Jaan Toomik
Born in 1961 in Tartu, Estonia. Lives in Tallinn, works at the Estonian Academy of Arts as a professor.
Education:
1985–1991 Estonian Academy of Arts, faculty of painting
Solo exhibitions:
2011 Tourist, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
2008 Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2007 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Kumu Art Museum, Estonia
2005 Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2005 4+4 paintings Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Video Works, Museum of Contemporary in Bucharest, Romania
2005 Recent works, Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2005 Videos, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
2004 Video Works, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 Artoteek in Hague, the Netherlands
2004 Art Gallery of Haapsalu, Estonia
2004 IBID Gallery, London, England
2003 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2003 Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2003 Artists’ House, Tartu, Estonia
2001 Peeter Mudist, paintings. Jaan Toomik, video installations. Cultural Centre Elzenveld, Antwerpen, Belgium
2001 Contemporary Film and Video Programme, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1999 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Selected group exhibitions, actions, performances:
2011 Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, USA
2011 Meeting with Friend in Marfa, Å Gallery, Turku, Finland
2010 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
2010 Molodist International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 Drama Film Festival, Drama, Greece
2010 Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2010 Biennale Mediations 2010, Poznań, Poland
2010 São Paulo International Short Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 The Care to Create, Art Festival Cēsis 2010, Cēsis, Latvia
2010 Mediation, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
2010 A Pair of Left Shoes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2009 Gender Check, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2009 Looking for New Earth, Sojo Gallery Kumamoto, Japan
2009 Sik-SPRIDD ISOLERAD KONST, Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
2009 Identity, Branderburgischer Kunstverein in Potsdam, Germany
2009 Friendship, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Austria
2009 A Pair of Left Shoes, Bochum Art Museum, Germany
2008 Video Performances in Münster, Kunsthalle Münster, Germany
2008 Youprison. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2008 54. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2008 Fairplay Film & Video Award 2008, Lugano, Switzerland
2008 Borderlives. Contemporary Art from Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2008 European Attitude. MOMA Zendai, Shanghai, China
2007 Shadow Filmfestival, Amsterdam, Holland
2007 Cool Days, Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden
2007 body as city, city as body, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Backward Blues, CCA, Moscow, Russia
2007 October. Exit, Memory and Desire, Galleria ARTRA, Milan, Italy
2007 Baltic States, part III. Contemporary Art from Estonia, Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
2007 (H)eros, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2007 Locws 2: engaging art, people and place, Wales, UK
2007 Asia-Europe mediations, Poznan, Poland
2007 Human Game, Saks 5th Ave, New York, USA
2007 Progressive Nostalgia, Prato, Italy
2007 Giorgio Persano Gallery, Torino, Italy
2007 Locws 3: engaging art, people and place, Wales, UK
2006 Art, Life & Confusion, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia
2006 Licht.Kunst mit Licht und Lichtdesign, Lüdenscheid, Germany
2006 Human Game, Stazione Leopoldo of Florence Italy
2006 Videokunst aus dem baltikum, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Face the Unexpected, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2006 4th berlin biennial for contemporary art ‘Of Mice and Men’, Berlin, Germany
2005 Document 3 – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Glasgow, UK
2005 Beijing International Art Biennale, Bejing, China
2005 58. Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, In Progress section, The Cubes, Switzerland
2005 Video Art in Cork, Cork Film Centre, Ireland
2004 Instant Europe, Villa Manin, Italy
2004 Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sebastain, Spain
2004 Shadow Film Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2004 Viinistu 2004, international live-art and video event, Viinistu, Estonia
2004 Talking to Me, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma, Finland
2004 Breakthrough, Grote Kerk den Hague, the Netherlands
2004 Dream Island, Riga, Latvia
2004 Movimento/Movimenti – Films and Videos of the 50. International Art Exhibition, International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, South of Italy
2004 Shortcut Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2004 Bodyworks, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, The Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus
2004 EastWest, Museumquartal; Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria
2003 Now What,BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
2003 Extra Strong Super Light, Szczecin National Art Museum, Poland
2003 Veden Runoutta, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 Mohni 2003, international festival of contemporary art, Mohni island, Estonia
2003 Dreams and Conflicts: Dictatorship of the Viewer. Clandestine. Arsenale, 50th International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2003 21 Minutes. Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2003 The Paths of Europe, Contemporary Art Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
2003 Paris – Berlin International Meetings, Paris, France & Berlin, Germany
2003 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebandengo Torino, Torino, Italy
2002 Evidence, Esso Gallery, London, UK
