1972– · Estonian photographer (born 1972) Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Tartu Kunstimuuseum; Temnikova & Kasela
Krista Mölder (1972) is an artist whose work focuses on space and the experience of the viewer. Her photos and videos are full of potential – contours of perspectives and outlines of possibilities. She is primarily interested in what remains outside or beside the image.
Mölder has studied geography and has applied that experience to directly mapping various phenomena, observations, and ideas, while presenting them in a visually structured manner. The aim of one of her first series “Landmarks” (2007) was to explore the possibilities of poetic language of space and photography. This is not unlike the photo series “Inter-Space” (2016), depicting landscapes in a non-three-dimensional way, balancing between painting and photography. These images, photographed from a bird's-eye view seem to map the impossible, while casting doubt on the veracity of photography.
In 2010 Mölder was chosen to participate in the project “European Eyes on Japan. Japan Today, vol. 13”, organised by the EU–Japan Fest. As part of the project Mölder stayed at a residency in Akita, which later led to an exhibition. Japanese architecture, for example the buildings of the architect Seiichi Shirai in the forests of the Akita region made an impact on Mölder's sense of space. Stemming from that, her imagery displays man-made and natural forms that are reduced to almost two-dimensional fields of colour in the wider whole of her work. In her wide-frame snapshots, an abundance of details are revealed to the keen eye, however, these are photographed in a way that does not leave an impression of exaggeration.
Mölder takes photos on a medium format camera and mostly does not manipulate her work digitally. With great sensitivity Mölder finds photographic and aesthetic still lifes in parks and gardens as well as in the city and in living and working spaces. Windows, doors and other liminal spaces are a recurring motif in Mölder's work. Mostly, these spaces are viewed from the inside out, so that the viewer is “here”, in the space with the artist.
1 auction lots · 1 sold · 2026 · €2,800 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation
12 works with a picture; the first 12 here, all in the catalogue. Pictures for public-domain works, live gallery listings and the works galleries and artists show on their own pages, from those servers.
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Museum records from MuIS and the EKM Digital Collection; gallery stock from the galleries' own catalogues; auction results as Haus Galerii, Vernissage, Allee galerii, Vaal galerii, E-Kunstisalong, Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid and Kunstikoda published them, and the lots Osta Noort Kunsti offered (it publishes no results). Full catalogue · Corrections, removals, questions: info@museaal.ee · Privacy
Private View from series Non-Places
Untitled from series Non-Places
From the series "You Were a Bird" (Duo-wings II)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (Duo-wings I)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (Labyrinth)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (Nose and Wing)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (A Room with a Bath)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (Shimmering)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (A Tail)
From the series "You Were a Bird" (Orange Glow)
A temporary thing
All That Remains is Silver