New Mineral Collective

New Mineral Collective (NMC) is the collaborative practice of Canadian artist Tanya Busse and Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė. Working across sculpture, photography, and time-based media, the artists look at contemporary landscape politics, particularly at the practices of extractive economies that convert natural resources into global commodities, to critically examine and reconceptualize the nature of human interaction with the Earth. As an organism, NMC infiltrates the extractive industry with alternative forces such as; desire, body mining and acts of counter prospecting.

Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, including Salzburg Kunstverein (2025); Mercer Union, Toronto (2025); University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2023); Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær (2022); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2021); Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2021); Tate Modern’s Starr Cinema, London (2021); Seoul Museum of Art (2020); the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, Stockholm (2020); Tromsø Kunstforening (2019); Toronto Biennial of Art (2019); Serpentine Galleries, London (2018); SIART International Biennial of Art, Bolivia (2016); Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), and many more. Their current headquarters are in Tromsø, Norway.

Learn more about New Mineral Collective's recent exhibition The Pleasure Report (2025) at Mercer Union in DXC25's Opening Night Exhibition on April 3