2002 Les Boréales, Caen, France
2002 The Museum of Hafnarborg, Iceland
2002 Gooseflesh 3, international live-art and video art festival, Rakvere & Haapsalu, Estonia
2002 Roots, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Breath, The Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Video ROM, Milano; Bergamo; Rome, Italy
2002 Closing the Distance, Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
2002 The Baltic Times, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 The Baltic Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia; Škuc Gallery, Slovenia
2001 International Film and Video Festival, Split, Croatia
2001 Gooseflesh 2, international video and performance festival, Rakvere, Estonia
2001 Valencia Biennale. Section Video ROM, Valencia, Spain
2001 On the Way to the Screen. Art Moscow, 5th International Art Fair, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
2001 Nights In, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
2001 Estonian Energies, WUK Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2000–2001 Grosse Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf, Messe Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik, Sweden
2000, 2001 Bac-Présence Balte, The Human Project, Visby, Sweden; Athens, Greece; Barcelona, Spain
2000 OPEN2000, Venice, Italy
2000 I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Bleibe. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2000 L'autre moi tie de l'Europe. Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2000 Videolisboa. International Video Festival of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
1999–2000 After the Wall. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
1999 Near and Elsewhere. The Photographers Gallery, London
1997 Interstanding 2. 5th annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
1997 Letter and Event, Apex Art C.P., New York, USA
1997 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1997 Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, USA
1996 Survival. Rauma Biennale Balticum 96, Rauman Taidemuseo, Rauma, Finland
1996 Container '96 – Art Across Oceans, international exhibition of contemporary art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Manifesta 1, European biennial of modern art, Rotterdam Art Hall, Netherlands
1996 Personal Time. Art of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1945–1996, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1995 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Paris, France
1995 ARS 95, international exhibition of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Avant-garde Walk a Venezia 1995, Venice, Italy
1994 22nd International Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Grants and awards:
2008 54. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, prize from organizers
2008 Annual award from Cultural Endowment of Estonia for artistic activity in 2007
2006 NIFCA Artist Residencies, Bergen, Norway
2005 Konrad Mägi art award, Estonia
2003 Baltic Assembly Annual Art Award
2000 NIFCA Artists' Residencies, Hafnarborg, Iceland
1999 State Prize of the Republic of Estonia
1999 Chicago Artist International Program, USA
1997 Prize from the 5th annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia
1997 Sinebrychoff Eesti Ltd.
1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
1995 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, special mention, Paris, France
1994 Kristjan Raud annual art award, Estonia
Selected bibliography:
Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe (ARTWORLD series). Black Dog Publishing, London, 2010
Jaan Toomik. Invisible Pearls. Riga Art Space, 2008
Jaan Toomik. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, 2007
Jaan Toomik. Videos. Catalogo. Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 2005
Files. MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, 2004
La Biennale di Venezia. 50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 2003.
Art Moscow. Programme. 5th International Art Fair, April 24 – 29, 2001. Central House of Artist, Moscow 2001
Fresh Cream. Contemporary Art in Culture. 10 curators, 10 writers, 100 artists. Phaidon Press
Limited, N.Y, USA, 2000
L'autre moi tie de l'Europe. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2000
New Media in Late 20th Century Art (Video Installation Art). Thames and Hudson, London 1999
After the Wall. Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
Jaan Toomik. Baltic. I-20 Gallery, New York, 1998
Site Santa Fe. Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, The New York Times Company, 1997
La Biennale di Venezia. XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 1997
Survival. Rauma Biennale Balticum 96, Rauman Taidemuseo, Finland, 1996
ARS 95. Private / Public. Nykytaiteen Museo, Valtion Taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1995
Manifesta 1. Catalogue of the first edition of a new European Biennial of contemporary art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1996
Container ‘96. Art Across Oceans. Europaesk Kulturby, Kobenhavn, 1996
UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts 1995. The World of Art in 1995. UNESCO, Paris, 1996
Avant-garde Walk a Venezia 1995 I, II. Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, 1995, 1996
Lapin. Toomik. 22nd International Biennial of São Paulo, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Tallinn, 1994
Selected magazines:
A. Mugnaini. October. Exit, Desire and Memory. Flash Art No. 258, January/February, 2008
F. Derieux. Jaan Toomik in Bucharest National Museum. Flash Art No. 245 November/December 2005
H. Soans. Minu munn on puhas. Metropolis m. Bimonthly magazine on contemporary art, No. 5/2004
International Live Art and Video Event Jürgen Raap Kunstforum Sept Oct 2004
Valdez. Jaan Toomik and Timur Novikov at I-20. Art in America, May 1999
A. Keskküla. Jaan Toomik. Flash Art, May/June, 1999
R. Roos. Tomorrow is a new day. Jaan Toomik escapes the stereotypes. Siksi, The Nordic Art Review, no 3, 1996 |