Merike Estna (born in Estonia 1980) lives and works in London. She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in painting and from the Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2009 with the Master’s degree in art practice.
2016
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| solo | |
| DOMESTICMINDCRAFT, Karen Huber gallery, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| 30/01 to 14/03 | |
| El Cuarto de los Ojos Sucios, performance, Biquini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| 20/01 | |
| teaching | |
| Estonian Art Academy, Painting Department |
2015
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| solo | |
| Corporate Jungle, Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 04/09 to 31/10 | |
| Genialmythcraft, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| 21/08 to 21/09 | |
| Better become blowing backbeat blanket, Billboard and installation of books, X Marks the Bokship, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK | |
| 13/09 to 13/10 | |
| group | |
| Eat my painting please and Jackets/Paintings, 2 Performances, Art Social, curated by Paula López Zambrano, House of Saint Barnabas, London, UK | |
| 21/09 to 27/09 | |
| Peer Review, group show, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, UK | |
| 07/10 to 07/11 | |
| I'm out of sync, but next time I'll do better I promise, Installation, Cesis Art Festival, Cesis, Latvia | |
| 03/06 to 08/08 | |
| teaching | |
| Estonian Art Academy, Interior Architecture department | |
| public art commission | |
| Public art for Tallinn Technical University Kuressaare College ship construction comperence centre’s testing pool and laboratories building yard, Kuressaare, Estonia |
2014
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| solo | |
| Blue Lagoon, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 26/06 to 02/12 | |
| So Soft/+ Pure, artist in residence and event at SmallProjects, invited by Tanya Busse, Tromso, Norway | |
| 11/02 to 11/03 | |
| group | |
| Installation at Nada, Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Miami Beach, USA | |
| 04/12 to 07/12 | |
| V/P: Video and Painting in a relationship, curated by Sergey Popov, Solyanka VPA, Moscow, Russia | |
| 06/08 to 21/09 | |
| Harder, Glorious, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, USA | |
| 07/07 to 14/09 | |
| curating | |
| I’m a Pianting, international painting exhibition co-curated with Kati Ilves, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 26/06 to 02/11 | |
| 5 pots sitting on a dream Island, Dream Island is a proposition by Merike Estna and Juste Kostikovaite to use painting as a stage. Tenderbooks, London, UK | |
| 16/10 | |
| teaching | |
| KUNO workshop, lead with Kati Ilves, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 03/10 | |
| public art commission | |
| Public art for Viljandi State High School, Viljandi, Estonia | |
| completed | |
| 01/09 | |
| prize | |
| Konrad Mäe painting prize, Estonia |
2013
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Installation at Nada, Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Miami Beach, USA | |
| 05/12 to 08/12 | |
| Artist in Residency, Paradise Lodge + group show at the Studio X, Mumbai, India | |
| 28/09 to 28/10 | |
| Everything that could fit into a suitcase, Installation, Istanbul International, Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Isntabul, Turkey | |
| 15/09 to 18/09 | |
| Spinach & Banana, solo Exhibition, Winkleman gallery, New York, United States | |
| 07/09 to 19/10 | |
| Dream Island, Semi Consumable Installation, collaboration with Juste Kostikovaite, RCA Jay Mews Hub, London, United Kingdom | |
| 26/07 | |
| Screening and artist talk, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 04/02 | |
| visiting professor at Estonian Academy of Arts, Sculpture department, invited by Kirke Kangro |
2012
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Solo project, Vartai gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| From 22/11 to 29/11 | |
| Screening, One Night Only Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| 13/11 | |
| Artist in Residency, MaloniojiAIR, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| Invited by Juste Kostikovaite | |
| From 02/11 to 30/11 | |
| Book launch, X Marks the Bökship, London, United Kingdom | |
| 01/11 | |
| Group exhibition, Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes,KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| From 19/10 to 30/12 | |
| Constructed Scenario: The Third Space, No 4 Wilkes St, E16QF, London, United Kingdom | |
| An Exhibition of new painting, sculpture and installation by Claudia Djabbari, Merike Estna and Annie Hémond Hotte in collaboration with the curators Catherine Borra and Juste Kostikovaite | |
| From 13/09 to 23/09 | |
