Marko Mäetamm

Born in Viljandi, Estonia in 1965
Lives and works mostly in Tallinn, Estonia

Education

1993-1995  MA in Faculty of Fine Arts, Estonian Academy of Arts
1994  Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, praxis
1988-1993 BA in Printmaking Department, Estonian Academy of Arts

Selected solo exhibitions

2018
- Sit Back, Relax And Enjoy The Rest of Your Life, Vilnius Art Fair, Vilnius, Latvia

2017
- I'm Only streaming - 2, curated by Jonathan Watkins, KIM? Riga, Latvia
- Tragic Timing, Marko Mäetamm & Pavel Pepperstein, Curator Alistair Hicks, Odile Ouizeman Gallery, Paris, France
- I'm Only Streaming, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia - March 31 - April 30

2016
- I Want To Tell You Something,  Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, NY, USA

2015
- The Meaning of Life, Marko Mäetamm & Kaido Ole, curated by Gabriella Uhl, FUGA, Budapest, Hungary
- Home and Away. Raymond Pettibon: Living the American Dream / Marko Mäetamm: Feel at Home, Curated by Alistair Hicks, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
- Come on, Shoot! Gallery Saariaho Järvernpää, Helsinki, Finland

2014
- LOVE, video screening, IKON Gallery, UK
- Love, Love, Love. Family Stories and Many Other Stories, Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia

2013
- The Alphabet of Lies, Gallery Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, Estonia
- Painting and Waiting, Gallery Hobusepea and Gallery Draakon, Tallinn, Estonia

 2012
-Walking in My Hunting Ground, Nettie Horn, London, UK

 2011
-Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories, Nettie Horn, London, UK

 2010
-30 Stories and 4 Cockroaches, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Van Damme, A Hair and Many Other Things, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-I Have Never Told These Stories to My Wife. I Have Never Told Them to Anybody,
Galerie Anton Weller-Isabelle Suret, Paris, France
-Love, Fear and Warning Signs, Nettie Horn, London, UK

 2009
-Happily Ever After, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, USA
-Another Day With My Family, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria
-Family, WAM Studio, Wäinö Aalto Museum, Turku, Finland
-All We Have is Love, State of Affairs, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-About Domestic Paranoya…, Galerie Anton Weller &Isabelle Suret, Paris, France
-Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
-Another Day With My Family, Gallery Go North, Beacon NY, USA
-Happy End (with Anne Bregeaut), Gallery Nettie Horn, London, UK

 2008
-Kicsiny Balàzs & Marko Mäetamm, Gallery of Hungarian Institute, Tallinn, Estonia

 2007
-Distilled Love, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-From There to Here, Nosbaum&Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
-Loser`s Paradise, Estonian Pavilion at 52. International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

 2006
-Artists' Studio, London, UK

2005
-The End (with Kaido Ole), Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Big Project (with Kaido Ole), Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
-Memorial Show Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2004
-Speaking Houses, kArton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
-Contemporary Art Centre Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
-Blood Olympics, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Over the Mercury River, Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia

2003
-Design Jet 5000 (with Kaido Ole), Gallery Viviann Napp, Tallinn, Estonia
-Marko und Kaido by John Smith (with Kaido Ole), Estonian Pavilion at 50. International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
-Feelings, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-John Smith. Marko und Kaido (with Kaido Ole), Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

2002
-X Mistakes Y for Z (with Lucy Harrison and Pete Nevin), Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
-John Smith. The world of Gods (with Kaido Ole), The Gallery of Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

2001
-Amentia, Gallery Platan, Budapest, Hungary

2000
-Me Supernatural, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

1999
-The Chemistry of Being, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia; Estonian Embassy in Riga, Latvia

1997
-Exhibition of UNDP annual award, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Human Life, Obu Gallery, Tartu, Estonia

1996
-Eternal Things, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

1995
-Surprise, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Car World, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

1994
-24 h, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

1993
-Stories of Jesus, Culture Hall of East Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

 1992
-Subjective Pop (with Hannes Starkopf), Sammas Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Gentle Shapes, Pikk 7 Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Print exhibition, City Library, Kotka, Finland

