We’re delighted to see former Artica resident Clara Arnaud featured in Earth Rising Volume II: Messages from the Pale Blue Dot, a new collection of commissions produced by Artangel and released on 24 September 2026.

We are delighted to welcome Annike Flo and Lexie Owen, our next residents nominated by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), to Artica Svalbard. Since 2022, Annike and Lexie have worked together as a duo alongside their individual artistic practices. Their collaborative work explores relationships between humans and the more-than-human world, asking how artistic and social practices might make space for the agency of other living organisms, materials and entities.

Maggie Coblentz and Tennessee Watson left Longyearbyen yesterday and headed into the field for the next chapter of the Tarandus Field-Based Residency. They are travelling with Tarandus Project Lead Samantha P. H. Huset Dwinnell, an ecologist and conservationist whose work explores how human activity shapes relationships between wildlife and their environments.

It’s been a busy end to the summer here on Svalbard — welcoming new residents to Artica, catching up with artists returning from time in the field, and making the most of the landscape while there’s still plenty of light.

We’re delighted to see Artica alumna Ellen Viste taking part in A Machine as Complex as the World Itself, a two-day gathering in Bergen marking the first steps towards Bergen Assembly 2028. Ellen joined Artica Svalbard as a writer in residence in 2024, nominated by Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening (NFFO). During her time in Longyearbyen, she worked on her book Temperature. A Story of Cold Shock, Heat Death, and the Species That Sets the Planet’s Thermostat, using Svalbard as a frame through which to explore temperature as both a physical force and a lived experience.

We are delighted to welcome Piya Wanthiang to Artica Svalbard for her residency, joining us as a 2026 resident nominated by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum. Piya is a Thai-Belgian artist based in Oslo whose practice spans painting and installation, often incorporating light, sound and text.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for Soil as Image: Experimental Soil Chromatography with Aindreas Scholz! Together we explored soil chromatography, transforming local Svalbard soil samples into intricate circular images and discovering how differences in soil composition emerge through colour, form and pattern.

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for Jessica MacMillan’s one-night exhibition Insolations, her artist talk, and our solar eclipse viewing. After a day of watching an uncertain weather forecast, nature was kind to us in Svalbard. The clouds parted just in time to give us an incredible view of the partial solar eclipse, which reached around 90% coverage over Longyearbyen.

We are delighted to welcome Jun Zhang and Yindi Chen, the first OCA-nominated residents to join Artica Svalbard in 2026. Working collaboratively across installation and publication, Zhang and 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 on multiple knowledge systems to question the construction of a homogeneous worldview.

We are delighted to welcome artist and poet Kathy Sirico back to Svalbard this summer to take part in the Tarandus Field-Based Residency. Kathy and Tarandus Project Lead Samantha Huset Dwinnell departed Longyearbyen for the hike to the Tarandus field cabin, located approximately 40 km south of town. Over the coming weeks, they will be based alongside scientists carrying out long-term reindeer research, immersed in the High Arctic landscape.

We are pleased to welcome photographer Aindreas Scholz to Artica Svalbard for a residency during July and August 2026. Scholz is a German–Irish photographer based in London whose practice explores sustainable and cameraless photographic processes. Working at the intersection of photography, ecology and material experimentation, he collaborates with sunlight, water chemistry and plant matter to create images shaped directly by environmental conditions.

We are pleased to welcome artist Nora Adwan to Artica Svalbard for a residency this summer. Nora is an Irish–Palestinian artist based in Bergen. Her multidisciplinary practice explores how identity, memory and the body are shaped by displacement and exile, with a particular focus on female histories and perspectives.

Earlier this month, Artica Svalbard welcomed residents and members of the local community to a hands-on bookbinding workshop led by current resident Elize de Beer. Participants explored the fundamentals of exposed spine bookbinding and hardcover accordion (concertina) bookbinding, learning techniques including paper folding, sewing page signatures, cover construction and binding assembly.

We are very happy to welcome Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff to Artica Svalbard for a residency this month. Charlie is an award-winning journalist, editor and podcaster whose work spans journalism, literature, audio and screen. Her cross-disciplinary, project-based practice explores overlooked stories and underrepresented voices through long-form reporting and narrative storytelling.

Last week, residents Elize de Beer, Jessica MacMillan and Todd Anderson joined an unforgettable boat journey to Tunabreen and Tempelfjorden, spending a day immersed in one of Svalbard's most remarkable Arctic landscapes.

Artica Svalbard welcomes Alexandra Lockhart as the next participant in the Tarandus Field-Based Residency. Originally from Colorado, USA, and currently based in London, UK, Alexandra is a dancer and choreographer whose interdisciplinary practice spans live performance, installation, film and photography. Combining embodied knowledge with scientific research, she explores ecological systems and our relationship with the natural world.

We are delighted to welcome artist Elize de Beer to Artica Svalbard for a residency from June to July 2026. Originally from South Africa and now based in Cork, Ireland, de Beer works across printmaking, artist books, sculpture and installation. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the ways histories are constructed, mediated and re-imagined, often through a critical engagement with archival materials.

We are delighted to welcome artist and master printer Todd Anderson to Artica Svalbard for a residency this summer, nominated by Queen Sonja Print Foundation. Born in Minnesota, USA, Anderson’s practice spans printmaking, digital photography, drawing, and book arts. For more than fifteen years, he has collaborated with scientists, writers, and fellow artists to create ambitious artist’s books and print portfolios exploring the global climate crisis.

It has been a busy and inspiring week at Artica Svalbard, with workshops, community events, creative exchanges, and time spent exploring the landscapes that continue to shape so many residency projects.

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