PAST RESIDENTS

VestAndPage
Independently-Funded Residency Tom Warner Independently-Funded Residency Tom Warner

VestAndPage

VestAndPage are Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, interdisciplinary artists, writers, and curators who have worked internationally with a focus on collaborative and research-based performance art and film since 2006. Their works are contextual and situation-responsive, embodying philosophical, ecological, and queer feminist thought.

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Sanne Moedt and Floortje Zonneveld
Independently-Funded Residency Tom Warner Independently-Funded Residency Tom Warner

Sanne Moedt and Floortje Zonneveld

Ecologist Sanne Moedt and artist Floortje Zonneveld come from different disciplines, but their work converges in a shared passion for the Arctic—its landscapes, ecosystems, and the stories embedded within them. Their collaboration, Shadowing Without a Sunset, bridges scientific research and artistic storytelling, making Arctic science more accessible through creative engagement.

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Mhairi Killin
Independently-Funded Residency Charlotte Hetherington Independently-Funded Residency Charlotte Hetherington

Mhairi Killin

Mhairi Killin is a visual artist from the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. She makes her return to Svalbard this February to continue the research and development of ‘Svalbard & The Hebrides - Island Archipelagoes in the Anthropocene’, which started at Artica in October/ November last year.

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Sébastien Robert
Independently-Funded Residency Tom Warner Independently-Funded Residency Tom Warner

Sébastien Robert

Sébastien Robert (b. 1993. Nantes, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher developing a practice at the intersection of visual and sound art, technology, science and ethnography. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle, ‘You’re no Bird of Paradise’, through which he explores disappearing Indigenous sonic rituals and cosmologies.

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Inma Herrera
Independently-Funded Residency Charlotte Hetherington Independently-Funded Residency Charlotte Hetherington

Inma Herrera

We are pleased to welcome back artist Inma Herrera who returns to Longyearbyen continue her project Artic Tales of Mother Earth. Herrera is a Helsinki-based artist, recipient of the Ducat Prize in 2020, and a former resident at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome from 2017 to 2018.

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