Kiwa
Born in 1975 in Tartu
Solo exhibitions
2010 Wildlife Documentaries (Draakon gallery, Tallinn); 0-protseduurid (Y-galerii, Tartu); Lack of Stimulus (with Thetloff and Piibemann, galerie Rivoli 59, Paris)
2009 High on Nothing (Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn)
2008 High on Nothing (Art Depoo Gallery, Tallinn)
2007 Labyrinth and the Paths of Eternal Return (with Tõnis Vint, Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space, Tartu)
2004 Hlör U Fang Axaxaxas Mlö /sound installation/ (Rael Artel Gallery, Pärnu); How Are Connected Displacement & Machines of Purity /installation/ (with Tillamook Cheddar, Beauliau Gallery, Gent, Belgium); Illegal Antistyle /paintings/ (Vaal Gallery, Tallinn); freak null /paintings, installations/ (City Gallery, Tallinn); I'm a Quotation /photo & sound installation/ (with A. Lõo & M. Kleis, Y-Gallery, Tartu)
2003 Here&Further: Remarks by Author /paintings, digital prints/ (Theatre Gallery, Pärnu); Freaky Zero /paintings, installations/ (Kondas Centre, Viljandi)
2002 LAP /paintings, video/ (Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn; Kilpkonna Gallery, Viljandi); PostPsychoAnalysis&HebephrenicSchisophreni /paintings, installations/ (Tartu Children’s Art School Gallery, Tartu)
2000 Yo-Yo Club /enviroment/ (Tallinn); Club Oasis /video installation/ (Waldhof Music Factory, Pärnu); Notes on Girl–Art /paintings, graphics/ (Von Krahl’s window gallery, Tallinn); Dream of a Provincial Girl /video, digital prints/ (with J. Zoova & T. Laamann, Sopot, Poland); Spring Disco /paintings, installations/ (with Jasper Zoova, City Gallery, Tallinn); Nu Neurotik Naivism /video installation/ (with Anneli Nygren, Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu); Regatta Borealis /mixed media/ (Damtan Dance, Tartu)
1999 Dessanta /paintings/ (Vaal Gallery, Tallinn); New Video Installations (with Ene-Liis Semper, Sebra Gallery, Tartu); Estonia as a Sign /performance, installation/ (with Jasper Zoova, Estonian Embassy, Prague); Do U Know Where Estonia Is? /site-specific installation/ (with Jasper Zoova, Toompea, Tallinn)
1998 Muzik at Vremja of my Võhod /paintings/ (Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn); CircleSoul /video installation/ (with Ene-Liis Semper, Sebra Gallery, Tartu)
1997 Bizarre Twist /photo installation/ (Roheline Salong, Pärnu); Regatta /paintings/ (Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn)
1996 Lollipop Fiction /sculpture, music/ (with T. Aaliste & E. Frosch, Rüütli Gallery, Tartu)
100 yrs of Loneliness /sculpture installation/ (Gallery “Jaani Juures”, Tartu); Optimists /sculpture installation/ (Tartu Art School, Tartu)
Everlasting Disco /sculpture installation/ (Toompea Art Gallery, Tallinn)
1995 Ekshibitsioneerimine /sculpture, sound/ (with T. Aaliste, Tartu Art School, Tartu)
Selected festivals and group exhibitions outside Estonia
2009 Saison Video (Lille, France), Zone (Seccession, Vienna, Austria), First Experimental Music and Media Art Festival (Minsk, Belorussia), Manizales Theatre festival (Manizales, Colombia), Photophobia 2 (Kaliningrad, Russia)
2008 Plaisirs de l'imagination (Chateau de Tours, Tours, France); Paradise Is Not Lost (Tseretely Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia), Prague Theatre Festival; Montreal Theatre Festival
2007 Agadir Theatre Festival (Agadir, Morocco); SKIF festival (Peterburg, Russia)
2006 New Video New Europe (The Kitchen, New York); europART – 25 Pieces (Vienna); Radius–Festival (Salzburg); Eye of the Storm (Dale); Festival of Experimental Art (Maneezh, StPetersburg); Pixelache festival (Helsinki)
2005 Klangwald / La forêt des sons (Riga); THRUST – The 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana; Radius–Festival (CAT/MAK, Vienna); Radiodays (DeAppel, Amsterdam); New Video New Europe (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam); New Video New Europe (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)
2004 Psychic Landscapes (Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York); A Classic and an Absolutely New Thing (Rum46, Arhus); New Video New Europe (Tate Modern, London); New Video New Europe (Renaissance Society/Chicago University, Chicago); Electrodienos Unidentified Sound Objects (Vilnius)
