Egle Vesk's Folio by Egle Vesk

Portfolio Works by Egle Vesk Graphic Design MAâ&#x20AC;&#x160;, Kingston University, London, England BAâ&#x20AC;&#x160;, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

CONTENT

Graphic Design MA 3 Graphic Design BA 45 Fine Art Print 97 Painting 103 Drawing 113 Photography 119 Performance 127 Animation 137 Video 141

GRAPHIC DESIGN (MA)

FINAL MASTERS PROJECT VIA — SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS / 2011 / Project initiated by Ian Noble, Richard Whitbread Compiled by Egle Vesk Via intends to create portraits of power structures to communicate different point of views about imbalances of power and to show connection between social consciousness and social inequality. With help of a dialogue, binary opposition, texts and images I decide to create visual essay about the subject. My Final Masters Project should appeal to every viewer as a visual doubt which questions social situation and political choice and most importantly role of social consciousness. The project is an experiment of construction and deconstruction of meanings. This project does not deliver ready made solutions instead I apply ideas in opposition to rise questions and open discussions about the matter. My aim is to draw attention to our contribution into social structures, our preception of it and our relationship with it. I would like public to realize the importance of decision making and start dialoge about who’s representing needs of society.

Egle Vesk / Graphic design / Final Masters Project / Viaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Social Consciousness

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Final Masters Project / Viaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Social Consciousness

BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE WHITEWASH / 2011 / Project initiated by Lawrence Zeegen Compiled by Egle Vesk, Roxana Bacian, Kerry Hyndman, Alex Dring Building Interdisciplinary Practice analyses the idea of selling an awareness. The aim of Building Interdisciplinary Practice project is to highlight the way big corporations whitewash over the negative aspects of their services, making the consumer think they are doing something positive for the world by buying their goods. We are looking into making our audience think twice before buying a product. Having looked at the ways companies use fear/guilt to sell their products, we plan to use this concept by taking green washing to the extreme. That means promoting negative products in a socially conscious and eco friendly manner. We chose products that had now become advertising taboos; either not being advertised or coming with serious health warnings.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Building Interdisciplinary Practice / Whitewash

Regarding the imagery we are using and the extreme way of illustrating our message, the tone of voice used is a serious one. However, the existence of our campaign should be absurd, so this adds a certain tongue in cheek humor. We wanted to tackle the health aspect, but rather than preaching about the negative effects of alcohol, we spun the approach to voice a positive outcome to the inevitable drawbacks to drinking. We physically created the alcohol poster, as we decided as a group that this was our strongest idea, both visually and thematically. Using alcohol bottle tops of various shapes, sizes and conditions, we created a collage in which the instantly recognisable medical cross emerged out of the image. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to give too much away when reading the imagery, but suggest strong connotations of health and well being, createdout of imagery associated with binge drinking. We wanted to give the impression of a handmade, wholesome style, which can be found in other white/green wash campaigns. We did this by collecting our own material and a back-to-basics handmade approach, without relying too heavily on computer techniques. We originally created the campaign to be absurd and shocking, as it highlighted the extremes of this type of advertising, and the depths certain companies could go to exploit the market and make consumers choose their product over another. However, having completed the project, what we found surprising is that the advert could almost be believable; both in the simple but powerful visual message and the use of off setting negative consumer actions with positive repercussions.

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Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Building Interdisciplinary Practice / Whitewash

/ 2009 / Project initiated by Richard Whitbread Compiled by Egle Vesk First Impression lasts 3 second and forever. This comic book reflects hard on things that have created the strongest impression for me in London. Story is treated spontaneously with wit and humour. Through the project I test my powers of observation and have a bit fun with.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Innovation And Exploration / First Impressions

LOGO SERIES / 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201D;10 / Project initiated by Estonian Government Compiled by Egle Vesk

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Logo Series

LOGO SERIES / 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201D;10 / Project initiated by local businesses Compiled by Egle Vesk

/ 2011 / Project initiated by Ian Noble, Richard Whitbread Compiled by Egle Vesk Final Masters Project Portfolio is showing how I was processing my Final Masters Project. It is collection of research, visual examples, design concept and design decisions.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Final Masters Project Portfolio

PACKAGING MUSIC FOR YOUR PLANTS / 2009 / Project initiated by Ian Noble Compiled by Egle Vesk Listen music: http://umblu.com/mfyp.html

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Packaging / Music For Your Plants

