Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins announced as Baltic|States Artist in Residence
23 Mar 2026
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, the Embassy of Estonia in London and the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) are pleased to announce Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins as this year’s Baltic|States Artist in Residence. Teinfeldt-Grins is participating in a month-long residency at Baltic in March 2026.
The Baltic|States Residency Exchange Programme supports artist and curator research and professional development through residencies, studio visits, curator study visits and commissions at Baltic, Gateshead and partner venues in the Baltic region. The programme builds relationships through cross-cultural exchange connecting artists, arts professionals and institutions. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, named after the Baltic Sea, was a former flour mill housing grain from the Baltic region, and the North East has long established trading routes with Baltic countries.
Participants are invited to respond to the current shifting geopolitical landscape in Europe and engage with contemporary geopolitical, social, and ecological questions, exploring borders, landscape, identity, and power. They are encouraged to find points of connection between the Baltic region and the North East of England, building new networks with the artistic communities. The residencies provide participants with time and space for research, opportunities to meet local curators and art professionals, and access to regional art institutions. Participants share their research and work with the public through open studios, talks, screenings, or workshops. Previous resident artists and curators include: Andrius Arutiunian (2019), Susie Green (2020), Eglė Mikalajūnė and Asta Vaičiulytė (2022), Maria Kapajeva (2023), Jordan Edge (Kiik Amor), and Kristina Õllek (2024) and Stevie Ronnie (2025).
In 2026, Baltic continues its partnership with the Estonian Embassy in London and the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC), to support an emerging Estonian artist to spend a month in residence at Baltic in March.
About the Artist
Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins is an Estonian artist whose research-led practice spans textile-based processes, installation, archival methods, photography, and video. Her work centres on memory, landscape, and language, with a particular focus on rural environments in Lääne-Viru County. She approaches landscape as an archive – a layered carrier of memory shaped by political power and human intervention. Her long-term research project Landscape as Archive: The Story of a Lost Artisans’ Village focuses on the village of Koplimetsa in Harju County, examining transformations of the Estonian landscape from 1939 to the present. Through artistic, archival, and field-based methods, she explores how political regimes have materialised in the landscape and how these traces continue to shape contemporary experience, local identity, and perceptions of cultural heritage. During her residency at Baltic, Teinfeldt-Grins will expand her research through dialogue, local encounters, and engagement with new geographical contexts.
Teinfeldt-Grins studied textile art at Pallas University of Applied Sciences and the Art Academy of Latvia, and contemporary art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is a member of the Estonian Textile Artists’ Association and the Estonian Artists’ Association. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (2024) and at Tütar Gallery, Tallinn (2024). She has participated in international residencies including Villa Sarkia in Finland, the Icelandic Textile Centre, the Ventspils International Writers’ and Translators’ House, and NART in Narva. Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins is a recipient of the Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship as well as the Adamson-Eric Scholarship and her works are held in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia and the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design.
Instagram: maryliis.teinfeldt
Website: https://www.maryliisteinfeldt.ee/
About the Partner Institution
The Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) is a non-profit foundation focused both on fostering international exposure for artists from Estonia and on developing the contemporary art scene in Estonia. Functioning as an umbrella organisation for Estonian partner institutions, the Center is creating strategic international partnerships in the field of contemporary art. Founded in 2012, ECADC receives ongoing financial support from Estonian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Cultural Endowment. Team members are based in New York and Tallinn, Estonia. In collaboration with its partner organisations, ECADC aims to develop a sustainable infrastructure for contemporary art that would lead to further internationalisation of the field. As of autumn 2019, ECADC operates the multifunctional Kai Art Center at the seaside Noblessner harbour complex in Tallinn.
