Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins (b. 1993) is an Estonian artist whose research-driven 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.
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. Her recent solo exhibitions include Suuremjault mälëstustes at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (2024) and Kes mälëtab viimasena? Kes mälëtab paremini? at Tütar Gallery, Tallinn (2024). She has participated in international residencies including Villa Sarkia (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.
Education
2020 - 2022 Estonian Academy of Arts. Contemporary Art, MA
2016 - 2020 Pallas University of Applied Sciences. Textile, BA
2018 - 2019 The Art Academy of Latvia. Textile Art, BA exchange studies of 1 year
Solo exhibitions
2024 ‘Who remembers last? Who remembers better?’. Tütar gallery. Estonia, Tallinn
https://www.maryliisteinfeldt.ee/remembers
2023 ‘Suuremjault malestustes’. Vana-Võromaa Kultuurikoda. Estonia, Võru.
https://www.maryliisteinfeldt.ee/suuremjaultmalestustes
2022 ‘Sial kollase põllu ja ruosa tee ristis me taas kohtume’. Devons. Latvia, Sigulda
https://www.maryliisteinfeldt.ee/sial-kollase-pllu-ja-ruosa-tee-ristis-me-taas-kohtume
2022 ‘Ingan kuos maaga’. Jakobi gallery. Estonia, Tartu
https://www.maryliisteinfeldt.ee/ingan-kuos-maaga
2021 ‘Luba ma igatsen sind, luba ma uotan’. Kärdla Culture Centre gallery. Estonia, Kärdla
https://www.maryliisteinfeldt.ee/luba-ma-igatsen-sind-luba-ma-uotan
Selected exhibitions
2023 Annula exhibtion of the Tartu Artist’s Union, Tartu Art House. Estonia, Tartu.
2022 Annual exhibition of the Tartu Artists’ Union, Tartu Art House. Estonia, Tartu.
2022 Annual exhibition of the Estonian Textile Artists’ Association. Estonia, Tartu
2022 ‘Spring exhibition’. Annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association. Tallinn Art Hall. Estonia, Tallinn.
2021 ‘Mimicry’. Annual exhibition of the Estonian Textile Artists’ Association. The Museum of New Art. Estonia, Pärnu
2021 ‘Wet Hearts of Everyday Thoughts’. Gallery Mihhail. Estonia, Tallinn.
2021 ‘Landscape without a human’. Art and Tonic. Estonia, Tartu.
2020 Annual exhibition of the Tartu Artists’ Union, Tartu Art House. Estonia, Tartu
2020 ‘Woman. Replacement body’. Noorus gallery. Estonia, Tartu.
2020 ‘Tegijad’. Estonian Textile Artists’ Association. The Museum of New Art. Estonia, Pärnu
2020 ‘Vabadus’. Annual exhibition of the Estonian Textile Artists’ Association. Noorus gallery. Estonia, Tartu.
Publications
‘Suvede tulles / *vete teedleja jt luuletusi.’ Estonian Writers’ Union publication Looming, 03/ 2025
‘Kõik korrad, kui oled mind armastanud.’ Värske Rõhk, 01/2025
Kivi alla kükakille. Tartu: Värske Raamat. 2023
Eesti novell 2023. Tallinn: Eesti jutt. 2023
‘Emamesilased’. Estonian Writers’ Union publication Looming, September 2023
‘Ärka üles, ma armastan sind’. Estonian Writers’ Union publication Looming, September 2022
‘*erilased taskuis / *kus oled koland ja teisi luuletusi’. Estonian Writers’ Union publication Looming, January 2022
‘Luulet Kadrinast, II’. Värske Rõhk, December 2021 https://va.ee/luulet-kadrinast-ii/
‘Keik maailma päikäselaigud’. Värske Rõhk, December 2020 https://va.ee/keik-maailma-paikeselaigud-jt-luuletusi/
‘Mälestuste maastikud’. Värske Rõhk, April 2020 https://va.ee/malestuste-maastikud/
Recognition
2021 Adamson-Eric scholarship
2021 Rotalia Foundation scholarship
2021 Värske Rõhk annual poem category award
2021 Literary festival Prima Vista, laureate of the literary prize ‘First Step’
2020 Estonian Textile Artists’ Association, Young Textile Artist of the Year
2019 Ministry of Culture, The Eduard Wiiralt scholarship
Artist in residency
2026 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art . UK, Gateshead
2025 Vantaa Artist Residency Gjutars. Finland, Vantaa
2024 International Writers’ and Translators’ House. Latvia, Ventspils
2024 Le Arti Tessili. Italy, Maniago Libero
2023 Icelandic Textile Centre. Iceland, Blönduos
2022 Villa Roberti. Italy, Brugine
Artist associations
2020 Estonian Textile Artists’ Association, https://tekstiilikunst.ee/members
2021 Estonian Artists’ Association, https://www.eaa.ee/en/all-members
Collections
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, item nr ETDM _ 17495 Te 1299 https://www.muis.ee/museaalview/4376612