Selected group exhibitions and projects

2018
- Comics Form and Coming From, curated by Karim Tall, Odile Ouizeman Gallery, Paris, France
- Floating World, Curated by IKON Gallery, The Ruya Shop, Baghdad, Iraq  

2017
- Performa 17 Biennal, Estonian Film Program, New York City, USA
- Treviso Comic Book Festival, Treviso, Italy
- Summer of Love, curated by Katerina Gregos, Art Space Pythagorion, Greece
- Doublethink: Doublevision, Curator Alistair Hicks, Group show in Pera Museum, Istambul, Turkey
- Art Bahrain Across Borders (ArtBAB 2017) VIP Programme - Bahrain. March 21
- Hall Tsoon/Gray Zone, curated by Mari Laaniste, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

2016
- Cyclone-3, curated by Mari Krappala, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland

2015
- Ruum minu ümber - kodune interjöör kunstis. The Space Around Me - Domestic interior in art, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

2014
- 1 in 3, a multi-disciplinary art exhibition on gender-based violence (GBV) organized by the World Bank Art Program and its partners, World Bank Main Complex, Washington DC, USA
- FAX, traveling exhibition curated by guest curator Joao Ribas, in collaboration with KARST and co.organised by The Drawing Center, and Independent Curators International (ICI) New York, USA
- Cyclone, curated by Mari Krappala, Listasafn Arnesinga Museum, Iceland
- Side Effects II, curated by Laura Kuusk and Pascal Rion, Ancien Musee de Peinture, Grenoble, France
- Õudsed lood, curated by Anneli Porri, Haapsalu City Gallery, Estonia

2013
- Modern Families. Relatives and Relationships in Art, curated by Chris Clarke and Matt Packer, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- The XI Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art “Kaliningrad-Koenigsberg 2013”, Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
- “Merry Melancholy”, Nordic Art Station – Word, Art, Sound, curated by Lars-Erik Wahlberg, Eskilstuna Museum of Art, Eskilstuna, Sweden
- Kõrvalnähud/Side Effects, curated by Laura Kuusk and Pascale Riou, Contemporary Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
- Witnessing the Wilderness, curated by Ian Brown and Geraint Evans, Wimbledon Art Space, London, UK

2012
-Festival Mundial de Cine Extremo “San Sebastian de Veracruz”, Mexico
-Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Contemporary Easten European Artists` Reflections on Social
Transformation, curated by Eve Kask, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Liquidation of Art Academies, III International Print Festival in Tartu, curated by Al Paldrok and Peeter Allik, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia

 2011
-Liberté/Vabadus 2011, curated by Kaia Kiik, Asniéres castle, Paris, France
-Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Contemporary Easten European Artists` Reflections on Social
Transformation, curated by Eve Kask and Zhivka Haskiya, Londonprintstudio, London, UK
-Tumedus, Tume / Darkness, Dark, Contemporary Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
-Sie irren sich!, curated by Jana Müller, mauren Gallery, Frankfurt/Main, Germany;
-A Rendevouz In Berlin, 91mQ art project space, Berlin, Germany
-Gothenburg International Film Festival 2011, Gothenburg, Denmark
-Art of Estonia, Provocations and Confrontations, An Insight into Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by
Eha Komissarov, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

2010
-Kunst Macht Frei, Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by Reet Varblane, Gallery
of the Museum of Pècs, Pècs, Hungary
-Confrontations and Provocations, An Insight into Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by
Eha Komissarov, Museum of Contemporary art, Dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland
-Kättemaks/Revenge, curated by Kirke Kangro, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-La Main Numérique, curated by Dominique Païni, National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan
-The Collective, Nettie Horn, London, UK
-XIII Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA
-Take Care - Politics of Emancipation, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
-We Are Fine, Gallery Artdepoo, Tallinn, Estonia
-Olemise paine. 21. sajandi kunsti Tartu Kunstimuuseumi kogust, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

