{"id":49999,"date":"2019-01-21T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/?p=49999"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:48:33","slug":"vil-ha-permanent-aillohas-utstilling-pa-dag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/vil-ha-permanent-aillohas-utstilling-pa-dag\/","title":{"rendered":"Want permanent \u00c1illoha\u0161 exhibition at D\u00c1G"},"content":{"rendered":"

The L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi Foundation and the Centre for Northern Peoples have signed a new cooperation agreement on making the cultural heritage of the multi-artist Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 accessible. The aim is to develop a permanent \u00c1illoha\u0161 exhibition and storage facility for his art and artefacts at Davvi \u00e1lbmogiid guovdd\u00e1\u0161 \/ Centre for Northern Peoples (D\u00c1G).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi Foundation, which is responsible for caring for and promoting the cultural legacy of Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4, \u00c1illoha\u0161, has long emphasised the need for a permanent exhibition space where the public can experience and be inspired by \u00c1illoha\u0161's art. The Centre for Northern Peoples, with its premises, various institutions, activities and expertise, would be the right setting for such an exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chairman of L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi, Anne Dalheim, and the general manager of the Centre for Northern Peoples, Terje Ansgar Eriksen, have now signed a new agreement with the aim of realising the project. Among other things, a working group will be set up to investigate the possibilities for a permanent exhibition and store at the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi Foundation and D\u00c1G have also worked through previous co-operation agreements to develop a permanent exhibition, and also to strengthen each other in other areas where it is natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

- A separate \u00c1illoha\u0161rom, with an associated archive\/magazine, will be a very important contribution to the work of promoting and disseminating his art. \"As an artist, Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 has meant, and continues to mean, a great deal to indigenous peoples all over the world. For our centre, such an exhibition will harmonise well with the fact that, through the B\u00e5\u00e5stede project, we will also be returning objects from our area to the Norwegian Folk Museum. It opens up good arenas for communication, and we hope that we can also bring out new inspired creativity, both through L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi with its residency programmes - but perhaps also bring out a living workshop here at the centre,\" says Terje Ansgar Eriksen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maria Figenschau, Anne Dalheim from the L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi Foundation and D\u00c1G CEO Terje Ansgar Eriksen.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4, also known as \u00c1illoha\u0161, was a Finnish-S\u00e1mi multi-artist; writer, composer, musician, joker and illustrator. He was the first Sami author to win the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Beaivi, \u00e1h\u010d\u00e1\u017ean \/ The Sun, My Father in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 moved from Finland to Skibotn in 1996 and was granted Norwegian citizenship in 2001. His house, L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi, was built on the plot of land he received as a 50th birthday present from Storfjord municipality. The plot is located on a rocky hillside, and the house was intended to be a large gambrel - hence the name, which directly translates as Svaberggammen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2001, Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 went on a long journey to Japan, but died in Espoo on his way home. He was buried in Birtavarre in K\u00e5fjord. Before Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 died, he expressed that he had done his part and that he did not fear his last walk on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi Foundation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi is also the name of the foundation that manages the rights to Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4's intellectual property. The foundation was established in 2004 and is owned by the Sami Parliament, Storfjord Municipality, Troms County Council and the University of Troms\u00f8. The foundation's mission statement states that it will manage the legacy of Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 according to the spirit and philosophy reflected in his works and publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By allowing selected people to live and work on their own art and research in Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4's house, the foundation wants to stimulate the residents to continue their professional and artistic development. In principle, the house has been kept as Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 left it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the multi-artist L\u00e1ss\u00e1g\u00e1mmi Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4, Norwegian Biographical Encyclopaedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 - a humble S\u00e1mi voice in the world, Harald Gaski 2007<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 \u00c1illoha\u0161 paintings about to be destroyed - now the municipality is taking action, NRK 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the film Son of the Sun, NRK 2017<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Son of the sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Watch the film: The sun, my father Nils Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4, NRK 1991<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Nils Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Watch the film: V\u00e1immustan lea biegga \/ Tuuli k\u00e4y l\u00e4pi syd\u00e4mein \/ The wind is blowing through my heart<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Nils-Aslak Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 in memoriam, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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