Artist Gallery

Born 02.06. 1975 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Since mid 90s is working mostly together with Mari Laanemets.

Since 1997 M.A. studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts
1993 –1997 studies at the graphic department at the Estonian Academy of Arts; photography and film

2004 NIFCA-Stipendium, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
1999 Nordic-Baltic Dramatic Writing and Script Writing Master Class Mare Liberum, Sigulda, Latvia
1999 member of the Valie EXPORT Society
1998 member of the Union of Artists

Solo exhibitions:

2003 “Briis”, SKC galerija, Belgrad, "YU" - Serbia
2002 “Briis”, with Mari Laanemets, City Gallery, Tallinn
2000 “Nurse with Wound”, with Mari Laanemets, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
1997 "Exhibition of Healing pictures", with Marko Laimre and Andrus Kõresaar; Art Gallery of Narva
City-Museum, Estonia
1997 "Objects of Cult", Peri Photographic Centre of Turku, Finland
1997 "Objects of Cult", Water Tower in Tallinn, Estonia

Selected festivals and Group exhibitions:

2004 Faster than history, Kiasma, Finland
2004 New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
2004 50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, “Jätke võtmed…”, Oberhausen, Germany
2004 The Cuirt Literature festival, Galway, Ireland
2004 Salt of Life, "Vartai" Gallery , Lithuania

2003 Borderlining, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
2003 Es Ist Schwer das Reale zu Berühren, Kunstverein München, Germany
2003 Art Moscow, 6th International Art Fair, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia

2002 “get out! an exhibition on the subject of going away”, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2002 Breath, Recent Video Art from Estonia, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest, Hungaria
2002 Closing the Distance, Center for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland
2002 transmediale.02 [go public!], the 15. international media art festival in Berlin, Germany
2002 48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, “Route 66”, Oberhausen, Germany
2002 Cine´mathe`que Vivante, “Route 66”, Pärnu, Estonia

2001 Videonale 9, video “The Cure”/”Ravi”, Bonn, Germany
2001 Impakt, video “The Cure”, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2001 47th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, “Nylonmoon”, Oberhausen, Germany
2001 Multivideo, Media Forum Festival (XXIII Moscow Intern. Film Fest.), “Nylonmoon”, Moscow, Russia
2001 6th International Festival of New Film, “Nylonmoon”, Split, Croatia
2001 "Too Close, Too Distant", “Nylonmoon”, Riga, Latvia
2001 "Nyyd Estonian Malady", “The Cure”, “Nylonmoon”, Ze dos Bois gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2000 Analog TV, broadcast "When the stories go around"/"Kun iltana tarinat pyörii" 20 min.
(with Mari Laanemets), ArtGenda, Helsingi
2000 Videomedeija, video "Lucy", Novi Sad Art Center, Yugoslavia

1999 "Vilm and Fideo Festival", video "The Cure", Pärnu, Estonia
1999 "Constructed-id", video "The Cure", Tartu, Estonia
1999 Women's Worlds ‘99 filmprogram, video "She Behaves", Tromsö, Norway
1999 "West-Ostlicher Diwan", J. W. Goethe University, video “Melba”, Frankfurt, Germany
1999 "N. E. W. S. ", video “The Cure”/”Ravi”, Pomenian Princescastle, Szczecin, Poland

1998 Pärnu Filmfestival, video "She Behaves" with Mari Laanemets, Pärnu, Estonia
1998 "OUT", [mobil]gallery, video "She Behaves", Tallinna city space
1998 "Metadialog", video "She Behaves", A. H. Tammsaare Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 "French-baltic-nordic video and new media festival", "offline@online", Tallinn, Estonia

1997 "Archaeology of Dreams", Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
1997 "Invasion", Saaremaa Biennaal 1997, Kuressaare, Estonia

1996 "Stocktaking in the Museum of Aesthetics", "Twelve aesthetics", slide-installation,
Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 "Archaeology of Dreams", Panevezys Art Hall, Lithuania
1996 "OUT":30.02.96 [mobil]gallery, Tallinn city space
1996 "Carnival", Ajaloo Instituudi Gallery and [mobil]gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 "A Game", Viljandi Artfestival "Kiriküüt" 96’ [mobil]gallery, Viljandi, Estonia
1996 "Inner Circle", Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Curatorial work:

1999 “The Mad Hatters Tea-party”, woman’s videoprogram for the video and new media festival,
offline@online, "Media Non Grata", (with Mari Laanemets), Tallinn, Estonia

Bibliography (catalogues & magazines)

Frieze, magazine, 2004
Faster than history, Kiasma, Finland, catalogue 2004
Borderlining, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, catalogue 2004
The Cuirt Literature festival, Galway, Ireland, catalogue 2004
Salt of Life, "Vartai" Gallery , Lithuania, catalogue 2004
2I minutes, Art Moscow, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003
http://www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/?dir=01_programm_programme%2Fvideoscreenings%2Flaanemets_%26_sukmit+&strShowFile=en_info.kvm
“Get Out! An Exhibition on the Subject of Going Away”, Springerin, April-May 2002
Breath, Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002
Closing the Distance, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Tallinn, 2002
Get out! An Exhibitoin on the Subject of Going Away, germinations europe, 2002
48. Internationale Kurzfilmtage/International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Festivalkatalog 2002
transmediale.02 [go public!], the 15. international media art festival in Berlin, catalogue 2002, Germany
“Ene-Liis Semper asks 10 questions from Killu Sukmit and Mari Laanemets”, interview, Estonian Art No. 2/2001, magazine
http://www.einst.ee/Ea/persona/killumari.html
Nosy Nineties. Problems, Themes and Meanings in Estonian Art on 1990s, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, 2001
“The X-Films”, Artchronika, Nr 4-5 / 2001, magazine
Videonale 9, Bonn, Germany, 2001
47. Internationale Kurzfilmtage/International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Festivalkatalog 2001
The International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia, 2001
Media Forum of the XXIII Moscow Intern. Film Festivalt, Festivalkatalog 2001
Impakt festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2001
“Art is everywhere”, Stiil, december 2000, magazine
offline@online, Catalogue of French-baltic-nordic video and new media festival`98, Tallinn, Estonia, 1998
Invasion, Catalogue of Saaremaa Biennial'97, Tallinn, Estonia, 1997

Awards:

2001 The WDR-Award in Videonale 9 in Bonn for video "The Cure" (with Mari Laanemets)
2001 Annual prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (with Mari Laanemets)

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