PRESS RELEASE
PEETER ALLIK (1966) will open his personal exhibition Horse's Head in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.
Peeter Allik has participated in exhibitions since the late 1980s. Allik is a founding member of Kursi School; he has been awarded with Ado Vabbe Annual Prize and Konrad Mägi Annual Award for Estonian Painting. Peeter Allik is a productive artist with imposing career - he has held more than 30 personal exhibitions, participated in numerous exhibtions abroad and received many art prizes. At his current exhibition Allik introduces his selected works completed during the past few years – large-format paintings spiced by madness and irony that is characteristic of Allik's work.
Peeter Allik:
„Finally the day has dawned when my exhibition „Horse's Head“ can be seen in Hobusepea gallery that is an excellent exhibition space. I am showing my large-format paintings that have been created during the past few years. There are two series – „Visual Diarrhoea“ and „Flags-Coats of Arms“. Both series are meant to support peace and the everlasting progress in the world. As usual, I create various monstrous situations, breathtaking beauty, overwhelming feeling of happiness and physical satisfaction. After all, this is the purpose and concept of art, isn't it?
In the series „Flags-Coats of Arms“ I concentrate on the magical world of heraldry where the world is depicted in the same size as a lion; a lion's size is that of an oak leaf; and a Kalashnikov rifle has been tattooed on the sun. This environment finds favor with those respecting bizarre art, also with cynical and hopelessly naive people. The cut off horse's head as the universal symbol for the current exhibition's universe is the sign of the radical restraint of human essence; the sign that in its details being an extension of evidently inclined national embodiment, yet everyone can understand it in a different way. Just like every picture or image gives power to a message.
The series „Visual Diarrhoea“ includes a number of large-format paintings that rambunctiously tell and describe stories about today's wonderful society and human culture. This is a gigantic effort to depict the world in its diversity as well as to open a mysterious door to the endless treasures of human soul.
Stop being disgustingly mysterious and picking your nose! It's time to do something big!“
Exhibition will be open until February 16, 2015.
Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
PEETER ALLIK
1966
2005 - 2014 painting lecturer in Tartu Art College, Estonia
2001 - 2004 head of painting and graphic art departement, Academia Non Grata, Estonia
1993 Graduated from University of Tartu
Selected solo exhibitions
2012 Graphics, Muzeum Dr. Bohuslav Horak in Rokycany, Czech Republic
2012 Solo exhibition in Gallery ForOrtOst as part of IV International Print Exhibition „Ereignis
druckgraphik“, BBKL Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Solutions, Maniere Noire, Berlin, Germany
2011 Carnivore Club, Gallery Monumentaal, Tartu Art House, Estonia
2010 Peeter Allik & Toomas Kuusing, Create an Art City Project Docking, NOI Gallery, Korea
Experimental Art Festival 2010, Seoul, Korea
2008 How to Get Rich and Beautiful, gallery "Ietsmooisaandemuur", Hertogenbosch, Nederland
2007 Enormous Arse. Our Attainment. Non Grata Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Beginning of the New Happiness. Pärnu City Gallery and Pärnu Concert Hall, Estonia
2006 “Artist and His Hen”, NoMi Gallery, St.Petersbourg, Russia
2005 ”I saw that” Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2005 Personal show in Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Russia
2004 I Saw That. State Secret- Fuck off Nation. Tartu Art House, Estonia
2003 “Mystical Nature of Nature” NoMi Gallery, St.Petersbourg, Russia
2002 43 Motionless Pictures, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 “Radically Correct” and “Pictures of Nature” Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2001 “Silence was broken by Great Exploison” Tartu Art House, Estonia
2001 “24h Non-stop Lection” Kunstplaze Unabomber, Pärnu, Estonia
1998 A.Seppet & P.Allik in Galeria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland
1997 “Secrets of the XX century” Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia
1993 “Me” Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1993 Print exhibitions, I. Kruusamäe & P. Allik. Part of 13th International Exhibition of
Korean Printmakers Seoul, Korea Kyungin Art Gallery, Korea
Selected international exhibitions
