Welcoming Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell to Artica Svalbard

We are proud to welcome interdisciplinary artists Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell to Artica Svalbard for their residency in Longyearbyen, nominated by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.

Since 2017, Malin and Mar have cultivated a shared, transdisciplinary practice that weaves together performance, research, queer ecology, and embodied experience. Their collaborations move across forests, waterbodies, cities, and now the Arctic—exploring what it means to listen deeply, live relationally, and co-create with both human and more-than-human worlds.

Their work embraces fluidity and transformation, investigating how bodies and landscapes are shaped by invisible forces—from memory and desire to climate and time. Rooted in feminist and posthumanist theory, their practice is guided by an attentiveness to the entanglement of the intimate and the planetary, the seen and the felt.

During their residency at Artica, they will continue their long-term inquiry into water as both material and metaphor—considering the rights of water, the impacts of climate change, and the porous boundaries between ecological and bodily systems. In Svalbard’s shifting environment, they will follow a site-responsive process of research, reflection, and making, shaped by the rhythms of the place and encounters with the local community.

Welcome to Svalbard Malin and Mar!