Job description

PhD Research fellow at Tromsø Art Academy, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and Faculty of Fine Art, University of Bergen.

She is a visual artist and curator currently based in Romssa/Tromsø, Sápmi. Part of her practice is to write for artists, often commissioning new works, striving to present artistic practice and work with an transdisciplinary approach. 

She has a particular interest in collaborative and socially engaged practices, sound and listening. Since 2004 she has regularly contributed to the “forever lasting” art project Sørfinnset Skole/the nord land with artists Geir Tore Holm and Søssa Jørgensen, and together with Åse Løvgren the ongoing collaboration Rakett was initiated in 2003. During 2013 and partly 2014 she was serving as director of Konsthall C in Stockholm and transformed the directorship into a collaboration named the Work Group/Arbetslaget with artists akcg(anna kindgren and carina gunnars) and Anna Ahlstrand.

Tampere is since 2010 part of Ensayos - a collective feminist research practice enacted by artists, scientists, activists, policymakers, and local community members. Sustaining focus on the ecopolitics of archipelagos for the past decade, Ensayos have developed distinct inquiries into extinction, human geography, and coastal health. During Summer 2020 Ensayos was part of the online artist residency at New Museum, New York, with the project “Ensayos: Passages.

Between 2017 - 2022 Tampere had the position as curator at the North Norwegian Art Centre in Svolvær, Lofoten archipelago and amongst other realized several site sensitive and context specific projects with artists across the region of Northern Norway. Together with Hilde Mehti, Neal Cahoon and Torill Østby Haaland she co-curated LIAF2019 which received the Norwegian Critics price of honor.

In 2022 she was contributing as part of The Gift where Ensayos supported the HOL HOL TOL - The Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. Ensayos collaborators were working with “pods” of artists and ecologists to explore the ecology and culture of peatlands local to their regions. The three groups conjured gifts of scent from international peatlands that contributed to the multisensory experience of the pavilion in Venice.