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Karel Koplimets 2017
Vilde Road Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don’t be Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suburbs of Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Case No 7. Pic de Bugarach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Case No 8. You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties Case No 9. Monument to Crime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Case No 11. TALSINKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Case No 12. Kalamaja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Visible Solutions LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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VILDE ROAD CASE
Installation, silver gelatin prints, text, different objects, 2010
Installation views, Draakon Gallery, 2010
Vilde Road Case is a narrative room installation. It’s the home of a self-taught investigator who’s solving a murder which actually took place in Tallinn in 21.06.2010. The walls of the room are filled with photographs and descriptions of suspects, newspaper cut-outs, evidences and a map, on the table lies a typewriter and the whole room is filled with clues. The investigator is spying on the murder scene for suspects and is secretly taking photographs of them. He is using the same methods that were used by criminalists Alphonse Bertillon and Francis Galton about how to identify potential criminals by physical features. The absence of the investigator in the gallery puts the viewer in the position of the detective and hopefully starts a film alike narrative.
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VILDE ROAD CASE
Installation, silver gelatin prints, text, different objects, 2010
Installation views, Draakon Gallery, 2010
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VILDE ROAD CASE
Installation, silver gelatin prints, text, different objects, 2010
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VILDE ROAD CASE
Installation, silver gelatin prints, text, different objects, 2010
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DON’T BE EVIL
Interactive net-based installation, 3 projectors, 2011
Installation view, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, 2012
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DON’T BE EVIL
Interactive net-based installation, 3 projectors, 2011
Installation views, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, 2012
Don´t Be Evil (together with Ivar Veermäe) is an experiment based on connections between public space in Tallinn and its virtual representation. It is nothing new that in Tallinn, city space is very controlled and organized and if you want to go by the law you can only spread information via expensive private billboards. By default, we all expect urban spaces to be something which we consume but not contribute to or add something of our own. Don´t be evil is a form of virtual actionism where we try to recounquer urban space as a public platform for exchange and participation. Similar to Google’s strategy to capture images for Google Street View, we create our own version of the streets of Tallinn, adding new public spaces and areas in post-processing. Images of Tallinn are modified in a way that all advertisments are removed and replaced by white spaces. Visitors of the installation are invited to draw or write on these empty spaces with the means of a laser-tagging system, allowing them to redefine public space as a space for communication and exchange and not only a space for the advertisement of consumption.
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DON’T BE EVIL
Screenshots
Interactive net-based installation, 3 projectors, 2011
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SUBURBS OF FEAR
Installation, video projection, sound, scale model, 2012
Installation view, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, 2012
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SUBURBS OF FEAR
Installation, video projection, sound, scale model, 2012
Installation views, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, 2012
Suburbs of Fear deals with city space and the sense of danger. According to a lot of surveys people fear the most in districts which tend to have a rather bad reputation and are considered to have lower living standards. The same applies to deserted parks or bosks. At night time when the urban environment is even more deserted and every slightly moving shadow can be interpreted as a threat, every street corner may seem like a daunting place. “Playing with the percetion of reality, the installation illustrates the often irrrational mechanisms of fear.�
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SUBURBS OF FEAR
Installation, video projection, sound, scale model, 2012
Installation view, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, 2012
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CASE NO 7. PIC DE BUGARACH
Installation, pigment prints, videos, photocopies, postcards, sound, 2013
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CASE NO 7. PIC DE BUGARACH
Installation, pigment prints, videos, photocopies, postcards, sound, 2013
Installation view, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, 2013
Case No 7. Pic de Bugarach is a narrative room installation based on concrete events that took place on Dec 21st 2012 in a small village in Southern France called Bugarach. In the given story meet the reserved villagers, journalists, apocalypse freaks and survivalists, flying saucers, the end of the world, that didn’t happen and one Canadian couple who still founds their unfortunate end.
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CASE NO 7. PIC DE BUGARACH
Installation, pigment prints, videos, photocopies, postcards, sound, 2013
Installation views, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, 2013
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CASE NO 8. YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND ME IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES
Installation, framed silver gelatine prints, video, sound, body bags, 2014
Installation view, Rauma Art Museum, 2014
According to the statistics, most of the homicides in Estonia take place on private property (e.g. private houses, apartments etc.), whereas the killer and the victim know each other. In almost all the cases people involved in the crime, have been drunk and used an edge tool as a weapon. This work is a development of one of my latest pieces “Suburbs of Fear” (2012) that deals with the fears of becoming a crime victim while passing the suburb streets at night. With this new piece I move from the streets to the indoors, inspecting the crimes taking place in these same neighbourhoods, but mostly behind closed doors - where these fears might sometimes turn out to be real.
