BIO_EST Mihkel Maripuu on kunstnik, kelle tegevust iseloomustab meediumiülene praktika. Manipuleerides heli ja pildi, mõtte ja materjaliga, kandes vaimseid väärtusi maisesse vormi. Ta on õppinud Tartu Ülikooli, filosoofia teaduskonna, Kultuuriteaduste ja kunstide instituudi, maalikunsti õppetoolis (BA) ja lõpetanud Eesti Kusntiakadeemia, vabade kunstide teaduskonna, maalikunsti osakonna (MA).
BIO_ENG Mihkel Maripuu is an artist whose practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach. Manipulating with sound and image, thought and material, carrying spiritual values into the mundane. He has studied at Tartu University's Department of Philosophy, Painting Department (BA) and graduated Estonian Academy of Art's Painting Department (MA).
CV Born in Estonia 1987 Lives and works in Tallinn
Lectorer at Estonian Academy of Arts since 2013 Member of Estonian Artists' Union since 2013 Freelance artist since 2010
EDUCATION
2014 - . . . Working as a freelance artist 2010 - 2014 Estonian Academy of Arts, Painting Department (MA) 2011 - 2012 Working on masters thesis project as a scholarship recipient in Berlin 2006 - 2010 Tartu University, Philosophy faculty, Institute of art and cultural science, Painting Department (BA)
PORTFOLIO OF EXHIBITIONS
Selection of visual art solo exhibitions 2019 "Ex Nihilo". Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2017 "Maine igatsus: leida ja kaotada / Killer Image: Shifting Modes of Desire" Duo-Solo exhibition with Laivi. Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn 2014 "#anonymous(im)possibilitiesintheinvorytower#xoxo". Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn 2014 "Color is Chaos". Nassau 42 Fine Arts Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium 2013 "My Job is Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls". Galerii008, Tallinn 2012 "Glowing Generation". Draakoni galerii, Tallinn 2012 "Spectrum of Vitamins". Berliini Eesti Suursaatkond / Estonian Embassy in Berlin 2010 "Neon Toybox", Rael Artel galerii, Tartu
Selection of sonic performances 2018 Solo audio-visual project "Liminal Phase". ARS Project Space, Tallinn. 2018 NU Performance festival. Sound design for artist Laivi's installative fashion performance "Mystifying Mundane". ARS Project Space, Tallinn. 2018 Sound design for artist Laivi Suurväli's installative fashion performance "Long Live Trashed Bodies". ARS Project Space, Tallinn. 2017 Live sound design for artist Laivi Suurväli's installative fashion performance "When I Was a Girl & Life Was Yet Ahead". ARS Project Space, Tallinn 2016 Sound design for audio-visual performance "Substraat II". (Collaboration with Hannes Aasamets and Arolin Raudva). Theatre NO99, Tallinn 2016 Sound design for artist Laivi's exhibition "Poor Girl / Too Cool". Tartu Kunstimuuseum, Tartu 2016 Tallinn Music Week. Live audio-visual performance "Imperial Shadow" under the moniker of 'Compound Minerals'. (Collaboration with Mark Kuslapuu and Hannes Aasamets). Balti Jaama Pavilion 2014 Sound design for artist Laura Põld's exhibition "The Night Your Mate Danced Like a Tree". Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn
Selection of group exhibitions 2019 "4D". ARS Project Space, Tallinn 2017 "Right Now!". Pärnu Museum of New Art 2015 "Youth Mode". Tartu Art Museum 2014 "Võimatu minna, Kindlasti minna / Can't Go On, Must Go On". Tallinn Art Hall 2014 "TASE 2014". Estonian Architecture Museum, Tallinn 2014 "SUND". Tallinn Art Hall 2013 "Young Painter Prize 2013". Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius 2013 "Kaasaütlev. Ilmaütlev". Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2013 "Two-Way Street. Contemporary Estonian Painting". Mon Repos Palace, Corfu town, Greece 2012 "Eesti kunstiskeenede arheoloogia ja tulevik". KUMU, Tallinn 2011 "Seanahk III". International art and peformance festival. Haapsalu, Estonia 2009 "Freedom. Freedom. Sexy". Tbilisi State Academy of Arts gallery. Tbilisi, Georgia
