Ivar Veermäe
NEWS
WORK
Earthbounds, Windlicks and Raintouches
Second Earth
Solar Geoengineering Archive
The Ground
Sunkissed
Sun on Earth
Multiple Centuries of Sunlight
A Little Less Blue Skies, A Little More Red Sunsets
Habitat II
Habitat I
Universals I
Universals II
Universals III
The Flood
Center of Doubt
ABOUT
BIO
CV
STATEMENT
Ivar Veermäe
NEWS
WORK
Earthbounds, Windlicks and Raintouches
Second Earth
Solar Geoengineering Archive
The Ground
Sunkissed
Sun on Earth
Multiple Centuries of Sunlight
A Little Less Blue Skies, A Little More Red Sunsets
Habitat II
Habitat I
Universals I
Universals II
Universals III
The Flood
Center of Doubt
ABOUT
BIO
CV
STATEMENT

CV


Solo & two person exhibitions:

2026 Earthbounds, Windlicks and Raintouches, KKKC, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2025 Sunkissed, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2024 A Little Less Blue Skies, A Little More Red Sunsets, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2021 Habitat, AV17 Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 Flux / Momentum with Predrag Terzić, Podroom Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Center, Serbia
2018 Eternal Interests, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 The Heat with Xiaopeng Zhou, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Gravity ́s Infinite Range, Greenhill Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Tender Salute, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
2015 Center of Doubt, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
2014 Predictability, Freies Museum Berlin Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2013 The Clouds of St. Ghislain, City Gallery of Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Black Box Recognition, o.T. Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2012 The Power of Mediation, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 Personal Record with Karel Koplimets Y-Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2011 reflesh, City Gallery of Pärnu, Estonia
2010 Don ́t be evil with Karel Koplimets City Gallery of Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Autonomy, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 inside/outside, City Gallery of Pärnu, Estonia


Selected group exhibitions:

2026 Photography in Power: Making Worlds Visible, Fotografiska Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
2026 Earthly Fabulations, Der Greif, online https://dergreif.org
2026 Spring Exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2026 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart, Germany
2025 SPACE – A Visual Journey, Fotografiska Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
2025 And The Wind Will Carry Us Away, Stasys Museum, Panevėžys, Lithuania
2024 Foto Tallinn Art Fair, Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia
2024 In three shifts. End of Work, Sillart, Sillamäe, Estonia
2023 Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2023 Virtual Body of Society, Prague Biennale Reconnect Art, Czech Republic
2023 A:PRÉS D:ÉSSERT, A:D:Curatorial, Berlin, Germany
2023 IMMERSE!, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 SO FUTURE, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
2022 Jitdam Kapeel, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
2020 RAUM SPACE International Festival of Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
2019 Taxed to the Max, Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
2019 FILE Festival, FIESP Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2019 Our simple relationship with technology, Design Museum of Barcelona, Spain
2019 Open Codes. The Art of Coding, Gallery MMB, Mumbai, India
2018 Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
2018 Archeology of the Screen, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 # Material 4.0, Gallery Sindelfingen, Germany
2018 Global Control and Censorship, Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
2018 Global Control and Censorship, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, Poland
2017 Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 BIENALSUR, CNB Contemporánea, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Archeology of the Screen: Estonian Case-Study, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Global Control and Censorship, Nová Synagóga Žilina, Slovakia
2017 Global Control and Censorship, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2017 The Baltic Pavilion: Operative Archive, Design and Architecture Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 Power, European Convention Center Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017 Mundo Imagem Mundo, Galeria Hideo Kobayashi, Centro Cultural Usiminas, Ipatinga, Brazil
2017 UArt, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2016 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Trekhgornaya Manufaktura, Moscow, Russia
2016 The Baltic Pavilion 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
2016 Colomboscope, Former General Post Office, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 Data Aesthetics, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Art Meets Radical Openness 2016: Waste(d)!, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria
2016 Mundo Imagem Mundo, Espaço Cultural Marcantonio Vilaça, Brasilia, Brazil
2016 On Disappearing And For Vanishing, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
2016 Who wants to die? rk Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Monitoring, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
2015 Operation Mindfuck, Phaenomenale, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2015 DATA RUSH, Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Old Sugar Factory, Groningen, Netherlands
2015 FIF - Belo Horizonte’s International Festival of Photography, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2015 Köler Prize 2015, Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 11th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Diplareios School, Athens, Greece
2014 afterglow, Transmediale 2014, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2014 REIF, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
2014 Screengrab International Media Arts Award, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia
2014 Focus on Focusing, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2013 Survival Kit 5 – Slow Revolution, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
2013 Connecting the Dots, 6th International Student Triennial, Mamara University, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 glasklar milchig, Forum Factory, Berlin, Germany
2013 Introduction to Global Village, Baku, Azerbaijan
2013 Werkschau, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
2013 Sarajevo Winter, City Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2013 Universalsprachen, Kleine Humboldt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013 Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Telliskivi Loomelinnak, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 5th namaTRE.ba biennial, Academy of Fine & Visual Arts, Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2012 Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes, Art Museum of Estonia
2012 The Beginning of the End, Simultan Festival 8, Timisoara, Romania
2012 Kreuzkassel Zwei, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Kassel, Germany
2012 Global Village, Kulturhuset Broenden, Denmark
2012 Mon Habite, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany
2012 Speed of Darkness and Other Stories, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Interperspectives, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany
2012 Global Village, Project 072, Alkmaar, Netherlands
2011 Ultra Social, UAMO Art Festival, Munich, Germany
2011 gateways: Art and networked Culture, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 For Love not Money, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 GRID Photo Biennale, Sociale Verzekeringsbank, Amstelveen, Netherlands
2007 I, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Sleep economy, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Artist on the map, Y-Gallery and Rael Artel Gallery: Non-Profit Space, Tartu, Estonia
2006 I know what you did last summer, Gallery of Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
2005 Living sculptures, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia