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CASE NO 8. YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND ME IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES
Installation, framed silver gelatine prints, video, sound, body bags, 2014
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CASE NO 8. YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND ME IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES
Video stills
Installation, framed silver gelatine prints, video, sound, body bags, 2014
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CASE NO 9. MONUMENT TO CRIME
Installation view, Showroom of BKA, 2015
Installation, scale model, concrete, video, pigment prints, 2015 - ...
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CASE NO 9. MONUMENT TO CRIME
Installation, scale model, concrete, video, pigment prints, 2015 - ..
Installation views, Showroom of BKA, 2015
Case No 9. Monument to Crime follows the topics of abduction and kidnapping cases in Austria (e.g. Natascha Kampusch’ case), reflecting also on the neat image of the local private houses. Freshly cut grass, tall well-groomed hedges, shuttered windows, closed gates, garage doors that look like castle gates etc. – the Austrian private houses with their gardens are so orderly and neat that they seem almost too good to be true, at the same time they are also well concealed from the looks of the outsiders. No one would ever expect anything terrifying happening behind the facades of these lovely idyllic suburban houses, this kind of environment looks completely safe. However sometimes the facades that look the best have the worst behind them. The house where Natascha Kampusch was held, looked as any of the houses in the neighbourhood. The pedestal for the work is made of concrete – the same material which was used for the heavy door in Kampusch’ dungeon. Also in Natascha Kampusch’ case the basement was afterwards filled with concrete, so that nobody could go to the rooms she suffered in. It has a symbolic meaning – the action that was meant to erase bad memories, the space of suffering and horror, is becoming a monument for the same thing.
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CASE NO 9. MONUMENT TO CRIME
Installation, scale model, concrete, video, pigment prints, 2015 - ...
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CASE NO 10. TALSINKI
Installation, pigment print, custom frame, fog machine, ice, 2 FullHD videos, sound, 2016 - ...
Installation view, Kalmar konstmuseum, 2016
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CASE NO 10. TALSINKI
Installation, pigment print, custom frame, fog machine, ice, 2 FullHD videos, sound, 2016 - ...
Installation views, Kalmar konstmuseum, 2016
Project Case No 11. TALSINKI is a work that embodies two tightly connected parts. The first part unfolds the topic of Estonian pendulum workers who are working in Finland but who continue on living in Estonia or have some other relation to the homeland which requires constant traveling between Tallinn and Helsinki. The second part deals with the Finns who are carrying a great amount of cheap liquor and other commodities overseas. This phenomenon could also be described as a kind of economical exchange – on the one hand, the Finnish construction market relies on Estonian builders and on the other, the Finns are stimulating the Estonian economy by paying the excise tax.
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CASE NO 10. TALSINKI
Installation, pigment print, custom frame, fog machine, ice, 2 FullHD videos, sound, 2016 - ...
Installation views, OCAT Shenzhen, 2016
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CASE NO 10. TALSINKI
Video stills
Installation, pigment print, custom frame, fog machine, ice, 2 FullHD videos, sound, 2016 - ...
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CASE NO 12. KALAMAJA
Installation, pigment prints, transparencies in lightboxes, light beam, fog machine, FullHD video, sound, 2016
Installation view, Draakoni Gallery, 2016
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CASE NO 12. KALAMAJA
Installation, pigment prints, transparencies in lightboxes, light beam, fog machine, FullHD video, sound, 2016
Installation view, Hobusepea Gallery, 2016
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CASE NO 12. KALAMAJA
Installation, pigment prints, transparencies in lightboxes, light beam, fog machine, FullHD video, sound, 2016
Project Case No. 12. Kalamaja studies the strange, in a way paranormal events and phenomena that have been taking place during the past few years in Kalamaja, the district in Tallinn. These events have a direct connection to the real estate bubble and gentrification occuring in the area.
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CASE NO 12. KALAMAJA
Installation, pigment prints, transparencies in lightboxes, light beam, fog machine, FullHD video, sound, 2016
Installation views, Hobusepea Gallery and Draakon Gallery, 2016
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VISIBLE SOLUTIONS LLC
Moderna Museet Malmรถ, Sweden, 20.09.2014
Hoisting the Banner. Installation, framed C - print A4, flag, 2010 - ...
Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria, 15.09.2013
Manifesta 9, Genk, Belgium, 31.05.2012
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VISIBLE SOLUTIONS LLC
Cesis Art Festival, Cesis, Latvia, 03.07. 2010
Hoisting the Banner. Installation, framed C - print A4, flag, 2010 - ...