HOME / 2011 / Project initiated by Vaughan Oliver, Richard Whitbread Compiled by Egle Vesk Home project communicates what home means to me. Creative challenge is to visualize home-being in very personal ways. I research subjects like dream house to homelessness to existentialism and I analyze my own moving addiction. I map my research for accommodation, surroundings that make me feel â&#x20AC;&#x153;at homeâ&#x20AC;? and relationships. My aim is to connect visually and conceptually materialism, spiritualism, dialogism and create balance between these elements. I represent all three ideas on different layers using various sizes of pages for each group. I combine pages in a way that separate ideas can start to communicate to each other and construct double meanings.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Design Methodologies / Home

BOOK SERIES H.G.WELLS / 2010 / Project initiated by D&AD Student Awards 2010 Compiled by Egle Vesk Book Series. My challenge was to choose from the titles listed in the mandatory requirements and to create hardback cover design that works as a set and establish the books as timeless fiction. All three chosen books by H.G.Wells are close studies of personality. As well about social order, urban misery, class struggles, personal liberty, modern slavery, moral relativism and relations between sexes. Cover image illustrates a character and the subject of each book and bonds the series together. Visualized part of a locomotive wheel portraits either class struggles as broken circle (Kipps), center of relationships as coupling rod (Love and Mr.Lewisham) or modern slavery as spokes (The History of Mr. Polly). Spoiled book covers reflect social critisism on subject, like changing values in society (Kipps), low versus high morality (Love and Mr.Lewisham) and diversity of meaning (The History of Mr. Polly). Purpose of the book jacket is to hide damaged parts of the cover to communication controversial aesthetic and raise questions about hidden and revealed stories. Fashion of lapels, fabrics and patterns give us sense of occasion and introduce identity of Edwardian gentleman.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Book Series / Herbert George Wells

Kipps

Love and Mr.Lewisham

The History of Mr. Polly

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Book Series / Herbert George Wells

GRAPHIC DESIGN (BA)

THINK AGAIN! / 2006 / Assignment to think about every day. Why do we like do be praised?

COMMENT / 2008 / Project initiated by Indrek Sirkel Compiled by Egle Vesk Comment is a newspaper about the merge of old and new mediums and the ways they meet each other in odd circumstances to catch the eye of the readers. I am not much of an online comments reader myself but it seems to me that the comments there have a big influence over the articles as the phenomena itself eats the author and creates the new much polar understanding of certain stories. My work developed after reading an Estonian daily newspaper called PĂ¤evalehtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online comments. It was then when I realized the importance of the comments, after that I decided to read all of them and make a selection and divided them into groups by character. I found theoretical similarities on my own thoughts and those of Roland Barthes in his essay called The Death Of The Author. I then altered the original newspaper articles and created a new version of it using my own chosen comments from the website where every page is represented into a certain stereotyped column.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Comment

PAVLOV’S DOGS SOCIAL POSTER / 2007 / Project initiated by Ivar Sakk Compiled by Egle Vesk Pavlov’s Dogs social poster series was developed during a 4 month class in which we used open conversations and lectures about relations between Russia and Estonia in both a political and social scene. I considered a political ideology as a product and divide the way a 4P plan is shown in marketing schemes — personnel, place, promotion, price. Every P was individually given one visual solution. When all these visual solutions came together it made the final design.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Pavlov’s Dogs

BALTI RAILWAY STATION INFOGRAPHIC FOR TRAINS / 2007 / Project initiated by Ivar Sakk Compiled by Egle Vesk Balti Railway Station. At the beginning of this assignment everybody had to choose one type of transport in Tallinn city, research it and then visit the places involved. The final brief was to promote our chosen transport and redesign the info graphic into a more justified and good format which could be taken with you whilst traveling. I chose to design a brochure for three different train companies that run from the same train station but have no common commercial output. I laid out the existing timetables and redesigned the rail scheme and maps.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Balti Railway Station

FLY足AND CNOPT / 2006 / Compiled by Egle Vesk Fly and Cnopt t-shirt was made to characterize an artist community called Cnopt (some Fly ex members). The community members like to create provocative art, as well as known they enjoy fight for and to each other.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / T-shirts

MARE IS PAYING / 2007 / Project initiated by Kristjan Mändmaa Compiled by Egle Vesk Mare Is Paying. For this assignment we were given a task to find one word or sentence to send a message out to people that signifies the individuals thoughts. My case is about being in denial of living in depth. The message is formed into “Mare is paying”.

