Studio – Spring 2026
Residency recipients
In November, Atelier Nord announced an open call for work residencies in our sound and editing studio. The studio is a free resource for professional visual artists working with moving images, sound, or web-based projects. The following six artists have been awarded residencies in spring 2026: Randi Nygård, Runa Carlsen, James Welburn, Olve Fjeld-Eiken, Kaja Haven and Cecilie Hole.
Randi Nygård: 5 January–2 February
In January, Randi Nygård will work in the studio on a video piece for an installation she is creating for SKREI, the new fisheries museum in Lofoten under Museum Nord. In the animation, various images, words, and ideas we have about fish flow into and through one another. New knowledge is conveyed poetically, opening space for curiosity and unexpected connections.
Runa Carlsen: 2 February–1 March
In February, Runa Carlsen will use the studio to learn a new editing tool with the aim of editing a film essay titled Liv Laga. The project highlights local textile craft traditions, natural materials, and the sharing of knowledge across generations. The film will be shown in a solo exhibition at Salgshallen in Oslo in 2026.
James Welburn: 2 March–29 March
In March, James Welburn will develop the next phase of his ongoing Svalbard project in the studio. The project explores the interplay between sound, image, embodied experience, and environment. After several stays in Longyearbyen which resulted in extensive field recordings and musical soundscapes, he will now create a video component combining these sounds with footage from the post-industrial Arctic landscape.
Olve Fjeld-Eiken: 7 April–3 May
This spring, Olve Fjeld-Eiken will complete his project Det sto i avisa (It Said So in the Paper) in the studio. The project uses local newspaper and local radio advertisements as its artistic canvas, examining the limits of what can be seen and heard within small local spheres, making art from what might otherwise be overlooked, ignored, or laughed at. Olve plans to use the studio as a workspace for digital development.
Kaja Haven: 4 May–31 May
Later in the spring, Kaja Haven will work on sound pieces and mechanical installations in the studio, which she plans to present in a group exhibition at Tenthaus in January 2027. She will investigate relationships between architectural elements such as partition walls, spatial height, air pressure, wind, and anchor points, intimate boundaries and activation points that can be connected to, or shifted by, recorded and edited sound. In the studio, she will work with sound editing in Ableton and Supercollider, multichannel sound works, and Arduino.
Cecilie Hole: 1 June–28 June
Just before summer, Cecilie Hole will work in the studio to develop the visual and technical framework for Car crash, insomnia, burnout and love, an analog, audiovisual light show combining liquid light techniques, projection, and processed video material. In the studio, she will create a “layered” expression in which analog light compositions are mixed with filmed and edited sequences. The work will premiere at Geiranger Light Festival 2026.
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Photo credits:
Photo of Kaja Haven: Simen Enkerud.
Photo of Cecilie Hole: Christian Bernt.
Photo of James Welburn: David Samuel Stern.
Photo of Runa Carlsen: Are Carlsen.
