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MIHKEL MARIPUU
  • Visual art projects
  • AV / Sound projects
  • CV
  • Contacts


BIO_EST
Mihkel Maripuu (snd 1987) loomingut iseloomustab multidistsiplinaarne, eri meediume kaasav praktika, milles sisaldub lisaks visuaalsele ka füüsiline ja heliline platvorm. Uurimusalusteks teemadeks on post-interneti olemus kaasaegses kunstis, neo-materialism ja muud subkultuurilised ilmingud ning digitaalajastu omapärad, mis on mõjutanud kaasaegse visuaalkeele kujunemist. Lahates tehnoloogia ja orgaanika vahelisi erisusi ning nende potentsiaalsete ühisalade kattuvuslikke printsiipe. Mihkel Maripuu on lõpetanud Tartu Ülikooli maaliosakonna (BA) ja Eesti Kunstiakadeemia vabade kunstide maalikunsti osakonna (MA).

BIO_ENG
Mihkel Maripuu’s (b 1987) oeuvre is characterized by a multidisciplinary practice involving various media and containing a physical and aural platform beside the visual one. He works with the nature of post-internet in contemporary art, neo-materialism and other subcultural phenomena and unique qualities of the digital era that have influenced the development of the contemporary visual language. He dissects the distinct attributes of technology and organics and the principles of their shared existence. Mihkel Maripuu has graduated from the Painting Department of the University of Tartu (BA) and the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Estonian Academy of Arts (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  
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
2022   "Fatamorgaana/ Fata Morgana". Draakon gallery, Tallinn
2021   "*(meta)morphosis". ARS Art Factory's Projectspace. Tallinn
2020  "Tuleviku ootamatu ilmumine / The Unexpected Presence of the Future". duo-solo exhibition with artist Laivi. Tartu Art House Monumental gallery
2020  "Draft". solo exhibition. ARS Showroom

2019   "Ex Nihilo". Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2017    "Maine igatsus: leida ja kaotada / Killer Image: Shifting Modes of Desire"
           Duo-Solo exhibition with Laivi. Hobusepea gallery Tallinn
2014    "#anonymous(im)possibilitiesintheinvorytower#xoxo". Hobusepea gallery, 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    "Hiilgav generatsioon / Glowing Generation". Draakoni gallery, Tallinn
2012    "Spectrum of Vitamins". Berliini Eesti Suursaatkond / Estonian Embassy in Berlin
2010    "Neon Toybox", Rael Artel gallery, Tartu

Selection of sonic performances
2022 "body slam / ihu ramm" Sound artist for performance / exhibition. ARS Art Factory's Projectspace, Tallinn
​         (In collaboration with Keithy Kuuspu, Liisa Saaremäel and Tarvo Porroson) 

2021 "False Falling / Läbi Kukkumine". Sound artist for durational performance. Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL), Tallinn.
2019  Video and sound artist for installative fashion performance "Posteden". Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn.
2018   Solo audio-visual project "Liminal Phase". ARS Art Factory's Projectspace, 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   "Aruanne publikule. Tartmusi kunstiostud". Tartu Art House
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

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