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MARKO MAETAMM

Born in Viljandi, Estonia
Lives and works mostly in Tallinn, Estonia

EDUCATION

MA in Faculty of Fine Arts, Estonian Academy of Arts, 1995
BA in Printmaking Department, Estonian Academy of Arts, 1993

Once Upon A Time, gallery "Centar", Conteporary Art Center of Montenegro
NADA Art Fair, Miami with Temnikova&Kasela Gallery, Miami, USA
10 Last Days, Haapsalu City Gallery, Haapsalu, Estonia
Walking in My Hunting Ground, NETTIE HORN, London, UK

30 Stories and other cockroaches, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
I have never told these stories to my wife. I have never told them to anybody., Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France
Van Damme, a Hair and many other things, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Another Day with My Family, Kunstraum Goethestrasse XTD, Linz, Austria
Love, Fear and Warning Signs, NETTIE HORN, London

2009

Happily Ever After, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, USA
Another Day with My Family, Beacon Arts Community Association, Go North gallery, NY
About Domestic Paranoia…, Galerie Anton Weller &Isabelle Suret, Paris, France
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Another Day With My Family, Gallery Go North, Beacon NY, USA
Happy End (with Anne Bregeaut), Gallery Nettie Horn, London, UK

Kicsiny Balàzs & Marko Mäetamm, Gallery of Hungarian Institute, Tallinn, Estonia

Distilled Love, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
From There to Here, Nosbaum&Reding – Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Loser`s Paradise, Estonian Pavilion at 52. International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Artists’ Studio, London, UK

The End (with Kaido Ole), Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Big Project (with Kaido Ole), Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia

Speaking Houses, kArton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Contemporary Art Centre Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Blood Olympics, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Over the Mercury River, Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia

Marko und Kaido by John Smith (with Kaido Ole), 50th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
John Smith. Marko und Kaido (with Kaido Ole), Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

X MISTAKES Y FOR Z (with Lucy Harrison and Pete Nevin), Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
John Smith. The world of Gods (with Kaido Ole), The Gallery of Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

Amentia, Gallery Platan, Budapest, Hungary

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

Silent Revolution, curated by Anu Juurak, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
Köler Prize 2012, Contemporary Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
Festival Mundial de Cine Extremo "San Sebastian de Veracruz", Mexico
Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Contemporary Easten European Artists` Reflections on Social Transformation, curated by Eve Kask, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Liquidation of Art Academies, III International Print Festival in Tartu, curated by Al Paldrok and Peeter Allik, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
Therefore I Am, curated by Greg Slick, Garrison Art Center, NY, USA

Nouvelles Vagues & other Hunting Stories, NETTIE HORN, London
Remoteness, The Block at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Confrontations & Provocations, Mare Articum Foundation, Szczecin, Poland
Liberté/Vabadus 2011, curated by Kaia Kiik, Asniéres castle, Paris, France
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2011, Gothenburg, Denmark
A Rendevouz In Berlin, 91mQ art project space, Berlin, Germany

Kunst Macht frei: Contemporary Estonian Art, Janus Pannonius Muzeum, Pecs, Hungary
Rencontres internationales (Paris, Berlin, Madrid), Centre Pompidou, Paris
La Main Numérique, curated by Dominique Païni, National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan
Remoteness, Frankston Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
The Collective, NETTIE HORN, London
XIII. Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York
Taking Care – POLITICS of Emancipation, Estonian and Finnish Contemporary Art, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Alchemy, Reed Arts Week, Portland, USA    
La Main Numérique, Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent sur Marne, France
That’s all Folks, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium

2009

Post Flux (in partnership with Centre Pompidou Paris and Festival Pocket Films), Brussel Bozar, Brussel, Belgium
XXI Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Estonian Art Museum, KUMU, Estonia
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Hors Pistes 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Locws international 4: Art across the City, Swansea, UK
Home Sweet Home, curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, Dorsky Gallery, NY

Don't fucking simply know what to do. Dessins, etc, Galerie Antoine Weller: Isabelle Suret, Paris
Elephant Bullet, International Video Art Project in KUMU, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Helsinki Biennale 2008, Helsinki, Finland
Familienangelegenheiten, curated by Elke Falat, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Galerie im Kehrwiederturm, Hildesheim, Germany.
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Piiririik/Border State, Exhibition of the Tallinn Art Hall and at the Guangzhou Art Academy Art Museum, curated by Reet Varblane, Guangzhou, China
Borderlives. Contemporary Art from Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, curated by Ritva Röminger-Czako and Andreas Vowinckel, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Biennale Cuvée 08, OK Center, Linz, Austria

