Grannar och medborgare av Apolonija Šušteršič–Äppelträd i midnattssol

Apple Tree in Jukkasjärvi — The Continuation

Kin’s apple tree was planted last summer as an art project by the artist Apolonija Šušteršič. The work is called Neighbours and Citizens, and the tree can be visited at Jukkasjärvi Local Heritage Museum. It includes a grafted part from the world’s oldest apple tree, which grew in Gävle until 2017, when it was cut down to make room for new housing. A protest movement was launched, but to preserve the tree for future generations, grafts were taken from it, which are now living on in new trees around the world.

Assisting the artist was the pomologist (apple expert) Sylve Rolandsson. Neighbours and Citizens was part of the exhibition The Observatory: Art and Life in the Critical Zone, and Kin Museum has signed a contract with the artist confirming that the museum is now responsible for the tree. More than a year has now passed for the small tree to take root as one of the northernmost existing, living apple trees in Sweden. The big question was: would it survive the harsh polar winter?

It did!

Neighbours and Citizens is a collaboration with Jukkasjärvi Local Heritage Museum.