2009
-La Main Numeriqué, curated by Dominique Païni, Maison d´art Bernard Anthonioz,
Norgent-sur-Marne, France
-That`s all folks! curated by Michel Dewilde and Jerome Jacobs, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
-Home Sweet Home, Gallery Arts.I, Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi, India
-Heroes of Our Time, Art Festival Cesis`09, Latvia
-Mosstoo. Gathering, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt,
Berlin, Germany
-Ligne a ligne/Garis ke garis, curated by Michel Nuridsany, Galerie Nationale d`Indonésie, CCF Jakarta
-XII Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA
-locws international 4, Swansea, UK
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
-Hors Pistes 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
-Saison Video 2009 #3, I CIA/SEAL, A Look At New Art in Estonia and Lithuania, curated by Mo Gourmelon, www.saisonvideo.com
-Floromaania/Floromania, KuMu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-Autoportreed, Poosid ja diagnoosid/Self-Portraits, Poses and Diagnoses, KuMu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-Suburbian Beauty, curated by Neringa Cerniauskaite, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
-Home Sweet Home, curated by Ombretta Argó Andruff, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, NYC, USA
-Elu 69. Erootika Eesti kaasaegses kunstis/Life 69. Erotics in Estonian contemporary art, Rakvere Exhibition House, Rakvere, Estonia

2008
-Dessins etc…, Galerie Anton Weller &Isabelle Suret, Paris, France
-Paradise Is Not Lost, curated by Eha Komissarov & KuMu, Gallery Zurab Tsereteli, Moscow, Russia
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
-Elephant Bullet, International Video Art Project in KuMu, KuMu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-Flixation, Underground Film Club From London, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
-Helsinki Biennale 2008, Helsinki, Finland
-Bad Joke, curated by Johannes Saar, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
-Familienangelegenheiten, curated by Elke Falat, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Galerie im Kehrwiederturm, Hildesheim, Germany
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt,
Berlin, Germany
-Borderlives. Contemporary Art from Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, curated by Ritva Röminger-Czako and Andreas Vowinckel, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
-La Main Numeriqué, curated by Dominique Païni, Ecole d´art de la Communauté de l´agglomération d´Annecy, Annecy, France
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
-Piiririik/Border State, Exhibition of the Tallinn Art Hall at the Guangzhou Art Academy Art Museum, curated by Reet Varblane, Guangzhou, China
-Who Cares? Coleman Project Space, London, UK
-Borderlives. Contemporary Art from Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, curated by Ritva Röminger-Czako and Andreas Vowinckel, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
-Biennale Cuvèe 08, OK Center, Linz, Austria
-Vabaduse Väljak, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Parim sõber, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2007
-Bad Joke, curated by Johannes Saar, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France
-Provokatörer? KonstBio, Biografen Sture, Stockholm, Sweden
-Warsaw does not exist, exhibition as a book, curated by Sebastian Cichocki, 2007
-Still Here: humour in post-communist performance video, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
-Political&Poetical, 14th Tallinn Print Triennial, KuMu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-Baltic States, part III, Contemporary Art From Estonia, curated by Martin Schibli, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
-Innocence and Despair, g39, Cardiff, Wales
-Ich was here, Galerii Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
-Priroda i društvo/Parallel Lines, curated by Silva Kalčić and Robin Mason, Muzej Rupe (Dubrovacki muzeji), Dubrovnik, Croatia
-We like it a lot, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, UK
-Swan, Pike and Cancer, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-anger_aggression, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria
-Another Roadside Attraction, The Griffin Pub, London, UK
-Pomo Sapiens: See on tõesti midagi, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Flixation, The Miller of Mansfield, London, UK
-Exploding Cinema, The Half Moon, London, UK
-Dialogues, 13 Vilnius Painting Triennial, Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

