PAST RESIDENTS
Inma Herrera
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.
Ellen Heck
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.
Endre Harvold Kvangraven
Endre Harvold Kvangraven is a writer, researcher, and wildlife enthusiast. His research centers on the relations between humans and birds in contemporary Scandinavian literature.
Januario Jano
Januario Jano is an interdisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in London, Luanda and Lisbon. He holds a MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, and his practice spans across sculpture, video, photography, textile, sound installations, and performance, and it is substantially research-based.
Cathrine Alice Liberg
Cathrine Alice Liberg is a Norwegian-Singaporean artist and printmaker working in a variety of techniques, including lithography, photogravure, cyanotype, etching and mezzotint. Her art revolves mainly around the family portrait, where she contemplates the stories that were lost through her family’s migration, and how descendants can never become reliable narrators of their ancestors’ lives.
Ellen Viste
Ellen Viste lives in Bergen, where she works as a communication adviser at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Having a background as a meteorologist and climate researcher, she has also worked extensively with popular science writing on weather and climate.
Roald Berg
Roald Berg is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Stavanger, working mainly with polar history, foreign and defense policy history. During his residency at Artica, he will embark on a book about the history of Norwegian polar imperialism, centered on one of the key players who was around at the turn of the century.
Trine Hamran
Trine Hamran (b. 1971) is a freelance writer and journalist, trained as a social anthropologist and has a master's degree in journalism. She has worked as a journalist for a number of years, as a freelancer and for NRK, Dagsavisen, Finnmarken and Sør-Varanger Avis.
Nastassja Simensky
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.
Ruth Maclennan
Ruth Maclennan is an artist and researcher based in London and northern Scotland. Her art practice includes films, video installations, photographs, writing, drawing and interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects. For the past ten years Maclennan has been researching experiences of climate heating and geopolitics.
Nicole Rafiki
Nicole Rafiki lives and works between South Africa and Norway. Rather than producing finished products as an end result, Rafiki treats art making as a practice of remembrance, healing and cultural analysis.
Nikhil Vettukattil
Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) Artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences.
Helene Sommer
Helene Sommer is a visual artist based in Oslo. 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.
Grace Ndiritu
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist based in London whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world.
Yamile Calderón
Yamile Calderón is an artist born in Colombia, based in Oslo. She studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts. She has recently published her second photo book, Narcos & Homes, and was awarded Bildende Kunstnernes Hjelpefonds (BKH) Fotokunstprisen 2020 (Photo Art Prize).
Rikke Luther
Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Her current work explores the new interrelations created by the environmental crisis as they relate to Earth System.
Kristin Folsland Olsen
Kristin Folsland Olsen lives in Kabelvåg, Lofoten and works as a writer, photographer and lecturer. She has written several non-fiction books. Kristin is passionate about the arctic wilderness and has carried out a number of skiing expeditions on Svalbard, Greenland, Baffin Island and South Georgia.
Nabil Ahmed and Olga Lucko
Nabil Ahmed is the founder and co-director of INTERPRT alongside co-director and architect, Olga Lucko. INTERPRT is a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations.
Åse Kristine Tveit
Åse Kristine Tveit (b. 1963) 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.