FUTURE RESIDENTS
Siri Helle
In residence: February - April 2025
Siri Helle is a nonfiction author and journalist whose work often explores themes of environmental responsibility, rural life, and practical engagement with the world around us.
With a background in ecological agriculture, Helle’s writing reflects her deep interest in how our connection to place influences our actions and responsibilities, both locally and globally.
Mhairi Killin
In residence: February 2025
Mhairi Killin is a visual artist from the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. She makes her return to Svalbard this February to continue the research and development of ‘Svalbard & The Hebrides - Island Archipelagoes in the Anthropocene’, which started at Artica in October/ November last year.
Tomas Colbengtson
In residence: March - April 2025
Tomas Colbengtson, winner of the 2024 Queen Sonja Print Award, is a Sami artist whose work examines the impact of colonialism on indigenous communities, with a particular focus on the Sami people. Born in Björkvattnet, Colbengtson’s art draws on Sami history and collective memory. His printmaking often employs materials that cast shadows, reflecting themes of visibility, loss, and resilience within indigenous cultures.
VestAndPage
In residence: May 2025
VestAndPage are Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, interdisciplinary artists, writers, and curators who have worked internationally with a focus on collaborative and research-based performance art and film since 2006. Their works are contextual and situation-responsive, embodying philosophical, ecological, and queer feminist thought.
LA IMPRESORA: Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández
In residence: June - July 2025
LA IMPRESORA is an artist-led studio based in Puerto Rico, founded and directed by poets Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández. Their practice combines writing, printmaking, and independent publishing to explore themes of identity, place, and environmental interconnections, often through the lens of ecofeminism and land art.
Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell
In residence: July - September 2025
Since 2017, Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell have shared a transdisciplinary art practice that moves across performance, research, and ecological inquiry. Together, they explore queer eco-erotic ethics, participatory practices, and vibrational togetherness, engaging deeply with both human and non-human entanglements.
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
In residence: August - September 2025
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (b.1988 - Hamburg) works with performance, scent, moving image, sound, and installation. Driven by curiosity and a desire for learning through tacit knowledge, he looks for traces of past traditions and alternative technologies displaced in the present.
Bianca Hisse and Christian Danielewitz
In residence: August - October 2025
Christian Danielewitz, a Danish visual artist, researcher, and writer, and Bianca Hisse, a Brazilian visual artist and choreographer, come together as a collaborative duo whose work spans across multiple disciplines. Their practices focus on geopolitical issues, the extraction of raw materials, digital materialities, and how spaces are choreographed by economic and social forces. Their collective approach combines visual art, research, and performance to critically engage with urgent global and environmental concerns.
Ragnhild Bjørnsen
In residence: October - November 2025
Ragnhild Bjørnsen is a researcher in childhood studies at Inland Norway University. Her work centres around children living in hypermobility, whether it is themselves or significant others who move. Through a lens of Psychological Anthropology, she unravels interrelationships of childhood, life-course, and the powerful institutions that influence children and youth's everyday lives. Her case studies include the Norwegian Foreign Service and Longyearbyen, a socially transient Arctic settlement under Norwegian authority.