Screenings:


2024 Foto Tallinn Art Fair, Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia
2024 Roaminale #3 screen, Roam, Berlin, Germany
2022 Ecology After Nature, Tramway Cultural Center, Glasgow, Scotland
2020 e-flux presents Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory www.e-flux.com
2020 From Matter to Data: Ecologies of Infrastructure, post.moma.org, MoMa web platform
2019 Truth on Screen, Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2018 Rencontres Internationales, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
2017 Media Art Festival Arad, Arad, Romania
2017 ARS17, Hello World, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Mediated Architecture, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Switzerland
2015 Edinburgh Artists Moving Image Festival, Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Simultan Festival – Talking to Strangers, Timisoara, Romania
2014 Werkleitz, Videorama - solo presentation, Halle (Saale), Germany
2014 We, The Enemy, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2014 afterglow, Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2014 31. Kassler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
2014 OnLocation, 14th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium, Connecticut College, USA
2014 Brave New World, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2014 Digital Transilvania, Targu Mures, Romania
2014 Oodaaq Festival, Rennes, France
2013 Espace im Media, Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Canada
2013 2nd International Motion Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus
2013 Carneval of eCreativity, Sattal Estate, Bhimtal, India
2012 Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
2012 crosstalk video art festival, Budapest, Hungary
2012 OUTVIDEO, Festival of Video Art in Urban Spaces, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2012 Bilderflut, Berlin, Germany
2012 A Virtual Memorial, META House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2012 Videobites 06 – Lets do it, a.a.a, Berlin, Germany


Performance:

2014 20:00 21:00 22:00 at 30 x 10 x 10 with Vanessa Gageos and Fred Laur, SRS Berlin
2014 Through with Thiago Bortolozzo, Vanessa Gageos, Yiannis Pappas and Felix Stumpf, SRS Berlin
2012 Sound/Movement with Krzysztof Debicki, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin
2012 iTouch solo performance, Month of Performance Art Berlin, ACUD Theater
2012 Die Kunst nicht dermassen regiert zu werden with Raumstrategien, Month of Performance Art Berlin, ACUD Theater
2012 Die Kunst nicht dermassen regiert zu werden with Raumstrategien, HAU3, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin


Education:

2011 - 2014 Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin Spatial Strategies MA
2004 - 2009 Estonian Academy of Arts Photography BA
2007 - 2008 Duisburg-Essen University Erasmus exchange program
2001 - 2003 Communication School of Tallinn Graphic Design


Memberships:

2023 Estonian Artists Association
2022 VG Bild-Kunst
2012 Founding member of Kunst Werk Stadt Berlin e.V.
2007 Founding member of FOKU – Estonian Union of Photographic Artists


Scholarships & Grants:

2025 Gwaertler Grant with Mica Cabildo, Gwaertler Stiftung, Switzerland
2022 Neustart 2, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022 6 months Stipendium, Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2021 Arbeitsstipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2018 One year Stipendium, Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2017 Research Scholarship Berlin Berliner Senat
2015 Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin (NaFöG)
2014 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art Grant 2014 Foundation of Lower Saxony


Artist talks and presentations:

2025 Fotografiska Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
2024 Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research, Umeå University, Sweden
2020 Discussion “Energy: Ideology, Capital and Data”, post.moma.org
2019 Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
2018 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016 Colomboscope Festival, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 Kultuurikatel, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Greenhill Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
2014 Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany

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