Below you will find details of all the current and future residents at Artica Svalbard. If you would like to contact any of our residents feel free to email info@articasvalbard.no
In residence: July - September 2024
Endre Harvold Kvangraven is a writer, researcher, and wildlife enthusiast. His research centers on the relations between humans and birds in contemporary Scandinavian literature.
In residence: August - October 2024
Nastassja Simensky is an artist based in Nottingham, UK. She uses fieldwork to explore and understand how complex issues around history and heritage, power and governance, ecology and the geopolitics of extraction are crystallised in specific geographies.
In residence: August - September 2024
This year we are pleased to welcome back artist Inma Herrera who returns to Longyearbyen continue her project Artic Tales of Mother Earth. Herrera is a Helsinki-based artist, recipient of the Ducat Prize in 2020, and a former resident at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome from 2017 to 2018.
In residence: September 2024
Ellen Heck works as a printmaker in North Carolina. Over the past decade, through several print projects, she has explored specific questions about identity—its creation, variability, persistence and change—by combining subject matter and thematically resonant printmaking techniques.
In residence: October - November 2024
Mhairi Killin is a visual artist who lives on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland where she works with the precious relationships between land, sea, humans, and other living beings.
In residence: October - December 2024
Liryc Dela Cruz is an artist and filmmaker from Tupi, South Cotabato in Mindanao, Philippines based in Rome, Italy. His work has been performed and shown at numerous international film festivals and contemporary art venues.
