Maetamm Marko / Estonia

Born in 1965 in Viljandi, Estonia. Studied in Estonian Academy of Arts, MA 1995 Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. Works with a wide range of media including photography, sculpture, animations, painting and text. Mäetamm tells us the stories which happen behind the closed doors and pulled curtains of the intimate territory we called home. Mäetamm portrays the family as a little society -relaying through a dark humor the petty moments of daily life - and exploring the way our society manipulates the family dynamics through the macrocosms of economy, consumerism, and “quality-of-life” standards. Inspired by his own private life and the recurrent feeling he could fail to preserve the balance in his existence, Mäetamm’s work explores the grey area where ambiguous feelings of being in control and being controlled merge. Marko Mäetamm has exhibited internationally and represented Estonia at the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2007. Contact: maetamm@yahoo.com HOMEPAGE: www.maetamm.net Selection of exhibitions of the last 5 years: Solo exhibitions: 2010 -30 Stories and 4 Cockroaches, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia -Van Damme, A Hair and Many Other Things, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia -I Have Never Told These Stories to My Wife. I Have Never Told Them to Anybody, Anton Weller-Isabelle Suret, Paris, France -Love, Fear and Warning Signs, Nettie Horn, London, UK 2009 -Happily Ever After, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, USA -Another Day With My Family, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria -Family, WAM Studio, Wäinö Aalto Museum, Turku, Finland -All We Have is Love, State of Affairs, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia -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 2008 -Kicsiny Balàzs & Marko Mäetamm, Gallery of Hungarian Institute, Tallinn, Estonia 2007 -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 2006 -Artists’ Studio, London, UK 2005 -The End (with Kaido Ole), Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia -Big Project (with Kaido Ole), Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia -Memorial Show Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia Group exhibitions and projects: 2010 -Confrontations and Provocations, An Insight into Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by Eha Komissarov, Museum of Contemporary art, Dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland -Kättemaks/Revenge, curated by Kirke Kangro, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia -LA MAIN NUMÉRIQUE, curated by Dominique Païni, National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan -XIII Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA -Take Care – Politics of Emancipation, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland -The Collective, Nettie Horn, London, UK -The Beast Within, Dirt Floor gallery, Beacon, NY, USA -Olemise paine. 21. sajandi kunsti Tartu Kunstimuuseumi kogust, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia 2009 -LA MAIN NUMÉRIQUE, curated by Dominique Païni, Maison d´art Bernard Anthonioz, Norgent-sur-Marne, France -That`s all folks! curated by Michel Dewilde and Jerome Jacobs, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium -Home Sweet Home, Gallery Arts.I, Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi, India -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany -XII Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA - locws international 4, Swansea, UK -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain -Hors Pistes 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France -SAISON VIDEO 2009 #3, I CIA/SEAL, A Look At New Art in Estonia and Lithuania, curated by Mo Gourmelon, www.saisonvideo.com -Home Sweet Home, curated by Ombretta Argó Andruff, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, NYC, USA 2008 -Dessins etc…, Galerie Anton Weller &Isabelle Suret, Paris, France -Paradise Is Not Lost, curated by Eha Komissarov & KUMU, Gallery Zurab Tsereteli, Moscow, Russia -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France -Familienangelegenheiten, curated by Elke Falat, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Galerie im Kehrwiederturm, Hildesheim, Germany -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany -Borderlives. Contemporary Art from Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, curated by Ritva Röminger-Czako and Andreas Vowinckel, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany -LA MAIN NUMÉRIQUE, curated by Dominique Païni, Ecole d´art de la Communauté de l´agglomération d´Annecy, Annecy, France -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain -Borderlives. Contemporary Art from Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, curated by Ritva Röminger-Czako and Andreas Vowinckel, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany -Biennale Cuvèe 08, OK Center, Linz, Austria 2007 -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France -Provokatörer? KonstBio, Biografen Sture, Stockholm, Sweden -WARSAW DOES NOT EXIST, exhibition as a book, curated by Sebastian Cichocki, 2007 -STILL HERE: humour in post-communist performance video, Artspace, Sydney, Australia -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 -Priroda i društvo/Parallel Lines, curated by Silva Kalčić and Robin Mason, Muzej Rupe (Dubrovacki muzeji), Dubrovnik, Croatia -We like it a lot, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, UK -anger_aggression, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria 2006 -Fiktive Bauten und Städte in der Literatur, Architekturmuseum TU München, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany -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 -Shiftscale – Sculpture at the Extended Field KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2005 -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 and Visual Culture, Baltimore, USA -Reading in Absence, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary -Thrust, 26th International Biennial of Graphic Art. Ljubljana, Slovenia -Pyyteetön Rakkaus/ Undemanding Love, Rauma Art Museum, Finland -Island Art Film & Video Festival ’05, Prenelle Gallery, London, UK