2002 ArtGenda (Hamburg); Centre of Attraction VIII Baltic Triennal of International Art (Vilnius); Kinoshok (international film festival, Anapa);
2001 Nyyd Estonian Malady (Lissabon); Supervision (Moscow–Juzhno–Sahhalinsk);
Smog Conference (Hamburg); Estonian Culture (Antverpen);
2000 ArtGenda (Helsinki); 10 paar (Belgium); Loop (Arsenals museum, Riga); Central Station (Milch Gallery, London); Grosse Kunstausstellung 2000 (Düsseldorf);
1999 Kapuum99 (Turku); Private Views (Budapest); Video Archeology (Sofia); West–East Sofa (Frankfurt); Message from East (Frankfurt); Aperto Estonia (Flash Art magazine virtual exhibition)
1998 X-Change Unlimited (Riga)
1997 Plankevaerk (Samso)
Selected festivals and group exhibitions in Estonia
2009 NU performance festival (Kanuti saal, Tallinn), Pop Art Forever (Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn), Crisis (Roterman Consumer Centre, Tallinn), Backscratching... (Shah club, Tallinn), Floromany (Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn)
2008 Boypainting from Tartu (Haapsalu); Kultuurikatapuldid (Haapsalu); Fluxus East (Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn), Stiilne Viisnurk (Tallinn City Gallery), Hare Weihnachten (yGallery, Tartu)
2007 Eclectica festival (Tartu); Plektrum festival (Tallinn); Kultuurikatapuldid (Haapsalu); Ambientradio Allikas – Voices of Sleep (www.allikas.konverter.ee)
2006 Ambientradio Allikas – Music For Plants (www.allikas.konverter.ee); Lätete pääl (Massiaru); KTI Talvefoorum; Collected Crises, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn; Eclectica festival (Tartu); Plektrum festival (Tallinn); Sex (Vaal galerii, Tallinn)
2005 Living Sculptures (Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn); Dance:Fashion:Performance (Tartu Sadama Theatre); T.V.O.D. (Veerevad Kivid, Tartu); Voices (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); New Estonian Art (Võru Kultuurimaja, Võru); Eclectica (Tartu)
2004 Sound+Vision (Tartu–Mooste); Eclectica (Tartu); DSP event (Kesselaid); ISEA2004 (Tallinn); Artist & the Other. Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists' Association (Tallinna Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn); Rehabilitation. Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists' Association (Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn);
2003 Screensaver (Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn); The Clash of the Civilizations (Pärnu Concert Hall, Pärnu); performing art festival of 9th march (Pärnu Concert Hall, Pärnu); Chart (Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn); Time Space Movement, performance art festival (Paide); Night of performing arts (Tartu Children’s Art School, Tartu); Childhood (Tartu Art Museum, Tartu); Raster 8 / from Koeler to Kiwa (Tartu Art Museum, Tartu); Last Hero (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn)
2002 8. Pärnu Fideo- & Vilm Festival (Pärnu); 2. Nordic poetry festival (Tallinn); Cinematheque Vivante/Living Cinema (Port Artur, Pärnu)
2001 Young British Art (Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn); Maning (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); ERKI fashion show (Kino Kosmos, Tallinn); City Culture Festival (Tallinn)
2000 Aids in Culture. Losing Immunity in Art (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); Small role-plays for the XXI century (Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu); 10 paar (Kuressaare); City Culture Festival (Tallinn)
1999 Artificial IDs / Dionysia (Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu); Annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association (Tallinn Art Hall); Time Space Movement III, performance art festival (Paide); Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn); Backdoor Media II (Tallinn); To the Memory of the 20th Century Artist (Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn); Media Non Grata offline@online media art festival (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn); Interstanding 3 – Beyond the Edges (The Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn); Space & Form 2000 (Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn)
