FUTURE RESIDENTS
Jennifer Redfearn
In residence: April - May 2026
Jennifer Redfearn is a professor and documentary filmmaker whose work explores the ties between people, place, and the natural world. Her films are immersive and often character-driven, guided by deep listening, empathetic observation, and a cinematic approach to storytelling. She is drawn to work that invites audiences to sit with complexity and continue the conversation after the film ends.
Celine Charveriat
In residence: May 2026
Celine Charveriat is a sustainability and systemic change expert with nearly 30 years of experience working at the intersection of policy, research, and international cooperation. During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Charveriat will develop Noah’s Ark 2.0: Imagineering Just Coadaptation in Svalbard, an arts-based, participatory foresight project led by Pro(to)topia.
Audun Aagre
In residence: May - June 2026
Audun Aagre is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author with extensive experience across Norwegian media, including Aftenposten, VG, NRK, and SVT. He has published several books combining text and photography and has worked across the fields of politics, culture, and technology. Currently a senior advisor at the Norwegian Media Authority, Aagre also brings a long-standing interest in Arctic history.
Soghra Khurasani
In residence: May - June 2026
Soghra Khurasani is a printmaker based in Vadodara, Gujarat. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2023), where she received a Special Mention. Khurasani’s practice often uses the metaphors of scars, wounds, and skin to explore hidden histories, trauma, and ecological change.
Laura J. Lawson
In residence: May - June 2026
Laura J. Lawson is a transdisciplinary artist whose work connects the humanities to interstellar exploration. She holds a BA from Austin College in Texas and an MFA from the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, sound, and writing, with a focus on creative inquiry into planetary science and outer space.
Todd Anderson
In residence: June - August 2026
Todd Anderson is a mid-career artist and collaborative master fine art printer whose practice spans printmaking, digital photography, drawing, and book arts. Born in Minnesota, USA, he earned his MFA in Printmaking at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. For over fifteen years, Anderson has collaborated with scientists, writers, and fellow artists to produce monumentally scaled, limited-edition artist’s books and print portfolios addressing the global climate crisis.
Nora Adwan
In residence: July - August 2026
Nora Adwan is an Irish–Palestinian artist based in Bergen. Her work explores how identity, memory, and the body are shaped by displacement and exile, with a particular focus on female histories and perspectives. Drawing on multiple geographical contexts and personal experiences, Adwan weaves narratives that move between poetry, fiction, and documentary.
Aindreas Scholz
In residence: July - August 2026
Aindreas Scholz is a German-Irish photographer based in London, working with cameraless and ecological photographic processes. His practice focuses on climate-adapted image-making that collaborates with sunlight, water chemistry, and plant matter, inviting rain, seawater, salinity, and disturbed soils to physically imprint the photographic surface. His works sit between aesthetics and evidence — photographs that function as material traces of place, contamination, and environmental vulnerability.
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
In Residence: August 2026
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning journalist, editor, and podcaster, and currently Lead Editor at The Fuller Project. Her work spans journalism, literature, audio, and screen, with a focus on cross-disciplinary, project-based storytelling. She was previously Editor-in-Chief of gal-dem magazine and later a Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times.
Jun Zhang and Yindi Chen
In residence: August - September 2026
Working collaboratively across installation and publication, Jun Zhang and Yindi Chen explore intersections between science and mythology, with a particular focus on more-than-human narratives. Rooted in ecofeminism, queer ecology, folk medicine, and critical fabulation, their practice draws from multiple knowledge systems to question the construction of a homogeneous worldview.
Annike Flo and Lexie Owen
In residence: August - October 2026
Since 2022, Annike Flo and Lexie Owen have worked together as a duo, alongside their individual artistic practices. Lexie’s work centres on social practice and the development of structures that support collaboration and collective action, while Annike’s focuses on material explorations that unfold relationships between the human and non-human.
Apichaya Wanthiang
In residence: August - November 2026
Apichaya (Piya) Wanthiang is an artist based in Oslo. She holds a BA from Sint-Lukas, Brussels, and an MA in Fine Arts from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB). Working primarily with painting and installations that incorporate light, sound, and text, Piya constructs environments to explore how spaces influence perception, behaviour, and interaction.
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
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.