2013 „Linocut Today“ 2013, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
2013 Bienniale internationale d`estampe contemporaine de Trois-Riviéres, Canada
2012 Image of Chaos and Order in New Societies, MAD Center & Gallery Tirana, Albania
2012 Presentation in Tischman Museum Auditorium, Beaumont, Texas, USA
2012 Exhibition and conference Rite of Print, Art Space, Beaumont, Texas, USA
2012 Graphica Creativa `12, Jyväskylä, Finland
2011 Winners of 2011 CPC Print Competition, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, USA
2011 International exhibition Past Present, St. Louis Artists Guild and Galleries, St. Louis, USA
2011 Ereignis Druckgrafik 3, Hochdruck, Gallery Bund Bildender Kunstler Leipzig, Germany
2011 St. Petersbourg Print Trienniale, BIN 2011, Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Russia
2010 „Kiss My Prints“, The Art Studio, Inc., The Gulf Print Storm, Beaumont, Texas, USA
2010 2nd. Penang International Print Exhibition, University Sains Malaisia
2010 The 5th Rokycany Biennial in Graphic Arts, Rokycany, Czech Republic
2010 The 14th International Biennial Print Exhibition, R.O.C., National Taiwan Museum of Fine
Arts, Taiwan
2010 Ereignis Druckgrafik-II, Bookfair Leipzig, Gallery Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig, Germany
2010 Group show Vorwärts, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin, Germany
2010 5th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2010, Portugal
2009 XV International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
2009 Strich & Faden II, Heimat, Volkskunst und Travestie, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin
2009 Grafica Contemporanea Estonia, Chillani Museo Internacional de la Grafica, Chile
2009 Artfair Berliner Kunstsalon 2009, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Humboldt Umspanwerk, Berlin
2009 Love in 21st Century, Estonian Litographic Portfolio II and Estonian Printmakers Society Exhibition, IMPACT 6, The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of
England, Bristol, UK
2008 Ereignis Druckgrafik, Bookfair leipzig, Gallery Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig, Germany
2008 I Baltic Bienniale, Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St. Petersbourg, Russia
2008 International Print Exhibition, Yunnan 2008, China
2008 Baltic Art Exhibition, De trop de realite, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France
2008 International Print Exhibition „Creation of the Universe IV“, Minsk, Belarussia
2008 Power and Man 2, LMS Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2008 "Piiririik" Estonian Art Exhibition, Guangzhou Art Academy Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2008 Yorckberlin in Berliner Liste, Germany
2008 Tease Art Fair II, Yorckberlin, Rhein Triadem, Köln, Germany
2008 Now Art Now Future 2, Vilnius New Art Centre, Lithuania
2007 International Print Triennial Krakow BIS 2007, Gallery “Rondo Sztuki” Katowice, Poland
2007 Ich war hier, Gallery Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2007 Open Space Festival of Free Arts, Fasslagerhalle Gewerbehof in der alten Königstadt Haus
A, Berlin, Germany
2007 II International Print Bienniale in Guanlan, China
2007 XIV International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria
2007 Group Exhibition. Ari Limatainen, Priit Pajos, Peeter Allik. Galleria Dix, Helsinki, Finland
2007 II St. Petersbourg Graphic Salon "Ljubitel estampov", Central Exhibition Hall Manezh,
Russia
2007 Tease Art Fair, Yorckberlin, Rhein Triadem, Köln, Germany
2007 Yorckberlin Exhibition "Perspektiven_Oder Mythos Wird Mit UE Geschrieben", Gallery
Engler, Berlin, Germany
2006 “Power and Man - 3 countries, 1 history, 1 exhibition”, Novas Centre Gallery, London, UK
2006 Berliner Kunstsalon, Yorckberlin, Berliner Arena, Germany
2006 12. International Bangladesh Biennial of Asian Art, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2006 3. Print Biennial St. Petersbourgh, Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Russia
2006 Social Graphics, international exhibition in Zilinskas Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005 Bienniale internationale de Gravure Liege 2005, Ville de Liege, Belgium
2005 XIV Deutsche Internationale Grafik-Trienniale Frechen, Germany
2005 26. Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005 XIII International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria
2005 Now Art Now Future, Graphic's art project, Lithuania
2005 Now Art Now Future, Edsvik Konsthall, Sweden
2005 Alytus Bienniale - I, Beware Politics, Lithuania