Bad Joke, curated by Johannes Saar, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madri
Political & Poetical, 14th Tallinn Print Triennial, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Baltic States, part III, Contemporary Art From Estonia, curated by Martin Schibli, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Innocence and Despair, g39, Cardiff, Wales
We like it a lot, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, UK
Anger_aggression, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria

Pain In The Class! 12th International Pärnu Video- and Film Festival 2006. Pärnu, Estonia
Cannibal Ferox, T1+2 Gallery, London, UK
Collected Crises, Estonian Art in the 1990s., KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Wake Up! Rauma biennale Balticum 2006. Rauma Art Museum, Finland
Videoart From The Baltics Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Two Close Ones, 4th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial. Estonian Museum of applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
Shiftscale – Sculpture at the Extended Field KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

The 6th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennale HABITAT, curated by Magdalena Lewoc and Marlena Chybowska-Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland
Blur of The Otherwordly, Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, USA
Pyyteetön Rakkaus/ Undemanding Love, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
Hääled/Voices, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia

Home Sweet Home, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
EU-Positive, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
13th Tallinn Print Triennial, Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia

About Belief, South London Gallery, London, UK
Closing the Distance, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland

ARS01, Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Grosse Kunst Ausstellung Düsseldorf NRW, Germany
10 PAAR, The Castle of Kuressaare, Estonia; Kuurne, Belgium
Painterly Issues, Vilnius Painting Triennial. Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

PUBLICATIONS

-Mäetamm, M. marko mäetamm (second edition), Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn 2007
-Mäetamm, M. marko mäetamm, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn 2006
-Mäetamm, M./Mänd, L. Rääkivad majad Speaking Houses, R/I/B/O/P, Tallinn 2003

CATALOGUES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2008

La main numérique, ecole d´art de la Communauté de l´agglomération d´Annecy, 2008

HOBUSEPEA GALERII/HOBUSEPEA GALLERY, Estonian Artists´ Association, 2008

BORDERLIVES Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Helsinki St. Petersburg und Tallinn, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DUMONT 2008

PIIRIRIIK/BORDER STATE, Tallinn Art Hall 2008

I LOVE MY FAMILY/ LOSER`S PARADISE, Estonian Pavilion at 52. International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn 2007

POLITICAL/POETICAL 14th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn 2007

Nature and Society // Parallel Lines, Ethnographic Museum (Rupe), Dubrovnik, Croatia 2007

Architektur wie sie im Buche steht. Fiktive Bauten und Städte in der Literatur. Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München, München 2007

HABITAT, Museum Narodowe w Szczecinie 9.12.2005-29.01.2006, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland 2006

TEHNOBIA. DIVERSE UNIVERSE II. KURJA LILLED, 6th Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists’ Association, Tallinn 2006

VIDEOART FROM THE BALTIC SCENE: ESTLAND, LETTLAND, LITAUEN, Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2006

BLUR OF THE OTHERWORDLY, Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal. Issues in Cultural Theory Book Series. Center for Art and Visual Culture, University Of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 2006

Hermann, E. MÄETAMME KAKS LÜHIST, (http://eik.struktuur.ee/maetamm/, 2006)

Mäetamm, M. TÄHENDUSTERIKAS LINN, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu 2006

WAKE UP! Rauma biennale Balticum. Rauma Art Museum, Finland 2006

SHIFTSCALE – SCULPTURE AT THE EXTENDED FIELD, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn 2006

Krese, S. ARTSTARS, Luxemburg 2005

Lazar, E. READING IN ABSENCE, Trafó Gallery, Budapest 2005

Mäetamm, M. 1965–2005. GUIDO JA SIGNE SAMMELSELJA KUNSTIKOLLEKTSIOONIST,
Tallinn 2005

Mäetamm, M. KODU, KALLIS KODU, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn 2005

Mäetamm, M. VAAL 1990/2005, Tallinn 2005

Härm, A. NO PAINTING, Tallinn Art Hall Foundation, Tallinn 2005

Taidre, E. KAIDO OLE. MARKO MÄETAMM. JOHN SMITH. OMAMÜTOLOOGIA JA MÜTOLOGISEERIMINE KAASAEGSES KUNSTIS. Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn 2005 (manuscript of a diploma thesis)