1998 Speed II, road exhibition; Annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn); Time Space Movement II, performance art festival (Paide); All Together Much & Now (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); ElektroKardioGramm, performing arts environment (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); Artist Kills the Beast (Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Pärnu); [meta]dialogue (Tammsaare Museum Gallery, Tallinn); Private Views, SpaceRe/Cognised in Contemporary Art in Estonia & Britain (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); ERKI fashion show (Tallinn); International video & new media festival offline@online (Tallinn); Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn); Backdoor Media (Tallinn)
1997 Speed / Dionysia, road exhibition (Tartu); Annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn); Time Space Movement I, performance art festival (Paide)
Selected curatorial activa
2009 N0 Wave, Vaal gallery, Tallinn; Gray Signal, Vaal gallery, Tallinn
2008 1 reality 1 error, Vaal gallery, Tallinn
2007 From Text to Machine, Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Project Space, Tartu
the series of exhibitions of young art (galerii 008, Tallinn)
Audiogallery (different locations)
2005 Museum of Sleep / Uinuv Muuseum (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn)
2004 Interdisciplinary Salon (with B. Vaheri & A. Keiliga)
From 2002 Festival of the Nonexistent Bands / Cabaret Derrida www.nihe.ee (Rotermann’s Salt Storage, Tartu Sadama Theatre, Von Krahl’s Theatre, TV3 live, club Võit, Sakala centre, Kultuurikatel, Estonia, from 2005 with Fabrique), www.looming.org / 1+1=1 (with H. Soansi & A. Lôo)
2001-04(?) Metabor – platform for sound, room and multimedia (with Andres Lôo, Tallinn)
2001 Young British Art (with Hanno Soans & Anders Härm, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn)
1999 Backstage of Fashion / F.A.S.H.I.O.N. (with Ene-Liis Semper, Rotermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn)
Selected performances
2008 Body Without Paradox (Haapsalu)
2007 Lens of Text: The Feeding Milk of Mother Heroine presentation performance (with pop-group Miip and the authors, Kumu art museum, Tallinn); Beside of the Membrane (with Chanel Dior and Maria Ader, Von Krahl theatre, Tallinn)
2006 Lens of Text: The Feeding Milk of Mother Heroine presentation performance (with Fabrique and the authors, Eclectica festival, Tartu)
2005 No Fur (with Chanel Dior and Maria Ader, Tartu Sadama theatre, Tartu; Von Krahl’s Theatre, Tallinn)
2004 untitled (Club Tallinn, Eclectica2004, Tartu); Mind ei ole (Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn)
2003 ans. Motogirls (performing arts festival Time Space Movement, Paide); /---/ (Night of performing arts, Tartu Children’s Scool gallery, Tartu)
2002 performance for the leading estonian populist party (with E. Kampe, Tallinn); Displacement in Reverse;Plateau of Mirror+-pii (with E. Kampe ja A. Lõo, Spirit cafe, Tallinn); Short History of Popmusic (Cafe Keese, Reeperbahn, Hamburg); Pseudofashion Performance (with K. & N. Carpenko, Club Adorator, Hamburg); Sounds of Northern Lights (with Reproducts, Schiller Opera, Hamburg); Is this what u call 'indie'? (gay-klubi Nightman, Tallinn); Festival of the Nonexistent Bands (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn)
2001 Analogue Overdub (the closing of the last analogue telephone station in Tallinn); 12alterego. Pseudofashion presentation (ERKI fashion show, ‘Kosmos’ cinema, Tallinn)
2000 Snow White (with J. Zoova & P.M. Olowskaga, Club Difference, Tallinn); Videodisco/Flashbax I–III (with J. Zoova, Enter, PÖFF, ArtGenda); 12 Fireplaces (with J. Zoova, Tallinn); Androgen Day (Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn); A is for alfa (with A. Lôoga, Radisson SAS, Tallinn)
1999 Holy Union, performance for the Bank of Estonia (with E.-L.Semper, M. Laar, V. Kraft and S. Kallas, Maardu); Videodisco. The Best of Nervous Cowboys (with J. Zoova, Võitlev Sõna, Tallinn); Estonia as a Sign (with J. Zoova, Karl’s bridge, Prague)
1998 Work in Progress (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); Conceptual Sandwich (Kanal 2 TV, Tallinn); Graffiti Patrol (Riga)
1997 I Got Love in my HeArt (Paide performing arts festival); Coca-Cola (with H. Soans, Tallinn);
From 1997 social sculptures&actions in Estonian media&public space,various audio & text performances/lectures, total media project Media Graffiti