CONVEY / 2008 / Project initiated by Mikk Heinsoo Compiled by Egle Vesk Convey is a project were the sound effects and the information they hold is transferred to a still image from a movie onto a spread sheet were an image represents a sound effect. The image next to it represents the real sound, how the effect is actually made. All thought the work is about sounds, it is just as an example to show how much information can be exploited by unknowing.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Convey

SHIP HAPPENS / 2006 / Project initiated by Marijke Cobbenhagen, Chantal Hendriksen Compiled by Hans Tort, Koit Randmäe, Eerik Kändler, Kaarel Nõmmik, Ingmar Niklus, Leen Kunman, Grete Gutmann, Mikus Vanags, Sandra and Sonja, Ivari Lipp, Helene Vetik, Kadri-Maria Mitt, Susana Colaco, Hendrik Väli, Kaspar Paas, Mikk Olli, Brit Pavelson, Egle Vesk

Ship Happens is a turnout of a short workshop given by two young graphic designers from Holland who have just finished a Typography MA course at the Werkplaats in Arnhem 2004. The starting point of this assignment was a short story called The Flying Enterprise (1952). The focus of the assignment lays more on the romantisation, the unsolved mysteries, the open ending and unanswered questions of a story rather than on the tragedy. T he end result became a book where all the students work was compiled together in it. My work named She is based on an original short-story with small changes in it. In my part I swopped the ship’s name with word she to let the story sound more like a love letter and I did an experiment with the goal of pushing the same content into new form solutions.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Ship Happens

READING JOURNAL / 2007 / Project initiated by Jaan Kl천seiko Compiled by Egle Vesk Reading Journal is a book for those people who like to read a lot and those who love to document their impressions with words as well as with drawings. A good gift idea for acquaintances who you do not know well enough to choose a specific gift for them.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Reading Journal

ALICE-EMILY AND OTHER HEROES / 2007 / Project initiated by Pent Talvet Compiled by Egle Vesk Alice-Emily And Other Heroes is a decorative design for literature. One chapter of Alice in Wonderland together with my own illustrations find a very individual outcome full of fantasy.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Alice-Emily And Other Heroes

TEA PARTY TYPEFACE / 2007 / Project initiated by Anton Koovit Compiled by Egle Vesk Tea party typeface was specially created to illustrate and headline one chapter of Alice in Wonderland.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Typefaces

ASCETIC TYPO / 2007 / Project initiated by Anton Kooovit Compiled by Egle Vesk Ascetic typeface was created for ecological reasons. In that we only use ink to print out parts of the letter which makes it recognizable.

COLOR MAPS FOR SYNESTHESIA / 2007 / Project initiated by Matthias Kreutzer Compiled by Egle Vesk Color Maps For Synesthesia poster-serial is the outcome of a one month color workshop with a foreign tutor from Germany. Because of financial problems I had at this moment I knew that I would not be able to print out 3-5 colorful prints. I looked into subjects like color-blindness, animal eyesight and then I found a phenomena of synesthesia. Sometimes low budget one color print can create fine results.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Color Maps For Synesthesia

EKA JOURNAL NR.4 / 2007 / Project initiated by Indrek Sirkel Compiled by Kaarel Nõmmik, Ingmar Niklus, Indrek Sirkel, Väino Õun, Igor Hobotov, Kristina Timmer, Ivari Lipp, Mikk Olli, Norman Orro, Rita Brito, Ingvar Meen, Helen Vetik, Egle Vesk

Estonian Academy of Arts Journal NR.4 is compiled by second and third course students. The project aim is to introduce the graphic design as a discipline, the way it is seen by the students themselves. Every student’s work became very individual and not always straight forward about graphic design itself. It is about things that do matter beyond a graphic design like: source of inspiration, cultural awareness, communication, research, creativity and so on. Hyperlink “http://graphicdesign.ee/files/EKA_ajakiri.pdf” http://graphicdesign.ee/files/EKA_ajakiri.pdf

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / EKA Journal Nr.4

LESS IS MORE / 2007 / Project initiated by Marko Karu Compiled by Egle Vesk

Less Is More was created during a short class of marketing. The assignment was to pay close attention to the ways we completed briefs in other classes. T he comic book is talking about the production process itself with a “Do it yourself” attitude. As I was inspired by my everyday life I decided to divide a diary-styled storyboard into chapters to make it more clear for the viewer. This work shows ironically how I found ideas and created a graphic design project out of it.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Less Is More

