Joar Nango with the Girjegumpi crew
Joar Nango with the Girjegumpi crew
Joar Nango
A House for all Cosmologies,
Installation view at the rooftop of the National Museum, Oslo
Photo: National Museum, Norway
A House for all Cosmologies,
Installation view at the rooftop of the National Museum, Oslo
Photo: National Museum, Norway


Joar Nango (Alta, 1979. Lives and works in Tromsø) is a Sámi architect and artist whose practice moves across architecture, design, and visual arts. His projects explore Indigenous identity and the intersections between contemporary architecture and Sámi traditions, often through site-specific installations and handcrafted publications. Nango is the founder of the architectural collective FFB and the creator of the nomadic Indigenous architecture library Girjegumpi. He has participated in documenta 14 (2017), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019), and the Toronto Biennial of Art (2022).
This participation is supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Brasília and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.