In residence: May - June 2026

Audun Aagre is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author with extensive experience across Norwegian media, including Aftenposten, VG, NRK, and SVT. He has published several books combining text and photography and has worked across the fields of politics, culture, and technology. Currently a senior advisor at the Norwegian Media Authority, Aagre also brings a long-standing interest in Arctic history.

In residence: May - June 2026

Soghra Khurasani is a printmaker based in Vadodara, Gujarat. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2023), where she received a Special Mention. Khurasani’s practice often uses the metaphors of scars, wounds, and skin to explore hidden histories, trauma, and ecological change.

In residence: May 2026

Celine Charveriat is a sustainability and systemic change expert with nearly 30 years of experience working at the intersection of policy, research, and international cooperation. During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Charveriat will develop Noah’s Ark 2.0: Imagineering Just Coadaptation in Svalbard, an arts-based, participatory foresight project led by Pro(to)topia.

In residence: April - May 2026

Jennifer Redfearn is a professor and documentary filmmaker whose work explores the ties between people, place, and the natural world. Her films are immersive and often character-driven, guided by deep listening, empathetic observation, and a cinematic approach to storytelling. She is drawn to work that invites audiences to sit with complexity and continue the conversation after the film ends.

In residence: August 2025 – April 2026

Ashley Middleton is an artist and researcher whose work explores the evolving relationship between the body, technology, and the environment. Working across installation, sound, video, and photography, she creates immersive experiences that integrate scientific inquiry with sensory perception. Guided by rhizomatic methodologies, embodiment practices, and a feminist phenomenological perspective, her projects investigate how attention, ritual, and intuitive knowledge shape ecological awareness.

In residence: April - May 2026

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger is an environmental artist whose work explores human impact on islands and isolated environments. Through immersive residencies as an artist, traveller, and observer, she creates works that critically examine the effects of the Anthropocene and consumerism. Her multifaceted practice spans sculpture, installation, and moving image, connecting art, science, and lived experience.

In Residence: January - April 2026

Mhairi Killin is a visual artist from the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Working across drawing, print, sculpture, and film, her practice explores the fragile and interconnected relationships between land, sea, humans, and other beings, often challenging perceptions of islands as remote or marginal.

In residence: April 2026

Scott Carroll is a futurist, designer, and award-winning filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of human behaviour, landscape, and narrative—using technology to expand the liminal spaces between them. His films and interactive projects have reached nearly 80 million screens worldwide, through platforms including the BBC, PBS, Arte, EiTB, Warner Brothers, and 20th Century FOX.

In residence: April 2026

Janos Nieminen returns to Artica Svalbard in April 2026 to continue his research exploring how states express presence and influence in the fragile environments of the Arctic.

In residence: March - April 2026

Thomas Abercromby is a visual artist and curator working across film, installation and socially engaged practice. Based between Oslo and the UK, his work explores how art can generate spaces for collective care and social imagination. Central to his practice is the use of scent as a structural and critical medium, employing olfactory experience to investigate memory, class, abolition, queerness and environmental precarity.

In residence: March 2026

Lilian Kroth is a researcher working at the intersection of philosophy, science, and aesthetic practice. Her work explores how the natural world is understood through concepts, scientific instruments, and visual methods, with a particular focus on climate, Earth observation, and remote sensing technologies.

In Residence: January - April 2026

Artists Mhairi Killin and Floortje Zonneveld will be in residence at Artica for six weeks, working on the project From the Mouths of the Caves, Listening to Hear Another Island’s Song. Both artists share a love of remote island locations, recognising that these places provide an opportunity to step deeper into the experience and challenges of global environmental change.

In residence: January - February 2026

Michelle Calcatelli is an international cooperation professional with over 20 years of experience working across agriculture, innovation, and policy. Specialised in resource mobilisation, proposal development, and strategic programme design, Calcatelli has helped organisations secure funding, shape impactful portfolios, and influence international policy agendas. With expertise in cross-cultural collaboration and global partnerships, their work is driven by a strong interest in climate resilience and the challenges of remote regions.

In Residence: January - February 2026

Kamil Kak returns to Artica Svalbard following their 2024 residency, which was supported through a nomination by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). Kak is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, textile, video, and glass. Their practice explores queer liberation, migration, and the fragility of recent historical narratives through object- and prop-making, exaggeration, and bitter-sweet humour. Rooted in questions of collective futures, Kak’s work reflects on identity, belonging, and survival within today’s eco-political landscape.

In residence: November - December 2025

Amy Hoagland creates sculptural installations that explore the human relationship with nature. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky, USA, in 2016 and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2022. A recipient of a 2022 Windgate Fellowship for sustainable art presented by Honouring the Future.

In residence: November - December 2025

Kathy Sirico is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her practice is deeply rooted in climate-conscious making, with climate change and ecological grief forming the conceptual backbone of her work. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BS from Skidmore College, and her work has been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally.

In residence: October - November 2025

David Samuel Stern is a visual artist whose practice examines photography as a physical, craft-based process and its deep relationship with portraiture and time. His work has been commissioned by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, and exhibited at venues including Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica) and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

In residence: November 2025

Emma Henderson is an artist, producer, and arts educator based in the west of Scotland. Working across printmaking and textiles, she creates natural inks through slow, experimental processes informed by textile histories and craft legacies. During her residency, Henderson will develop a shared natural printmaking toolkit and establish a pigment library as a collaborative resource for current and future residents.

In residence: October 2025

Ragnhild Bjørnsen is a researcher in childhood studies at Inland Norway University. Her work centres around children living in hypermobility, whether it is themselves or significant others who move. Through a lens of Psychological Anthropology, she unravels interrelationships of childhood, life-course, and the powerful institutions that influence children and youth's everyday lives. Her case studies include the Norwegian Foreign Service and Longyearbyen, a socially transient Arctic settlement under Norwegian authority.

In residence: August - October 2025

Christian Danielewitz, a Danish visual artist, researcher, and writer, and Bianca Hisse, a Brazilian visual artist and choreographer, come together as a collaborative duo whose work spans across multiple disciplines. Their practices focus on geopolitical issues, the extraction of raw materials, digital materialities, and how spaces are choreographed by economic and social forces. Their collective approach combines visual art, research, and performance to critically engage with urgent global and environmental concerns.