PAST RESIDENTS
Jun Zhang and Yindi Chen
In residence: August - September 2026
Working collaboratively across installation and publication, Jun Zhang and Yindi 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 from multiple knowledge systems to question the construction of a homogeneous worldview.
Bianca Hisse and Christian Danielewitz
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.
Cléa Darnaud
Cléa Darnaud is a french drawer and intaglio engraver. In her practice, she uses traditional drawing as well as engraving to develop various illustration and publishing projects. Since 2018, she has completed several artistic residencies in France and abroad, notably in Canada, Finland, Luxembourg and Greenland. Both a moment of life and an artistic material, travel allows her to wander through the accidents of the landscape and daily life in order to collect snippets of memories.
Mhairi Killin
Mhairi Killin is a visual artist who lives on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland where she works with the precious relationships between land, sea, humans, and other living beings.
Nastassja Simensky
Nastassja Simensky is an artist based in Nottingham, UK. She uses fieldwork to explore and understand how complex issues around history and heritage, power and governance, ecology and the geopolitics of extraction are crystallised in specific geographies.
Nikhil Vettukattil
Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) Artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences.
Helene Sommer
Helene Sommer is a visual artist based in Oslo. Through video, text and installation she questions the way we understand and relate to our surroundings and its history, particularly in regard to the premises and politics of the sciences.
Yamile Calderón
Yamile Calderón is an artist born in Colombia, based in Oslo. She studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts. She has recently published her second photo book, Narcos & Homes, and was awarded Bildende Kunstnernes Hjelpefonds (BKH) Fotokunstprisen 2020 (Photo Art Prize).
Ingrid Wildi Merino
Ingrid Wildi Merino (b. Santiago de Chile 1963) lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Having migrated to Switzerland in 1981 she studied at the University of Fine Arts in Zurich (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich) and received her postgraduate in Visual Arts at the University of Geneva, (Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Genève).
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist-researcher based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change.
Augustin Maurs
Augustin Maurs (b. 1975) is a French musician and composer based in Berlin. He studied in Paris and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
Jessica MacMillan
Jessica MacMillan (b. 1987, New Hampshire, USA) is an artist and amateur astronomer based in Oslo, Norway. Through kinetic sculpture, 3D animation, and installation, MacMillan's work investigates concepts in astronomy and planetary science.
Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa
Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa are two independent artists that work as a collaborative duo. Together they explore a common yet personal enquiry in contemporary arts through their Sea Sámi heritage. Themes they are occupied with are the ecology of creations, relations, culture, and care. Their aim is to investigate ways of learning and practise with a Sea Sámi cosmology and their landscapes.
Ignas Krunglevicius
Ignas Krunglevičius (b. 1979, Kaunas, Lithuania) currently lives and works in Oslo. He has received his MA in music composition from Norwegian Academy of Music in 2010.
Cristina Lucas
Based in Madrid, Spain, Cristina Lucas is an artist interested in mechanisms of power. She analyses principal political and economic structures, dissecting them in order to reveal the contradictions between official history, reality, and collective memory.
Sille Storihle
Sille Storihle (b. 1985, Tromsø) is an artist living in Berlin and Oslo and working with moving images and text. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an Master in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts. Her central areas of interest include gender politics, nationalism and history.
Mette Henriette
Mette Henriette is a Sámi-Norwegian interdisciplinary composer, saxophonist and performing artist whose work has shown around the world. In 2017, she premiered the solo performance ‘In Between’ at documenta14, a piece reflecting on nomadic lifestyles which took place inside Athens Concert Hall.
Oswaldo Maciá
Oswaldo Maciá is a Colombian artist based in London, he works primarily with sound and smell. Maciá grew up in Cartagena de Indias where he attended the school of fine arts. He has later studied at Llotja school in Barcelona as well as Guildhall and Goldsmith's College in London. His olfactory-acoustic sculptures have been exhibited all over the world and is held by Tate among other international collections.
Lars Paalgard
Lars Paalgard studied at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway (1978–82) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1983–85). He has participated in exhibitions in Norway and abroad, and his works feature in public collections such as those of the Arts Council Norway and Trondheim Municipality. Paalgard was one of the initiators of G.U.N (Galleri Uten Navn / Unnamed Gallery) and Sound Of Mu in Oslo.