The last few weeks have been busy as musician and composer Augustin Maurs met with members of the Longyearbyen community involved with mining and geological research.

Thank you to everyone that joined us on Saturday 12th March for the Solfestuka: Sun-Catcher Workshop.

Introducing Artica’s new resident: Augustin Maurs, a French musician and composer based in Berlin.

For this year’s International Women’s day we would like to welcome our new resident Lene Therese Teigen, who returned to Svalbard yesterday (March 7th). Lene Therese has kindly written a short introduction about herself and the research she will be doing during her stay at Artica.

Arriving in Longyearbyen next week we are very pleased to welcome two new residents, Lene Therese Teigen and Augustin Maurs.

Artica Svalbard are pleased to share the annual report for 2021.

In a conversation with Hilde Sørstrøm, Artica’s director Charlotte Hetherington, talks about a new energy in the Svalbard art scene, last year’s highlights at Artica, future plans and leaving London for Longyearbyen.

Artica Svalbard and Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (NNKM) are pleased to announce a new collaboration beginning in this year.

We are very pleased to share with you a new audio-walk, The Slow Adventure: A Year Without Trees

The audio-walk is the outcome of a collaborative project which took place in October 2021, hosted by artist Floortje Zonneveld and the students of the Svalbard Folkehøgskole.

We are delighted to invite you to a photography exhibition Teenagers without Land, a collaborative project by social anthropologist, Zdenka Sokolíčková (Dept. Of Social Anthropology University of Oslo) and photographer Dagmara Wojtanowicz.

Joining us this month is the Bergen based writer Vibeke Koehler. Her debut novel Tankespinneren (The Mindspinner) was published in April 2021 and was chosen to be promoted for publishing abroad by NORLA even before it was released.

This month resident Beate Heide would like to share a place as her recommendation: Longyearbyen Folkebibliotek
”I quickly discovered the library in Longyearbyen when I arrived. And what an oasis it's been for me!” 

Beate Heide our final resident of 2021 will soon be arriving in Longyearbyen. Beate is a Norwegian writer and storyteller working in fiction and non-fiction.

The first in a series of new interview videos with our residents discussing their ideas and their work.

“The composition itself is very much about what I’m thinking now… about now. I communicated my sonic ideas to the building, the building answered. We met, we made the piece.”

Introducing Artica’s next resident Jessica MacMillan
. Joining us in November, Jessica is an artist and amateur astronomer based in Oslo, Norway.

NAARCA, co-devised and co-led by Cove Park and Saari Residence (Finland), aims to build a long-term bridge between Scotland and the Nordic countries around the most pressing global issue of our time.

Residents Recommend this month comes from Elida Høeg. Høeg has been in residence since early September, nominated by our key partner Norsk Pen.