Hele Okkonen had their Ars Bioarctica residency in July 2025. What began as a study of regionally endangered lichens shifted into a broader perspective, as the vastness of the landscape made a deep impression on them. Gilbbesjávri gave them a gift, a reminder to return to the body, the ground of their artistic practice.

Claudio Filho had his Ars Bioarctica residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in June 2025 where he wrote with places, things, and beings.

We're looking for three Baltic and/or Nordic (excl. Finland) artists for 3-month-long funded residencies with a focus on on socially engaged, process-orientated and material-driven practices. 

Agáta Marzecová spent two weeks in the Rewilding Cultures residency in June 2025. She explored ways to rewild her ecological sensibilities through walking, field notes, and attentive observation of plants.

During their Ars Bioarctica residency in May 2025, Frouke Wiarda and Judith van der Elst delved into the fascinating dynamics of the atmosphere.

The virtual exchange week will be held during 6–10 October 2025. You don't need any prior knowledge or training to join either as a moderator or a student.

Bioart Society will collaborate with HIAP, TUO TUO, Koynē Program, and SWAMP: Art Material Swap and Waste Management Point on a new residency programme in 2026.

Laura Lowe spent a few weeks in May – June 2025, at the Ars Bioarctica residency conducting artistic research for her ongoing body of work "The Strcutural Colour Paintings". Lowe was gathering visual material of melting ice and embedded 'black carbon' pollution through the iridescent colours these materials reveal under polarised microscopy, as well as, by capturing the ice's surface with gelatin prints. She travelled across a thawing landscape of glaciers, tundra lakes, cascading waterfalls, and the Arctic Sea collecting her samples of ice.  

The Rewilding Cultures network partners issued 8 grants to support mobility, projects and experiments which conribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways.

During his residency, Laine will experiment with using marine bacteria to carve and shape bioplastics, exploring how bacteria can be used for bio-etching to create organic patterns on the bioplastic surface. Laine is also keen to learn about the traditional methods of processing Japanese tengusa-seaweed (Gelidium amansii) and the production of kanten.

Dancers Gesa Piper and Paula Kramer were in Ars Bioarctica residency in February 2025. They focused on outdoor movement practice in relationship to temperature, cllimate, light and the rotation of panet Earth, partly accompanied by photographer Venla Helenius.

Bioart Society's eight Field_Notes field laboratory, Field_Notes – Living Methodologies, will take place in Sápmi during 14–24 September 2025.