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The Barents Spektakel opening show was orchestrated by Dutch theater company Close Act in cooperation with Taibola Assemble, the Crescendo Choir and the DrumTamTam. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The Taibola Ensemble from Arkhangelsk. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The Barents Spektakel opening show was orchestrated by Dutch theater company Close Act in cooperation with Taibola Ensemble, the Crescendo Choir and the DrumTamTam. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The Barents Spektakel opening 2016. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Photo: Street exhibition presented for school kids. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Transborder Cafe on "War on Information". Photo: Atle Staalesen
Transborder Cafe "Safe Havens on the Arctic Route". Photo: Atle Staalesen
Artist Cecilie Håland mixes minerals and ores from industrial sites in her ceramic. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The exhibition Reconstruction Deconstruction by artist Fredrik Ödman. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The exhibition Reconstruction Deconstruction by artist Fredrik Ödman. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The festival exhibition. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The festival exhibition and works by Ivan Galuzin. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The festival exhibition. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The festival exhibition. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Street of Kirkenes. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Festival street. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Young dancers from Kirkenes and Nikel and the Moving Moments performance. Photo: Atle Staalesen
Theater group Samovarteateret and their performance "Simmering Point 70 grader nord 30 grader øst". Photo: Atle Staalesen
Russian festival market. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The Russian festival market. Photo: Atle Staalesen
The Russian festival market. Photo: Atle Staalesen

The Spektakel town

Artists, musicians, journalists and government representatives gather in the border town of Kirkenes for the Barents Spektakel festival 2016. See what is going on.

Atle Staalesen
Atle Staalesen

The festival started on Wednesday with an opening show orchestrated by artist groups Close Act (Netherlands), Taibola (Arkhangelsk, Russia), Crescendo (Kirkenes, Norway) and DrumTamTam (Murmansk, Russia) and continued with an opening concert and the festival exhibition vernissage.

The festival, which this year has got the title «Rethinking Location», is the 13th of its kind. It is organized by local curator group Pikene på Broen and takes inspiration from the location of Kirkenes near the border to Russia and Finland.

The festival includes one day of activities in Nikel, the town on the Russian side of the border.

Contemporary arts, concerts by Norwegian and Russian groups and political debate is on the agenda.

See the full festival program here

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