Kai Kaljo (Estonian, born )

Timeline

1959
Born in Tallin
2004
Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
2004
"Live and Shine" grant from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
A leading Estonian artist who has worked primarily in video since 1997. She studied classical music at a specialist secondary school and worked as a stage designer in youth theatre before going to Tallinn Art University to study painting. After graduating in 1990, she attended the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts for postgraduate studies in 1992. Her work has been exhibited widely, particularly in Europe at many video festivals. She has been awarded an ArtsLink Fellowship Grant and an Independent Projects Grant for residencies in the USA and several other international prizes and residencies.

Exhibitions

2008
World One Minutes. Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Border State Art Museum of the Art Academy Guangzhou, China Freedom Square. Art Hall, Tallinn
2007
Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial
2007
Waterpieces 2007, NOASS, Riga, Latvia
2007
Environment Archaelogy, Retretti art center, Finland
2007
In the Presence of the Body, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
2007
WRO-07 Media Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
2007
Reel to Real - Sexual Semiotics, Künstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Circulo des Bellas Artes; Berlin, Babylon-Mitte
2007
Digital Space, Showroom Cinema, Scheffield, UK
2007
Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion, program by Witte de With at the Rotterdam International Film Festival
2007
Normal Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2007
Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany (solo)
2007
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (solo)
2007
OTOK Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia (solo)
2006–2007
Collected Crises, Estonian Art in the 1990’s, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn
2006
Kai Kaljo, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (solo)
2006
Improvistation, Tallinn Art Hall
2006
Body and Soul, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
2006
Sexy Mythos, NGBK Berlin, Germany
2005
Kai Kaljo,Kunstihoone, Tallin (solo)
2005
Double Act (with Jan Svenungsson), Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn (solo)
2005
Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial
2005
Waterpieces 2007, NOASS, Riga, Latvia
2005
Environment Archaelogy, Retretti art center, Finland
2005
In the Presence of the Body, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
2005
Reel to Real - Sexual Semiotics, Künstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt, Germany
2005
Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Circulo des Bellas Artes; Berlin, Babylon-Mitte
2005
Digital Space, Showroom Cinema, Scheffield, UK
2005
Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion, program by Witte de With at the Rotterdam International Film Festival
2005
Normal Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2005
Video Lounge, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida
2005
Model “Missed Opportunities”, Brandenburgischer Kunsverein, Potsdam, Germany
2005
Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Paris, Berlin
2005
Brief Encounters, International Short Film Festival, Bristol, UK
2005
The New (In-)Security, Badisher Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005
prog:ME, Festival of Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005
Art Basel, Switzerland
2005
26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005
Women’s Dialogue, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2004
‘Instant Europe’, Villa Manin – Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine
2004
BLICK 2004- Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2004
Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin
2004
‘La mossa delle idee’, Alfieri Atelier, Firenze
2004
‘Sometime’, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2004
‘Flipside Artists' Space, New York, NY
2004
‘EU Positive’, Academy of Arts, Berlin
2004
‘Viinistu 2004 International Live Arts project’,
2004
‘Welcome’, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2004
Viinistu, Estonia
2004
‘Do the Wrong Thing’, The Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
2004
‘Breakthrough’, Grote Kerk den Haag, The Hague
2004
"New Video, New Europe", Chicago ( Jan.2004). Travels to: The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; TATE Modern (screenings 9.-10 and 16.-17.10)
2003
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (special programme of Kai Kaljo's works). Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
2003
'21 Minutes.Art', Moscow 7th International Art Fair
2003
'Greetings From La Jolla', Knollgalerie, Vienna, Austria
2003
'A Loser', Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2003
'Halfway to Venice', HDLU Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2002
'Breath', Ludwigsmuseum, Budapest
2002
'Transvisit', Masnedo Fort, Denmark
2002
'Oh, it's a Curator!', Rotor Association for Contemporary Art, Graz
2002
'Different/Diverse', Teatro della Fondamente Nuovi, Venice; Grunt, Vestern Front Galeries, Vancouver
2001
Instant Video, Manosque, France
2001
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
2001
Black Cube, Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam
2001
'Heavenly', Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
2001
Videos by Kai Kaljo, SCCA Gallery, Bratislava
2001
'What do You Read, my Lord?' (with Ly Lestberg), Nuova Icona Gallery, Venice
2000
Central Station, Milch, London
2000
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
2000
Video N.E.WS, Gotland, Sweden
1999
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
1999
Kai Kaljo, Likovni Salon, Celje, Slovenia
1998
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam

Literature

2007
‘Kai Kaljo, Star Outsider’, Artists of Estonia
2006
Martin Herbert, ‘Kai Kaljo’, Time Out, 8th November
2006
Kai Kaljo, Sihtasutus Tallina Kunstihoone Fond, Tallin
2004
Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Instant Europe, Villa Manin, Udine
2004
Mari Laaniste, see oleks kull jube, kui tanaval ara tuntaks, Kunst.ee, January
2004
Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Instant Europe, Villa Manin, Udine
2004
Mari Laaniste, see oleks kull jube, kui tanaval ara tuntaks, Kunst.ee, January
2003
Judith Staines, The Role of the artist as poet, Culturebase.net
English (US)

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