In residence: September - October 2026

Jess Mountfield is an animation director and illustrator specialising in documentary, visual anthropology and collaborative practice. She has worked with the BBC, MTV, Adult Swim, charities and scientists across a wide range of formats, including films, idents, published children’s books, museum exhibits, installations, apps and illustrated reports.

In residence: September - October 2026

Kristin Wichstrøm is a Norwegian artist and lighting designer working across installation, light, sound and computational image-making, with a particular interest in collaborative practice, technology and posthumanism. Chris Fohringer is a wildlife biologist and MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University whose research focuses on how Arctic herbivores adapt to extreme and rapidly changing environments, alongside a creative practice exploring sound, performance and multispecies relations.

In residence: October - November 2026

Alexandra Meyer, Lilli Wickström and Oriane Laromiguière are a interdisciplinary trio bringing together social anthropology, architecture and journalism through their collaborative project Tales from the Landscape.

In residence: November 2026

Dina Brode-Roger, PhD, is a Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research centres on place-based inquiry in the Arctic, where she works with an identity-of-place conceptual framework in conjunction with photography as a method of inquiry. While much of her work has been conducted in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, her current projects extend to Iceland and Greenland.

In Residence: November - December 2026

Kristine Fornes is a Norwegian artist working primarily with textiles, dyeing techniques and embroidery. She holds degrees from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Bergen Academy of Arts and Design, and lives and works in the Artist Housing Colony at Bøler, Oslo.

In Residence: November 2026 - January 2027

Lina Machida is an artist based in Tokyo working with moving images, animation, drawing, and spatial installation. Her practice explores subtle bodily responses that arise through contact with environment, time, and others—particularly moments of hesitation, delay, or loss of control. She is interested in situations where the body does not respond as intended, such as illness, or hands numbed by cold, and how these states emerge through relationships rather than as purely personal conditions.

In residence: January 2027

Helen Tatlow and Lizzie Wood are a creative duo based in the Cairngorms, Scotland, whose collaborative practice brings together visual art, writing, environmental research and community engagement. They met in 2023 while co-facilitating a hillwalking group for migrant women resettled in the Scottish Highlands, using time outdoors to build relationships, confidence and connections with the surrounding landscape.

In Residence: January - February 2027

Gunnar Garfors is a Norwegian author, journalist and traveller whose work explores places, people and perspectives from around the world. He has spent time in every country on Earth, experiences that have informed seven books, including three bestsellers, as well as a podcast and hundreds of talks internationally. Before becoming a full-time writer, Garfors worked for more than 20 years at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). His work and travels have been featured by media including the BBC, CNN and The Guardian.

In Residence: January - March 2027

Dr. Thor Bjørn Arlov is a Norwegian historian specialising in the Arctic and the history of Svalbard. He has published extensively as the author and editor of academic and popular books, articles and reports, with research spanning Svalbard’s history, cultural heritage and Arctic whaling and sealing.

In Residence: January - March 2027

Marieke ten Berge is an artist and children's book illustrator based in the Netherlands, though she is often found further north. Working across a range of graphic techniques including etching, linocut, woodcut, and monoprint, her practice explores the relationship between landscape, storytelling, and place.

In residence: January - March 2027

Tanya Park is a heritage specialist, academic, and photographer whose work bridges architecture, cultural heritage, and climate change. She holds a PhD from Japan, with a thesis on “Architectural Preservation Process in Japan: Theoretical discourse and its application.” During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Tanya will combine photography and text to explore the cultural heritage of Svalbard through its buildings

In Residence: January - March 2027

Eva Fretheim is a journalist and author based in Moss, Norway. She holds a master's degree in journalism from OsloMet and made her literary debut with the novel Pink Cotton Candy. In 2022, she entered the crime fiction genre with Queenland, which earned her the Maurits Hansen Award – New Blood. During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Fretheim will begin work on a new crime novel set in Svalbard, exploring themes of climate change and rapid societal transformation.

In residence: February - March 2027

Kai Sebek is a Czech visual artist, photographer and illustrator based in Prague. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on environmental storytelling, bringing together documentary photography, illustration, narrative and field-based research to interpret scientific and ecological themes.

In residence: February - May 2027

Line Prip is a Norwegian artist whose site-sensitive practice explores how humans and other species adapt to their environments. Through fieldwork and immersive residencies, she examines connections between geological and ecological processes and human experience, asking how environments shape behaviour, survival strategies and our capacity for change.