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Announcing the OCA nominated residents for Artica Svalbard 2025

27 September 2024

OCA and Artica Svalbard are delighted to announce the collaborative duo Bianca Hisse and Christian Danielewitz, and visual artist Cléa Darnaud as the OCA nominated residents for Artica Svalbard in 2025. 

“Amongst many excellent applications, the jury considered that those from Cléa Darnaud and Bianca Hisse / Christian Danielewitz stood out. Although their practices are very different, both rooted their applications in the unique possibilities Artica would afford for exploring and developing longer-term interests in their work. Darnaud’s striking graphic works frequently depict polar environments, combining the specificities of particular landscapes with narrative explorations of the lives of those who inhabit them. Hisse and Danielewitz use film, installation, and performance to crystallise deep research processes, which in this case they have already started in relation to the ‘grey zone’ of data gathering infrastructures in Svalbard. In both cases, they showed a very thoughtful engagement with Svalbard as a context and a sensitivity to possibilities for engaging the local community during the residency period.” — OCA selection jury

OCA is one of the key partners of Artica Svalbard who offer one of the northernmost artist and writer residency programmes in the world. Expressions of interest are open for a minimum of four week residency at Artica Svalbard. Learn more here

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Bianca Hisse

Bianca Hisse (b. 1994) is a Brazilian visual artist and choreographer based in Oslo. She received a BA in Performing Arts from Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo in 2016 and an MA from the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2019. Her artistic practice investigates how spaces have been choreographed by economic and geo-political issues, employing movement and collective performance as tools for imagination and resistance. Hisse has done extensive research in the Arctic since 2017, including Svalbard and across the Barents region.

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Christian Danielewitz

Christian Danielewitz (b. 1978) is a Danish visual artist, researcher and writer based in Copenhagen. He received an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and a PhD in practice-based artistic research from the University of Copenhagen in 2022. He works across video, photography, performance, sculpture, and installation on issues revolving around extraction of raw materials, digital materialities, environmental collapse, remote sensing technologies like satellite imaging, and the uneven global distribution of pollution and toxicity. During the last 15 years, he has done fieldwork in DR Congo, Brazil, China, Senegal, Western Australia, South Korea, and Zambia.

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Cléa Darnaud

Cléa Darnaud (b. 1993, France) is a visual artist specialising in drawing and intaglio engraving. Her practice transforms everyday experiences, memories, and landscapes into singular visual narratives that traverse the boundaries between reality and fiction. Darnaud’s work seeks to capture fragments of life, transformed and interpreted through travel, to create imaginative visual forms. Having completed residencies across Europe and North America, including in Greenland and Finland, she uses these journeys to deepen her exploration of place, memory, and narrative.

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