In this iteration of SOLU Dialogues artist Line Krom presents her research on snow and atmospheric particals following her Ars Bioarctica Residency and reflects on this with Anu Ruohomäki, Research Coordinator at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. 

Often snow is associated with purity. Yet in reality, it contains soot, dust, microplastics and mineral particles that travel vast distances through atmospheric circulation before settling in Arctic landscapes. When the snow melts, these particles re-enter the air. 

Starting from this observation, Line Krom developed a series of artistic experiments during her Ars Bioarctica Residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Research Station (Gilbbesjávri / Kilpisjärvi ). By collecting snow samples, examining them microscopically and translating these processes into large-scale projections, her work approaches snow as a temporary storage and transport system for atmospheric particles.

The evening offers insight into a practice that moves between field observation, material investigation and installation, shifting attention away from heroic images of Arctic landscapes towards the material traces of global circulation embedded within them.

Following the presentation, Krom will be joined in conversation by Anu Ruohomäki, Research Coordinator at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Research Station, and Yvonne Billimore, Artistic Director of the Bioart Society, to reflect on the conditions and possibilities of collaborations between artists and scientists.

The event is an open conversation and an opportunity to exchange ideas for everyone interested in the ecological and cultural pathways of atmospheric particles, as well as those interested in intersections between art and biological research.

Line Krom is a German artist and cultural anthropologist working at the intersection of ecology, material culture, and atmospheric science. Her practice examines dust as both matter and method – an investigative lens into environmental transformation, cultural memory, and infrastructures shaping human–planet relations. Combining drawing, photography, field sampling, and collaborative research, she engages with archives, scientists, and public institutions. Her project Wiesbadener Stäube frames urban dust as a dynamic record of ecological and social processes. Working across sites from agricultural regions to the Arctic, Krom develops dust-based image works and experimental publications linking scientific observation with artistic speculation.

Anu Ruohomäki (Project Planner). Research Coordinator at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Anu is responsible for development and coordination of research and teaching, fieldwork, communications and stakeholder cooperation.

SOLU Dialogues is an ongoing event series by Bioart Society where art, science and society meet. Through varying formats artists, scientists and other practitioners are invited to present and discuss their work.