Residency Opportunity 2023

Longyearbyen September 2021 Photo: Tom Warner

Are you interested in a residency at Artica Svalbard? 
If you have an interest in the polar regions or a project connected to the Arctic and northern communities, then we would love to hear from you.

Artica's key partner OCA are looking for expressions of interest for the 2023 residency programme in Longyearbyen. 

Artica Svalbard’s residency programme is the cornerstone of the work we do here on the archipelago of Svalbard. The residency offers artists the opportunity to reside, participate, immerse, create and present art across all genres.

OCA is one of four key partner organisations of Artica Svalbard, one of the northernmost artist and writer residency programmes in the world. As key partner OCA are responsible for nominating artists for the residency programme and supporting them curatorially, as well as playing an active role in other projects as part of Artica Svalbard’s vision. In 2019 OCA co-curated Artica Listens.

Artica Svalbard provides travel and per diem, access to a studio space, print workshop and introductions to the local scientific community. Residents are nominated based on invitation by OCA with a minimum stay of four weeks. Annual selections are made in November for residencies the following year.

If this is of interest to you and you would like to participate or learn more, please contact OCA team member, Itzel Esquivel by the November 1st 2022.