Kai Kaljo

Elukäik

Kai Kaljo on sündinud 20.augustil 1959. aastal. Ta lõpetas Tallinna Muusikakeskkooli 1977. aastal ja Tallinna Kunstiülikooli maaliosakonna 1990. aastal.
Kaljo on töötanud 2007-2015 Tallinna Ülikooli Kunstide Instituudi professorina ning kuni 2017.aastani oli Kaljo Balti filmi, meedia, kunstide ja kommunikatsiooni instituudi kaasaegse kunsti dotsent.
Kuigi Kaljo on lõpetanud kunstiakadeemias maalieriala, on ta laiemalt tuntuks saanud installatsiooni- ja videokunstnikuna. Kunstniku tähelend ja rahvusvaheline tuntus sai alguse videotööga "Luuser" (1997), mis räägib eneseirooniliselt ja sotsiaalkriitiliselt kunstniku autsaideri positsioonist.
"Kai Kaljo töid iseloomustab emotsionaalsus, isegi poeetilisus, mis toob vaatajani läbitunnetatud sõnumi. Ja samas on  ta vaieldamatult väga terane vaatleja - suur osa tema tööde ainestikust on elust enesest, kunstnik on osanud olla õigel ajal õiges kohas, pööranud tähelepanu millelegi, mida enamik möödujaid, kas üldse ei ole märganud või siis on kustutanud järgmisel hetkel mälust. Enamgi veel, ta on selle jäädvustanud videolindile ning seetõttu äratanud uuele elule. "
Kunstikriitik Mari Laaniste on öelnud, et Kai Kaljo on kunstis sotsiaalsem ja sotsialiseeruvam kui kunstis kombeks. Tema videotöid iseloomustav avatus ja inimlik mõõde ongi osutunud rahvusvahelises kunstipildis nõutumaks kui kodukandis. Seda kuvandit on kultiveerinud kunstniku enda minapilt, mis ehk kaasajas kõlab pisut utreeritult, kuid arvestades kunstnike valdavat positsiooni ühiskonnas, jab ilmselt alatiseks aktuaalseks.
Kunstniku isa, graafik Richard Kaljo kirjutas 1960.–1970. aastatel tütrele rohkesti kirju, milles kajastub Eesti XX sajandi esimese poole dramaatiline ajalugu üksikisiku kogemuse kaudu. Nende ja muude materjalide põhjal koostas Kaljo video "Isa kirjad" (2014).

Valik isikunäituseid

2018 Lilled. Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn
2017 Vanadus@vabadus. Vabaduse galerii, Tallinn 
2017 Asjad. Fotomuuseum, Tallinn 
2015 Haapsalu Värvimisraamat. Haapsalu Linnagalerii
2014 Isa kirjad. Tartu Kunstimaja 
2013 Lase mind sisse, lase mind välja..Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli galerii Futurum
2011 Kai õpetab iseennast. Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn 
2011 One Another. Kai Kaljo invites Carlos Nader. Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2009 Ainult eestlastele. Tallinna kunstihoone galerii 
2009 Sarajevska Zima. Sarajevo, Bosnia &Hetzegovina
2007 OTOK Gallery, Dubrovnik, Horvaatia
2006 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2005 Tallinna Kunstihoone
2005 Double Act.(with Jan Svenungsson), Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn
2003 A Loser, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Saksamaa
2003 Greetings from La Jolla, Knollgalerie Wien, Austria
2003 Halfway to Venice. HDLU Gallery, Zagreb, Horvaatia
2001 Taevane. Tallinna Kunstihoone galerii
2001 Videos by Kai Kaljo. SCCA Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakkia
2001 What do You Read, my Lord? (with Ly Lestberg), Nuova Icona galerii, Veneetsia
1999 Kino? Tallinna Linnagaleri
1999 Kai Kaljo. Likovni Salon, Celje, Sloveenia
1997 Maalikunstniku tuba.Sammas galerii, Tallinn
1995 Liivale kirjutatud. Tallinna Kunstihoone galerii