THE TALLINN’ 91ONWARDS / 2006 / Project initiated by Bart de Baets and Kaisa Lassinaro Compiled by Leen Kunman, Eerik Kändler, Kaarel Nõmmik, Hendrik Väli, Brit Pavelson, Reela Nigul, Grete Gutmann, Norman Orro, Mikk Olli, Hans Tort, Kristina Timmer, Daniel Kotsjuba, Margo Niit, Rain Saavel, Ronald Truvee, Sandra Kossorotova, Sonja Apunnikova, Väino Õun, Ivari Lipp, Helene Vetik, Ingmar Niklus, Marek Tihkan, Mikus Vanags, Egle Vesk

The Tallinn’ 91 Onwards newspaperwas created during a week-long workshop. There are certain elements in the newspapers that always have their own identity and form. We were asked to play around with typical graphic elements and re-use them in our design approach. At the end of the workshop The Tallinn’ 91 Onwards became a collection of newspaper covers. On my cover there is a story about the world greatest terrorist organization called society. They are active in Tallinn too. We Will Provide is performed by Egle Vesk and Remo Randver, text by Remo Randver and photo by Katri Kuusk.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / The Tallinn’ 91 Onwards

LOST IN TRANSLATION / 2007 / Project initiated by Kristjan M채ndmaa Compiled by Egle Vesk Lost In Translation is the unlikely language venture through an on-line script translator, having often hilarious encounters with its meanings and visuals, you ultimately discover a new belief in interpretation possibilities.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Lost In Translation

FAN OF HOHNER HARMONICA INFOGRAPHIC FOR COLLECTION / 2007 / Project initiated by Tuuli Aule Compiled by Egle Vesk Fan Of Hohner Harmonica. The brief for this assignment was to research my own or somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal collection (minimum of 15 items) and try to find the best way to bring out the collectors relationship with their collection as well as my own personal relationship with the chosen collection. Students were allowed to use any kind of medium but my work came out as a double sided poster. My work is about the collection of harmonicas owned my Meeland Sepp.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Fan Of Hohner Harmonica

I’LL QUIT BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER / 2008 / Project initiated by Anton Koovit Compiled by Egle Vesk I′ll Quit Borderline Personality Disorder, for this brief the typography tutor gave all the students one keyword to start with — border. Everybody had to find their own specific title. The aim of the project was to find around 100 pages of material based on our chosen subject (the above title). The final assignment was to design a book out of all the collected material and work on fields such as research, editing, layout, typography, budget, producing, printing and binding.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / I’ll Quit Borderline Personality Disorder

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Quitâ&#x20AC;&#x160; Borderline Personality Disorder

FINE ART PRINT

NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL litography / 2004 /

MORE LOVE LETTERS! linol cut / 2004 /

Egle Vesk / Fine Art Print / More Love Letters!

WHERE IS MY HANDS? GIVE THEM BACK! intaglio print / 2004 /

ยง5.1 non-toxic development print / 2006 /

Egle Vesk / Fine Art Print / ยง5.1

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PAIN+TING

HISTORY oil paint / 2006 /

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IN FASHION oil paint / 2005 /

Egle Vesk / Painting / In Fashion

ME AND US oil paint / 2007 /

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IN A VACUUM oil paint / 2004 /

Egle Vesk / Painting / In A Vacuum

DIARIES oil paint / 2005 /

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ANUS painting / 2008 /

Egle Vesk / Painting / Anus

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BODY LANGUAGE acrylic paint / 2004 /

Egle Vesk / Painting / Body Language

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DRAWING

DEVIL’S HAIRCUT drawing / 2005 /

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DADAJADA drawing / 2005 /

Egle Vesk / Drawing / Dadajada

POISON drawing / 2005 /

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BIGMOUTH drawing / 2005 /

Egle Vesk / Drawing / Bigmouth

MUTANT drawing / 2005 /

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PHOTOGRAPHY

IRONBIRDS photo / 2006 /

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FIRST LOVE BY PERFORMANCE GROUP F.L.Y. photo / 2005 /

Egle Vesk / Photo / First Love By Performance Group F.L.Y.

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SAG MIR WO DIE BLUMEN SIND BY PERFORMANCE GROUP F.L.Y. photo / 2005 /

Egle Vesk / Photo / Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind By Performance Group F.L.Y.

