PRESS RELEASE

ANDRES KOORT (1969) will open his personal exhibition Silent Painting in Hobusepea gallery at 5pm on August 1st, 2012.

Andres Koort has obtained a degree in stage design at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1993 and has additionally studied painting at the Academy of Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1991. Koort has participated in exhibitions as a painter, scenographer, designer and curator since 1991. He is a member of the Estonian Artists' Association and a member of the board of the Estonian Painters' Union. His works can be found in private collections as well as in the collections of Tartu Art Museum and Lithuanian Art Museum. As a scenographer the artist has collaborated with Estonian Drama Theatre, Tallinn City Theatre, Endla Theatre in Pärnu, Estonian Puppet Theatre and Theatrum.

Andres Koort has developed a specific personal painting technique while for many years having been inspired by Chinese and Japanese traditional landscape painting. Koort rather studies the ways of thinking and visual form of Japanese and Chinese art instead of following their centuries-long traditional rules and techniques. The artist applies several layers of paintings on top of each other instead of transparent layers of paint, thus creating abstract landscapes with faint boundaries, compared to the endlessly running frames through the window of a moving train on a rainy day.

Exhibition will be open until August 13th, 2012.

Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Andres Koort

17.05.1969
www.andreskoort.com

Studies:

1987–1993 Tallinn Art Academy (Stage design and painting)
1991 Academia Minerva, Netherlands (Painting)

Personal Exhibitions:
2011 „Berline Liste“ Berlin
2011 "New Balance" Vaalgalerii, Tallinn
2010 "Paintings" Art Depoo, Tallinn
2010 "Silent Land" Town gallery, Haapsalu
2010 "Saltwell" Draakoni gallery, Tallinn
2010 "Past continius" Tam gallrey
2009 "Constantly" e-exhibition www.kunstikeskus.ee/new/galerii/naitus/andres_koort.htm
2009 "Constantly" Draakoni gelrii, Tallinn
2009 "Constantly" Estonian embassy, Moscow
2009 "Constantly" KU Gallery
2009 "The Field Was a Sea" Pärnu Town gallery
2008 "Constantly" Pärnu Endla theatre gallery
2001 "Synchronised" Tallinn City gallery
2000 "Horizon" Haapsalu town gallery
2000 "Up and Down" Raatuse gallery, Talllinn
1999 "Stridberg's DNA" Pärnu Endla theatre gallery
1999 "Closer to the earth" Tallinn City gallery
1997 "Paintings" Sammas gallery, Tallinn
1995 "Seven Heads" Gallery Kauno Langas, Lithuania
1994 "Visitor" Estonian National Library, Tallinn
1993 "Aino" Tallinn‘s Mustpeade maja gallery
1991 "Deep" Gallery Illegaard, Tartu

Group Exhibitions:
2012 Vaal gallery, Tallinn
2012 Tallinn Art Hall
2011 Tallinn Art Hall
2011 Vaal gallery, Tallinn
2010 Draakon gallery, Tallinn
2010 "II Baltic biennale" St.Petersburg
2010 "Confortations" Tallinn Art Hall
2010 "Blue" Pärnu New Art museun
2010 "Last painting" Tartu Art museum
2009 "Painted message vol.2" Tartu Art museum
2009 "Constantly Onetwo" Narva Art museum gallery
2009 "Freestyle" Võru town gallery
2008 "XL" EPA year exhibition, Tartu Art museum
2008 "PEA" Rakvere theatre gallery
2008 "Waking!" EML year exhibition, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn
2008 "Crossing the line" EPA year exhibition, Narva Art museum gallery
2007 "the Right Choice" EPA year exhibition, Tartu Art Museum
2007 "Bland Painting" EPA year exhibition, Haapsalu town gallery
2006 "Free Willie!" EPA year exhibition, Vaal gallery, Tallinn
2006 "Beautiful paintings" EPA year exhibition, Aaspere mansion
2005 "in the United line" EPA year exhibition, Tartu Art museum
2005 "Hyper exhibition" Sakala 9, Tallinn
2004 "Three rooms, bathroom and a corridor" Sakala 9, Tallinn
2004 "P.E.A. sixth" Kärdla gallery
2003 "Painting paradise" EPA year exhibition, Gallery 008, Tallinn
2003 "Pause" gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
2003 "I've been to New York" EPA year exhibition, Pärnu Town gallery
2003 "Hiiu Sign" Kärdla Gallery
2002 "IN Graafika" Pärnu town gallery
2002 "Another Seascape" Palanga, Lithuania
2001 "Seaside Romanss" Palanga, Lithuania
2001 "Sidestep" Pärnu town gallery
2001 "P.E.A. Facade" Raatuse gallery, Tallinn
2001 "P.E.A." Haapsalu town gallery
1998 "Three squared" Pärnu town gallery
1992 Painting exhibition Tartu University Library
1992 Autumn exhibition Tallinn Arthall

Stage Designs:

1990 "The Bourgeois Gentleman" (Moliere) Estonian Dramatheatre
1996 "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (R.W.Fassbinder) Tallinn Town theatre
1999 "Hades" (A.Strinberg) Pärnu theatre "Endla"
2000 "Stairway to heaven" Estonian Puppet theatre
2001 "Vader" (G.Görgey) Theatrum
2005 "in front of the Jewelry store" (K.Wojtyla) Theatrum
2007 "Coctail party" (T.S.Eliot) Theatrum
2008 "The Tidings Brought to Mary" (P.Claudel) Theatrum
Member of the Estonian Artist Association, Member of the board of the Estonian Painters Association from the year 2002
Curated and designed the EPA's exhibitions.
Work in collections: Tartu Art museum, Lithuanian Art museum.