2006
-Violence and Propaganda, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Fiktive Bauten und Städte in der Literatur, Architekturmuseum TU München, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany
-Pain In The Class! 12th International Pärnu Video- and Film Festival 2006. Pärnu, Estonia
-Cannibal Ferox, T1+2 Gallery, London, UK
-Collected Crises, Estonian Art in the 1990s. KuMu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-Flowers of Evil, 6th Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists�Association. Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Wake Up! Rauma biennale Balticum 2006. Rauma Art Museum, Finland
-Geld spielt keine Rolle, No Budged Video/Film Festival. Weimar, Germany
-Videoart From The Baltics Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
-Emergency Biennale, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Tähendusterikas linn, Tartu Art Hall, Tartu, Estonia
-Two Close Ones, 4th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial. Estonian Museum of applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
-Shiftscale - Sculpture at the Extended Field KuMu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2005
-The 6th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennale HABITAT, curated by Magdalena Lewoc and Marlena Chybowska-Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland
-Blur of The Otherwordly, Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, USA
-Reading in Absence, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
-Message, The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
-Tallinn-Kotka, 12 artists from Tallinn in Kotka. Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland
-Thrust, 26th International Biennial of Graphic Art. Ljubljana, Slovenia
-Pyyteetön Rakkaus/ Undemanding Love, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
-No Painting, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Island Art Film & Video Festival '05, Prenelle Gallery, London, UK
-ON25 Artstar Project, Luxemburg
-Hääled/Voices, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia

2004
-Home Sweet Home, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
-Here, But Not Now, Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
-EU-Positive, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
-13th Tallinn Print Triennial, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
-Mak Nite special Europa Jetzt, Mak, Vienna, Austria
-Salt of Life, Contemporary art from The Baltic States, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

2003
-2nd Biennial in Painting, Väsby Konsthall, Sweden

2002
-Printmaking in Europe: Trends and Perspectives, Art Gallery of the Municipality of Neapoli, Greece
-Cinematheque Vivante, The City Gallery of Pärnu, Estonia
-About Belief, South London Gallery, London, UK
-Closing the Distance, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland

2001
-ARS01, Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2000
-Grosse Kunst Ausstellung Düsseldorf NRW, Germany
-10 Paar, The Castle of Kuressaare, Estonia; Kuurne, Belgium
-Painterly Issues, Vilnius Painting Triennial. Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
1999
-23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1998
-Kaliningrad--Königsberg '98, International Print Triennial, Russia
-Estonian Art in Denmark, Randers Art Museum, Denmark
-11th Tallinn Print Triennial, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia

1996
-Estonia as a Sign, 4th Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia; Tallinn, Tartu, Estonia
-ArtGenda, Exhibition of young artists from Baltic Sea region, Oksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995
-Wait We're Loading, Group exhibition of Estonian artists. Gothenburg Art Museum, Sweden
-10th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Self-Portrait, Group exhibition of Estonian artists. Moscow Gallery, Moscow, Russia
-Misfits, 6th Triennial of Young Baltic Art. Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

Publications

- Tales of Messenger, Paranoia Publishing, 2017
- The Alphabet of Lies, Lugemik, 2014
- Mäetamm, M. Perekonnalood ja igasugused teised lood …ja mõned tööd aastatest 2006 kuni 2013 / Family Stories and Many  Other Stories …and some works from 2006 to 2013
- Painting and Waiting, Lugemik, Tallinn 2013
- Our Daddy Is A Hunter, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn 2012
- Mäetamm, M. marko mäetamm (second edition), Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn 2007
- Mäetamm, M. marko mäetamm, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn 2006
- Mäetamm, M./Mänd, L. Rääkivad majad Speaking Houses, R/I/B/O/P, Tallinn 2003
-Mäetamm, M. marko mäetamm (second edition), Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn 2007
-Mäetamm, M. marko mäetamm, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn 2006
-Mäetamm, M./Mänd, L. Rääkivad majad Speaking Houses, R/I/B/O/P, Tallinn 2003

Artist in residency

2017
- One month Artist Residency in COTTON FACTORY, Hamilton, Canada 
- 2 weeks, Leighton Artist's Colony in BANFF, Centre For Arts and Creativity, Canada

2016
- 4 months Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence'16, Colgate University, NY, USA

2014
- 6 weeks, The Fountainhead Residence, Miami, USA

2013
- 1 month, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy

2011
- 3 months, Ville De Paris, Residences Internationales aux Recollets,
Paris, France, Lauréat du programme de résidences internationales Ville de Paris /
Institut francēais aux Récollets

2010
- 1 month, Point B Worklodge, Brooklyn NYC, USA 

2011
- 3 months artist-in-residence at Ville De Paris, Residences Internationales aux Recollets, Paris, France, Lauréat du programme de résidences internationales Ville de Paris /Institut francēais aux Récollets

