CURRENT RESIDENTS
Kristin Wichstrøm and Chris Fohringer
In residence: September - October 2026
Kristin Wichstrøm is a Norwegian artist and lighting designer working across installation, light, sound and computational image-making, with a particular interest in collaborative practice, technology and posthumanism. Chris Fohringer is a wildlife biologist and MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University whose research focuses on how Arctic herbivores adapt to extreme and rapidly changing environments, alongside a creative practice exploring sound, performance and multispecies relations.
Annike Flo and Lexie Owen
In residence: August - October 2026
Since 2022, Annike Flo and Lexie Owen have worked together as a duo, alongside their individual artistic practices. Lexie’s work centres on social practice and the development of structures that support collaboration and collective action, while Annike’s focuses on material explorations that unfold relationships between the human and non-human.
Nora Adwan
In residence: October 2026
Nora Adwan, an Irish–Palestinian artist based in Bergen, returns to Longyearbyen. Her work explores how identity, memory and the body are shaped by experiences of displacement and exile, with a particular focus on female histories and perspectives. Drawing on multiple geographical contexts and personal experiences, Adwan weaves together narratives that move between poetry, fiction and documentary.