Luca Frei: Artist in residence

Luca Frei
Luca Frei is an artist based in Malmö. His multidisciplinary practice involves sculpture, installation, textile, and design. In 2024, Frei created Kin’s new lobby furniture, Mobile Lobby, a work of art as well as a functional piece of furniture. Mobile Lobby acts as a stage for welcoming, shifting encounters and shared experiences, reflecting Frei’s commitment to creating spaces that are both specific and open-ended—works that hold space rather than define it.

During the residency, Frei will continue this exploration by developing a new project building on his recent focus on textile practices. The project will combine textile-based approaches with the design of a set of display modules for Kin, extending his interest in adaptable structures that blur the boundaries between function, materiality, and spatial storytelling. The residency will mark a continuation of Frei’s broader practice, which frequently explores the social dimensions of display, support structures, and modes of attention through material form and craft elements.

Artists in residence at Kin 2025
Following a pilot residency and additional residencies at Kin in 2024, the museum is now inviting a new group of artists to engage with Kiruna and Norrbotten through on-site collaborative efforts.

Artists in residence 2025: Olga Tsaplya Egorova, d harding, Amol Patil, eeefff, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Anna Titova & Stas Shuripa, Luca Frei, Bella Rune & Jonas Nobel

Olga Tsaplya Egorova's residency is undertaken as part of her preparation for her contribution to Kin’s multi-year project, Den goda maten, scheduled to commence in 2025. Both d harding and Amol Patil will participate in a group exhibition at the museum in 2026. Additionally, d harding will collaborate with the Sámi Schools in Kiruna and Karesuando, where students will initiate an exchange with indigenous peers from the artist’s home region in Queensland, Australia. d harding and Amol Patil’s residencies are realized in collaboration with Iaspis, The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm.
During their residency, eeefff will be working with students from the senior high school in Kiruna where they will also lead a “konstkollo,” an art camp, in June. While the artist duo Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan will be spending their time in Kiruna preparing for a group exhibition in 2026, Anna Titova and Stas Shuripa are doing research for a new project—all of them will be in Kiruna during the summer. This coming fall, Luca Frei will continue his work on Kin’s display furniture as functional sculptures, while Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel will collaboratively explore the interior of Kiruna’s City Hall in connection with the theatrical tradition of “the farce.”

Read more about all artists in residence at Kin here.

Image 1: Luca Frei, Model for a Pedagogical Vehicle, 2018. Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, 2018. Photo: Yuki Moriya.
Image 2:Luca Frei, Covering. 2025.