Awards

2012
- Nominated to KÖLER PRIZE 2012
- Grand Prix award of the best audiovisual art work at Waterpieces#12, international contemporary and video art festival, NOASS, Riga, Latvia

2011
- Annual Award 2011 of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia

2010
- State Culture Prize

2009
- Baltic Assembly Prize for the Arts

2008
- Estonian State Decoration, The Order of the White Star, V class

2004
- City Prize of 13th Tallinn Print Triennial

2003
- Sadolin Art Award, Estonia
- Hansapank Art Award, Estonia

2002
- Annual Award 2002 of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
- Painting Prize of the Estonian Painters' Association

2000
- Kristjan Raud Annual Award, Estonia
- Harpoon. Annual art award of Vaal Gallery, Estonia

1997
- UNDP Annual Award

Catalogues and selected bibliography

- I Want To Tell You Something, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. 2016
- Side Effects, Le Syndrome de Stendhal, Museum of Museum, 2014
- Modern Families, Relatives and Relationships in Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, 2013
- Witnessing the Wilderness, Camberwell Press, 2013
- KÕRVALNÄHUD / SIDE EFFECTS, EKKM, 2013
- Merry Melancholy, Eskilstuna Art Museum, 2013
- Marko Mäetamm, Once Upon A Time, Centar savremene umjetnosti Crne Gore, 2012
- Naapurit/Neighbours, Jyväskylä Art Museum, 2012
- Vaikne Revolutsioon/Silent Revolution, Tallinn Art Hall, 2012
- Memoirs From A Cold Utopia, Contemoprary Easten European Artists`Reflections on Social Transformation, Londonprintstudio, 2011
- Koraci, Narodna biblioteka “Vuk Karacih”, Kragujevac, 2011
- SAISON VIDEO 2011 #34, Lille, France 2009
- Kunst macht frei, Janus Pannonius Muzeum, Muzeum Galeria, 2010
- International Experimental Engraving Biennial, IEEB 4, The “Brancovan Palaces” Cultural Center, Mogosoaia, 2010
- La main numérique, une proposition de Dominique Païni, Maison d´art Bernard Anthonioz, Norgent-sur-Marne, France 2009
- DER KRANKE HASE//VERRÜCKT NACH LINZ, THE ILL RABBIT//CRAZY ABOUT LINZ, KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, Linz 2009
- LIGNE A LIGNE/GARIS KE GARIS, Galerie Nationale d`Indonésie, CCF Jakarta, 1009
- ART ACROSS THE CITY, Swansea 2009
- BEYOND ARCHITECTURE, Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities, gestalten ,Berlin 2009
- SAISON VIDEO 2009 #33, Lille, France 2009
- Salembier, M. Marko Mäetamm, DITS, MAC`s Grand-Hornu, Musée des Arts
Contemporains de la Communauté francaise de Belgique 2008
- Kursi XX, Tartu 2008
- Paradise Is Not Lost, KUMU, Tallinn 2008
- One in the Other, g39, Cardiff, Wales 2008
- Biennale Cuvée, OK Center For Contemporary Art Upper Austria, Linz 2008
- la main numérique, ecole d´art de la Communauté de l´agglomération d´Annecy, 2008
- HOBUSEPEA GALERII/HOBUSEPEA GALLERY, Estonian Artists´ Association, 2008
- BORDERLIVES Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Helsinki St. Petersburg und Tallinn, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DUMONT 2008
- PIIRIRIIK/BORDER STATE, Tallinn Art Hall 2008
- I LOVE MY FAMILY/ LOSER`S PARADISE, Estonian Pavilion at 52. International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn 2007
- POLITICAL/POETICAL 14th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn 2007
- Nature and Society // Parallel Lines, Ethnographic Museum (Rupe), Dubrovnik, Croatia 2007
- Architektur wie sie im Buche steht. Fiktive Bauten und Städte in der Literatur. Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München, München 2007
- HABITAT, Museum Narodowe w Szczecinie 9.12.2005-29.01.2006, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland 2006
- TEHNOBIA. DIVERSE UNIVERSE II. KURJA LILLED, 6th Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists' Association, Tallinn 2006
- VIDEOART FROM THE BALTIC SCENE: ESTLAND, LETTLAND, LITAUEN, Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2006