XIII TALLINN PRINT TRIENNIAL, Tallinn 2004

Kotov, K. MARKO MÄETAMME “KUJUTISTE GRAMMATIKA”, THE “VISUAL GRAMMAR” OF MARKO MÄETAMM, Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi, Studies of Art and Architecture 2004/1(13). Tallinn 2004

Soans, H. ESTONIAN ART. 101 WORKS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ART MUSEUM OF ESTONIA, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn 2004

Allas, A. HERE, BUT NOT NOW, Kaunas 2004

SALT OF LIFE, Contemporary Art from the Baltic States. Vilnius 2004

Kivland, S. X MISTAKES Y FOR Z, Tallinn 2002

Helme, S. CLOSING THE DISTANCE, Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk. 2002

Lõugas, A. PRINTMAKING IN EUROPE: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES, Thessaloniki 2002

EXPERIMENTS & CLASSIC, 8th Pärnu Fideo & Vilmifestival. Pärnu 2002

ESTONIAN GRAPHIC ARTS, Association of Estonian Printmakers. Tallinn 2001

Luhta, P. ARS 01, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki 2001

FIRST INTERNATIONAL DRAWING COMPETITION WROCLAW 1999/2000, Wroclaw 2000

10 PAAR, Kunst uit Estland en Vlaanderen, Tallinn 2000

Grigoraviciene, E. Tapybiska. PAINTERLY, XI Vilnius Painting Triennial. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 2000

Saar, J. EESTI KUNSTNIKUD 2, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn 2000

Helme, S. GROSSE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG NRW DÜSSELDORF, Düsseldorf 2000

SELECTED MAGAZINES

-Albano, C. Uncanny: A Dimension in Contemporary Art, Peur II/Fear II 62, ESSE

-10 questions by Andres Tolts to Marko Mäetamm, Estonian Art 1/2000

-Epner, E. Ühest verisest traumast. About a bloody trauma, kunst.ee 2/2004

-Harrison, L., Mäetamm, M., Nevin, P., Kivland, S. x mistakes y for z, Vikerkaar 1-2/2003

-Herkül, K. Autod, konservid, kunst, Eesti Ekspress, TV-nädal. 03.02.1995

-Härm, A. Start kontseptuaalsesse skisomaailma, Vikerkaar 4-5/2003

-Hübl, M. Estland: John Smith (Marko Mäetamm und Kaido Ole) Kunstforum International, Bd. 166 August-October 2003

-Kivimaa, K. Kolm raamistikku Mäetamme unenäole. Three frameworks to Mäetamm`s dream, kunst.ee 3/07

-Kivimaa, K. Kunstniku elu, Pluss üks 3/1994

-Mäetamm, M. Graafikast ja mittegraafikast kunst.ee 4/2001

-Mäetamm, M. Jumal, Kurat ja Marko Mäetamm, Vikerkaar 4/2000

-Mäetamm, M. Part. A Duck, Kirst. The Casket, Surm kämpingus. Death in the Camping, Imeilus valge surm purjetab üle Elavhõbeda jõe. Splendid White Death Sailing Over the Mercurial River, kunst.ee 1/2005

-Mäetamm, M., Pia Fraus, Siib, L. Blood Olympics, Estonian Art 1/2004

-Randviir, A. Artivity in Human Action: From Artist to Rocket, Estonian Art 1/2003

-Riigikogu Toimetised 15/2007

-Saar, J. Marko kutsub kunstnikke enesega sööma, Vikerkaar 8/1993

-Saar, J. Ja päästa meid ära vägivallast ja propagandast…, Vikerkaar 6/2006

-Sobolev, M. Pauk pähe, Noorus 12/1993

-Taidre, E. John Smithi fenomen kui omamütoloogia ja kunstimeetod, kunst.ee 3/2005

-Taidre, E. Kaido Ole, Marko Mäetamm and John Smith, kunst.ee 3/2005

-The International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya 1994

-Volt, M. What has John Smith got to do with the Aesthetic? Estonian Art 1/2003

-Vägivald ja propaganda Emergency Biennale, kunst.ee 2/2006

AWARDS:

2008
-Estonian State Decoration, The Order of the White Star, V class

2004
-City Prize of 13th Tallinn Print Triennial

2003
-Sadolin Art Award, Estonia
-Hansapank Art Award, Estonia

2002
-Annual Award 2002 of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
-Painting Prize of the Estonian Painters’ Association

2000
-Kristjan Raud Annual Award, Estonia
-Harpoon. Annual art award of Vaal Gallery, Estonia

1997
-UNDP Annual Award