Selected sound/audio/electronic performances
2009 Zone (Seccession, Vienna, Austria), First Experimental Music and Media Art Festival (Minsk, Belorussia), Black Leather (Bogota, Colombia), Secret Room (Tartu Writers' Union, Genclub, Tartu)
2008 w/ Alexey Borissov (Tseretely Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia); Popdada Deluxe (Tartu); w/ Dopplereffekt (Tartu)
2007 SKIF festival (St Petersburg); Kultuurikatapuldid (Haapsalu); Discoordinated, Eclectica (Tartu); Ambientradio Allikas (Viljandi)
2006 Nordic Artists Centre (Dale); Radius festival (Salzburg); Artists’ House (Tartu); Ambientradio Allikas (Viljandi); Rus Klub/Viennale festival (Vienna); Festival of Experimental Art/Maneezh (St Petersburg), Pixelache festival (Helsinki)
2005 Klangwald / La forêt des sons (Riga); Radius–Festival (CAT/MAK, Vienna); De Appel/radiodays (Amsterdam); Museum of Sleep (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn); Looming.org presents:Mootor (Von Krahli theatre); Eklektika festival/with Sven Grünberg (St Peter’s church, Tartu); Time Free Day (The Museum Of The Ocupation Of Latvia, Riga)
2004 Sound+Vision Festival (Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu); Electrodienos Unidentified Sound Objects (CAC, Vilnius); with Broken Machines (Ze dos Boys, Lissabon); Audio Machines of Purity (Gallery Beauliau, Gent); 0laf Andvarafors project (performing arts festival of 9. march); Metabor:panoraam (Multikultuurimaja, isea2004, Tallinn)
2003 Metabor: chakra trust (Viinistu Art Museum, Viinistu); performing arts festival of 9. march (Pärnu Concert Hall); Time Space Movement, performance art festival (Paide); Abstract Machine (Kondas centre, Viljandi)
2002 Art Genda (Pudel club, Hamburg); 2. Nordic Poetry Festival (Spirit cafe, Tallinn); Venus on Soma/ performing arts festival of 9. march (Ugala, Viljandi); Unestapja (with A. Lôo & Kärt O, Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn); Unestapja (with MC Basquiat, A. Lôo & Kärt O, Kullo Gallery, Tallinn); Avaramalt (with A nagu alfa’ga, Gallery of Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
2001 Nyyd Estonian Malady (Gallery Ze dos Boys, Lissabon); Smog Conference (Hamburg); Metabor:esimene lend (with K. Kurismaa, Martin & Masin, Endla st previous hospital, Tallinn); Metabor (with K. Kurismaa, A. Lôo, pOrt’i, Martin & Masin, Dvigatel factory, Tallinn); Metabor:Alfaplateau (with K. Kurismaa, A. Lôo, pOrt’i, Martin & Masin, Maarjamäe memorial complex, Tallinn); Metabor:Boreaalsolaarium (with K. Kurismaa, A. Lôo, pOrt’i, Martin & Masin, icebreaker SuurTôll, Tallinn); Unestapja (with A. Lôo, Von Krahl’s theater, Tallinn)
Books
Lens of Text: The Feeding Milk of Mother Heroine (compilation of estonian experimental literature, scouter-compiler) Tartu: ID Salong, 2006
Ki wa. Metabor: skid mark of the force before the shape. Tartu: Bookmill, 2005
Ki:wa. Way of the Robot is Shift/The Secret Void. Tallinn: Estonian Art Museum, 2004
Kiwa. Toys Escaping from Childrens Hospital. Tallinn: Society for Estonian Language, 2002
Selected lectures/text performances
2009 Some aspects of the meaning of the work (International Conference, Scientific Conference, Tartu), Robodada (Art Ministry conference)
2007 The Quotation-experience (KTI winterforum, Juuru)
2006-2009 Problems with Contemporary Art (Estonian Art Academy)
2005 Soundlecture (with A. Lõo, www.radiodays.org, de Appel, Amsterdam)
2004 0laf Andvarafors project (Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht); 0laf is a Dummy (KTI Winterforum, Võsu)
2003 Separate (festival ‘Draama’, Club ‘Tallinn’, Tartu); soundlecture (with A. Lõo, opening event of 1+1=1, hall of Kanuti guild, Tallinn)
2002 Soundlecture (with A. Lõo, Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn)
2001 Banana Split: Andy Warhol (Rottermann’s Salt Storage, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn)
1998 Virginity during the pest (video lecture, Globaalne-Lokaalne seminar, Kiriküüt, Viljandi)
Videography
2004 I was prevented from being a popstar; Between the Sun and the Moon; Porn; Everybody Is A Cock
2003 0,1980 (with Sybille Tibu); /–––/
2002 Life After Prozak; Displacement in Reverse; Plateau of Mirror+-pii;12alterego – presentation of a pseudo fashion collection Kosmos cinema
