The female tractor driver. Hero of labor, milkmaid. Idols who are tall and fat, maybe. In reality they are small and weak, which isn't for sure, either. Reality is in a hyper-reality caused by vodka or TV, depending on the geographical situation of reality it is -- in the East or in the West. Female artists have always been in Estonia! Because they don't make any problems as far they have been good wives and lovers. Escaping from reality has been seen as the issue for real high art. Images of my idols had no place in art but they were represented in media. That is why they became my idols. Males made real art, creating ideal landscapes. Women were heroes. Now women here are housekeepers, they like it, they adore it, they all want to be like Barbie (new idols from media). Barbie-feminism is a presence which never comes. What is the issue of feminist art in Estonia? Do we have any need for it or is it just an intrigue for some. How radical can be feminism in post-socialist country? Creating problems and shocking "normal ones" is the issue for feminist art here. That is why it is so immoral. Lot of slides will be guaranteed, examples of all kind of idols and artworks from Estonia -- the latest ones, including myself.
Education:
1984 -1988 at Tartu Art School
1990 -1995 at Tallinn Art University, faculty of painting
1994 - present a post-graduate student at Tallinn Art University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
1994
"Unexisting Art", the 2nd annual exhibition of Soros center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
1995
"Painting '95", Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
"Artell of History", Saaremaa Biennale "Fabrique d'Histoire, Kuressaare, Estonia
"Est.Fem", Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
"Wait We're Loading", Gothenburg Art Museum, Sweden
"Biotopia", 3.annual exhibition of Soros center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, The Gallery of the Institute of History, Tallinn, Estonia
1996
"OUT 30.02.96", open air space in Tallinn, Estonia
"Artgenda", Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
IV Festival Franco - Balte d'Art Video, Vilnius, Lietuva
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1992 - "A Trip from Tallinn to Paldiski", an alternative space in Tallinn, Estonia
1994 - "Relation", Mustpeade Maja Gallery, Tallinn
1995 - "Untiteld videoinstallation", Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
1996 - "Basements", Mustpeade Maja Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 - "Second-Hand Love Stories", Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
SELECTED PERformANCES:
1993
"Rebirth of Antropometries", group Trimadu, Tallinn Art University, Estonia
"All Saints Day", on streets of Tallinn, Estonia
"Breaking Illusions", Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1994
"Blackwhite", Baltic Jubilee, Malmö, Sweden
1995
"Funural of Mashine", group Trimadu, Tallinn Art University, Estonia
"Sun-Time-Games", group Trimadu, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
performance on Poltsamaa River with Jaan Toomik, Poltsamaa, Estonia
1996
video performance "Ice Drift", Mustpeade Maja and Glehni Loss, Tallinn,
OTHER ACTIVITIES :
1994-1995
author (together with Mari Sobolev and Marko Laimre) of the TV monthly program JAEI (YESNO), ETV, Estonia
1995
curator (together with Eha Komissarov and Reet Varblane) of the Est.Fem project, Tallinn. Contributor to different publications, and member of critical-creative group trIMADU