Krista Mölder’s works focus 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. www.kristamolder.com www.cca.ee www.temnikova.ee
view from the exhibition “Getting Lost”, 2017, KanZan Gallery, Tokyo (curator Mikiko Kikuta)
NOT LEAVING A ROOM II. REPEATED GAME. Photographs, sizes varied. 2 lenticular lightboxes. 2018
This is the work when images taken and represented in the same space. The work was created for the European Central Bank’s space in Frankfurt for their exhibition, curated by Britta von Campenhausen. On one hand this work focuses on the experience of a space and from another, to the idea of the European Central Bank for which I felt was necessary to include the idea familiar from the game theory - when nothing in this world is a single stage game and everything appears in repetition, the best strategy for all the parties can be only through mutual cooperation. To stress the repetition of the games the photos feature two lenticular light boxes - with the light moving on the picture with the same framing and skeleton, and an abstract human being on another
“Not leaving a room II. Repeated game.” from the exhibition “Contemporary art from Estonia”, 2018, European Central Bank, Frankfurt (curator Britta von Campenhausen)
lenticular lightbox 100 x87 cm from the series “Not leaving a room II. Repeated game�, 2018
view from the exhibition “Sinking(In)”, 2017 EOM, Haapsalu, Estonia (with Sirja-Liisa Eelma) The work consists of: 120x115 cm pigment print of a veranda, the black and white solarization of the same photo on steel; pair of photos featuring a key to read through the book of Peter Gidal; twelve small sliding watchings to Eelma’s white paintings - pigment prints on plywood.
exsistere, 2016 pigment print from 6x7 negative (90 x 72 cm, pigment print on archival paper from 6x7 negative)
exsistere A work, that bears the name to make sense of the latin content - arise, come to light, emerge, appear. Space installation at the Kumu Art Museum, 2016 (exhibition “Between the Archive and Architecture�) curator Kati Ilves Video loop, photograph (90 x 72 cm, pigment print on archival paper from 6x7 negative)
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NOT LEAVING A ROOM Space installation at the Kumu Art Museum, 2016 (exhibition “Between the Archive and Architecture�) Video (6min, loop), 12 photographs (pigment prints on archival paper & on aluminium, framed)
BEING PRESENT Photographs and space installation: 1. at the Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, 2012 (with Neeme Külm) 2. at the Köler Prize 2016 nominees show at the EKKM
A pause. A room full of shadows. Some light trickling through from barely audible somewhere. A sound, a hallway, air standing still on photographs, mirroring a room in another room, right here, like somewhere else. Almost nothing. This is so goddamn easy it’s losing meaning. A flow from one room to the other. Attention focuses on something not really seen. Air. A sense of being there, for the room’s sake. When entering at an inopportune moment, as if through a back door, the room resembles a bag turned inside out, the location’s significance and the essence of the piece blurred. A need to understand - a cognitive vacuum - emerges. A room between two rooms that is not a room. A sensitivity to light, the existence of “me”. This is it. Pleasure and the yearning for it. Pleasure that makes one hanker after something. Something is missing, and this absence is trying to make itself disappear. If you focus on the lamp and not the door, you might have arrived.
“Being Present”, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, 2012
view from the “BEING PRESENT”, 2016, at the Köler Prize 2016 nominees show at the EKKM
I N T E R -S PA C E Photographs and space installation at the EKKM, Kรถler Prize nominees show, 2016 Pigment prints on archival paper & on aluminium, framed (from 6x7 & 6x6 colour negative & digital prints), 2 video loops
INTER-SPACE, 2016, installation view at EKKM, Tallinn
INTER-SPACE, 2016, installation view at EKKM, Tallinn
INTER-SPACE, Pigment print on archival paper (from 6x7 colour negative), size: 115 x 94 cm,2016, EKKM, Tallinn
YOU/BLUE
Photographs, sound and space installation at the Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, 2015 (with composer Helena Tulve) a creative dialogue with Helena Tulve, featuring a question of being a human and an artist at its focal point - how to operate having your head in the clouds, while at the same time trusting the insecurity and the world. The work was exhibited through two floors which enabled to create two different sound and light spaces. The Estonian title SINA/SINA (YOU/YOU) references to simultaneous loss or dilution of oneself.