2001 Winter Now!
2000 Illness & Sickness; No Deep; Androgen Day; Analogue Overdub; A is for alfa (with A. Lõo)
1999 Light-blue & Pink (with E.-L. Semper); Oasis (with E.-L. Semper); Eurovision. Under the Blue Flag; Euro–antivisionvision. Under the Yellow Flag; Nervous Cowboys (with Jasper Zoova);
1998 Artist Kills the Beast; Da Girl is Rokin'; Work in Progress; Contramarrs; Paradisco; Untitled Dream; Virginity during the Pest; Gräffiti Patrull; Forms of Meat; RingHing (with E.-L. Semper)
1997 Myth of the Mobility (with H. Soans)
Selected discography
2008 Regatta (on SHE_IS_SYSTEM64, Robodada records, LP)
2006 Festival of Non-Existent Bands, Rotteneffekt (on compilation: Melodia, Erste Bank Group/Laton, KONRE001, CD)
2005 metabor (white label); Skidmark before shape by Ki wa (on compilation: Culmination, Laton 030, CD); expert from live (kunst.ee mag sound art special CD)
2004 Passioon & Fuuga by Luarvik Luarvik (hyper.records, CD); Changing Weather by Ki wa (on compilation: Flowers for Algebra, looming.org, CD)
2003 Four Soundrooms from: 0,1980s (yO–y0 rekords, CDR)
2002 yO–y0 rekords, Sampler (yO–y0 rekords, CDR)
2001 Unestapja by Kiwa vs Sven Grünberg (on compilation: Tallinn Psychedelic City, ulm02,CD)
2000 Toys Escaping from Children's Hospital by Nervouscowboys (yO–y0rekords, CDR)
1996 La Horro Porro by Nyrok City (Sally Cinnamon Music, SAL005MC)
1995 Shit, Blood & Flowers by Nyrok City (Khaos Control, MC)
Works in theatre
2009 Liberty or Death (Ruitlane/Kudu) - stage design, video, music
2008 4.48 Psychosis (Sarah Kane/Kalev Kudu, Tartu Student Theatre) - stage design, video, music
2007 Electronic City (Falck Richter/Sven Heiberg, Endla theatre) - sound design
2006 Possessed (Dostoevsky/Vahing/Kudu, Tartu Student Theatre) - music
2003 Rigoletto or the Blind Joker (Pärnu theatre) - costume design
Varia
From 1996 more than 200 articles, essays and special text-projects (mostly in Estonian) on different subjects in the field of culture in books, newspapers, magazines, catalogues
2006-07 DJ at Fantasy show at Estonian radio of classical music
2002 looming.org, web-zine, editor and founder (with A. Lõo and H. Soans)
from 2002 work in close co-operation with the quarterly of Estonian Society of Literature Vihik (polygon of avangardist essays)
1997–2003 actor in the art movies: Our Favourites, Pictures from the Madhouse and Kids of Rock'n'roll
2001 founder of conceptual record label y0-yO rekords
from 1994 creative dj
1991–92 literature magazine Bag of Vomit, founder and editor in chief
1997–98 Kultuurimaa, cultural weekly, art editor
1998 www.combain.ee, e-zine, editor in chief member of about 10 bands or music groups since1985
Works in collections
Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Tartu Art Museum, Tartu; private collections (Estonia, Europe and America)