Sigrid Viir
Curriculum Vitae
Sigrid Viir
b 1979
Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia
e-mail: sigridviir@gmail.com
sigridviir.com
visiblesolutions.eu
Education
2009- Estonian Academy of Arts,photography, MA
2005- 2009 Estonian Academy of Arts,photography, BA
2007-2008 Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Media arts, Prof. Elger Esser (exchange studies)
2000-2005 Estonian Humanitarian Institute, culture theory (unfinished)
Solo exhibitions
2019 (April) False Holiday Maker, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, in dialogue with Maarin Ektermann
2016 Awful Pretty Pipe Neck, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2016 Import Export, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn (together with Jimmy Limit)
2015 Kim Wilde, While Shivering at the Bus Station and Biting into a Jam Doughnut, Hums a Tune Inspired by Passing Remarks, Picks Dust Off Her Suspenders and Together with an Egg Cell Analyses a Previous Experience with the Spirit of Tartu,Tartu Art House, Monumentalgallery, (together with Kristiina Hansen and Johannes Säre)
2015 Delta India Sierra Charlie,Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn (together with Kristiina Hansen)
2014 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky meets with Turritopsis Nutricula to admire the drifting swans and discuss the possibility of neglecting the linearity of time in the near future, Haapsalu City Gallery (together with Kristiina Hansen and Johannes Säre)
2014 Purpose of the Universe and Flickering Funnel, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2013 Sales Campagn,1. May Pop-up Gallery, Tallinn (Visible Solutions LLC)
2012 Routinecrusher, Wanderlust, Tablebear, ect, Winkelmann Gallery, New York
2012 Visible Solutions LLC, B-Gallery, Turku (Visible Solutions LLC)
2011 Sales Campagn, Monumentalgallery, Tartu, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2010 Corridor, City Gallery, Tallinn (together with Taaniel Raudsepp)
2010 Visible Solutions LLC, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn (Visible Solutions LLC)
Group exhibitions
2018 Wide Angle: Photography Out of Bounds,FotoFocus Bienale, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, curator Carissa Barnard
2018 The Archaeology of the Screene, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, curator Eha Komissarov
2018 Adventious Encounters, Whiteleys, London, curators Huma Kabakci ja Anna Skladmann
2018 Tell Me. Contemporary Portraits in Photography, FUGA, Budapest Center of Architecture, curator Anneli Porri
2017 Tell Me. Contemporary Portraits in Photography, Narva Art Gallery, curator Anneli Porri
2017 The Archaeology of the Screene: The Estonian Example, Bozar, Brussels, curator Eha Komissarov
2017 (Hyper)emotional: You, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, curator Evelyn Raudsepp
2017 Wild Flowers (wilderness is contextual!), Gallery Narrative Projects, London, curator Carlos Noronha Feio
2017 Work it, feel it,Vienna Kunsthalle, curator Anne Faucheret (Visible Solutions LLC)
2016 V Artishok Biennale, Theatre N099, Tallinn, curator Evelyn Raudsepp
2016 Pseudo, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, curator Marten Esko, (together with Kristiina Hansen)
2016 (In)visible Dreams and Streams, Nordic-Baltic Contemporary Art Exhibition, Riga and Vilnius CAC, curator Maija Rudovska
2016 7 Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, curator Niels van Tomme (Visible Solutions LLC)
2016 International Fun,Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn
2015 From Explosion to Expanse. Estonian Contemporary Photography 1991–2015, Tartu Art Museum, curator Anneli Porri
2014 Society Acts, Moderna Museet Malmö, curators Andreas Nilsson and Maija Rudovska, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2014 Survival Kit 6, Riga, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2014 Köler Prize 2014. Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (Visible Solutions LLC)
