Last week our residency program BAR International hosted ceramists Marit Landsend (Tromsø) and Grethe Winter Svendsen (Svolvær). The main goal of Marit and Grethe´s residency was to do a research on Pit-Comb Ceramic findings in Sør-Varanger area, the type of ceramics that the artists want to bring back to the world and audience through a…

Last week saw the second digital BAR international workshop residency meeting with our group of artists who are thinking through “Guidebooks” and “Guiding” together in the age of travel limitations and digital contacts.  The project takes inspiration from the Russian and Norwegian sailors who developed a shared language “russenorsk” for the purpose of trade and…

From Seed to Sim  This June, we welcomed back Irene Rasmussen (Tromsø) within our BAR International program, where she undertook a production-based residency connected to her project From Seed to Sim.  Since her first BAR residency in Kirkenes in the autumn of 2018, Irene has been researching and working with industrial areas around Sydvaranger mine/its…

REBEL Architecture Lab and architects behind it – Alla Onopchenko and Ioulia Eleftheriadou – visited Kirkenes for the very first time and had their introductory residency via BAR International program.   Since the main interest of the collective was birdwatching and bird life, they got to explore Sør-Varanger with a specific focus on Pasvik, where they…