Partnership — NAARCA
The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action

NAARCA is a 5-year project that unites artists’ residencies from the Nordic region and beyond to collaborate on research, commissions, institutional change, residency exchange, and education around climate action.

In the first iteration of the alliance (2021-2024), the network included seven residencies: Artica Svalbard, Art Hub Copenhagen, Baltic Art Center, Cove Park, Narsaq International Research Station, Saari Residence, and Skaftfell Art Center. In 2025, NAARCA includes five residencies: Artica Svalbard, Cove Park, Narsaq International Research Station, Saari Residence, and Skaftfell Art Center.

NAARCA is supported by The Kone Foundation and Nordic Culture Fund.

Visit naarca.art for more information.

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

Residencies

Nikhil Vettukattil

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, […]

NAARCA Residency at Cove Park

Mairi Macleod

Mairi Macleod (b.1996) is a Gaelic writer from Glasgow, Scotland. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she completed an undergraduate degree in Geography and a master’s degree in Earth Futures. Her creative work echoes her academic interests, critically engaging with humanity’s relationships with space, place, and the complex thing we call ‘nature’. As a […]

NAARCA Residency at Saari Residence

Rikke Luther

Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Her current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to the Earth System. Those relation compass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, geology and economy, that expressed in drawn images, photography and film. Over the course of two years (2022-24), Rikke Luther will embark on […]

NAARCA Residency at Skaftfell Arts Center

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. While in residence at Artica Svalbard this Autumn and over the […]

NAARCA Residency at Artica Svalbard

Rikke Luther

Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Her current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to the Earth System. These relations encompass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, geology and economy, that are expressed in drawn images, photography and film. Since 2022, Rikke Luther has worked on a research project entitled More […]

NAARCA Residency at Artica Svalbard

Rikke Luther

Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Luther’s work has been presented in Biennales and Triennales [such as Venice, Singapore, Echigo-Tsumari, Auckland, Göteborg and Sao Paulo]; museums [such as Moderna Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Smart Museum]; exhibitions [such as Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, 48C Public.Art.Ecology, Über Lebenskunst and […]

NAARCA Residency at Baltic Art Center