2004 Nord Art 04, Kunst in Carlshutte, Rendsburg, Germany
2003 III International Novosibirsk Biennial of Modern Graphics, Russia
2003 Visby Painting Biennial, Sweden
2003 The 11. International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Taiwan
2003 PAX 3, Rauha, Finland
2003 XII International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria
2002 International Contemporary Print Arts Exhibition, Changwon Sungsan Art Hall, Korea
2002 International Print triennial Graphica Creativa`02, Jyväskylä, Finland
2002 “Closing Distance” in "Laznia" Center for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland
2002 1004 Frozen Microwavemusic, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany
2002 Kaliningrad/Köningsberg VII International Print Biennial, Russia
2002 International Printmaking Exhibition, Thessaloniki, Greece
2003 International Printmaking Exhibition, Cantiz, Spain
2001 XI Tallinn International Print Triennial, Estonia
2001 XI International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria
2000 “10 PAAR” (Estonian – Flemish group exhibition) Kuressaare, Estonia and Kuurne, Belgium
2000 International print Triennial, Krakow-2000 “Bridge to Future”, Poland
2000 International print Triennial “Krakow-Nürnberg”, Nürnberg, Germany
2000 Bitola 2000 Triennial, Rep. Macedonia
2000 “Duchamp Suitcase” Arnolfini Centre, Bristol, UK
1999 Exhibition Premio Internationale Biella Per L’incisione, Biella, Italy
1998 Rauma Bienniale Balticum’98 , Rauma Art Museum, Finland and “Wyspa” Gallery, Gdansk,
Poland
1998 International Biennial Exhibition of art “Citta Di Locri” Locri, Italy
1998 X Tallinn International Print Triennial, Estonia
1998 Kaliningrad Print Triennial, Russia
1997 Katowice World Award Winners Gallery Intergrafia’97, Poland;
Slovak national gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia;
City Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria;
Archeological Museum, Varna, Bulgaria;
Mini Triennial - Continents, Art Gallery BWA, Jelenia Góra, Poland;
Prize Winners of MTG’97, City Art Gallery, Czestochowa, Poland;
Graphic Constellation ’97, Cultural city Network, Graz, Austria;
International Triennial ’97 - Cracow - Nürnberg, Fair Centre, Nürnberg, Germany;
International Triennial ’97 - Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
1998-1999 Triennial of 100 Cities’98, Poland;
Lebork Regional Museum, Lebork;
Gallery of the Town Cultural Centre, Debica;
Town Cultural centre, Sucha Beskidzka;
Art Exhibitions Bureau, Busko-Zdrój
Regional Museum in Pinczow
Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole
1997 Kraków International Print Triennial, Main Exhibition, Poland
1997 “Invasion” Saaremaa Bienniale’97 Kuressaare, Estonia
1997 du XVIIIe Salon International Artistique de la Haute-Loire, France
1996 Nordgrafia Gotland, Visby, Sweden
1996 International print Triennial, Graphica Creativa’96, Jyvaskylä, Finland
1996 Exhibition of Sidney International Art Society Sidney, Australia
1996 Group Exhibition IASG (International Artist Support Group) Bondi Pavilion Gallery Sidney,
Australia
1996 Triennial of Baltic Paint in Vilnius, Lithuania
1996 “Pokalbiai” Group Exhibition Zilinskas Museum Kaunas, Lithuania
1996 Tiese Pjüvis’96 Alytus, Lithuania
1995 Triennial of Baltic Young Artists, Vilnius, Lithuania
1995 “Self-portrait”, Art Gallery in „Krymskij Wall“ Moscow, Russia
1993 Györi 2nd Print Triennial, Hungary
1992 Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia
1992 International art exhibition 500 Years From Discovering of America, Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
1992 International festival „Ice Hockey 100“, Calgary, Canada
1988 Exhibition of Young Artists USSR, Manege, Moscow, Russia
International prizes and awards
2011 Exhibition Prize, Ereignis Druckgraphik 3, Leipzig, Germany
2010 The Main Biennial Avard, 5th Rokycany Biennial in Graphic Arts, Czech Republic
2008 Diploma for best engraving, International Print Exhibition- Creation of the Universe IV,
Minsk, Belarussia
2007 One of three equal awards of the 14-th International Print Biennial, Varna 2007, Bulgaria
2006 Prize of 3. Print Bienniale St. Petersbourg, Russia
2002 Grand Prix of VII International Biennial of Graphics, Kaliningrad/Köningsberg Triennial,
Russia
2000 NIFCA grant for residencies 2000, Malongen in Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Terzo premia International Exhibition of Art “Citta Di Locri”, Italy
1996 Rural Municipality of Jyväskylä award for a Young Printmaker, International Print Triennial,
Graphica Greativa 96, Finland