Filipa Ramos appointed curator of 2027 Lofoten International Art Festival

Building on her long-standing research into how art reimagines forms of coexistence between humans, animals, and environments, her proposal for LIAF 2027 explores how sound and attentive practices of listening can bring together beings, places, and histories.

«The LIAF Steering Committee and North Norwegian Art Centre are excited to welcome Filipa Ramos to collaborate with us here on the Lofoten archipelago, and we look forward to supporting her and experiencing her project come to fruition.» say Karolin Tampere, Chair of the LIAF Steering Committee, and Luba Kuzovnikova, Director of North Norwegian Art Centre.

«Situated above the Arctic Circle, within outstanding naturecultures, the Lofoten archipelago is constantly felt, heard, and narrated. Wind moves across the ridges, bird calls mark the passing of seasons, visitors bring and carry away different accents, boats punctuate everyday life. These flows are a reminder that a place is made of voices, histories, and relations.

I am honoured to assume the Artistic Direction of the next edition of LIAF and to work for, with, and within a territory where artistic and environmental realities are so closely connected. Emerging from my long-standing engagement with ecology and quest to foster forms of multispecies environmental justice, my proposal for LIAF 2027 departs from the belief that art opens unique ways of listening, observing and being-with.

Embracing forms of prolonged listening and fostering exchanges between humans and more-than-humans, the Biennial will be dedicated to attentive practices of listening and the ways they may bring individuals together, compose different narratives, and shape new imaginaries.»
– Filipa Ramos

Curator and writer Filipa Ramos teaches at the Institute Art Gender Nature of the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel. Her research examines how art reimagines forms of coexistence between humans, animals, and environments, a line of inquiry pursued in her recent book The Artist as Ecologist (2025). Current projects include the artistic direction of LOOP Festival in Barcelona and the ongoing symposia series The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, created with Lucia Pietroiusti, with whom she also curated Songs for the Changing Seasons at the 1st Vienna Klima Biennale (2024) and Persones Persons, the 8th Biennale Gherdeïna (2022). In 2024, she curated BESTIARI, artist Carlos Casas’s representation of Catalonia at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF is organized and administered by North Norwegian Art Centre in collaboration with the LIAF Steering Committee. The next edition will open in spring 2027.