Working towards a special event next year
Nowadays, and for several months ahead, our artist partner Ánne Kátjá Gaup is preparing for next year's True Northern Arts Festival in Harstad.
Reindeer – the animal which Ánne Kátjá loves to photograph.
Photo: Ánne Kátjá Gaup
Ánne Kátjá Gaup has been selected as the festival's young artist, together with musician Bendik Vaaja Aspaas. The selection includes a scholarship of 170.000 Norwegian kroner to cover the work done to get the exhibition ready for next year's festival.
Read more about next year's young artists: UngKunst 2027
Ánne Kátjá herself can't reveal so much yet, but she says that it is a photo exhibition with the theme of reindeer husbandry and the people who work there:
- This project is very important, because I think it is an honor to be trusted to be one of the artists in this festival. Their managers and producers are experienced people who both guide and help me with my exhibition, and that means a lot to me, she says.
Ánne Kátjá Gaup loves taking photos of people, here represented by two children picking berries.
Photo: Ánne Kátjá Gaup
- Ánne Kátjá had her first exhibition at the age of 17, "Reindeer husbandry – our life".
- In 2020, she started her own company Johtti productions, at the age of 23!
- In 2022, her short film «I know all my reindeer» about her grandmother Gáren Ánná was released.
- In 2025, the permanent exhibition «Our Wondrous Planet» opened in Melbourne, Australia. There, both Ánne Kátjá’s films and photographs will be shown in an exhibition that highlights the world's indigenous peoples.
On behalf of Dáiddadállu, we wish Ánne Kátjá all the best in her work, and we look forward to seeing the exhibition at the True Northern Arts Festival next year!
Curios to know more about this young photographer? Check out her artist profile: Ánne Kátjá Gaup