Grupinäitused ja festivalid

2018 Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin. Paris (Cite Internationale des Arts), Berlin(Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
2018 AFF. Arsi filmifestival, Tallinn
2017 Reykjavik International Film Festival
2017 Enjoy Your File, Download Your Life. Het Bos, Antwerpen
2017 Proov.(kunstnike visandiraamatud, kuraator Margot Kask)Hobusepea galerii
2017 Enjoy Your File, Dowload Your Life. Curated by Studio David Claerbout. Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 Eesti Fotokunstimess
2016 KUMU kunstifilmide festival
2016 Shaken, Not Stirred. Eesti videokunst 1997-2015. Paide arvamusfestival
2014 Richard Kaljo..KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Girls Next Door. Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden
2014 f/stop, 6th Festival for Photography, Leipzig, Germany
2014 Baltic Gold. Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden
2014 Post-Communist Expression. Point Culture, Brussels, Belgium 
2013 I Don’t Eat Flowers, Ha gamle prestegard, Norway 
2013 Odessa Biennale, Odessa Museum for Contemporary Art, Ukraine
2013 GoEast Film Festival Wiesbaden, Germany
2013 Alt_Cph, Fabrikken,Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Passports. Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland 
2013 Economy. Stills (Scotland’s Centre for Photography), Edinburgh; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow 
2012 Girls Next Door. Gotlands Kunstmuseum, Visby, Sweden
2012 Huh? Pfui! Yuck! Aha! Wow! The Classics of Estonian Contemporary Art. Tartu Art Museum
2012 Exotic. Tallinn Art Hall
2012 Mother and Daughter. Tartu Art House
2011/2012 Ill Fares the Land, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2011 Museum Files. Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2011 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik
2010 Kunst Macht Frei. Contemporary Estonian Art. Janus Pannonius Muzeum, Pecs, Hungary
2010 Everything Is Going To Be Alright. Marina Abramović, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Kai Kaljo, Mike Marshall, Ene-Liis Semper, Santeri Tuori, Guido van der Werve KUMU, Tallinn
2010 Transitland.Trieste Contemporanea, Italy
2010 Artisterium 3 International festival for arts ,Karvasla Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia 
2010 Moscow International Film Festival, Mediaforum
2010 Transitland. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2010 Transitland. SPACE Gallery, Bratislava
2010 Imagining Bodies: Landscape, Memory, Community. Tallinn University 
2010 The Artist in the (Art) Society.Motorenhalle Dresden, Germany
Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem, Chech Republik
2010 Transitland: Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2010 ...On the Eastern Front. Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009. Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2009-2010 Gender Check. MUMOK,Vienna; 2010- Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Transitland Destination Berlin.Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
2009 Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009. Goethe-Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Kunst laulupidu. Rakvere Theatre
2009 Waterpieces international video and contemporary art festival.NOASS, Riga, Latvia
2009 Self-.exposure. Tallinn Art Hall
2008 ZubrOFFka Independent Film Festival, Bialystok, Poland
2008 Ffilmic Film Festival Llanfyllin, Wales (retrospective)
2008 Interventions.Llanfyllin Workhouse, Wales
2008 Celluloid Crossings.Privilege Walk, Malmö, Sweden
2008 World One Minutes.Today art Museum, Beijing, China (upcoming)
2008 Border State. Quangzhou, China
2008 Freedom Square. Tallinn Art Hall
2007 Nightcomers.10th Istanbul Biennial
2007 Waterpieces 2007. NOASS, Riga, Latvia
2007 Environment Archaelogy. Retretti art center, Finland
2007 WRO-07 Media Biennale.Wroclaw, Poland
2007 Reel to Real - Sexual Semiotics.Künstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 Rencontres Internationales. Madrid, Circulo des Bellas Artes; Berlin, Babylon-Mitte 
2007 Digital Space. Showroom Cinema, Scheffield, UK
2007 Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion.Program by Witte de With at the Rotterdam International Film Festival
2007 Normal Love. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2006 Frieze, London
2006 Collected Crises. Estonian Art in the 1990’s.KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn 
2006 Improvistation. Tallinn Art Hall 
2006 Body and Soul, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France ( collection of Jean-Conrad and Isabelle Lemaitre)
2006 D-NEFF 2006. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2006 Mit Allem Rechnen. Museum am Ostwall,, Dortmund, Germany
2006 PixelDance II, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006-2007 Sexy Mythos, NGBK, Berlin; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig; Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
2006 Slottet, Gävle, Sweden
2006 1:1. PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2005 Art Basel Miami, Video-lounge
2005 Living Sculptures. Tallinn Art Hall
2005, 2004, 2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin . Paris, Berlin
2005 Model "Missed Opportunities" . Brandenburgischer Kunsverein, Potsdam, Germany
2005 Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, UK 
2005 The New (In-)Security ? Badisher Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 prog:ME, Festival of Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005 Art Basel
2005 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia 
2005 Women’s Dialogue, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2004 Instant Europe. Villa Manin, Italy
2004 La mossa delle idee. Florence, Italy
2004 Flipside. Artists’ Space, New York NY
2004 BLICK 04. Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2004 Sometime. Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2004 EU Positive. Academy of Arts,Berlin
