Our Key Partners
Since our founding in 2016 Artica has worked closely with the key partners, who act as an advisory board nominating the residents via open-calls, curatorial research and awards.
Developing the linked programme of events, workshops, talks and larger scale projects such as Artica Listens.
This partnership has established Artica as a leading residency programme in Norway, not only helping the foundation offer best practice but also supporting us in our values.
Professional impact, Engagement, Influence change
The Norwegian Nonfiction Writers' and Translators' Association is a trade union for nonfiction authors and translators of nonfiction.
As of 2022, NFFO has 5,000 members spread across Norway who work in all fields within non-fiction: specialist books, general non-fiction, textbooks, biography, travelogues, debate books, cookbooks, essays - and also translators of non-fiction.
The association secures its members' professional and financial interests through negotiations of agreements and contracts with publishers and other public and private institutions. Among the most important agreements are the standard agreements for authors and translators on the publication and use of non-fiction.
NFFO works to promote good specialist literature and to strengthen Norwegian written language, which is becoming increasingly important in a society built on high demands for knowledge. The association participates in the public exchange of words about non-fiction and organizes courses and seminars for both members and others. NFFO publishes the members' magazine NFFO -Bulletin and Norway's largest literary journal, Prosa.
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum serves the regions of Troms, Finnmark and Nordland, as well as Svalbard. The museum plays a significant role in Norway, the Nordic, circumpolar and international art world. Central to the museum is the safeguarding, research and activation of a collection of over 2,225 works by artists from the 17th century to the present day. There is an increasing presence of Sami daiddars and duojár in our collection. We are also strongly present and concerned with social/climate justice and transformation.
The museum has programming responsibility for the newly started Nordover Art Center and is a key partner in the artist residency Artica Svalbard (Longyearbyen, Svalbard), which makes NNKM exceptional when it comes to operating so close to the North Pole. NNKM already has offices in Bodø and will open NNKM Bodø in 2024. We are also working towards a new museum building in Tromsø in collaboration with Tromsø municipality and the Arctic Philharmonic
Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) is a non-profit foundation established by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in 2001. Its principal aim is to foster dialogue between art practitioners in Norway, including Sápmi, and the international arts scene, and support artists based in Norway in their activities around the world.
As a result, OCA’s discursive, exhibition, publication, residency and visitor programmes focus on bringing to Norway plurality of practices and histories at the forefront of international artistic debates, as much as they are concerned with actively participating in such debates nationally and internationally. OCA has been responsible for Norway's contribution to the visual arts section of La Biennale di Venezia since 2001.
The Queen Sonja Print Award (QSPA) was founded in 2011 by HM Queen Sonja of Norway and the renowned Norwegian artists Kjell Nupen and Ørnulf Opdahl, together with master printer Ole Larsen (of Helsingborg, Sweden). The QSPA Foundation’s objective is to generate interest in and elevate contemporary graphic art, especially among emerging artists. The Foundation wishes to encourage the art of printmaking and inspire ambitious artists to establish themselves on the international art scene.
The QSPA selects three awardees biannually. QSPA Inspirational Award is awarded a young promising graphic artist from a Nordic country, an artist still in education or one who has just finished his/her art training. Queen Sonja Print Award, currently the world’s largest international print award, is given to an artist who has excelled in the printmaking field. QSPA Lifetime Achievement Award is a celebration of an artist’s career and lifetime contribution to graphic art and printmaking.
The QSPA Foundation collaborates with prominent museums, artists, curators and fine art print publishers from around the world in order to support and stimulate this important artistic field.