Kristi Kongi
Born in Estonia, 1985
Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia
info@kristikongi.com
www.kristikongi.com
Education:
2008-2011 Estonian Academy of Arts, Fine Arts department - painting, MA
2004-2008 Tartu Art College, painting department
2007 Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Istitute of Fine Arts, Lahti, Finland.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2017 Aberration. Exercises with light and shadow, Vaal gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Have you seen yourself, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Then. Now. Between All Those Time, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia
2013 Androgynic Mind Machines (with Raoul Kurvitz ), Tallinn Art Hall gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Wish I were a bird, in Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 HEAVEN (with Marta Stratskas), in Vaal gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Transformer, Draakon gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 You are my meow, gallery@SooSoo Telliskivi, Tallinn, Estonia
Selected group exhibitions:
2016 Nomadic Images, Vilnius Painting Triennial, curator, Linas Liandzbergis, Museum of Applied Arts and Design Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 Performance Currency, curator Gabriel Mestre, Tripitaka Water Bank, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Suur maalritöö, curator Liisa Kaljula, Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia
2016 kmS, kilometer of sculpture, international exhibition, Rakvere, Estonia
2016 Köler prize nominees exhibition, Estonian Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014/15 White sheet - Three Versions. dFab, Riga and Arka Gallery, Vilnius
2014 Can't go on. Must go on, curators Elin Kard and Mihkel Ilus, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2014 Merike Estna & I'm a painting, curators Kati Ilves & Merike Estna, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Artishok Biennale. A+B=AB14. Mūkusalas Mākslas Salons, Riga, Latvia
2014 Kas me sellist muuseumi tahtsimegi?, Tartu Art Museum, curator Rael Artel, Tartu, Estonia
2013-14 Young painter prize, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 Are We Not Drawn to New Era, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2012 Speed of Darkness and Other Stories, Kumu Art museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2012 MUUDA OMA MEELT / Change Your Mind, Viljandi City gallery, Viljandi, Estonia
2011 Young painter prize finalists exhibition, Titanikas exposition hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Zugzwang, Polymer Artcontainer, Tallinn, Estonia
2010-11 Girl Power, Artdepoo, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Zugzwang, Baltic young art, Commune Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 Painting in Process, Kumu Art museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 193 x 292, Vaal gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Residencies:
2017 research residency, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 DELiceiras, in Porto, Portugal
2014 SIM residency, in Reykjavik, Iceland
Festivals:
2011 NEU NOW festival, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 Art festival "Seanahk 3", in Haapsalu, Estonia
Prizes and Scholarships:
2017 Konrad Mägi Prize, laureate
2016 The nominee of Konrad Mägi prize
2016 Köler prize nominee
2013 Sadolin Art Prize, laureate
2011 Young Artist Prize, laureate
Artists spaces
Published by the Estonian Academy of Arts. 2017
Publications
Aberration. Exercises with light and shadow
self-published
2017
Kristi Kongi. I haven’t moved my head from the pillow
monograph
Publisher: Lugemik
2015
Can't go on, must go on
Exhibition catalogue
At the Tallinn Art Hall 25.10-30.11.2014
2014
Dear I’m A Painting / Always Yours Blue Lagoon
The publication „Dear I’m A Painting / Always Yours Blue Lagoonˮ is published on the occasion of the exhibition project „Merike Estna and I’m A Paintingˮ at Kumu Art Museum (27.06.–02.11.2014).
Bibliography:
Mari Peegel, Praegu on väga hea aeg Eestis kunstnik olla, Eesti Päevaleht, 6.11.2016
Hanno Soans. Köler muutuste ootuses. Eesti Ekspress. 27.04.2016
Kati Ilves. Kristi Kongi nostalgiaruumid. Kunst.ee 2/2015
Andreas Trossek. Kunstilugu. Vikerkaar. 3/2015Andreas Trossek. Kristi Kongi: "Ma väga naudin pikalt mõtlemist ja asjade üle kaalumist" Kunst.ee 1/2014.
Hanna-Liis Kont. Aus maalikunstnik Kristi Kongi. Müürileht. Märts, 2014
Eha Komissarov. Kristi Kongi ja Marta Stratskas maalivad paradiisi. Eesti Ekspress. 19.04.2012
http://epifanio.eu/nr15/est/varvimaja.html
http://www.arterritory.com/en/texts/interviews/203-kristi_kongi_playing_in_the_house_of_color_/
http://www.arterritory.com/en/blogs_video/sneak_peek/223-kristi_kongi/
Kadri Karro. Kristi Kongi värvimuusika. Eesti Ekspress, 11.01.2011
Ragne Nukk. Kristi Kongi tõlkeprobleemid. Äripäev, 19.11.2010