Mark Raidpere
Born in Tallinn in 1975
Education
2000-20003 Tallinn Pedagogical University, film studies
1993 Tallinn School of Communications, photography
Solo exhibitions
2009
Mark Raidpere, Espace Croisé, Roubaix
Mark Raidpere, Screening program, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2008
Sven Johne | Mark Raidpere, Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli
International, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Andrey/Andris, Gallery Potocka, Krakow
Alles, City Gallery Art Hall, Pärnu
2006
5 Works, Vilnius CAC, Vilnius
5 Works, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Videos, Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul
Shifting Focus, Tramway, Project Room, Glasgow
Vidéos, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
5 Works, Hansabank Art Award exhibition, Gallery Noass, Riga
2005
Videos, City Gallery, Tallinn
Isolator, Estonian exhibition at the 51st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Malipiero, Venice
Ene-Liis Semper | Mark Raidpere, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2002
Tallinn, House of the Blackheads´ Guild, Tallinn
1998
Jeu à 4 mains (together with Ene-Liis Semper), Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn
Portraits, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
1997
Io, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
Group exhibitions
2009
Everywhere, From Discrimination and Stigma to the Queer Years, Santiago de Compostela
Windows Upon Oceans – 8th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Dystopian Realms – Idyllic Meadows, Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin
The Space Between, Gävle konstcentrum, Gävle
2008-2009
Ars Fennica 2008: Maria Duncker, Tea Mäkipää, Katrina Neiburga, Mark Raipere & Seppo Renvall
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
2008
record, record, Shift Festival, Basel
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Action Field Kodra, Camp Kodra, Thessaloniki
L´Homme Marveilleux, Chateau de Malbrouck, Manderen
Borderlives, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Helsinki, St, Petersburg und Tallinn, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
North by North-East: The Continental Unconscious, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
The Space Between, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå
2007
Body of Evidence: Imprisonment, CAC Ticino, Bellinzona
Ich war hier – Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus Estland, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Perspektive 07, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München
Enclaves d'Europe, Centre culturel suisse, Paris
The Word and the Image, Russian Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Progressive Nostalgia, Centro Pecci, Prato
Baltic Mythologies, Prague Biennial, Prague
Prison, Bloomberg SPACE, London
Portraits, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam
2006
Crime & Punishment, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
Knowing You, Knowing Me, Camera Austria, Graz
ARS 06, Kiasma, Helsinki
Videoart from the Baltics, Scene: Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Face the Unexpected, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Arte Fuori Uso, Metaphysics of Youth, Ex Cofa, Pescara
Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen
Stage of Life – Rhetorics of Emotions, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
Carnets du sous-sol, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
1:1, PM Gallery, Zagreb
2005
Home Sweet Home, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn
Generations, Lithuania
Pilot 2, Farmiloe Building, London
Identities, Annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists' Association, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2004
Similar Spaces, House of Commons, London; European Commission, Brussels
Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2003
Kapital, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
Moscow Art Fair, Moscow
The Last Hero, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn
(un)dressed. Body in the Baltic Photo Art, Vol. 2, Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin
2002
Closing the Distance, Gdansk
2001
go Europe. The Kaleidoscopic Eye, Braunschweig
Sybaris, Szczecin
2000
Red, House of the Blackheads´ Guild, Tallinn
1999
M. O. O. D. Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn
Together Again? Århus
Ars Baltica. Can You Hear Me, Kiel, Dresden, Rostock and Leipzig; Odense; Vilnius; Gdansk; Helsinki; Bergen; Stockholm
1997
Persona, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn
Works on stage
2003 Opera. Piano: Rein Rannap, Estonia Theatre concert hall, Tallinn – video
2003 Mandragora. Dir. Jaanus Rohumaa, Linnateater theatre, Tallinn – photographs & videos
2002 Fluxus. Dir. Teet Kask, Vanemuine theatre, Tartu, Estonia – photographs & videos
Selected catalogues
Anu Allas, After the Isolator: Voices and Talks. – Ars Fennica 2008: Maria Duncker, Tea Mäkipää, Katrina Neiburga, Mark Raipere & Seppo Renvall. Catalogue, 2008
Hanno Soans: The Shifting Focus of Self-Portraits – Answers Re-Dubbed as Questions. Artists of Estonia 3. 2008
Isolator. Estonian Exhibition at the 51. Venice Biennial. Catalogue, 2005
Works in collections
Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
Art Museum of Tartu, Estonia
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Fonds National d´Art Contemporain, Paris
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
La Gaia collection, Italy
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München, Germany
Museu d'art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Domaine de Chamarande, France
LVMH, Paris
Neuflize Vie, Paris
Awards
2008 Ars Fennica, Finland
2008 Prix Gilles Dusein/Neuflize Vie, France
2008 LOOP´08 Video Art Fair. First Prize, Prize Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Hansabank Art Award, Estonia
1998 Cultural Endowment of Estonia, annual award
Residencies
2008 artBox.gr, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki
2007 IASPIS, Stockholm