Welcoming VestAndPage to Artica Svalbard

Left: Andrea Pagnes, right: Verena Stenke

We are pleased to welcome VestAndPage—the artist duo Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes—to Artica Svalbard this May.

Since 2006, VestAndPage have worked internationally as interdisciplinary artists, writers, and curators, creating collaborative and research-based performance art and film. Their practice is deeply responsive to place, engaging philosophical, ecological, and queer feminist thought. They have performed and filmed under Antarctic glaciers, in the Himalayas, Tierra del Fuego, and inside prehistoric cave systems, exploring the thresholds between body, environment, and ritual.

During their residency, they will explore the transcorporeal and psychoterratic realms of Svalbard through performance, moving image, and philosophical reflection, working closely with the island’s landscapes to explore the intersections of internal and external worlds.

VestAndPage’s work has been presented internationally at major institutions and festivals, and they are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week. They also share their collaborative methods widely through publications, master classes, and teaching.

We look forward to following their time in Svalbard and seeing their work take shape.