Lin de Mol
Lin de Mol (Dutch, 1966) based in Swede
Lin de Mol, 1966, is a multi media artists working with sculpture, installation and photography. Born and educated in Amsterdam, she attended the Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and after that attended film school in the USA and computer graphics in Ireland. She lived in New York, Los Angeles, Dublin and Antwerp and has exhibited internationally since 1996. She received several scholarships from the Mondriaan Foundation in the Netherlands and her work is included in all major collections in the Netherlands, and private collections in Italy and Germany. In Sweden, her work is included in the collections of the Statens Konstråd, Stockholm Konst, Konstenheten and Uppsala Public Art.
Man’s relationship to nature and a search for transcendence are common denominators throughout her body of work. She is an eclectic artist by nature yet sees all her work as sculptural. Even her photography from recent years can be seen as records of ethereal sculptures that can only exist in this way: as an ‘after image’ of an event that once took place, somewhere in a timeless landscape. The work is imbued with a belief in the healing power of nature and in her meditative sculptures and photos, we encounter nature charged with an invisible power just beyond the tangible
Since 2014 she lives and works in rural Sweden, organising the annual light festival Arvika Light! which takes place every autumn in the city of Arvika. The project takes contemporary art out of its comfort zone and into the streets, so that art can be for everyone.