Joar Nango
Festival artist for Molde Jazz 2025

Moldejazz is a festival that brings together and connects music lovers and musicians every year in July in Molde. The city transforms into a vibrant festival arena with over 500 artists from both Norway and abroad.

In 2025, Joar Nango is the festival artist. The internationally renowned artist and architect creates spaces that challenge and transcend preconceived ideas about who belongs where, opening up for creative energies and community. The Sámi-Norwegian artist is trained as an architect but often explores the intersections between design, architecture, philosophy, and visual art. The traditional festival exhibition, which usually takes place at Møre og Romsdal Art Center, will this time be a series of artistic installations both indoors and outdoors. An artistic “jam” that invites and explores material philosophy in a profound and inclusive way.

More details to come.

We invite you to join us for the opening: Monday, July 14.

Joar has also designed the graphic print for the festival, in collaboration with designer Petri Henrikson.

Joar Nango (b. 1979) is an architect and artist living in Tromsø. His work explores the boundary between art and architecture and often integrates the public into his installations. He is a qualified architect from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (2008). Nango has exhibited widely internationally, both in Documenta 13, the Chicago Art Biennal and the National Gallery of Canada. In 2010, he helped found the idealistic architectural collective Felleskapsprosjektet å Fortette Byen (FFB), and in 2020 he was a festival artist during the Bergen International Festival.