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Peeter Laurits
| since 1979 |
Art studies with private teachers |
| 1981–1991 |
independent studies in Tartu and Leningrad State Universities, Estonian Humanitarian Institute and libraries - the history of culture and semiotics |
| 1982–1983 |
Tallinn's 2nd technical School – photography |
| 1991–1992 |
International Center of Photography of New-York – photography |
| 1984–1987 |
Harju Elekter, photographer and advertismet designer |
| 1987 –1991 |
Estonian Drama Theatre, photographer |
| 1992–1996 |
DeStudio - on of art directors |
| since 1997 |
founder and director of K�tioru Atelier, freelance artist and Estonian Artist Union member |
solo exhibitions
| 2010 |
“Trickster's Office”, ArtDepoo Gallery Tallinn |
| 2008 |
“��v@veetlus” (with Herkki Erich Merila), Vaal Gallery Tallinn |
| 2007 |
“Minu kodu” V�ru City Gallery
“Laste Maailm / Viies aastaaeg”, Laste Maailma Gallery, Tallinn; P䲮u New Art Museum |
| 2006 |
“Lopéz & Laurits” (with Marcos Lopéz), Tallinn Art Hall |
| 2005 |
"Old Labyrinth" ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn
"In the shadow of masterpieces" (with Laurentsius) Art Museum of Kadriorg, Tallinn
"Floating Labyrinth" (with Katz) SEB ܨispank Gallery, Tallinn
"Floating Labyrinth" (with Katz) Pavlov Medialab, Groningen, Holland
"The Flood", P䲮u Museum of New Art, P䲮u |
| 2004 |
"Eating with warms " (with Ain M䥯ts) Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin
"The Flood", Ancien Preche, Pontorson, France
"Eating with warms " (with Ain M䥯ts) Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, P䲮u Museum of New Art, House of artists in Tartu, Viljandi City Gallery, Haapsalu City Gallery, Museum of V�ru
"Eating with warms " (with Ain M䥯ts) The Ragged School Gallery, London |
| 2003 |
"Eating with warms ", (with Ain M䥯ts) Helsinki Botanic Garden, Finland
"Pietá ja Sky Atlas", P䲮u City Gallery |
| 2002 |
The Flood/Odiluvio Museu d'Agua, Lisboa, Portugal
The Flood, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery
"Restoration of Tallinn" (with Ulvi Tiit & Madis Palm), "Tallinn" nightclub, Tartu
"The Flood", FotoFo, Pallfyhu Loss, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2001 |
Birthday of Eternity II, Estonian Bank Gallery, Tallinn
Birthday of Eternity, Estonian Bank Gallery, Tallinn |
| 2000 |
Par Avion (with Herkki Erich Merila), The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ps�hosoikum, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia |
| 1999 |
Lunaatika(with Herkki Erich Merila), P䲮u City Gallery, Estonia
Asphaltsafari Voru museum, Estonia |
| 1998 |
EE-LV (with Herkki Erich Merila), Estonian Embassy in Riga, Latvia
The Atlas of Skies 2, Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
The Atlas of Skies 1, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 1997 |
Postcards From K�tiorg, Estonian Mission at the European Union, Brussels, Belgium
The Suit of Adam (with Herkki Erich Merila), Estonian Mission at the European Union, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1996 |
Estonian Architects (with Herkki Erich Merila), Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
The Familiy of Adam (with Herkki Erich Merila), Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia |
| 1995 |
Metamorphoses (with Herkki Erich Merila), Nordic Council of Ministers Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1993 |
Diseases & Metamorphoses II (with Herkki Erich Merila), Luum Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Diseases & Metamorphoses I (with Herkki Erich Merila), Lee Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 1990 |
Concerto Grosso, Illegaard Gallery, Tartu, Estonia |
| 1988 |
Sixteen Pictures, Kiek in de K�k Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
group exhibitions
| 2010 |
"We are Fine“, ArtDepoo Gallery
"Anatomy of God“, Tartu Art Hall
„Douro Bienal Internacional de Gravura“, Portugal
„Confrontations“, Tallinn Art Hall |
| 2009 |
“Riburada. Visual Literacy“ Y Gallery, Tartu
“Musgos e Liquenes”, Galeria Santa Clara, Coimbra
“Pain and Passion”, Tartu Art Museum
“Life 69. Erotic Art” Rakvere Museum
“Floromania”, KUMU, Tallinn
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| 2008 |
“Impact”, V䬩skunsti museum, Riga
“Balti Pop”, Giedre Bartelt galerii, Berlin |
| 2007 |
“Poliitiline ja poeetiline”, Tallinn Graphic Triennal, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
“Impact 5”, Rotermanni Salt Storage, Tallinn
“Man and Woman”, P䲮u New Art Museum
“J䴫usuutlikkuse kunst”, Abbekas Gallery, Abbekas & Lund, Sweden
“Keskkonnaarheoloogia” Retretti Museum, Finland
“Collected Crises II”, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn |
| 2006 |
“Documenta 12” Magazine project
“Homo Grandis Natu”, Venemaa Humanitaarinstituut, Moskva
“Collected Crises I”, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn |
| 2005 |
"Baltic Photo Trienniale ", Tammsaare Museum, Tallinn
"18 rooms", apartment exhibitions tape , Sakala 9, Tallinn
"Kunst in der Karlsh�tte" festival, Germany, Frankfurt Artfair
"Neue Horizonte entdecken", Weltkulturerbe Zollverein, Schacht XII, Halle 5, Essen
