CURRENT RESIDENTS
Endre Harvold Kvangraven
In residence: July - September 2024
Endre Harvold Kvangraven is a writer, researcher, and wildlife enthusiast. His research centers on the relations between humans and birds in contemporary Scandinavian literature.
Nastassja Simensky
In residence: August - October 2024
Nastassja Simensky is an artist based in Nottingham, UK. She uses fieldwork to explore and understand how complex issues around history and heritage, power and governance, ecology and the geopolitics of extraction are crystallised in specific geographies.
Inma Herrera
In residence: August - September 2024
This year we are pleased to welcome back artist Inma Herrera who returns to Longyearbyen continue her project Artic Tales of Mother Earth. Herrera is a Helsinki-based artist, recipient of the Ducat Prize in 2020, and a former resident at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome from 2017 to 2018.
Ellen Heck
In residence: September 2024
Ellen Heck works as a printmaker in North Carolina. Over the past decade, through several print projects, she has explored specific questions about identity—its creation, variability, persistence and change—by combining subject matter and thematically resonant printmaking techniques.