| A big painting and a small painting,Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| From 05/04 to 19/05 |
Solo Exhibitions
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Voyeur, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| From 13/04 to 25/04 | |
| 2010 | Untitled, ArtDepoo gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| From 02/11 - 27/11 2010 | |
| 2008 | "Mirror, mirror on the wall, is it Art or is it Porn?" in collaboration with Maxim Surin, Gallery Frederic Desimpel Brussels, Belgium |
| From 06/11 - 20/12 2008 | |
| "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?" Draakoni gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| From 15/09 - 27/09 2008 | |
| 2007 | Plain as pikestaff” Haapsalu city gallery, Haapsalu, Estonia |
| From 01/08 - 26/08 2007 | |
| 2006 | "Gods zoo is diverse aka War and Peace" collaboration with Maksim Surin, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| From 28/09 - 09/10 2006 | |
| "Hate Yourself with Joy" Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| From 03/03 - 26/03 2006 | |
| 2005 | "The sexiest girl, pussycat, the happiest girl and two loverabbits" Haus gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| From 05/07 - 05/08 2005 | |
| Rabbit: "Oh, pretty boys everywhere!", Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| From 17/02 - 21/02 2005 | |
| 2004 | "Jüri and Mari adventures", Vaal gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| From 10/08 - 27/08 2004 |
Selected Participated Exhibitions
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Tides of Change, Edition 19 Baltikum, Hangart-7, Salzburg, Austria |
| Simple stories, Rakvere Exhibitions house, Rakvere, Estonia | |
| Matter of Principal, group show at Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada | |
| Videospread, Screening of video portfolio, 9 plasma screens in Europe station, Paris, France | |
| 2010 | Girl Power, ArtDepoo gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Artishok biennale, Tartu Art hause gallery, Tartu, Estonia | |
| Painting in progress, KUMU Art Museum of Estonia | |
| 2009 | MFA Final show, Goldsmiths College, London, United Kingdom |
| "group/grope" area 10 project space, London, United Kingdom | |
| "Space Oddity" exhibition of young Baltic artists at Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, France | |
| 2008 | "Elu 69" Rakvere museum, Rakvere, Estonia |
| "No Borders" Espacio Grupo Forja , Valencia, Spain | |
| "No Borders" The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Creek | |
| "Boarder Country" Exhibition of Estonian Contemporary art, Guangzhou, China | |
| "Love in 21st Century" ArtDepoo, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "No Borders" La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium | |
| "Course of intervention" Kadiköy, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| 2007 | "Consequences and Proposals" The Biennale of Young Artists, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Contemporary Art from Estonia” Baltic States, part III, Kalmar, Art Museum, Kalmar, Sweden | |
| "Keha muutmine" ArtDepoo, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "Tase", KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "Baltic mythologies", Pague biennal, Prague,Czech Republic | |
| "Open Art" Riga, Latvia | |
| "New wave" Tallinna Art Hall, Estonia | |
| "Fresh paint" , Vaal gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| 2006 | "Shoot or shout - no escape" Vilnius, Lithuania |
| "VI International Festival of Experimental Art and Performance" Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| "Flowers of evil" Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "Nordic Art", Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany | |
| "Naked" Tartu Artists house, Tartu, Estonia | |
| "Beautiful paintings" Aaspere Castle, Estonia | |
| "Kaamos 2006", Hellenurme village, Looga farm, Estonia | |
| 2005 | "Multiple", Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Estonian Academy of Art Diploma works exhibitions, Art Museum of Estonia exhibition space, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "Identities", Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia | |
| 2004 | "Home sweet home", Art Museum of Estonia exhibition space, Tallinn, Estonia |
| "Wildlife", Kastellaani house gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "In one Row", Tartu Art house, Tartu, Estonia | |
| "You ain't seen me, right?" Tallinn XIII Print triennial, Tallinn, Estonia | |
| "Bringing back the Summer", Haapsalu City Gallery, Haapsalu, Estonia | |
| "Nordic Art", Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany | |
| 2003 | "I have been in New York", Pärnu concert hall, Estonia |
| "Last Hero", Art Museum of Estonia exhibition space, Tallinn, Estonia |