Untitled I & II, from the series “YOU/BLUE�, Hobusepea Gallery, 2015 Pigment prints on archival paper (from 6x7 colour negatives), sizes: 160x130 cm, 47x70cm
YOU/BLUE, 2015, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn video + sound, 6 min https://vimeo.com/131204848
You. The permanent closeness of the other one makes time move.
YOU/BLUE, 2015, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn video + sound, loop https://vimeo.com/251402962
KRISTA MöLDER (1972) Is an Estonian photo artist who lives and works in Tallinn. Her works focus 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. The artist uses references and riddle motifs to study relationships between people and the environment. Having visited Japan on several occasions, she has drawn influence from its architecture and culture. In the lager whole, recognizable forms of human origin as well as natural ones are reduced to two-dimensional colour expanses. Her intrinsically spacious shots always offer tiny details for the observant eye, but they are always captured in a way that keeps the pictures from being too “busy”. Krista Mölder graduated from the Department of Geography of Tartu University, Department of Photography of Tartu Art College in 2001, received an MA degree in photography at the University of Westminster in London in 2004, and another MA at the Department of Photography of the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2006. Krista Mölder was a nominee for the Köler Prize in 2016. She has been a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts since 2003. Krista Mölder has taken part in exhibitions since the 2000s. Her most noteworthy solo exhibitions in recent years have been “Being Present”, together with Neeme Külm, in the Tallinn Art Hall Gallery in 2012, “Non-spaces” in the Temnikova and Kasela Gallery in 2013, “You/Blue” together with composer Helena Tulve, in the Hobusepea Gallery in 2015, “Between the Archive and Architecture” (curated by Kati Ilves) in the Kumu Art Museum in 2016, a display at the exhibition of Köler Prize nominees at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia in 2016 and “Getting Lost” in 2017 in the Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo (curated by Mikiko Kikuta). In 2011, Mölder was invited by EU Japan Fest to participate in the project “European Eyes on Japan. Japan Today. Vol. 13”.
Solo exhibitions: 2019 Notes on being present, Galerie Iragui, Moscow, Russia 2018 Interval, Gallery Hanaholmen, Finland 2017 Sinking(In) (with Sirja-Liisa Eelma), Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia 2017 Getting Lost (curated by Mikiko Kikuta) KanZan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2016 Between the Archive and Architecture (curated by Kati Ilves), KUMU Art Museum, 5th floor, the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia 2016 INTER-SPACE (at the Köler Prize 2016 nominees show), EKKM, Tallinn (ekkm.ee) 2015 YOU/BLUE (with composer Helena Tulve) ,Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2013 Non-Places, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn 2012 Being Present (with Neeme Külm) ,Tallinn Art Hall Gallery 2012 MA / European Eyes on Japan. Vol.13 (curated by Mikiko Kikuta) KITAKITA, Akita, Japan 2011 European Eyes on Japan. Japan Today. Vol.13 (with Kalle Kataila; curated by Mikiko Kikuta). Turku (FIN), Tallinn (EE) Group exhibitions: 2018 Border Poetics. Estonian Art 1918--2018, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2018 Contemporary Art from Estonia (curated by Britta von Campenhausen), European Central Bank, Frankfurt 2018 Aesthetic of Boredom (curated by Peeter Talvistu), Tartu Art Hall 2017 Circulation(s) Festival, Paris 2015 From Explosion to Expanse. Estonian Contemporary Photography 1991–2015, (curated by Anneli Porri), Tartu Art Museum 2015 April, Passaggio. collaborative work with Ensemble U: & artist Neeme Külm for Estonian Music Days; Salme Cultural Centre, Tallinn 2013 Where You End, I Begin. (curated by Anneli Porri), Tartu Art Hall 2013 Afterlives of Gardens. (curated by Eha Komissarov) Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn 2012 Silence. (curated by Jaanika Peerna) Gallery Masters & Pelavin, NY, USA 2011 Generaton of the the Place: Image, Memory and Fiction in the Baltics. (curated by Vytautas Michelkevičius) Tallinn Art Hall (EE), Kaunas Photography gallery (LIT)