PLAY BY PERFORMANCE GROUP RUBENS photo / 2006 /

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EXIBITION photo / 2007 /

Egle Vesk / Photo / Exhibition

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PERF-ROMANCE

WE GOT BLACK CEILING IN OUR ROOM performance / 2005 /

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WE GOT BLACK CEILING IN OUR ROOM performance / 2005 /

Egle Vesk / Performance / We Got Black Ceiling In Our Room

JUMP performance / 2003 /

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OPEN SPACE performance / 2004 /

Egle Vesk / Performance / Open Space

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STILL LIFE performance / 2007 /

Egle Vesk / Performance / Still Life

JUMP II performance / 2007 /

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F.L.Y. DOGS AGAIN performance with F.L.Y. / 2007 /

Egle Vesk / Performance / F.L.Y. Dogs Again

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ANIMATION

BREAK THE ICE stop motion animation / 2006 /

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Egle Vesk / Animation / Break The Ice

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VIDEO

WHAT IS HE BUILDING IN THERE? video / 2006 /

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WHAT IS HE BUILDING IN THERE? video / 2006 /

Egle Vesk / Video / What Is He Building In There?

{ } EPMTY SET video / 2006 /

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UNTITLED SHEET video / 2007 / Compiled with Jenny Antenne

Egle Vesk / Video / Untitled Sheet

ADAPTATION video / 2004 /

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Curriculum Vitae

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Claverdale Road, Brixton, London, SW2 Phone: +44 (0) 785 4633 036 or +44 (0)20 8674 6965 E-Mail: veskmeister@gmail.com

Education .......................................................................................................................................................................................................

Kingston University London, England

Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia

Masters Degree in Communication Design/Graphic Design 2009 - 2011 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design 2005 - 2009 Iceland Academy of Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland BA Graphic Design — exchange studies 2006 Academy Grata, Pärnu, Estonia Multidiscipline Arts and Performance — foundation course 2003 -2004

BA Building Engineering — resigned 2001-2003

Experiences ........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Being commissioned to do works of design and art. Skills with programs  Adobe Illustrator  Adobe Photoshop  Adobe InDesign. Some skills in FontLab Studio, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS

Objective

To gain knowledge, skills and employment as a graphic designer

References

Contact: +44 (0)20 8417 4347

Contact: vaughan23@ntlworld.com

Contact: +44 (0) 780 2177 515

Ian Noble

Coordinator MA/MFA Communication Design School of Communication Design Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Kingston University

Vaughan Oliver Graphic Designer Studio v23

Richard Whitbread

Course Director MA/MFA Communication Design School of Communication Design Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Kingston University

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Exhibitions ......................................................................................................................................................

22-25.09/2011 10-28.02/2006 04-18.11/2005 20-30.08/2005 11/2004 04/2004 03/2004 02/2004 31.12/03-01.01/04

Festivals ......................................................................................................................................................

27-28. 01/2006 07-18.01/2006 10.07/2004 01-02.05/2004 01/2004 09.11/2003

Selected Performances ......................................................................................................................................................

11/2006 28.01/2006 07.012006 23.08/2005 12/2005 10.07/2004 03/2004

Short films and videos ......................................................................................................................................................

2009 2008 2006 2006 2003

MA Final Degree Show, The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK Printed 3, Estonian National Library, Tallinn, Estonia Machine of reincarnatsion (solo exhibition), Galery C.n.o.p.t., Tallinn, Estonia Teenager in The black suitcase, Rael Artel non profit project space, Pärnu, Estonia All short, Rosslare hotell, Co. Wexford, Ireland Lithography vol.2, Pärnu, Estonia Alle Gegen Alles, Universitat Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany Artpower, Pärnu Museum of Modern Art, Pärnu, Estonia The day, Pärnu Muuseumiait, Pärnu, Estonia

Kaamos 006, Looga farm,Valgamaa, Estonia Ingraphy, Pärnu, Estonia Time, Space, Movement, Paide, Estonia Fideo and vilmfestival, Pärnu, Estonia Ingraphy, Pärnu, Estonia Kaunas performance festival, Kaunas, Lithuania

Dripping memories, Icelandic Academy of Art, Reikjavik, Iceland Fly dogies (with cnopt), Kaamos 006, Looga farm,Valgamaa, Estonia Purpel flames burst out from the mirror and lights up the curtains (with R.Randver), Ingraphy, Est. We ve got black ceiling in our room, Rael Arter galery, Pärnu, Estonia Waiting for Mr. God, Dublin airport, Ireland White (with Teija Kotipalo),Time, Space, Movement festival, Paide, Estonia Alle Gegen Alles, Open Space, Berlin, Germany

“Sound collage” with A.Dring, R.Bacian, M.H. Liu, Kingston Upon Thames, England “Untitled sheet” with Jenny Hasselbach, Tallinn, Estonia “What is he building in there”, Reikjavik, Iceland “Windfarm”, Wexford, Ireland “Outdoor”, Pärnu, Estonia

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