Through video, text and installation she questions the way we understand and relate to our surroundings and its history, particularly in regard to the premises and politics of the sciences.

Last summer we welcomed visual artist Inma Herrera to the Artica residency. In this new film she shares her reflections on the residency experience, her practice and the meditative process of making. 

We are so pleased to welcome Grace Ndiritu, a British-Kenyan artist based in London whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world.

This week we are pleased to share Danish artist Rikke Luther’s Residents Recommend text. Luther is a GRASS Fellow at the GRASS Fellow Programme, Uppsala Universitet / Campus Gotland and Baltic Art Center (2022-2024) and is currently conducting field studies for the research project: More Mud. The project is commissioned by Art Hub and Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA).

Expressions of interest are now open via our key partner OCA, who have been collaborating with Artica since 2016, nominating up to three artists a year for a funded residency and supporting the residents curatorially during their stay.

Read the new Residents Recommend list by Oslo based artist Yamile Calderón, who shares some of the books, music and experiences she’s had so far during her stay at Artica including seeing Patti Smith in concert!

We are very pleased to welcome our sixth resident of 2023 Yamile Calderón, an artist born in Colombia, based in Oslo. Calderón’s work is inspired by memories from her childhood and personal stories. By approaching the documentary genre from a subjective perspective, she explores visual and narrative strategies and the interpretation of reality.

This month we are very pleased to welcome Rikke Luther a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Over the course of two years (2022-24), Rikke will embark on a research project entitled More Mud which will include residencies at Baltic Art Center (Sweden), Skaftfell Art Center (Iceland), Artica Svalbard (Norway) and research trips to Finland, and Greenland.

What role can, and should, artists play in an age of the climate crisis? What opportunities do artists have in this context, and what – if any – are their responsibilities?

Thank you to everyone that joined us on Saturday 22 April for the monoprinting workshop.

This month we are very pleased to welcome Kristin Folsland Olsen, writer, photographer and lecturer based in Lofoten. Olsen has written several non-fiction books, including Turguide Lofoten.

How can arts institutions and artists be more sustainable – in terms of their impact not only on the environment, but also on local communities? Listen to the third episode of Testing Grounds where we head to Iceland and the Skaftfell Art Center.

Nabil Ahmed is the founder and co-director of INTERPRT, a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations. INTERPRT uses architectural research, remote sensing and publicly available data to produce evidence files for legal cases, advocacy videos and exhibitions.

Artica Svalbard are pleased to share the annual report for 2022.

For this year’s International Women’s day we are pleased to share the Residents Recommend text by Maritea Dæhlin, current artist in residence.

Åse Kristine Tveit is a trained librarian and literary scholar, and has a PhD in library and information science. She is an associate professor at the Department of Archive, Library and Information Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, where she teaches and researches children's literature and the sociology of literature.

Thank you to everyone that joined us on Saturday 4 March for the Solfestuka Workshop.

Artica and our new key partner Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening (NFFO) are very pleased to announce the first NFFO nominated residents for 2023

How does the built environment affect our experience of the climate crisis – and vice-versa? In this new episode, Charlotte Hetherington, director of Artica Svalbard, introduces us to Longyearbyen, and to our two contributors: architect Ingvild Sæbu Vatn and anthropologist Alexandra Meyer.

This exhibition brings together works by just some of the past artists, writers and researchers with focus towards the QSPA residents, who have stayed at Artica in Longyearbyen over the last seven years.