"1965-2005. Pictures from Sammelselg collection ", Vaal gallery, Tallinn
"Homo Grandis Natu", Tallinn Art Hall
"CDH-2005" Spring Salon, Central House of Artists, Moskva
"Identities", Tallinn Art Hall
"1001 Reasons to Love the Earth", Leeuwenbergh's Center, Utrecht, Holland |
| 2004 |
"Ecology and Art", Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Quand L'Art Change la Baie", Normandie festival, France
"First Assembly", The Ragged School Gallery, London |
| 2003 |
"1001 reasons to Love Earth", Seoul, South Korea
"Green wave", Tallinn Art Hall
"XXL" Tartu Art Hall
"Arte Factum" Vilniaus Fotografijos Galeri, Lithuania
"(un)dressed Body", Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin
"Printmaking in Europe: Trends and Perspectives", Cadiz, Hispaania
"3+7+12. Dust." ܨispank gallery, Tallinn |
| 2002 |
"Capital", Estonian Museum of Art
"Printmaking in Europe: Trends and Perspectives", Thessalonica, Greece
"The Roead to Setumaa", Obinitsa, Estonia
"New Beautiful Life", Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
"Male and Female in Surrealism", P䲮u Museum of New Art
"IDNA", 7. International Festival of Ethnic Futurism, Izhevsk, Udmurtia
"The Globe is Round ", Kirik��t, �koloogilise kunsti festival, Viljandi
"Closing the Distance" Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
International Young Art 2002 ArtLink/Sothebys, Tel Aviv, New York, Amsterdam |
| 2001 |
Summer-autumn-winter-spring, Deco gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Babylon, City gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Changing Image, XII Tallinn Graphic Triennale, Estonia
Conditionally Existing. Conditionally Unexisting, XII Tallinn Graphic Triennale, Estonia
Animal Castle of Kuressaare, Estonia |
| 2000 |
Red, The White Salon of the Black Heads House, Tallinn, Estonia
Duchamp's Suitcase Arnolfini Art Center, Bristol, England
Visiting-Card, City Museum of Narva, Estonia
Estonian Photo, Mai Mano Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Artgenda, Glass-Hall, Helsinki, Finland
Ugriculture 2000, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Helsinki, Finland
AIDS in Culture, Rottermann's Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 1999 |
Diaspora, Oviedo, Spain
Erootika, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia |
| 1998 |
Out of the Shadow, North Carolina University, USA
Freedom of Choice, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
The Return of the Past - the End of Utopias, Danish Embassy in Paris, France |
| 1997 |
Artsummer, Endla Theatre, P'rnu, Estonia
The Return of the Past - the End of Utopias , Helsinki Art Hall, Finland; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Galeria Miejska, Poznan, Poland
Persona, Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn |
| 1996 |
The Return of the Past - the End of Utopias, Castle of Gottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany |
| 1995 |
Biotopy, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Factory of History, Saaremaa Biennale, Castle of Kuressaare, Estonia
Self-Portrait, Kuznechki Most Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 1994 |
Unexisting Art, Estonian Institute of history, Tallinn, Estonia
Europa-Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
Baltic Photography, Galleria Finnfoto, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1993 |
Substance-Unsubstance, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Memory of Images, Kiel, Rostock, Berlin, Germany; Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania,Gdansk, Poland; Copenhagen, Denmark
Myra, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia |
| 1992 |
Contemporary Baltic Photography, Odense Photographic Museum, Denmark
Erotica Ultima Thule, CB's 313 Gallery, New York, USA
Images From Borderlands, Saaremaa Photo Festival, Kuressaare, Estonia
Always Yours, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| 1991 |
Contemporary Soviet Photography ,Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
Photographers Estoniens, Charleroy Photographic Museum, Belgium.
Contemporary Soviet Photography, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| 1990 |
Iisalmen Camera Festival, Iisalmi, Finland
Diffraction Only-Contemporary Lensless Photographers, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerpen, Netherlands |
1989
1988 |
Confused Times, travelling exhibition in Finland.
Le Theatre Dans L'Art Photographique, Sterijino Pozorje Biennale,Yugoslavia
Baltic Photo Trienniale, A.H. Tammsaare Museum, Tallinn, Estonia |
works in collections
Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn; Estonian Photographic Museum, Tallinn; Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallinn; Fund of Tallinn Graphic Trienniale, Tallinn; Pinhole Resource, San Lorenzo, New Mexico; Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, USA; Benziger Imagery Collection, Glen Ellen Winery, California, USA; Matti Milius private collection, Tartu, Estonia; Tartu Art Museum, Estonia; Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland; Norton Dodge Collection, New York, USA
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