FUTURE RESIDENTS
Jess Mountfield
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.
Kristin Wichstrøm and Chris Fohringer
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.
Marit Beate Kasin
In residence: September - October 2026
Marit Beate Kasin is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer focusing on environmental issues, land use, and nature conservation. Since 2008 she has worked as a political reporter and led the investigative project Hytteparadokset, which examined the environmental consequences of Norway’s rapid cabin development.
Tanya Park
In residence: October - November 2026
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
Dina Brode-Roger
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.
Lina Machida
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.
Marieke ten Berge
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.
Eva Fretheim
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.