N E W S 2 0 2 5
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.
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.
Siri Hermansen was invited 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.
GLEDITCHCONFERANCE 2025
The Price of Freedom, is artistic freedom a privelege for the majority - 4. October 2025
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.
DKS - Finnmark County
19. - 24. October 2025
Siri Hermansen & Art mediator Kristin Risan
Hermansen will screen her film "Freedom of the Seas" in Vardø VGS, Kirkenes VGS, and Båtsfjord vgs in Honningsvåg.
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas invites the audienceto explores how power, capitalism, and globalization challenge the right to the ressources in the sea – a right that has long been the foundation of coastal communities in Norway.
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.
FALSTAD SEMINARET 2025
The Price of Freedom - Memory, Power, and Democratic Resilience
7. October 2025
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´s new film Scarformations was screened at Varmesentralen 24th of november 2025. Jørn Qviller, former head of the Finnmark Land Defense and now head of the military strategic department in the Defense Staff, was sharing his insights on the current relationship between Norway and Russia. The film "Scarformations" 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."
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas explores how power, capitalism, 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
Lubna JafferyThe Norwegian Minister of Culture, endorsed Siri hermansen and her public artperformance "I will" at Arendalsuken 2025 on her instagram account.
N E W S 2 0 2 6
VESTFOLD KUNSTSENTER
29. januar 2026 18-20
Screening of the film Freedom of the Seas
and dialogue with Siri Berqvam.
VARMESENTRALEN
24. november 2025
Flytårnet, Fornebu
Siri Hermansen "Scarformations" 24. november 2025
KVITBRAKKA, Berlevåg
23. October 2025
Screening of the film Freedom of the Seas and dialogue with Kristin Risan.
NRK - Norwegian Broadcast News
Live news broadcast from Vestfold Kunstforening and Siri Hermansen´s screeninghe screening of "Freedom of the Seas".
FALSTAD MUSEUM MEMORIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTCENTRE, has aquired the serie "I WILL" consisting of 20 seriegraphic images.
I will is an artistic manifesto
Harstad Kino
25. april 2025 kl 14.30 Sal 2 Magic
Siri Hermansen "Freedom of the Seas"
SAAR - Nordic summeracademy for artistic research 2026.
Siri Hermansen is invited as a supervisor at SAAR 2025 - Nordic summer academy for artistic research. She will also be one of the key notespeakers.
SAAR is a collaboration between Nordic higher educational institution, supporting doctoral research in artistic practice. It is facilitated by partners in FInland, Norway and Sweden. SAAR 2026 will be hosted by the University of Bergen and will take place at Voss.
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas invites the audienceto explores how power, capitalism, and globalization challenge the right to the ressources in the sea – a right that has long been the foundation of coastal communities in Norway.
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.
Who owns the sea – and who has the right to harvest from it? Freedom of the Seas invites the audienceto explores how power, capitalism, and globalization challenge the right to the ressources in the sea – a right that has long been the foundation of coastal communities in Norway.
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.
HARSTAD TIDENDE
25. april 2026 Foto og tekst Morten Haga
Galleri Lille Kabelvåg og Museum
27. april 2025 kl 19.30
Siri Hermansen and Kristin Risan presents
Fiskeripolitisk Leksikon og and her film
"Freedom of the Seas"
AMIFF – Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival,
in collaboration with curator Kjetil Berge, has invited Siri Hermansen to participate as a retrospective film artist in the 2026 edition. The festival will take place in Harstad from 19 to 22 November.
SIRI HERMANSEN "SCAR FORMATIONS"
SOLO EXHIBITION
Commanders house, Falstad Centre
21. june - 7. october 2025
