Artica and our key partner Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) are very pleased to announce the OCA nominated residents for 2023: Yamile Calderón, Helene Sommer and Nikhil Vettukattil.

Maritea Dæhlin is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Norway and Mexico. She is interested in human behaviours, emotions, rituals and encounters. Her work spans between theatre, video performance, performance art and text. Her art comes off as playful, non-linear and sometimes absurd.

As the climate crisis accelerates, how can artists’ residencies be testing grounds for new – and better – ways of living and working? A new, 8-part podcast series brings together artists, researchers and activists from across the Nordic region and Scotland to explore this question.

Artica and our key partner Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (NNKM) are very pleased to announce the NNKM nominated residents for 2023.

Since 2019, Artica Listens has taken place annually each autumn in Northern Norway. Bringing local and international audiences to in-person and digital events. We have worked with artists, writers, researchers, architects, historians, scientists, policy makers and communities to discuss some of the key issues facing the Arctic and beyond.

The Ministry of Culture and the Fritt Ord Foundation have appointed a new board member for the Artica Svalbard Foundation, Susanne Kaluza, CEO of the House of Literature Foundation in Oslo.

In 2022, we have had the pleasure of welcoming 10 residents: Vibeke Koehler, Augustin Maurs, Susan Schuppli, Marianne Solberg, Erling Pedersen, Lene Therese Teigen, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Inma Herrera, Heehyun Jeong and Taciana Niadbaj.
It has been incredibly educational and exciting to get to know them and their artistic practice.

Announcing NAARCA's new website & podcast series:
NAARCA, the Nordic Alliance of Artists' Residencies on Climate Action, is a three-year project bringing together residencies from six countries to collaborate on research, residencies, commissions, institutional change and education around climate action.

We are very pleased to share the final Artica Writings 2022 essay EMBRACING ENTROPY by Thomas Juel Clemmensen, Professor, cand.arch. ph.d. at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Academy of Arts.

The next Artica Writings essay is out now: Landscaping transition and politics / Grunnarbeid for omstilling og politikk by Cecilie Gro Vindal Ødegaard, translated by Olivia Lasky.

Artica Svalbard and Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening are pleased to announce a new collaboration beginning in 2023.

This month resident Heehyun Jeong shares a letter and list of recommendations for things to do and listen to when in Longyearbyen.

We are pleased to share the next Artica Writings essay which has been written by Lars Erikstad and Dagmar Hagen from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)

In September we hosted the live public symposium Return to Nature? The Transformation of a Post-Coal Mining Landscape. The event took place at The Arctic University of Norway, Academy of Arts, we will share the recorded version on the Artica website soon. Prior to this you can read two recent reviews by Astrid Fadnes.

We are very pleased to welcome Artica’s final resident this year, Taciana Niadbaj writer, poet, translator, human rights activist and the current president of PEN Belarus.

Thank you to everyone that joined us yesterday for the launch of Future Community Garden, the art installation is on view until 30th October outside of Artica. We hope you can all stop by to see it.

Introducing Artica’s new resident: Heehyun Jeong, a printmaker and visual artist living and working in Berlin.

The autumn season is beginning in Longyearbyen and the polar night is only a month away. We will be announcing the next Artica residents, art and craft workshops, talks and projects happening during the dark season soon.

Thank you to everyone that joined us for the live symposium hosted in collaboration with LPO Arkitekter and UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Academy of Arts, landscape architecture programme.

We are very pleased to share the full list of guest speakers for the live symposium Return to Nature? The Transformation of a Post-Coal Mining Landscape, taking place in Tromsø, 16th Sept.