PAST RESIDENTS
Erling Pedersen
Erling Pedersen (b. 1947, Romsdalen, Norway) is a Norwegian author and scriptwriter. Having worked as a mathematics and arts teacher before leaving the profession in 1980 to become a freelance writer, Pedersen has written over forty novels and short stories for children, young people and adults.
Marianne Solberg
Marianne Solberg (b.1968) is a non-fiction writer, freelance journalist and independent researcher. She currently writes for Ny Tid / Modern Times Review (a quarterly Norwegian International non-fiction book review) and is working on two books about the Norwegian philosopher and writer Ludvig Holberg (1683-1754) and his treatment of natural law.
Ingrid Wildi Merino
Ingrid Wildi Merino (b. Santiago de Chile 1963) lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Having migrated to Switzerland in 1981 she studied at the University of Fine Arts in Zurich (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich) and received her postgraduate in Visual Arts at the University of Geneva, (Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Genève).
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist-researcher based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change.
Augustin Maurs
Augustin Maurs (b. 1975) is a French musician and composer based in Berlin. He studied in Paris and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
Lene Therese Teigen
Lene Therese Teigen (b. 1962) is a Norwegian author, playwright and director based in Oslo. She has worked as a writer, director and dramaturge since 1989, mainly in theatre, but also in film, television, radio drama and as an author of fiction.
Vibeke Koehler
Vibeke Koehler (b.1980) had her first work of fiction published in April 2021. Her rich debut novel Tankespinneren (The Mindspinner) is set mostly in Norway, and was chosen to be promoted for publishing abroad by NORLA even before it was released.
Jessica MacMillan
Jessica MacMillan (b. 1987, New Hampshire, USA) is an artist and amateur astronomer based in Oslo, Norway. Through kinetic sculpture, 3D animation, and installation, MacMillan's work investigates concepts in astronomy and planetary science.
Beate Heide
Beate Heide (b.1959) is a Norwegian writer and storyteller working in fiction and non- fiction. Having been on residencies in both Iceland and Greenland, Beate finds inspiration from the places she visits, the nature she encounters and from local stories.
Elida Høeg
Elida Høeg (b. 1990) lives and works between Oslo and Barcelona. Journalist and researcher, she investigates transnational political issues such as the climate crisis, technology and territorial conflicts through text and sound.
Andreas Siqueland
Humanity's relation to the landscape and nature are central elements in the works of Andreas Siqueland. It is a free and open, but rhythmic, dialog he conducts with his surroundings; the forest, the mountains, the ocean. A direct presence - as close as you can get - seems fundamental. He is inside the motive, observing and looking for the essence.
Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa
Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa are two independent artists that work as a collaborative duo. Together they explore a common yet personal enquiry in contemporary arts through their Sea Sámi heritage. Themes they are occupied with are the ecology of creations, relations, culture, and care. Their aim is to investigate ways of learning and practise with a Sea Sámi cosmology and their landscapes.
Petter Buhagen
Petter Buhagen is an interdisciplinary artist who, through his practice, is concerned with human-made systems and translations of information between digital and analogue formats. By emphasizing specific aspects in our relationship to technology, his works invites reflections on topics such as intimacy and publicity, temporarity and archiving, tactility and immateriality, nature and machine.
Sanaa Aoun
Sanaa Aoun is an author and teacher from Damascus, Syria and came to Tromsø, Norway as a free city author in 2016. Aoun has published two collections of short stories in Arabic, Red Lifelines (2007) and To Where the Compass Points (2018), and continues to be a regular contributor to Arabic online newspapers.
Line Prip
At the core of Line Prip’s artistic practice is her interest in how we are affected by other people and by the context in which we are situated. Human relations are permeated with what we cannot see, and in her spatial works she is materialising the invisible mechanisms that underlie our human existence by translating them into a physical, sensual experience.
Maja Lunde
Maja Lunde (b. 1975) is the most successful Norwegian author of her generation and one of the country’s most prominent advocates for the climate cause. Her books are published in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 2,5 million copies worldwide.
Ole Robert Sunde
Born in 1952, he made his debut in 1982 with the poetry collection Hakk i hæl. Since his second book, Fra dette punktet trekker jeg en omkrets (1982), he has used a variety of genres – poetry, essays, prose and novels – to develop a remarkable, heterogeneous body of work.
Ignas Krunglevicius
Ignas Krunglevičius (b. 1979, Kaunas, Lithuania) currently lives and works in Oslo. He has received his MA in music composition from Norwegian Academy of Music in 2010.
Rune Ottosen
Rune Ottosen (1950) is Professor emeritus in journalism at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University.
He has written extensively on press history and media coverage of war and conflicts. He is the co-editor (with Tormod Heier and Terje Tvedt) of the book Libya. Krigens uutholdelig letthet. He is co-author with Stig Arne Nohrstedt of several books, the latest New War, New Medis and New War Journalism (2014).
Daniel Persson
Daniel Persson (b. 1974) is a Swedish visual artist living and working in Bergen. He works primary on paper with printmaking and photography. He’s interested in the landscape that surrounds us. In the things and gadgets we identify ourselves with and the marks that we leave behind.