2014 Exodic, metamatic:taf, Athens, curators Angeliki Roussou and Tatiana Kallergi, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2013 Where You End, I Begin, Tartu Art House, curator Anneli Porri, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2013 Liquid Assets, Sterisher Herbst festival, Graz, curators Katerina Gregos and Luigi Fassi, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2013 Punctum, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, curators Kadri Laas and Annika Toots
2013 Romeo and Juliet, 1.Mai pop-up Gallery, Tallinn, curator Anneli Porri
2013 Come In,KUMU Art Museum, curator Renate Goldmann
2013 Romeo and Juliet, Y-Gallery, Tartu, curator Anneli Porri
2012 Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes,KUMU Art Museum, curator Eha Komissarov, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2012 Strait Look, Pop Off Art galerii, Berliin, curator Sergey Popov
2012 V=ABC, Katarsis Project Space, Tallinn, curators Madis Luik and Nele Aunap
2012 Photoville, Brooklin, New York, organized by United Photo Industries
2012 Manifesta 9, Genk, Limburg, Belgium, curatorCuauhtémoc Medina, associate curators Katerina Gregos, Dawn Ades, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2011 Generation of the Place: Image, Memory and Fiction in the Baltics, Tallinn Art Hall, curated by Vytautas Michelkevičius
2011 Köler Prize, Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2011 Museum Files I: Collected Principles,Contemporary art museum of Estonia, curated by Anders Härm, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2011 If it is Part Broke, Half Fix it, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, curated by Margit Säde Lehni
2010 Welcome to the Machine!, EKKM, Tallinn, curated by Marco Laimre
2010 Annex 6. The Politics of the Invisible Hand, ART IST KUKU NU UT, Y-Gallery, Tartu, curated by Rael Artel, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2010 Take Care, Art Festival Cesis, curated by Margit Säde Lehni, Daiga Rudzate and Virginija Januškevičiuté, (Visible Solutions LLC)
2010 Illusion of Inclusion, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius
2009 (F)akt, Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts
2009 Lendva, Art Depoo, Tallinn
2009 EKKM in Pärnu: When ätituuds become norms vm, Pärnu Art Hall, curated by Marco Laimre and Neeme Külm
2008 GoPublic: Pirates 2.0, Karlsruhe
2008 Positionsfrom the HfG, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsuhe, curated by Anna Jermolaewa
2008 OlulineMahakustuv, Y-Gallery, Tartu
2008 Sommerloch, HfG, Karlsruhe
2008 Up close and personal, Hobusepea and Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, curated by Marge Monko
2007 Something is wrong, Estonian Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn: Tartu Art House, curated by Marco Laimre
2007 Consequences and Proposals, Biennale of young artists, Tallinn, curated by Rael Artel and Anneli Porri
Projects
2018 Stage design for "Landed Promise, VII NU Performance Festival (author Kadri Noormets)"
2017 Stage design for "Promised Land", Estonia 100 project (author Kadri Noormets)
2010 Tallinn Culture Capital, 52 Ideas and Suprises, Moving Citystudio (together with Taaniel Raudsepp)
Residencies
2019 HIAP, Helsinki, Suomenlinna
2011 Residency in KUMU Art Museum(Visible Solutions LLC)
Prizes and Scholarships
2013 Annual Art Prize of Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2012 Baltic Assembly Prize for Arts (Visible Solutions LLC)
2012 Pulse Prize
2009 Wiiralt Scholarship, Estonian Ministry of Culture
2009 Young Artist Award, Faculty of Fine Arts of Estonian Academy of Arts
2007-2008 Erasmus scholarship (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe)
Books
Concise Visible Solutions, Visible Solutions, 2012
Other
2016 Art Brussels, Temnikova &Kasela Gallery (Visible Solutions LLC)
2015 Paris Photo, Temnikova &Kasela Gallery
2014 Köler Prize‘i nominee (Visible Solutions LLC)
2012 Sadolin Art Prize nominee
2012 Member of Estonian Artist'sAssociation
2012 Pulse Art Fair, New York, represented by Temnikova and Kasela Gallery
2011 Köler Prize‘i nominee
2011 Member of Estonian Unioin of Photography Artist FOKU (www.foku.ee)
Works in Collections
European Central Bank
KUMU Art Museum
The Carousel Collection
Private collections
Estonian Contemporary Art Museum (Visible Solutions LLC)
Tartu Art Museum (Visible Solutions LLC)