FUTURE RESIDENTS
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.
Kristine Fornes
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.
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.
Tanya Park
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
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.
Kai Sebek
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.