I am visual artist and cultural coordinator, based in Southeast Estonia.
Studied fine Art at Tartu University. After working at artist-in- residencies in Iceland and Finland, i co-initiated in 2001 artist-in residence program in Southeast Estonia (now known as MoKS- Center for Arts and Social practice). While coordinating activities and finding financial and mental means for running artist-in-residence center, I have also struggled for maintaining my practice as intermedia artist. Living and working at MoKS 24/7 is ongoing life-university, what has offered me opportunity to learn from artists from all over the world.
For a while my main interest has been in drawing. Drawing as a process to explore how the movement of a tool (pen/pencil other direct mark maker) and trace it leaves affects the body and its motion. This surface-body-surface feedback is a generative method to shift from abstraction to figural, method to reveal the way I think and construct the present.
short factual bio
studies:
1994-1998 B.A in Fine Arts, University of Tartu, Estonia
SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2011 Estonian Cultural Endowment, Kultuuripärl, annual prize for the Põlva county
2004 Estonian Cultural Endowment, annual price of Visual and Applied Arts Endowment;
2004 CEC Arts Link residencies scholarship;
2004 Estonian Center for Contemporary Arts, grant for curating MoKS exhibition in Kunsthaus
Raskolnikow, Dresden, Germany.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Permeate. Hirvitalo (Pispala Nykytaiden Keskus), Tamperes, Finland (drawing
installation)
2011 Retrospective, MARZ project space, Tallinn, Estonia (drawings and sound installation)
2008 KUDUM, Tartu Artists house, Estonia, videoinstallation in 2 screens)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWINGS
2017 About life in countryside, Annual exhibition of Estonian Artists Union, Tallinn Art Hall
2015 Tallinn V Drawing Triennial, Tallinn Arthouse, Estonia
2012 Tallinn drawing triennial (drawings), Viinistu Art Museum, Viinistu, Estonia
2011 Shadows of men (drawings) at the group show jgrzinich and Mari Jõgiste, Kibla, Maribor,
Slovenia
Coding society (performance) with jgrzinich, Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 -OR- premene umetnosti / changes of art (drawings) Likovni Salon, Celje, Slovenia
2006 Clinamen Tides, soundperformancein collabotation with Hitoshi Kojo and John
Grzinich, Gallery Saoh & Tamos (Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan); Bridge (Osaka, Japan),
Shin-bi, Kyoto Seika University (Kyoto, Japan); Pispalan Nykytaide keskus (Tampere,
Finland) PostsovkhoZ6 (Mooste, Estonia)
Mute Speakers, site-specific installation(Abiko Open Air Exhibition, Abiko, Chiba,Japan)
2004 Local Image I, Galerie Raskolnikof, group show together with MoKS artists (video and
social research)
RESIDENCE PROGRAMMES
2016 October, Artist in residence, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Germany
2010 April Artist in residence Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA
2009 January Artist in residence 7Stock, Dresden, Germany
2008 April Binauralmedia, center for media and performance art, Nodar, Portugal
2006 October- November Ajima Art Center, Abiko,Chiba, Japan
2004 October- November Artist in residence, Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausalito, USA
2004 August RAM6, Reapproaching New Media workshop, Vilnius, Lithuania
2001 April Artist in residence, Akureyri, Iceland
2000 April-May Artist in residence, Loviisa, Finland