Past Residents
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.
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.
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.
Maritea Dæhlin
Maritea Dæhlin is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Norway and Mexico. She is interested in human behaviours, emotions, rituals and encounters. Her work spans between theatre, video performance, performance art and text.
Taciana Niadbaj
Taciana Niadbaj is a writer, poet, translator, human rights activist and the current president of PEN Belarus.
Heehyun Joeng
Heehyun Jeong (b. 1984) was born and raised in South Korea, studied at the University of Art Braunschweig in Germany, graduating from Olav Christopher Jenssen as a master student.
Inma Herrera
Inma Herrera (1986, Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki since 2014. She has a Fine Arts Bachelor Degree and a MA in Art Creation and Research from UCM, Madrid.
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.