In January, Krista Mölder began her six-month residency in WIELS, the art centre in Brussels. The residency for Estonian artists is made possible by the partnership between WIELS and Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art.
The duration of the WIELS artist in residence programme is six months and its aim is to support artists’ professional development. The residents have access to workshops, panels, and feedback discussions. The artist has the possibility to live in an apartment in Brussels and work at a separate studio space. With the support of Estonian Ministry of Culture, CCA pays the participants monthly scholarship.
Krista Mölder (1972) is an artist focusing on universalized space and viewer experience or, to be more specific, on the transference of a personal (and constructed) viewer experience through which the viewer has a chance to identify with the artist’s view and frame of mind. Krista Mölder studied geography at the University of Tartu (BSc, 1994); photography at Tartu Art College (BA, 2001), at the University of Westminster (MA 2004) and Estonian Academy of Arts (MA, 2006). She has exhibited since the beginning of the 2000s. She was awarded with Estonian Cultural Endowment’s annual award (2020). In 2016 she was nominated for the Köler Prize.
During the WIELS residency she aims to continue finding ways how to bring movement in her condition-based work. She sees the residency as a possible platform for new ideas and connections. “New, somewhat uncertain environment opens up possibilities to explore the uncontrollable and unknown,” says Krista. “The possibility to work in new conditions and get feedback from other art professionals, connected to the residency, and to get to know the art scenes of Brussels and Belgium, is all very tempting.”
Since 2018 the programme has hosted Estonian artists Paul Kuimet, Jaanus Samma, Anna Škodenko, Tõnis Saadoja, Tanja Muravskaja, Anu Vahtra, Eva Mustonen and Ingel Vaikla. In the second half of 2022, Sandra Kosorotova will be working in the residency. Residents are selected via an open call.
WIELS’ partner in Estonia is Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA). The residency of Estonian artists in WIELS is supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture.
Read more about Krista Mölder from the Estonian artists database.