OUR RESIDENTS
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
CURRENT RESIDENTS
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: November - 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.
FUTURE RESIDENTS
In residence: November - December 2024
Sébastien Robert (b. 1993. Nantes, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher developing a practice at the intersection of visual and sound art, technology, science and ethnography. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle, ‘You’re no Bird of Paradise’, through which he explores disappearing Indigenous sonic rituals and cosmologies.
In residence: January - April 2025
Cléa Darnaud is a french drawer and intaglio engraver. In her practice, she uses traditional drawing as well as engraving to develop various illustration and publishing projects. Since 2018, she has completed several artistic residencies in France and abroad, notably in Canada, Finland, Luxembourg and Greenland. Both a moment of life and an artistic material, travel allows her to wander through the accidents of the landscape and daily life in order to collect snippets of memories.
In residence: May 2025
VestAndPage are Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, interdisciplinary artists, writers, and curators who have worked internationally with a focus on collaborative and research-based performance art and film since 2006. Their works are contextual and situation-responsive, embodying philosophical, ecological, and queer feminist thought.
In residence: July - September 2025
Since 2017, Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell have shared a transdisciplinary art practice that moves across performance, research, and ecological inquiry. Together, they explore queer eco-erotic ethics, participatory practices, and vibrational togetherness, engaging deeply with both human and non-human entanglements.
In residence: August - September 2025
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (b.1988 - Hamburg) works with performance, scent, moving image, sound, and installation. Driven by curiosity and a desire for learning through tacit knowledge, he looks for traces of past traditions and alternative technologies displaced in the present.
In residence: August - October 2025
Christian Danielewitz, a Danish visual artist, researcher, and writer, and Bianca Hisse, a Brazilian visual artist and choreographer, come together as a collaborative duo whose work spans across multiple disciplines. Their practices focus on geopolitical issues, the extraction of raw materials, digital materialities, and how spaces are choreographed by economic and social forces. Their collective approach combines visual art, research, and performance to critically engage with urgent global and environmental concerns.