PRESS RELEASE
PILLE-RIIN JAIK (1991) will open her personal exhibition Halfway in Draakon gallery at 5pm on Wednesday, February 25, 2015.
Pille-Riin Jaik studies in the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2013-2014 Jaik was an exchange student in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has taken additional courses in Valand Academy, Göteborg, Sweden and participated in Erasmus internship in Czech Republic. Despite being a young student, Jaik has already acquired plenty of experience of participating in exhibitions both in Estonia and abroad, including France, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden.
Pille-Riin Jaik explores our presence in a room while bringing together both physical and virtual environment. The artist juxtaposes digital technology and found objects in her work, using also organic substances such as hair and dust. Jaik explores the arrangement of systems and the unknown x-factor that consistently finishes the efforts to create and keep order.
Pille-Riin Jaik:
„Time was no longer shifting sand. Time was money“ - a quote from Svetlana Boym about the shift in human consciousness in 13th century, when notion of time relativity was abandoned. Time became something universal, precise, mechanical and countable. But if there is fiction of order created, there will be also a variance: according to the laws of universe all attempts to organize an isolated system are meant to be failed.
When spectators are surrounded from public transport to nightstand with screens, their spatial location has become (again) something relative. Kate Mondloch question of screen-reliant art practices has moved to the streets: where is spectator located, when she/he is both in actual (objects around, physical surroundings) and virtual space (reality of screen) at the same moment? Is she/he neither “here” nor “there”? Is a person capable of fitting to its own ideal systems?
Exhibition will be open until March 14, 2015.
Thanks to: Sten Saarits, Argo Mürgimäe, Kadri Raigo, Ivo Jaik, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo, department of photography of Estonian Academy of Arts.
Exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Exhibitions in Draakon gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Estonian Ministry of Culture.
PILLE-RIIN JAIK
Born 1991 in Tallinn
Lives and works in Tallinn
www.pilleriinjaik.com
Education
2010 - … Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Photography BA
2013 - 2014 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Expanded Pictorial Space/ Action/ Sculpture/ Installation
Solo exhibitions
2015 (Upcoming) with Liisa Jugapuu and Helena Keskküla, EKA gallery, Tallinn
2015 Halfway, Draakon gallery, Tallinn
2013 Prooviruum, RUNDUM artist-run space, Tallinn
Group exhibitions
2015 (Upcoming), TL;DR, curated by Stacey Koosel, Art Hall gallery, Tallinn
2015 Let me tell you about myself, curated by Siim Preiman, gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia
2014 Ava(tud) piirid, curated by Merilin Talumaa, Eda Tuulberg and Tiiu Parbus, EKA gallery, Tallinn
2014 Rundum Photo Fair, Näitamiseks/Müümiseks, Sadamarket, Tallinn
2014 Exhibition for Kopli Girls/Where´s Smoke There´s Fire, curated by Liina Pääsuke, Nancy Nakamura
Shelf of Ideas, Tallinn
2014 Solipsism - No More, ISFAG, Tallinn
2014 Ladyland Biennale, Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Kärnten, Austria
2014 Strange Teaching: Monads with Windows, Kaufhaus HELD, Leipzig, Germany
2014 with T.B.C, Side Effects II, curated by Laura Kuusk and Pascale Riou, Ancien Musée de Peinture,
Grenoble, France
2014 with Liina Pääsukese, Olohuonenäyttely Living Room Exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Academy season Finale: Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semper Depot), Vienna, Austria
2013 Multicrash, gallery Musterzimmer, Berlin, Germany
2013 BiteVilnius, Šv. Jono Street gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 .gif it space, site-specific exhibition in Rüütelkond, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2012 Art as text, Text as Art, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
2012 Whose Salong, curated by Laura Hatfield, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011 August, pin-hole experiments, Muhu island, Estonia
Bibliography
Taul, Gregor. EKA galerii metamorfoos. - Sirp, 12.12.2014
Karro, Piret. Ma olen tüdruk, ma olen olemas.- Sirp, 10.09.2014
Kübar, Eva. Kust saab kunstnik inspiratsiooni?.- Sirp, 30.04.2014
Feßler, Anne Katrin. Permanent produzieren im Electric Ladyland.- Der Standard, 23.01.2014
Keskrand, Kalle. Gorillad Berliinis.- Müürilehe veebiportaal, 20.12.2013
Other Projects
2014 - …, Contemporary.ee founder and active member
2013 ERASMUS internship in Gallery and Communication Space Školskà 28, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 – 2013 MTÜ Kulduur. Culture education club, vice-chairman, Tartu
2012 Jeremy Hutchison´s exhibition ERRATUM opening performer, Paradise Row, London, UK
2012 Rui Ferreira exhibition The Tomb and the Fountain volunteer, Gallery Hotel Elephant, London, UK
Workshops
2013 Electric Protesters. Galerii Školská 28, tutor Stefanie Wuschitz, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Děkuju Man Records, AVU Intermedia, instructed by Camille Laurelli, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Constructing Room with GIF-medium, instructed by Camille Laurelli
2012 KUNO course: The Poetics of Open Work: Art as Text, Text as Art. Valand Academy, instructed by Matthew Rana, Gothenburg, Sweden
2012 Single Frame Filmmaking in the Avantgarde, instructed by Martin Arnold, Tallinn
2010 Summer practice: Doings or Not. Sitespecific project instructed by Laura Kuusk and Laura Toots, Estonian Art Academy, Muhu island, Estonia