Anna-Ting Möller Chinese-Swedish, b. 1991
Möller's practice investigates a personal and symbolic understanding of ancestry and origin through the medium of kombucha. Such explorations of this material as mother, offspring, caregiver, contaminant, and the necessity of continuous care. Möller cultivates the kombucha-culture with tea and sugar—both materials rooted in colonial histories.
Anna-Ting Möller (b. 1991, Yueyang, China) is a Chinese/Swedish artist living and working in New York City and Stockholm. Möller has a BFA from Konstfack University, Stockholm (2018) and received IASPIS Swedish Artists Grant (2020), the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts Grant (2019) and the Sweden-American Foundation Fellowship (2022/2023). Möller has exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Kristianstad Konsthall, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, ArkDes, Carl Eldh Ateljemuseum, Stockholm, ICPNA La Molina, Lima, Peru, and has participated in the 45th Tendencies Biennale in Norway. Möller will be showing at Urban Glass, New York (2023), Titanik Gallery, Finland (2023) and Galleri Duerr, Stockholm (2024), and at Rösska Museum in Gothenburg (2024).
Artist Statement
Anna-Ting Möller was born in China and adopted by a Swedish family at the age of two. Möller's practice investigates a personal and symbolic understanding of ancestry and origin through the medium of kombucha. Such explorations of this material as mother, offspring, caregiver, contaminant, and the necessity of continuous care. Möller cultivates the kombucha-culture with tea and sugar—both materials rooted in colonial histories. Such pasts are shared and further complicated through the exploration of the colonial roots of adoption and its fraught relationship to Northern European economies, which contemplates on child adoption in the West through a postcolonial lens, as an economic structure.
"SUN - while humming is an experimental diary film and essay in first-person narration. Filmed in China, this story is emblematic of physical travels, but above all inner journeys. The narrative is composed of fragments of incomplete flashbacks. Disjointed but not unpleasant, a bit like the experience of travel itself. The work is my declaration of love to a country that does not exist, a place that I can only access through the lens of art. It manifests the presence of absence of a fixed self, by tracing a lost past, to better understand and exist in the present."
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Springbrunn – A group show with our gallery artists
11 Jan - 17 Feb 2024As spring arrives, a palpable sense of hope fills the air, mirroring the transformative thaw of ice that births life-giving water. The way this water shapes itself and flows forward...Read more -
Anna-Ting Möller | kin and sun
Solo exhibition at Titanik, Finland 20 Oct 2023October 20 2023 – November 19 2023 “In 2015, I traveled to China in search of my birth mother. Ultimately I did not find her. Instead, a woman who...Read more -
Group show | TAKEAWAY
8 - 14 Feb 2021ON-LINE and ON-SITE during our exhibition hours. TAKEAWAY is a Pop-up Market for Emerging Art and Design. During Stockholm Design week, TAKEAWAY offers a selection of works by 40+ contemporary...Read more
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Anna-Ting Möller: Grafting, for that which grows and that which bars
Qingyuan Deng, The Brooklyn Rail, April 1, 2024 -
Anna-Ting Möller | The Here and Now Collective
Brooklyn, New York, USA. January, 2024 -
Anna Ting Möller | Släpljus
Milou Allerholm, DAGENS NYHETER, June 18, 2022 -
Anna Ting | Släpljus
Emil Ivedal, Omkonst, June 18, 2022 -
Anna Ting Möller | RAW PEARL
ANDREAS GEDIN, Konsten.net, June 7, 2019
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Anna-Ting Möller in group exhibition at Alexander Berggruen Gallery
January 17 – February 21, 2024 January 29, 2024Alexander Berggruen is pleased to present Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Möller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang. This exhibition will open Wednesday, January...Read more -
Anna-Ting Möller at Titanik | Turku, Finland
Solo exhibition October 11, 2023“In 2015, I traveled to China in search of my birth mother. Ultimately I did not find her. Instead, a woman who I stayed with...Read more -
Anna-Ting Möller at TellUs Festival | Emmaboda, Sweden
September 15, 2023 Read more -
Anna-Ting Möller | Open Studio
September 9 from 1.00–3.30 pm September 1, 2023LOCATION: 56 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY 11206Read more