FUTURE RESIDENTS
Lilian Kroth
In residence: May - June 2025
Lilian Kroth is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg (CH), and works at the intersection of history and philosophy of science and art. In her current projects, she engages with vertical knowledge and remote sensing technologies, (“Seeing like a Satellite. Drawing as a Research Method to Investigate Icy Environments”, 2025; “Aerial Spatial Revolution”, 2024-2027; Swiss National Science Foundation).
Nastassja Simensky
In residence: May – June 2025
Nastassja Simensky returns to Artica Svalbard following her 2024 residency, which was supported through a nomination by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). Her ongoing work explores the unevenly distributed impacts of global energy regimes and extractive processes on particular geographies over time, using fieldwork as a central method. Simensky frequently collaborates with artists and non-artists alike to produce authored and co-authored works across a variety of media—including live performance, sound, text, amateur radio, moving image, and installation.
Endi Poskovic
In residence: May - June 2025
Endi Poskovic is a Bosnian-born artist whose work bridges the realms of printmaking, memory, and environmental consciousness. Educated in Yugoslavia, Norway, and the United States, he initially trained as a musician, performing across Europe and the Middle East before transitioning into the visual arts. He earned his M.F.A. from the State University of New York in 1993 and has since exhibited internationally, from the Shanghai Print Biennial to the Krakow International Triennial and the International Print Center in New York.
Katie Paterson
In residence: June 2025
Katie Paterson is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world, Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic, and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment.
Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández
In residence: June - July 2025
LA IMPRESORA is an artist-led studio based in Puerto Rico, founded and directed by poets Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández. Their practice combines writing, printmaking, and independent publishing to explore themes of identity, place, and environmental interconnections, often through the lens of ecofeminism and land art.
Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell
In residence: July - August 2025
Since 2017, Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell have shared a transdisciplinary art practice that moves across performance, research, and ecological inquiry. Together, they explore queer eco-erotic ethics, participatory practices, and vibrational togetherness, engaging deeply with both human and non-human entanglements.
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
In residence: August - September 2025
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel works with performance, scent, moving image, sound, and installation. Driven by curiosity and a desire for learning through tacit knowledge, he looks for traces of past traditions and alternative technologies displaced in the present.
Bianca Hisse and Christian Danielewitz
In residence: August - October 2025
Christian Danielewitz, a Danish visual artist, researcher, and writer, and Bianca Hisse, a Brazilian visual artist and choreographer, come together as a collaborative duo whose work spans across multiple disciplines. Their practices focus on geopolitical issues, the extraction of raw materials, digital materialities, and how spaces are choreographed by economic and social forces. Their collective approach combines visual art, research, and performance to critically engage with urgent global and environmental concerns.
Ashley Middleton
In residence: August 2025 – April 2026
Ashley Middleton is an artist and researcher whose work explores the evolving relationship between the body, technology, and the environment. Working across installation, sound, video, and photography, she creates immersive experiences that integrate scientific inquiry with sensory perception. Guided by rhizomatic methodologies, embodiment practices, and a feminist phenomenological perspective, her projects investigate how attention, ritual, and intuitive knowledge shape ecological awareness.
Ragnhild Bjørnsen
In residence: October 2025
Ragnhild Bjørnsen is a researcher in childhood studies at Inland Norway University. Her work centres around children living in hypermobility, whether it is themselves or significant others who move. Through a lens of Psychological Anthropology, she unravels interrelationships of childhood, life-course, and the powerful institutions that influence children and youth's everyday lives. Her case studies include the Norwegian Foreign Service and Longyearbyen, a socially transient Arctic settlement under Norwegian authority.
Amy Hoagland
In residence: November - December 2025
Amy Hoagland creates sculptural installations that explore the human relationship with nature. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky, USA, in 2016 and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2022. A recipient of a 2022 Windgate Fellowship for sustainable art presented by Honouring the Future.
Kathy Sirico
In residence: November - December 2025
Kathy Sirico (b. Philadelphia, USA, 1990) is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her practice is deeply rooted in climate-conscious making, with climate change and ecological grief forming the conceptual backbone of her work. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BS from Skidmore College, and her work has been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally.