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We are delighted to announce the next two residents of Kai Residency 2025 who will be joining us in Tallinn in August: Maria Meinild (Denmark) and Andria Nyberg Forshage (Sweden).
The residents were selected by an international jury consisting of Kjersti Solbakken, Director of Bergen Kunsthall; Viviana Checchia, Director of Void Art Centre and Co-Director of Vessel; Kari Conte, Residency Curator at Kai Art Center and Senior Advisor at ISCP New York; and Karin Laansoo, Artistic Director of Kai Art Center and Executive Director of ECADC.
Maria Meinild, a Danish/Swedish artist based in Copenhagen, explores social behavior and the political undertones of everyday life through video installations, photography, and sculpture. Her work examines the socio-psychological interplay between objects, technology, and human beings, considering how these relationships shape systems of power, social dynamics, and surveillance mechanisms. Meinild’s work has been shown at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Post Territory Ujeongguk in Seoul, the National Gallery of Denmark, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Künstlerhaus KM in Graz, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, among others. She holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Maria will be in residency from August 15 to September 10.
Andria Nyberg Forshage is a writer, independent curator, and poet whose transdisciplinary artistic research engages with transfeminist aesthetics, perception, desire, world-making, and death. She is a contributing editor of Paletten Art Journal and teaches Text as an Artistic Medium at The Royal Institute of Art and Index – The Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Andria holds an MA in Aesthetics from Södertörn University and has participated in CuratorLab at Konstfack and the Young Curators Residency Programme at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Her genre-queer writing has appeared in journals such as Frieze, Kritiker, bastard, Kontext, Lulu-Journal, and Datableed, as well as exhibition catalogues and anthologies, including the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Queer Death Studies. Andria will be in residency from August 22 to October 30.
Launched in 2019, Kai Residency provides a platform for international artists, curators, and writers to develop their work in Tallinn while connecting with the local cultural scene. As the only residency of its kind in Estonia, it fosters exchange, dialogue, and collaboration between visiting residents and Estonian art practitioners.
Kai Residency is supported by Nordic Culture Point.
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