Ene-Liis Semper
Education
1989–1995 Estonian Academy of Arts, scenography
Selected solo exhibitions
1997 Video installations, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
1998 RingHing / Breathing Cycle (with KIWA), Sebra Gallery, Tartu; Mäng neljal käel / Jeu à 4 mains (with Mark Raidpere), Rotermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
1999 New Video Installations (with KIWA), Sebra Gallery, Tartu
2000 Here (with Marko Laimre), Rotermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; He and She (with Raoul Kurvitz) Gallery Noas, Riga
2001 Oasis, Begane Grond, Utrecht (Schwaz Gallery, Schwaz)
2002 Video installations, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn; Four Works / Quatre Œuvres, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Ene-Liis Semper, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2003 Ene-Liis Semper, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg; Ene-Liis Semper, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Four Works / Quatre Œuvres, Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Montréal
2004 Ene-Liis Semper, Galerie Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna
2005 Ene-Liis Semper, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Ene-Liis Semper, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg
2006 Ene-Liis Semper, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt; Ene-Liis Semper, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
Selected group exhibitions
1994 Unexistent Art, 2nd annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia; Tallinn
1995 Biotopia, 3rd annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia (Tallinn); Wait We're Loading (group exhibition of artists from Estonia), Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg
1996 Rühm T–10, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
1998 Art from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sarajevo; Distant Lighthouses, Fabrica Porto Brandao, Lissabon (Konsthall, Sollentuna); ArtGenda, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
1999 Private Views, Budapest
2000 PICAF, Seoul; Manifesta3, Borderline Syndrome, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; 10Paar, Art from Estonia and Flanders, Castle of Kuressaare (Hoeve Vandewalle – Kuurne); Inverse Perspectives, EDSVIK Konsthall, Sollentuna
2000–2001 Grosse Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf, Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen e.V., Messe Düsseldorf
2001 Bac-Présence Balte, The Human Project, Visby (Athens, Barcelona); The Baltic Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Škuc Gallery, Slovenia); Vertigo, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim; Male, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia; 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Bienniale, Estonia’s participation, Levi Foundation, Venice; Plateau of Humankind, 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Bienniale, Italian Pavilion, Venice; Looking at You, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Artissimo, Torino
2002 ARCO 2002, Madrid; The Video Lounge, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome; Matrix of Collaboration, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv; Last Minute. To the End of Eternity, Vecchio Ospedale Soave, Codogno (Lodi); The Baltic Times, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Closing the Distance, Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk; Breath, The Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest; Basic Elements, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma; OPEN 2002, imaginaire féminin, Venice; Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto; Fluxus and the Influences, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Les Boréales 2002, Caen
2003 Images Festival, Toronto; Ambivalence (opening exhibition), Z platz Museum, Fukuoka; Art, Lies and Videotape, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; Extra Strong Super Light, Muzeum Narodowe, Szczecin; Orifice, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne; Art Focus 4, Jerusalem
2004 Faster than History / Historiaa nopeammin, Kiasma, Helsinki; Cordially Invited, Basis voor Aktuele Kunst, Utrecht;
The New Ten, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg; Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2005 Project Migration Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2006 Collected Crises, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Videography
1994 Landscapes of Estonian Art I, Kurvitz
1996 Untitled
1997 Fundamental
1998 White Wedding; FF/Rew; Endspiel; Come!; Natural Law; Oasis
2000 Stairs; Licked Room; Sleeping Man; Into New Home; Untitled I; Untitled II
2001 Jump
2002 Door; Red Line; Seven; Swinging House; Large Hall; The Speaker
2004 Untitled
2006 Untitled; Beautiful; Run; Train
Selected performances
1994 Myra Factory, M/F Kronborg, Tallinn
1995 Myra Factory, Pilot music club, Moscow
1997 Painting Venice, performance (with Raoul Kurvitz) at the opening of Estonia’s exhibition at the 47th Venice Bienniale
1998 Untitled or Jancis, Kurvitz and Semper Live, Rotermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; God Number xxx, Club Hollywood, Tallinn; Treasure Island, Rotermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
1999 Holy Union, Bank of Estonia, Tallinn
2000 Va Banque, Estonian National Library, Tallinn; Happy Birthday, PC Department Store, Tallinn
Awards
2000 Cultural Endowment of Estonia, annual award
2001 Hansabank Art Award
2002 Republic of Estonia, cultural award
2002; 2003; 2005; 2006 Estonian theatre’s annual award, artist’s prize