåg.
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas invite explores how power, capital, and globalization challenge the right to the sea – a right that has long been the very foundation of coastal communities in Norway.
Simple but uncomfortable questions are posed: Who can actually make a living from fishing today? What is a fishing quota worth? And who really owns the rights to the resources in the ocean?
Freedom of the Seas is an invitation to listen, reflect, and discuss who the sea truly belongs to – and what is at stake when it is turned into a commodity.
Siri Hermansen's contributed to the Faldstad seminar 2025 with her artistic manifesto I WILL. This public flag project was presented in the Falstad Forest, a site of execution and a memorial site for World War II. The other contributors where the brilliant Secretary General of Norsk PEN and chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, before director David Borenstein presented his critically acclaimed film "Mr. Nobody Against Putin". There were video greetings from Professor Timothy Snyder and as well as from the Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev. The day concluded with a panel discussion featuring Professor Claudia Lenz (HL Centre), Veslemøy Svartdal (Wergeland Centre), and Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
SIRI HERMANSEN "SCAR FORMATIONS" Varmesentralen, Flytårnet, Fornebu 24. november 2025
Siri Hermansen´s new film Scarformations will be screend at Varmesentralen at 19.00. Jørn Qviller, former head of the Finnmark Land Defense and now head of the military strategic department in the Defense Staff, will also share his insights on the current relationship between Norway and Russia. The film Arrdannelser is based on an event at the Liberation Monument in Kirkenes in 2023, where a confrontation between Russia's Consul General and the city's Mayor took place. The work sheds light on East Finnmark's dramatic war history, where Soviet forces and Norwegian partisans contributed to the liberation in 1944. At the same time, attention is drawn to how historical alliances, forgotten heroism, and today's geopolitical tensions shape both the landscape and the collective memories of the population in East Finnmark."
Screening of "Freedom of the Seas" 23. October 2025, Kvitbrakka, Berlevåg
Siri Hermansen will screen her film "Freedom of the Seas" and
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas invite explores how power, capital, and globalization challenge the right to the sea – a right that has long been the very foundation of coastal communities in Norway.
Simple but uncomfortable questions are posed: Who can actually make a living from fishing today? What is a fishing quota worth? And who really owns the rights to the resources in the ocean?
Freedom of the Seas is an invitation to listen, reflect, and discuss who the sea truly belongs to – and what is at stake when it is turned into a commodity.
TRÆNA WINTERFESTIVAL 20-23 februar 2025
Havfolketshus Screening of Siri Hermansens documentary film "Freedom of the Seas" at 19.00
I will - Public performance 120 participators in colaborations with 7 human rights foundations; The Falstad Centre, The Rafot Foundation, Arkivet, Wergeland Centre, The Nansen Peace Centrem The Holocoast Centre, The Narvik Foundation. The event was broadcasted on NRK, the Norwegian National Broadcasting.
The Norwegian Minister of Culture, Lubna Jaffery, endorsed Siri hermansen and her public artperformance "I will" at Arendalsuken 2025 on her instagram account.
