Recidencies 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.”

Olga Tsaplya Egorova
January 13–26

Olga Tsaplya Egorova has participated in numerous collaborative projects throughout her artistic trajectory. In 1995, she and a friend founded the feminist art group Factory of Found Clothes in St. Petersburg. They explored how clothing connects people to their bodies and creates social relationships. Their work included video, installations, and performances, often staged in urban public spaces. She is also a co-founder of the art collective Chto Delat (What is to be done), which operates at the intersection of art, activism, and pedagogy. In the fall of 2022, she was forced to flee Russia and is currently active in Hamburg and Berlin. Her residency is a preparatory step toward her involvement in the multi-year project Den goda maten, scheduled to commence in 2025.

d harding
February 12–23

d harding works with a range of materials and techniques, drawing from both the Aboriginal Bidjara, Ghungalu, and Garingbal traditions as well as from contemporary international art. Their practice builds on the spiritual and philosophical movements of their cultural heritage, including the ancient painting technique of taking pigment into the mouth and blowing it against a stencil placed on a flat surface. Today, d harding lives between Paris and Brisbane. They have participated in numerous exhibitions, for example documenta 14 and the 11th Gwangju Biennale. They will participate in a group exhibition at Kin in 2026. Additionally, d harding is collaborating 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. With support from Iaspis, The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm.

Amol Patil
February 13–20

Amol Patil resides in Mumbai and finds inspiration both from his father and grandfather, who were writers, and from the social and urban environments where marginalized communities in India live. The family itself is casteless, and Patil depicts their existence in drawing, sculpture, video, and performance. Amol Patil has worked with small expressive bronze sculptures, among other things, and he has a special interest in the working and living situation of the casteless and in future scenarios. He will participate in a group exhibition at Kin in 2026.
With support from Iaspis, The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm.

Eeefff (Nicolay Spesivtsev & Dzina Zhuk)
April 14–June 22

Eeefff consists of artists Nicolay (Kolja) Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk. Originally from Minsk, they were forced to leave Belarus after the large protests that took place there in 2020. Today, they are based in Berlin. Since 2013, they have been working on software-based projects, networks, and various collective situations that critically explore digital labor, value creation, and exploitation. The formation of communities is a particular focus of their work, expressed notably in the project School of Algorithmic Solidarity. During their residency, eeefff will collaborate with students from the senior high school, where they will also be leading an art camp, known as a “konstkollo,” in June.

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan
June 15–July 6

During their residency at Kin, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan will study the complex connections that intertwine between resource extraction and the global trend toward increased militarization. Through conversations with local actors and visits to relevant sites, they aim to deepen their understanding of the consequences of mining throughout the world but notably in the Arctics. Benera and Estefan have been working together since 2012. Their research-based practice spans across multiple kinds of media, including installation, film, and sculpture. They were awarded the Birgit Jürgenssen Prize in 2022 and were nominated for the MAC International Art Award, Belfast in 2018. Based in Bucharest and Vienna, Benera is pursuing a PhD at the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. They will participate in a group exhibition at Kin in the spring of 2026.

Anna Titova & Stas Shuripa
July 7–29

Anna Titova (b. 1984, Siberia) is an artist and educator. In 2014, she co-founded the Agency of Singular Investigations, an initiative dedicated to experimenting with artistic research into the documentary and the archival as an extended field. Titova’s practice is based on historical and archival research, which informs her installations, sculptures, and collages. Titova’s work has been exhibited at the Vienna Secession, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the 54th Venice Biennale, the 1st Riga International Biennial, and the 1st Biennale Warszawa, among others. Titova lives and works in Paris.

Stanislav Shuripa (b. 1971, Far East) is an artist, writer, curator, educator, and co-founder of the Agency of Singular Investigations. In his artistic practice Shuripa explores the relationships between social space, the gaze, micro-utopias, and personal mythologies. In 2018, his book Action and Meaning in the Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century was awarded the Innovation Prize. Since 2018 he is the head of the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art, an independent educational program. His work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Ravenna Art Museum, Benaki Museum, among others. Shuripa lives and works in Paris.

Luca Frei
September 11–October 19

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.

Bella Rune & Jonas Nobel
October 27–November 30

Together Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel have developed a practice where sculpture, design, and architecture meet in experimental projects which often are site-specific. Their collaborations are characterized by a close study of structures, knowledge about materials, and a curiosity about how bodies, objects, and their overarching and underlining systems interact. Among their joint projects are public works for Malmö Tings och förvaltningsrätt, the Sjöviksskolan in Årstaberg, and the Lögarängsbadet in Västerås. Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel are based in Stockholm.
Bella Rune works with sculpture and installation, often guided by textile principles but realized through a wide range of materials and technologies. Her practice explores movement, the body, and perception in relation to space, architecture, and digital systems—frequently incorporating augmented reality and mechanical structures. Since 2015, she has developed the ongoing project Konsekvensanalys, a series of site-specific AR sculptures exhibited in Sweden and internationally—including Tensta konsthall, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), Art Encounters (Timișoara), Thielska Galleriet, and Konstmuseet i Norr. From 2012 to 2021 Rune served as Professor of Fine Art with a textile focus at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design. Rune’s artistic practice is closely intertwined with pedagogy and curatorial work. Currently featured in The Magic Power of the Needle at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, where she contributes as artist, exhibition architect, and co-curator alongside Joanna Warsza.
Jonas Nobel was born in 1970. He graduated from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. Nobel has a multifaceted practice both as an individual artist and as co-founder of art, design, and architecture group Uglycute. In 2017, Nobel was awarded the IASPIS residential fellowship at ISCP in New York and in 2023 he was the recipient of the Augusta, Oscar and Harry Höckerts Prize from the Swedish Art Academy. Uglycute has participated in a series of exhibitions such as Utopia Station in 2003 during the Venice Biennale and in 2013 at Emscherkunst, Duisburg. In 2002, Uglycute designed the Djurgårdsbrunn Inn, under the auspices of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. In 2016, the permanent installation Concerning the Geological History of Haninge was dedicated in Haninge, Stockholm.

Front image: Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan, Rehearsals for Peace, 2023.
Image 2: D Harding, Roof detail view, 2022. Photo by Thor Brødreskift.
Image 3: Amol K Patil, Matrix 286, installation image. Photo by Chris Grunder.