- BLUR OF THE OTHERWORDLY, Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal. Issues in Cultural Theory Book Series. Center for Art and Visual Culture, University Of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 2006
- Hermann, E. MÄETAMME KAKS LÜHIST, (http://eik.struktuur.ee/maetamm/, 2006)
- Mäetamm, M. TÄHENDUSTERIKAS LINN, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu 2006
-WAKE UP! Rauma biennale Balticum. Rauma Art Museum, Finland 2006
- SHIFTSCALE - SCULPTURE AT THE EXTENDED FIELD, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn 2006
- Krese, S. ARTSTARS, Luxemburg 2005
- Lazar, E. READING IN ABSENCE, Trafó Gallery, Budapest 2005
- Mäetamm, M. 1965-2005. GUIDO JA SIGNE SAMMELSELJA KUNSTIKOLLEKTSIOONIST, Tallinn 2005
- Mäetamm, M. KODU, KALLIS KODU, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn 2005
- Mäetamm, M. VAAL 1990/2005, Tallinn 2005
- Härm, A. NO PAINTING, Tallinn Art Hall Foundation, Tallinn 2005
- Taidre, E. KAIDO OLE. MARKO MÄETAMM. JOHN SMITH. OMAMÜTOLOOGIA JA MÜTOLOGISEERIMINE KAASAEGSES KUNSTIS. Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn 2005 (manuscript of a diploma thesis)
- XIII TALLINN PRINT TRIENNIAL, Tallinn 2004
- Kotov, K. MARKO MÄETAMME "KUJUTISTE GRAMMATIKA", THE "VISUAL GRAMMAR" OF MARKO MÄETAMM, Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi, Studies of Art and Architecture 2004/1(13). Tallinn 2004
- Soans, H. ESTONIAN ART. 101 WORKS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ART MUSEUM OF ESTONIA, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn 2004
- Allas, A. HERE, BUT NOT NOW, Kaunas 2004
- SALT OF LIFE, Contemporary Art from the Baltic States. Vilnius 2004
- MARKO UND KAIDO BY JOHN SMITH, 50th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn 2003
- Kivland, S. X MISTAKES Y FOR Z, Tallinn 2002
- Helme, S. CLOSING THE DISTANCE, Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk. 2002
- Lõugas, A. PRINTMAKING IN EUROPE: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES, Thessaloniki 2002
- EXPERIMENTS & CLASSIC, 8th Pärnu Fideo & Vilmifestival. Pärnu 2002
- ESTONIAN GRAPHIC ARTS, Association of Estonian Printmakers. Tallinn 2001
- Luhta, P. ARS 01, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki 2001
- FIRST INTERNATIONAL DRAWING COMPETITION WROCLAW 1999/2000, Wroclaw 2000
- 10 PAAR, Kunst uit Estland en Vlaanderen, Tallinn 2000
- Grigoraviciene, E. Tapybiśka. PAINTERLY, XI Vilnius Painting Triennial. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 2000
- Saar, J. EESTI KUNSTNIKUD 2, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn 2000
- Helme, S. GROSSE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG NRW DÜSSELDORF, Düsseldorf 2000
- Helme, S., Kangilaski, J. LÜHIKE EESTI KUNSTI AJALUGU, Tallinn 1999
- KINETHIC ART, E-Media Center, Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn 1999
- Komissarov, E. 23. INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ART, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana 1999
- XI TALLINN PRINT TRIENNIAL, Tallinn 1998
- ESTONIA AS A SIGN, The 4th Annual Exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn 1996
- ARTGENDA '96, Nordic Council of Ministers. Copenhagen 1996
- MISFITS, 6th Triennial of Young Baltic Arts. The Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius. Vilnius 1995
- WAIT WE'RE LOADING, Göteborg Art Museum. Göteborg 1995
- Saar, J. SELF PORTRAIT, Moscow 1995
- X TALLINN GRAPHIC TRIENNIAL, Association of Estonian Printmakers, Tallinn 1995
- 3RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MINIPRINT EXHIBITION, Juniper Gallery, Napa Art Center, California 1993
- ART CONTACT, Professionalno-Tvortšeski Sojuz Hudožnikov I Grafikov, St. Petersburg 1992
- ART EXHIBITION FROM THE BALTIC COUNTRIES, Almnas Södertälje, Sweden 1992

