CV - Taavi Suisalu July 2022
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CV — Taavi Suisalu July 2022 Taavi Suisalu conjures cultural-ecological contexts that act simultaneously on technical, metaphorical and poetical levels. His work manifests in interactive installations, performative situations and curatorial endeavors that blend traditional and contemporary sensibilities and activate spaces for imaginative encounters. Suisalu’s work balances between artistic and scientific approaches, studio and fieldwork and his practice is informed by phenomena of contemporary society and its relations to developments in technologies, being interested in the behaviour, perception and thinking of social beings. Suisalu has recorded volcanoes and malfunctioning satellites, composed for lawnmowers, blended living and digital ecosystems, explored datafictions and discrepancies between digital immigrants and natives. In 2014, he received the Young Estonian Artist Prize for curating a distributed exhibition throughout non-existent villages of Southern Estonia. In 2017, his work Distant Self-Portrait was awarded 2nd prize in Riga Photography Biennial Awards. In 2018 he was one of the selected artists to participate in the European Media Art Platform. His work has been shown at KUMU in Tallinn, Riga Photography Biennale and RIXC festival in Riga Art Space and Latvian National Museum of Art in Latvia, Le Lieu Unique in France, Impakt in Netherlands, European Central Bank in Frankfurt, BOZAR and European Parliament in Brussels, gallery Triumph in Moscow, gallery Horseandpony Fine Arts and Weisser Elefant in Berlin, WRO Media Art Biennale in Four Domes Pavilion in Poland, Touch me festival in Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Croatia, Helsinki Art Museum in Finland, Sapporo International Art Festival in Japan and in many venues and festivals in Estonia. Currently living in and working from Tallinn, Estonia. — Call +372 5566 4862, email to mail@taavisuisalu.xyz — https://taavisuisalu.xyz
Selected exhibitions solo shows and curatorial endeavors underlined Upcoming Attention figures; Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, EE 2022 Between Objects, curated by Denis Maksimov; Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FI ÜAM 1741:1 Aj; ARS Showroom, ARS Art Factory, Tallinn, EE 2021 Garden of Branching Sounds, curated by Aivar Tõnso; ARS Art Factory, Tallinn, EE Werkleitz festival broadcast: EMAP garden ecosphere; ARS Electronica, online 2020 Touch Me festival, curated by Kontejner; Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Zagreb, HR Quarantine, curated by Kontejner; Dubrovnik, HR A World Without Us Revisited; IMPAKT Channel, impakt.nl SIAF 2020: Of Roots and Clouds; curated by Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka; Sapporo, JP Datafanta, curated by Maarin Ektermann and Mary Talvistu; University of Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, EE 2019 18th Media Art Biennale WRO 2019: Human Aspect; Wroclaw, PL Subocean Botlights; Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, EE Waiting for the light; Tartu Art House Monumental Gallery, Tartu, EE Wanderlust, curated by Valts Miķelsons and Indrek Grigor; Voronja Gallery, Varnja, EE Un/Green, curated by Jens Hauser, Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite; Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, LV Futures of our Past, curated by Andrzej Raszyk; Gallery Weisser Elefant, Berlin, DE 2018 Riga Photography Biennial, curated by Inga Brūvere; Riga Art Space, Riga, LV Archeology of the Screen, curated by Eha Komissarov and Triin Tulgiste; KUMU, Tallinn, EE Ascending from the Liquid Horizon, curated by Kati Ilves; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR A World Without Us, curated by Arjon Dunnewind; Impakt, Utrecht, NL Wild bits, curated by Taavi Suisalu, Timo Toots, Kadri Lind, Marie Kliiman; Maajaam, EE Contemporary art from Estonia, curated by Britta von Campenhausen; European Central Bank, Frankfurt, DE Playing God. Future of Humanity, Tallinn Art Week, curated by Andra Orn; Noblessner Shipyard, Tallinn, EE Radical Light, TAVA, curated by Varvara & Mar; St. John’s Church, Tartu, EE 2017 Archeology of the Screen. Estonian Case Study, curated by Eha Komissarov; Bozar, Brussels, BE Intermedial, curated by Marten Esko; European Parliament, Brussels, BE Landscapes and Portraits; Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, EE 2016 EXTENSION.EE. Рефлексия: взгляд внутрь/изнутри. Vol. III, curated by Evi Pärn; Triumph gallery, Moscow, RU V Artishok Biennale, curated by Evelyn Raudsepp; Theatre NO99, Tallinn, EE Hybrid(…)scapes, curated by Vytautas Michelkevičius; Nida Art Colony, Nida, LT I am NOT sitting in a room; Supersonicum, Viljandi, EE 2015
