Arriving in Longyearbyen this summer we welcome two writers, Marianne Solberg and Erling Pedersen. 

The NAARCA alliance recently joined DACS for a conversation as part of their Art + Environment series.

For Artica Svalbard’s first artists edition we are very pleased to announce that Norwegian artist A K Dolven has created a unique limited edition.

We are thrilled to announce a new series of specially commissioned limited editions launching in 2022.

Susan is an artist-researcher based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change.

This month resident Lene Therese Teigen shares her recommendations, including places to visit in Longyearbyen and a book to read, first published in 1854.

We are very pleased to welcome artist Ingrid Wildi Merino who joins us here in Longyearbyen for a residency until June. Ingrid lives and works in Santiago de Chile.

NAARCA, the Nordic Alliance of Artists' Residencies on Climate Action, co-led by Cove Park and Saari Residence (Finland), are pleased to announce an open call for a freelance Podcast Producer.

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.