Join visual artist and bookbinder Elize de Beer for a hands-on workshop exploring the art of exposed spine bookbinding. Participants will learn the fundamentals of traditional bookbinding while creating their own handmade notebook featuring a visible stitched spine.

It might be summer, but fear not—First Friday Coffee Club is still open for business!

Join visual artist and bookbinder Elize de Beer for a hands-on workshop exploring the hardcover accordion (concertina) book. Participants will create a folded paper structure attached to rigid covers, resulting in a book that can be expanded, displayed as a sculptural object, or read sequentially.

If you are curious about what Artica’s current residents are working on, join us for an evening of short presentations, soup, and open studio with journalist and writer Audun Aagre, artist Laura J. Lawson, and artist Jessica MacMillan. This informal gathering offers a chance to hear about their practices, learn how their projects are unfolding on Svalbard, and enjoy conversation with fellow community members.

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us for coffee club on the first Friday in June.

Audun Aagre, forfatter i residens ved Artica Svalbard, returnerer til Longyearbyen i slutten av mai etter en 14-dagers skiekspedisjon i fotsporene til Gunnar Isachsen og den norske ekspedisjonen i 1906.

As climate change accelerates across the Arctic, questions of adaptation are becoming increasingly urgent—not only for humans, but for the many species that share this environment. In this participatory workshop, Artica resident Celine Charveriat invites participants to rethink adaptation through the perspective of the Svalbard reindeer, exploring how ethics of care, imagination, and strategic foresight might help shape more inclusive futures for life in the Arctic. Combining discussion, storytelling, and speculative thinking, the workshop asks: what might change if humans no longer spoke only for themselves?

Join us for the book launch of Artica Writings 2024: Svalbard’s International Community, the latest print edition in Artica Svalbard’s essay series. This limited-edition publication explores the personal stories of international residents living in Svalbard and reflects on questions of belonging, identity, and life within one of the Arctic’s most internationally diverse communities.

As climate change accelerates across the Arctic, questions of adaptation are becoming increasingly urgent—not only for humans, but for the many species that share this environment. In this participatory workshop, Artica resident Celine Charveriat invites participants to rethink adaptation through the perspective of the Svalbard reindeer, exploring how ethics of care, imagination, and strategic foresight might help shape more inclusive futures for life in the Arctic. Combining discussion, storytelling, and speculative thinking, the workshop asks: what might change if humans no longer spoke only for themselves?

Drawing on her experience as both a psychiatrist and an Arctic nature guide, Olga Tingstedt invites participants to join a process-based workshop series taking place across five sessions. Each workshop will be centred around an excursions in the landscape surrounding Longyearbyen.

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday in May (please note there will be no Coffee Club in April).

This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment. This final session explores the relational field as the shared terrain where fluid systems and human structures meet. Following melt and activation, water moves through fjords and ocean systems.

Drawing on her experience as both a psychiatrist and an Arctic nature guide, Olga Tingstedt invites participants to join a process-based workshop series taking place across five sessions. Each workshop will be centred around an excursions in the landscape surrounding Longyearbyen.

This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment. In this third session examines environmental response following industrial conversion. Coal, formed from ancient sunlight, becomes active when extracted and burned. The atmosphere changes. In the Arctic, glaciers and permafrost respond.

Drawing on her experience as both a psychiatrist and an Arctic nature guide, Olga Tingstedt invites participants to join a process-based workshop series taking place across five sessions. Each workshop will be centred around an excursions in the landscape surrounding Longyearbyen.

Join us for an evening with Artica resident and Royal Society member Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, who will share insights from her self-directed research and explorations of the Arctic, alongside reflections on her recently completed record-breaking expedition to Antarctica.

Drawing on her experience as both a psychiatrist and an Arctic nature guide, Olga Tingstedt invites participants to join a process-based workshop series taking place across five sessions. Each workshop will be centred around an excursions in the landscape surrounding Longyearbyen.

This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment. In this second workshop, we will explore light as energy from the Sun and how it moves across planetary, biological, and technological systems. Participants begin by sensing how light shapes perception, alertness, and daily rhythm within Arctic seasonal shifts.

Drawing on her experience as both a psychiatrist and an Arctic nature guide, Olga Tingstedt invites participants to join a process-based workshop series taking place across five sessions. Each workshop will be centred around an excursions in the landscape surrounding Longyearbyen.

If you are curious about what Artica’s current residents are working on, join us for an evening of short presentations and open studio with artists Ashley Middleton, Lilian Kroth, Mhairi Killin and Thomas Abercromby. This informal gathering offers a chance to hear about their practices, learn how their projects are unfolding on Svalbard, and enjoy good company.

This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment. Across four lunar phases, the workshops trace a progression from stored earth material, to its conversion into infrastructure, to the environmental responses that follow, and finally to the shared terrain where natural processes and human systems intersect. Each session combines guided meditation, intuitive sound bath, and communal reflection.

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Artica is very pleased to welcome back artists Kirsty Banks and Marieke ten Berge for an evening of creative, hands-on printmaking. This workshop introduces drypoint etching using recycled tetra packs—an accessible and versatile printmaking technique that encourages playful experimentation.

Join us for an exhibition of artworks created by 3rd Grade pupils from Longyearbyen Skole and Kulturskolen. From the Mouths of the Caves is an inter-island community art project connecting young islanders from Iona & Mull Primary Schools (Hebrides, Scotland) with children in Svalbard.

Join us for an exhibition of artworks created by 3rd Grade pupils from Longyearbyen Skole and Kulturskolen. From the Mouths of the Caves is an inter-island community art project connecting young islanders from Iona & Mull Primary Schools (Hebrides, Scotland) with children in Svalbard.

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

Artica Svalbard inviterer til en åpen og aktuell samtale i Oslo torsdag 5. mars. Vi samler forskere, journalister og andre sentrale aktører for å diskutere hvordan vi kan forstå virkningen av store geopolitiske endringer på Svalbard i lys av norsk suverenitet – samtidig som vi forblir åpne, inkluderende og følger våre internasjonale forpliktelser.

Floortje Zonneveld, returning artist-in-residence, invites you to the Svalbard premiere of her short documentary, recently screened at the Tromsø International Film Festival.

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Artica Svalbard invites you to an evening introduction to screen printing led by artist-in-residence Kamil Kak. This free, hands-on workshop is open to everyone, and no prior experience is required.

Artica Svalbard and the Arctic Chamber Music Festival invite you to an after-work concert and lecture exploring the violin’s evolving voice. From early traditions to contemporary expressions, we trace how the violin and its music have transformed across time. Live performances illuminate these shifts, while Artica resident Clara Arnaud threads in a story about change, perspective, and the ever-shifting realities of Svalbard.