The “Swiss Camp” established by Koni Steffen on the Greenland Ice Sheet was one of his favorite places. The busy researcher was drawn here every year to advance his own work, but also that of other researchers. This earned him the nickname...
Those who travel to Svalbard first of all see the beauty of the archipelago and the Arctic. But climate change and pollution have also reached the point where the traces can hardly be overlooked.. Image: Dr Michael Wenger Svalbard is considered the “Arctic in a...
For the first time since the Covid pandemic, Martha and Peter Cerny invited friends and those interested in the art of indigenous peoples of the North to the Advent Aperitif. (Image: Rosamaria Kubny) After a break of 3 years, Martha and Peter Cerny organized the...
This is how Scottish artist Michael Visocchi and the South Georgia Heritage Trust envision the installation: large steel tables, each with steel rivets representing a live whale per rivet. But proportionally, areas will be free for the whales killed. The whole...
The Greenlandic flag “Erfalasorput” flies since 1985 as a sign of national identity. But what further distinguishes this identity and determines the question of “Greenlandicness”? Who determines what it is in the first place? The Autumn session...