Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan: Artists in residence

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan

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.

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 the artists in residence at Kin 2025 here.

Images: Stills from REHEARSALS FOR PEACE, 2023.