2004 Do the Wrong Thing. The Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
2004 Viinistu2004 International Live Arts project, Viinistu, Estonia
2004 Breakthrough. Grote Kerk Den Haag ,The Hague, The Netherlands
2004 Welcome. Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2004 Festival International de Films de Femmes, Creteil, France
2004 Fantastic Realism. Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2004 On Air. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2004 New Video, New Europe. The Renaissance Society, Chicago, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA;
TATE Modern, London; 2005 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; 2006 The Kitchen, New York NY
2003 MEO Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Womanifesto 2003. Procreation/Postcreation. Pridi Banomyong Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 20 Years of the World Wide Video Festival. Screenings at VideoLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and 
Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France
2003 Biennale of Moving Images, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 The Spaces in Between. FACT, Liverpool, UK
2003 Sound Systems. Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
2003 KEKSI. Lahti Artists Association, Finland
2003 Aquarium II. Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2003,2001,2000,1999,1998 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
2003 21 Minutes.Art Moscow ,7th International Art Fair. Central House of Artists, Moscow
2003 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2003 Defenseless and Bad. L-Gallery, Moscow
2002 Sõltuvussõltumatus. Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2002 Closing the Distance. Laznia Contemporary Art Centre, Gdansk, Poland
2002 Breath. Ludwigsmuseum Budapest, Hungary
2002 Transvisit. Masnedo Fort, Denmark
2002 Oh, it’s a Curator! Rotor Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
2002,2001,2000. Communication.An artist who doesn’t speak English is no Artist.
Ashersleben Kunstverein, Germany; Knollgalerie Budapest; Tallin Art Hall
2002,2001 Different/Diverse. Teatro della Fondamente Nuovi, Venice.
Grunt, Vestern Front Galeries, Vancouver, Canada
2001-2002 Zagreb Salon. Zagreb, Croatia
2001-2002 Baltic Times. Zagreb, Croatia; Ljubljana,Slovenia; Innsbruck, Austria
2001 Videoarchaeology. Sofia, Bulgaria
2001 Instant Video. Manosque, France
2001 The Project. Cheltenham Festival for Film and Video, England
2001 Art-Mistake. Error 1. Centre for Art and Media Adlershof, Berlin
2001 Night of a Hundred Eyes. Transit Space, London
2001 WRO 01 Media Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
2001 Black Cube. Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam
2001 Videonale 9, Bonn, Germany
2001 Estonian Energies, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2001 Perfect Match. Skopje City shopping mall, Macedonia
2000,1998,1997 VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
2000 Chinese Whispers. ApexArt CP. New York, NY
2000 Central Station. Milch, London
2000 Co.Operation. Dubrovnik, Croatia
2000 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan, Corea
2000 Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival, New York, NY
2000 Videopositive. Liverpool, UK
2000 Video N.E.WS. Gotland, Sweden
2000 Dreamcatcher Videofestival, Kiev, Ukraine
2000 God and Artist. Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2000 Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen,Germany
2000,2001,2002 the Oneminute. Sandbergs Institute, Amsterdam
2000 Small Roll Plays. Tartu Art Museum,Estonia
2000 Man Muss Ganz Schön Viel lernen um hier zu Funktionieren.
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
1999-2000 After the Wall. Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Ludwigmuseum Budapest;
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1999 CO 4 video workshop. Ljudmila media center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999 Interstanding. Tallinn, Estonia
1999 VideoLisboa. Lisbon, Portugal
1999 WRO 99 Media Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
1998 Where Are You From? Gdansk, Poland
1998 Rauma Biennale Balticum , Rauma, Finland 
1997 Funny versus Bizarre. Vilnius Contemporary Art Center,Lithuania 
1997 Time. Space. Movement. Paide performance festival
1997 Slum Milieu in Estonian Art . Eesti Kunstimuuseum
1997 Interstanding Soros Center for Contempoaray Arts, Estonia. Annual Exhibition. Tallinn
1996 Reading Things. Estonian Art Museum
1995 Biotoopia.Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn
Art Hall, Estonia
1994-1995 SHOP. Tallinn Town Gallery, Dionysia festival Tartu, Estonia
1994 Unexistent Art. Soros Center for Contempoaray Arts, Estonia. Annual Exhibition.Tallinn Art  
Hall, Estonia 
1991,1992 S&K grup shows, Näituste paviljon,Tallinn
1989 WE-YOU-MUU. Fiskars, Finland
1988 I’ve Never Been to New York. Laululava, Tallinn
1985 Vabariiklik noortenäitus, Tartu Art Museum

Stipendiumid ja auhinnad

2009 Honorable mention, Waterpieces festival, Riga, Latvia
2006 Kristjan Raud annual art award
2004 "Live and Shine" Grant, Estonian Cultural Endowment
2004 Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
2002 ArtsLink Independent Projects Grant. University California San Diego Centre for 
Computing and the Arts, USA
2000 Prize from Estonian Cultural Endowment
2000 Delfina Studios, London
1999 NIFCA, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
1998 ArtsLink Fellowships Grant, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY,
USA
1997 VideoMedeja- prize
1997 Interstanding 2- Grand Prix
1996 Loviisa Guest Studio, Finland
1994 Prize from Soros Contemporary Art Centre’s Annual Exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
Tõid kollektsioonides:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Eesti Kunstimuuseum
Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Private collections, London, Barcelona