EVE KASK was born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1958. Graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with a degree in book design and printmaking in 1984. Between 1985 and 2009 she has taught at Tallinn Art School and since 1997 at Estonian Academy of Arts where she is currently an Associate Professor in Printmaking and Artist’s Book.

She has exhibited her work extensively both nationally and internationally and participated in workshops and residencies in Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Wales, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Scotland. Between 1989 and 2008 she has had 27 solo exhibitions in Estonia and abroad. Eve Kask is engaged in interdisciplinary practices that include printmaking, artist’s book, installation and anthropological documentary (such as exhibitions and documentary videos). During the last ten years she has turned her attention to photographic projects and published two books: “Käsmu, its people and houses” (2003) and “A Complete Guide to Estonian Bus Stops”(2008). In 2009 she curated the exhibition “Estonian Face”. She has been the president of the Tallinn Print Triennial since 1996

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EHA KOMISSAROV is a curator, art historian and art critic. She has curated many important exhibitions in the Art Museum of Estonia as well as abroad. Komissarov has published many art critical texts and written several influential catalogue texts. Since 2006 she is working as a curator and programme manager at Kumu Art Museum.

Born 1947

Education:
1973 University of Tartu, History of Art
1999 Scholarship from the U.S. Association of Museums for participation in a course for curators at MOMA and for a residence in Lafayette, Louisiana
2000 Stipend from the British Council for training in the UK

Work Experience:
Since 2006 Programme manager/Curator, Kumu Art Museum
Since 1989 Expert, Vaal Gallery
1996 – 2005Curator, Art Museum of Estonia Exhibition Hall in Rotermann’s Salt Storage Researcher, Art Museum of Estonia

Member of the organizing committee of the Tallinn Print Triennial, since 1999

Selected Recent Exhibitions Curated in Estonia:
At the Kumu Art Museum:
Difficult Choices 1944-1991. Estonian Art from the End of the Second World War Until Re-Independence. Permanent Exhibition.
2009 I love Malmö, with Maria-Kristiina Soomre
2008 Fluxus East. Networks of Fluxus in Eastern Europe. Together with curator Petra Stegman, Germany
2007 Archives in Translation. Virtual Documenta.
2006 Collected Crises: Estonian art in the 1990s.

Selected Exhibitions Curated Abroad:
2008 Plaisirs De L`Imagination, Art contemporain d`Estonie, Chatea Tours, Tours, France
2008 Paradise is not Lost , Contemporary Art from Estonia, Gallery Zurab Tsereteli , Moscow
2008 Estonian exposition at the IXth International Biennial of Graphics of the Baltic Sea Countries
1995 Wait We´re Loading. Group Exhibition of Estonian Artists, Göteborg Art Museum, Göteborg
1991 Exhibition of Estonian Socialist Realism at Stockholm Kulturhuset

Selected Publications:
Monograph “Mare Vint: litod ja joonistused”; Tallinn: Kunst, 1991
Essays on numerous contemporary Estonian artists, including Jaan Toomik, Mark Raidpere, Ülo Sooster, Jasper Zova, Ado Vabbe (chapter in the new history of Estonian art; in print); prefaces to several catalogues; critique in Estonian press.

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SIMON REES is Senior Curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius. In that role Rees is co-editor of the journal CAC INTERVIU the quarterly conversation about art and is convenor of the monthly international lecture series the CAC Café Talks that brings internationally renowned culture professionals to Vilnius.

In 2007 Rees was Commissioner for artists Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas at the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 52nd La Biennale di Venezia – that was recipient of a special biennale jury award for National Pavilion. In 2007 he also presented the exhibition Chicks On Speed: Shoe Fuck! at the CAC that was the all-girl ensemble’s largest gallery based exhibition to date. Working with curators Beatrice Josse and Florence Derieux he in 2008 he presented a six city French-Lithuanian exchange project (a partnership between the CAC and the FRAC Grand-Est network). Recently he curated CODE SHARE: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists as part of the Vilnius European Capital of Culture festival. He is now working on the co-production of the Frieze Commissions for the 2009 Frieze Art Fair (the first such project from Eastern Europe), and on producing two new artists films with Deimantas Narkevicius (LT) and Yael Bartana (IL) that will be presented later in the year at the British Film Institute and in a special screening event at the London Film Festival (alongside the work of Miroslav Balka [PL] and Marcel Odenbach[DE]).

Rees writes regularly about art from Eastern Europe for international press and publication, including Frieze magazine, and has forthcoming chapters in books being published by art and University presses in Lithuania, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United States. He is also the author of the triennial’s concept.