Ceysson & Bénétière

b. 1991 in Yueyang, China

Lives and works in New York and Stockholm 

Education

2023 MFA Columbia University, New York, NY

2018 BFA Konstfack University, Stockholm, SE

2016 Exchange Semester 中央美术学院(Central Academy of Fine Arts), Beijing, CH

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), Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts Grant (2019) and the Sweden-American Foundation Fellowship (2022/2023). Möller has exhibited at Liljevachls, Kristianstad Konsthall, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, ArkDes, Carl Eldh Ateljemuseum, Stockholm, ICPNA La Molina, Lima, Peru. They participated in the 45th Tendencies Biennale in Norway. Möller will be showing at Urban Glass, New York (2023), Titanik Gallery, Finland (2023) and Gallery Dueer, Stockholm (2024), and at Rösska Museum in Gothenburg (2024). Their work has covered the front page of the National Daily News Paper, DN, Sweden (2020).

Anna-Ting Möller’s work focuses on kombucha as a corporeal potential and follows a material logic. The sculptures are ephemeral and constantly morphing. Conceptually, it is important for her to work with one kombucha mother, creating a lineage of offspring based on a matrilineal ‘family tree.’ After growing the organism in a large vat, she subtracts layers of ‘skin’ from the mother culture and uses the flesh-resembling matter to create amorphous ‘bodies.’ Fermentation is a form of domestication, and a jar of kombucha culture provides a small portal into the way life happens.

Möller's sculptures are alive in a literal sense, and the appearance of the work changes over time. In theory, it is possible to return the ‘body’ to the culture, the mother. However, the risk of contamination is extremely high. The method expands on the relationship between mother and child, representing an intimidating collapse in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between self and other. She is interested in the sexualized and grotesque, and the work often depicts a hanging disposable body, where the ‘skin’ operates as the trope. The fetishized Other has emerged from the motivation to ‘know’ those who are unfamiliar and to subjectively understand the culture. Through transformative installations, she aims to control the gaze by creating scenarios in which she seeks to control, contain, and master.

Solo Exhibitions

2024

TBA, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden (forthcoming)

TBA, Galleri Dueer, Stockholm (forthcoming)

2023

KIN AND SUN, Titanik, Turku, Finland

Fantasy of the Fabrication, Urban Glass, New York

2019

YELLOW,Gallery NOS, Stockholm

Raw Pearl (Jam), Gallery Skomakeriet, Stockholm

Anna Ting Möller, Kaleido Konsthantverk, Uppsala

2017

Thousand Island Lake, Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm

Group Exhibitions

2024

TBA, Big Biennale, Katrineholm, Sweden (forthcoming)

TBA, Alexander Berggruen, New York (forthcoming)

Clairvoyance, curated by Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York

2023

Parasite + Vessels, Accent Sisters, Immigrant Biennale 2023, New Jersey

Columbia University MFA Summer Exhibition Part II, Storage Archive Gallery, New York in medias res- Columbia University MFA Summer Show, The Blanc Gallery, New York

SHAG, Spring Hill Vineyards in Washington, CT

In Response: The Sassoons, Jewish Museum, New York

MFA THESIS SHOW, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York

Of shell, skin and bones (De cáscara, piel y huesos), Dilalica, Barcelona

Feeding on Illusions, SVA MA program of Curatorial Practice at School of Visual Arts, New York

Abundance, Tendenser Biennale, Galleri F15 Moss, Norway

2022

Summer Show II, Columbia University School of the Arts, Half Gallery, New York

Summer Show I, Columbia University School of the Arts, Chashama, New York

Släpljus, Carl Eldh Ateljémuseum, Stockholm

No White Walls, E.I.K. Gallery, Yale School of the Art, New Heaven First Year Thesis MFA Show, Wallach Art Gallery, New York

2021

M/othering, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta

Wellness- Participate, Tend and Befriend, Kristianstad Art Center, Kristianstad

2020

Very Futuristic, DOTDOTDOT at Söderhallarna, Stockholm

Framtidskroppen #2, Gävle

Surrender? Surrender, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki

The Spring Salon/Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Art Gallery, Stockholm

2019

3,5%, Bångska Våningen, Stockholm

Ung Svensk Form 2019, Form/Design Center, Malmö

Waiting For The Hidden Garden To Draw Us- Closer, Taidekoti Kirpilä, Helsinki

The Tipping Point, TEGEN 2 (Supermarket Art Fair 2019), Stockholm

Ung Svensk Form, ArkDes, Stockholm

Body of Care and Control, Köttinspektionen Konsthall, Uppsala

2018

Havet, Konstfack, Stockholm

Dödligt Material, Gustavsberg Konsthall, Gustavsberg

Gallery Koltour, Culture Center, Klöse

Konstfack Graduation Spring Exhibition 2018, Konstfack, Stockholm

Brown Island in the White Sea 2.0, Konstfack, Stockholm

2017

You Are Here, Bachelor Exhibition, Konstfack, Stockholm

Brown Island in the White Sea, Konstfack, Stockholm

2016

Centro Selva Quinto Aniversario, ICPNA La Molina, Lima, Peru

Mode i Sju Akter, Kulturhuset Culture Center, Stockholm

Ett Steg Närmare Marita, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta

2015

Sprick, Biological Museum, Stockholm