I am NOT sitting in a room; Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, EE ‘diy Nightseeing Tours’ during the interdisciplinary art-science event ‘Dynamics of Darkness’; Reykjavik, IS 2014 Timberrrr, curated by Elizabeth McTernan; Horseandpony Fine Arts, Berlin, DE Concrete Constellations; Rundum Showcase, Tallinn, EE Maajaam EXPO 2014; Tartu Art House, Tartu, EE Non-existing villages, curated by Taavi Suisalu; Võru City Gallery, Võru, EE 2013 95%; Allenheads Contemporary Art (ACA), Allenheads, UK Selected perfomances 2021 Üle maa heli; Maajaam, EE Music Festival for Brave Ear; Artfactory ARS, Tallinn, EE 2020 Études in black at Üle Heli; Tartu New Theatre, Tartu, EE 2019 Études in black at Üle Heli; Copper Leg Residency, Rae, EE 2018 Études in black at Must Minevik; MIMstuudio, Tallinn, EE 2017 Études in black at Noisy November; Supersonicum, Viljandi, EE Études in black at Kultuuritolm; EKKM, Tallinn, EE Études in black at Soil Mole Prism Sculptor; Amandus Adamson Studio Museum, Paldiski, EE Études in black at Helikoosolek; Tartu University History Museum, White hall, Tartu, EE Études in black at Global Control and Censorship; Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, EE 2016 Études in black at Ars Attack; ARS’s reverb space, Tallinn, EE I am NOT in the room; Supersonicum, Viljandi, EE 2015 Compaction of Holy Noise w/ Postinstrumentum; STL, Tallinn, EE 4ch sound performance w/ Villem Jahu; MIMstuudio, Tallinn, EE Sound Room XXIV w/ Villem Jahu; Third Space, Helsinki, FI Melo-Night w/ Villem Jahu; Lovisa, FI Vieno Motors w/ Ilona Valkonen, Benjamino Borghi, Kati Rapia; SIC, Helsinki, FI Pärnu Contemporary Music Days w/ Postinstrumentum; Pärnu, EE 2014 Res Artis Regional Meeting w/ diy Nightseeing Tours; Nida, LT Camp Pixelache w/ diy Nightseeing Tours; Helsinki, FI Pärnu Contemporary Music Days w/ Postinstrumentum; Pärnu, EE
2013 Noisephony of Lawn Mowers; UIT, Tartu, EE Discography 2021 Noisephony of Lawn Mowers, 10″ vinyl; Staalplaat Selected interviews and press coverage Taavi Suisalu Stephanie Neumann, Visit my tent, November 2021 Symphony for lawnmowers, sound of abandoned satellites and other uncanny encounters with technology Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, March 2020 Waiting for the light, the light of information Benedetta Sabatini, Neural, April 2019 Baltic exhibition guide Artterritory, March 2019 Ascending from the Liquid Horizon at Le Lieu Unique Artviewer, December 2018 A Summer Agro-Tech Mentality at Maajaam Marika Agu, Francisco Martínez, Kunst.ee, September 2018 Archeology of the Screen E-flux, July 2018 The winners of Riga Photography Biennial Award 2018 have been selected lv100.lv, November 2017 Love at Last Sight Elizabeth McTernan, Estonian Art, August 2017 We Are Alone in the Universe: the Sad Blues of Space Cowboys Tõnu Karjatse, Kunst.ee, March 2017 Exhibition ‘Hybrid(…)scapes’ and 6th Inter-format Symposium on Hybrid Natures at Nida Art Colony Viktoria Draganova, Echo Gone Wrong, August 2016 Hybrid(…)scapes at VAA Nida Art Colony Artviewer, August 2016 Project of Non-existent Villages Ernest Truely, Echo Gone Wrong, July 2014
Prizes and grants
2018
European Media Art Programme, EMAP / EMARE
2017
2nd prize in Riga Photography Biennial Awards
2014
Young Estonian Artist Prize
Selected residencies
2019
A.I.R. Blekinge; Ronneby, SE
2018
WRO Center for Media Art; Wroclaw, PL
2016
Nida Art Colony; Nida, LT
2015
Loviisa Artists’ Studio; Loviisa, FI
Education
2011-2014
Estonian Academy of Arts, Fine Arts MA, New Media
2012
HEAD — Geneva University of Art and Design, WORK.MASTER
2004-2010
Tartu Art College, Media Design
2009
L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, Interactive Design
2003
University of Tartu, Computer Science
2001-2002
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