Selected Magazines

- Lowe, R. Short Messages From Life, CCQ, A Creative Conversation, Cardiff, UK, 2016
- Aunapuu, A. How To Visualise A Narrative?, Life In Estonia, Spring 2014
- Kivimaa, K. Mõistatades Mäetamme, Vikerkaar 1/2014
- Mäetamm, M. A Story of A Man Who is Living in The Woods, Paesaggio, Blauer Hase, 2013
- Mäetamm, M. Visual Storytelling, Naturegraffix, Graphic Stories on Topic of Ecology, Vol.2, Graafilise Loojutustamise selts, 2013
- Kosmala, K. Imagining Masculinities, Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture, Routledge, 2013
- Tsäro, K. Mees, kes sööb oma mürgipajast, Kroonika, 9.08.2013
- Karro, K. Seitse kuud tööd, kümme päeva näitust, Eesti Ekspress, Areen, 4.04.2013
- Albano, C. Fear And Art in The Contemporary World, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2012
- Labowicz-Dymanus, K. The National Representation Beauty Contest, Estonian Art 1/2000
- Laansoo, K. Marko Mäetamm Ameerikat “lausvallutamas”. Marko Mäetamm double-conquering America, kunst.ee 2009/1-2
- Liivak, A. Marko Mäetamm kertoo pieniä julmia tarinoita, taide 3/2008
- Albano, C. Uncanny: A Dimension in Contemporary Art, Peur II/Fear II 62, ESSE
- 10 questions by Andres Tolts to Marko Mäetamm, Estonian Art 1/2000
- Epner, E. Ühest verisest traumast. About a bloody trauma, kunst.ee 2/2004
- Harrison, L., Mäetamm, M., Nevin, P., Kivland, S. x mistakes y for z, Vikerkaar 1-2/2003
- Herkül, K. Autod, konservid, kunst, Eesti Ekspress, TV-nädal. 03.02.1995
- Härm, A. Start kontseptuaalsesse skisomaailma, Vikerkaar 4-5/2003
- Hübl, M. Estland: John Smith (Marko Mäetamm und Kaido Ole) Kunstforum International, Bd. 166 August-October 2003
- Kivimaa, K. Kolm raamistikku Mäetamme unenäole. Three frameworks to Mäetamm`s dream, kunst.ee 3/07
- Kivimaa, K. Kunstniku elu, Pluss üks 3/1994
- Mäetamm, M. Graafikast ja mittegraafikast kunst.ee 4/2001
- Mäetamm, M. Jumal, Kurat ja Marko Mäetamm, Vikerkaar 4/2000
- Mäetamm, M. Part. A Duck, Kirst. The Casket, Surm kämpingus. Death in the Camping, Imeilus valge surm purjetab üle Elavhõbeda jõe. Splendid White Death Sailing Over the Mercurial River, kunst.ee 1/2005
- Mäetamm, M., Pia Fraus, Siib, L. Blood Olympics, Estonian Art 1/2004
- Randviir, A. Artivity in Human Action: From Artist to Rocket, Estonian Art 1/2003
- Riigikogu Toimetised 15/2007
- Saar, J. Marko kutsub kunstnikke enesega sööma, Vikerkaar 8/1993
- Saar, J. Ja päästa meid ära vägivallast ja propagandast…, Vikerkaar 6/2006
- Sobolev, M. Pauk pähe, Noorus 12/1993
- Taidre, E. John Smithi fenomen kui omamütoloogia ja kunstimeetod, kunst.ee 3/2005
- Taidre, E. Kaido Ole, Marko Mäetamm and John Smith, kunst.ee 3/2005
- The International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya 1994
- Volt, M. What has John Smith got to do with the Aesthetic? Estonian Art 1/2003
- Vägivald ja propaganda Emergency Biennale, kunst.ee 2/2006