B-galleria, Turku, Finland, 31.01. 2012
Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 24.02.2010 Hobusepea
Visible Solutions LLC is an artwork enterprise established in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia by three artists– Sigrid Viir (b.1979), Taaniel Raudsepp (b.1978) and Karel Koplimets (b.1986). The main sphere of interest of the enterprise is constituted by the mechanics of the world of economy and the world of art which they try to set against each other - economy as art, art as trade and production. www.visiblesolutions.eu
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CV
Curriculum Vitae Karel Koplimets 1986, Tallinn, Estonia Lives and works in Tallinn Mustamäe tee 86-80 12916 Tallinn, Estonia karelkoplimets@gmail.com www.karelkoplimets.com www.visiblesolutions.eu Education 2009-2013
Estonian Academy Of Arts, Photography, MA
2007-2008
Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Photography, tutor: Viktor Kolaŕ, BA
2005-2009
Estonian Academy Of Arts, Photography, BA
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017
Case No 11. TALSINKI, Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016
Case No. 12. Kalamaja, Hobusepea and Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013
Visible Solutions LLC, 1st May Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (together with Sigrid Viir and Taaiel Raudsepp)
2012
Visible Solutions LLC, B-Gallery, Turku, Finland (together with Sigrid Viir and Taaniel Raudsepp)
2011
Personal Record, Y-Gallery, Tartu, Estonia (together with Ivar Veermäe) Visible Solutions LLC, Monumental Gallery in Tartu Art House, Estonia (together with Sirid Viir and Taaniel Raudsepp)
2010
Don’t be evil, City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (together with Ivar Veermäe) Vilde Road Case, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Selected Group Exhibitions 2017
Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia, curator Magdalena Moskalewicz Work it, feel it!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, curator Anne Faucheret
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Global Control and Censorship, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia, curator Bernhard Serexhe (upcoming) 2016
Songlines for a New Atlas, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden, curator Torun Ekstrand Bucharest Biennale 7, Bucharest, Romania, curator Niels Van Tomme Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Adrift, OCAT Shenzhen, China, curators Leo Li Chen, Qu Chang and Wenqi Zeng
2015
reGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, curator Anne Lacoste Zonen des Übergangs, Fluc, Vienna, Austria, curator Ursula Maria Probst
2014
Society Acts - The Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden,curator Andreas Nilsson Crime Scene. Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma Art Museum, Finland, curators Laura Kokkonen and Henna Paunu Köler Prize 2014. Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2013
Liquid Assets. steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria, curators Katerina Gregos and Luigi Fassi Köler Prize 2013. Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2012
Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, Tallinn, curators Eha Komissarov, Rael Artel, Kati Ilves, Hiilkka Hiiop Manifesta 9, Genk, Belgium, curator Cuauhtémoc Medina Speed of Darkness. Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Turku, Finland, curator Jaakko Niemelä
2011
gateways. Art and Networked Culture, Art Museum of Estonia KUMU, Tallinn, curator Sabine Himmels bach Museum Files I: Collected Principles, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, curator Anders Härm
2010
Annex 6. The Politics of the Invisible Hand, ART ISTKUKU NU UT, Y-Gallery, Tartu, Estonia, curator Rael Artel Visible Solutions LLC, Cēsis Art Festival “Take Care”, Latvia, curators Margit Säde Lehni, Daiga Rudzate, Virginija Januškevišiuté
2009
MY DEAR PARANOIA, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, curators Piibe Piirma, Jane Suviste and Piret Räni
2008
Doings or Not, Galerija Vzigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curators Laura Kuusk and Margit Säde
2007
Something Is Wrong, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, curator Marco Laimre
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Catalogues Artists´ Spaces, Estonian Academy of Arts Press, 2017 The second annual publication of HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, HIAP, 2016 Bucharest Biennale, Onomatopee Projects, 2016 KUMU HITS. Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Art Museum of Estona, Art Museum of Estonia – Kumu Art Museum, 2016 Songlines for a New Atlas, Kalmar konstmuseum, 2016 reGeneration3, Muśee de l’Elyśee & Skira editore, 2015 Survival Kit 6. Utopian City, Laikmetígás Mákslas centras, 2014 Society Acts: The Moderna Exhibition 2014, Moderna Museet, 2014 Köler Prize 2014, Lugemik, Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia, 2014 Frightful Stories, Frightful Stories, 2014 Liquid Assets, In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital, Mousse publishing, 2013 Köler Prize 2013, Lugemik, Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia, 2014 Where You End, I Begin, Estonian Union of Photography Artists, 2013 Manifesta 9, The Deep of the Modern, A Subcyclopedia, Silvan Editors, 2012 gateways. Art and Networked Culture, Erschienen im Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011 ART IST KUKU NU UT, Art ist kuku nu ut, 2010 Awards 2014
Nominee of Köler Prize (Visible Solutions LLC)
2013
Nominee of Köler Prize
2012
Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Foundation for Fine and Applied Arts
2012
Baltic Assembly Art Prize
Works in Collections Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland Estonian Art Museum, Estonia
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Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia Tartu Art Museum, Estonia