As part of the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) commission programme, artist Nikhil Vettukattil will be at Cove Park for four weeks following residencies at Narsaq International Research Station in Greenland and Artica Svalbard in Norway.

At Cove Park, Nikhil will continue developing ‘Cantina‘ – a project exploring a healthy, affordable, climate-friendly diet in the Nordics. Nikhil’s recipes – themed around disaster, survival, and resistance – will be shared online, in community cooking sessions, and on embroidered garments.

Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) is an artist and writer based in Oslo. His practice, using sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, questions modes of representation and image-making in relation to lived experiences. During his NAARCA residencies, he will research food production and distribution in Svalbard and its relation to the climate crisis.

He has exhibited at venues such as Kunsthall Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet, K-U-K, CAPC, Art Hub Copenhagen, K4 Galleri, Louise Dany, EKA Gallery, Kristiansand Kunsthall, and Le Bourgeois. Upcoming exhibitions include Counterimaginaries at Tromsø Kunstforening and a duo show with Halvor Rønning at FELIX GAUDLITZ. He is a member of Tenthaus and Carrie, part of Atelier Kunstnerforbundet and the Institute for Scene Experiments, and will co-curate the MOMENTUM 12 Biennale.