Bella Rune & Jonas Nobel: Residenskonstnärer

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 for 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.”

Bella Rune & Jonas Nobel
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.