Border Museum

26.3.-25.4.2025 At one point, Borges took up Lewis Carroll's idea and wrote a short but powerful story about an empire where cartographers were so advanced that they drew a map on a scale of one to one, i.e., the size of the entire territory. In just a few sentences, the author suggests that this empire was doomed to destruction and that today only its remains and fragments of the map are visible. This story has become an important metaphor for semiologists, cartographers, an

16.11.2024 Pakistani architect, researcher, and artist Ishrat Shaheen comes from the Punjab region Lahore, which was divided between India and Pakistan during the bloody partition. This traumatic border experience has led her to take a particular interest in border issues, especially in Europe, where many borders have already fallen. These areas have given rise to interesting cultural projects that reflect the concept of liminality and cross-border life through art. With the

05.11.2024 An evening with Hapkult, a cultural organization based in the double town of Haparanda-Tornio, straddling the Sweden-Finland border. The organization Hapkult is made up of three artists – Anna Lindkvist, Kenneth Mikko, and Pia Sunoneri – their mission is to bridge contemporary art and culture with the humanities and sciences, with a special focus on rediscovering the arctic bordlerlands. They organize the acclaimed sound festival Haparator and have completed a resi

02.06.2024 With our partners Dotart / Exhibit Around APS Exhibit Around APS in collaboration with IN/ARCH Triveneto we organized art residency Dvojno mesto / La città doppia / Double City. Three residents spent a good week here exploring the twin cities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica and their surroundings. Their aim was to explore and understand the complex reality of communities separated by borders and to offer an indepth look at the current challenges and dynamics that ...