Mari Kartau

Mari Kartau (kunstnikunimega Siram, neiupõlvenimega Mari Sepp, abielus Mari Sobolev; sündinud 6. septembril 1968 Tallinnas) on eesti kunstnik, kunstiteadlane ja kunstikriitik.

Elukäik 
Ta on lõpetanud 1984. aastal Tartu Kunstikooli ja osalenud aastatel 1985–1988 Eesti Kunstiakadeemia ettevalmistuskursustel. Aastatel 1992–1994 osales ta Tõnis Vindi Studio 22 tegevuses. Lõpetas 1996. aastal Eesti Kunstiakadeemia kunstiteaduse erialal ning viibis samal aastal kunstikorraldajana viienädalases residentuuris ArtsLink USAs. 1997. aastal külastas Amsterdam-Maastrichti suveülikooli kunstikorralduskursuseid (Introduction to Raising Sponsorship for the Arts). 2006. aastal tegutses Helsingis NIFCA residentsis.

Aastatel 2003–2006 töötas ta Academia Non Gratas Pärnus, olles ka Academia Grata direktor. 

2010. aastal lõpetas ta Mainori Majanduskoolis ettevõtluse põhikursuse. Aastatel 2004–2007 oli ta Academia Non Grata rektor ja aastatel 2007–2012 Pärnu Linnagalerii kuraator, kuni kuraatori ametikoht 2012. aasta sügisel koondati.

Ta on alates 1997. aastast Eesti Kunstnike Liidu liige.

Looming

Etenduskunst ja kunstietendused
 2010 White Ship. Together with Taave Tuutma, M. Sepp, Andrus Joonas. Kultuuritolm/Friend_Ship, Tallinn, Estonia.
 2010 Depositing wreathes to the places of gallantry under fire. Veterans' Day, Pärnu, Estonia.
 2010 Human Developement with Andrus Joonas, Tartu Art House, Estonia
 2009 Artist's Positions, annual exhibition of Estonian Artists' associacion, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
 2009 Superwoman, with Mare Tralla at 6th Shiryaevo International Contemporary Art Biennaale, Russia
 2009 Vellano Arte, Vellano, Italy
 2009 Mothers' Day Parade, Pärnu, Estonia
 2008 Wie lange soll dieser scheiss dauern. With Mare Tralla, Stuttgarter Kunstverein e.v., Germany
 2008 Performances in Non Grata group, Hyde Park Fine Art, Tampa and Undercurrent Arts, Miami, FL, USA
 2007 Everything About Men, Tõrva, Estonia
 2007 Birthday, performed together with Andrus Joonas at Privat Message, Siauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
 2007 My Body Is My Castle, performed together with Mare Tralla at 5th Shiryaevo International Contemporary Art Biennaale :between europe and asia HOME, Russia
 2006 Suspense / Rebirth, annual exhibition of the contemporary art in Pärnu Looja Loo Lugu, Loo Lugu Looja, Loo...,, Pärnu Museum of New Art, Estonia
 2006 Performance in Non Grata group, "Agora" Festival, Carren Pool, Williamsburg, New York, USA
 2006 Performance in Non Grata group, "Art of The Invisibles" Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA
 2006 A Cup Of Tea, festival Eclectica, Tartu, Estonia
 2006 Life Story, festival Amorph06!, Helsinki, Finland
 2006 Casinos and Drugstores, performance festival Diverse Universe II, Pärnu, Estonia
 2006 The Heritage, Performance Club Nyrjähdys, Lahti, Finland
 2006 Health Protection – Self Defence, Printmaking In festival, Pärnu Museum Storage, Estonia
 2005 Several performances: Non Grata Presents, Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile
 2005 Performance in Non Grata group, event Creative Insurgence, Brighton, UK
 2005 Performance in Non Grata group, Be Queer festival, Duncerque, France
 2005 Perverse together with Andrus Joonas, FLÜ performance week, Rael Artel Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
 2005 Mother and Father with A. Joonas and R. Kokla, Valmiera, Latvia
 2005 Varto! with Karolina Kiil, Performance festival Ritual, Pedvale Open Air Museum, Latvia
 2005 Performance in Põltsamaa, Estonia
 2005 Event Art of the Invisibles with Non Grata group, Neukölln-Berlin, Germany
 2005 6 hours performance with Non Grata group, exhibition Free Will, Treptow Bunkers, Berlin, Germany
 2005 Are You Afraid of Me? and Do You Like Me?, Performance festival Diverse Universe I, La-Bas and Lahti events, Finland
 2004 Are You Afraid of Me?, European Performance Art Festival, Lublin, Poland
 2004 Several performances Non Grata Presents, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
 2004 Doctors 986 in Non Grata group, SoToDo Performance Congress, Seoul, South Korea
 2004 Doctors2674 in Non Grata group, Lendava, Slovenia
 2004 Peoples´ aims don´t come true allways (with A. Joonas, U. Martinson and R. Randver) in Pedvale Open Air Museum, Latvia
 2004 Cleanness and Discretion – vol 2, performance festival Time. Space. Movement unplugged, Paide, Estonia
 2004 Lost in the Structures and Cleanness and Discretion – vol 1, Performance Week, KU Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
 2004 rate.me, Performance Night in the Gallery of Tartu Children Art School, Tartu, Estonia
 2003 The Will of People in group Tuupolev, exhibition The Clash Of Civilizations, Pärnu City Gallery
 2003 White Ship in group Tuupolev, performance festival Time. Space. Movement, Paide, Estonia
 2002–2003 Performances in group Tuupolev on the Performance Nights in the Gallery of Tartu Children Art School, Tartu, Estonia
 2002 On-going performance Ad Free Zone in group Tuupolev, Paide, Türi, Riga, Frankfurt, Berlin etc
 2001 Magic Ring in group Tuupolev, 9th March Performance Festival, Tartu
 1999 Action Freedom Of Speech (online performance, video, published manifesto)
 1994 Where are you – C?, (together with Marco Laimre), M/F Kronborg, Tallinn, Estonia.

Isikunäitused ja muud sooloesinemised 
 2010 Human Development Report, with Andrus Joonas, Tartu Artists' House, Estonia
 2009 Very Usual Views, hospitals in Tallinn and Pärnu, Estonia
 2009 The Schedule of Exhibitions of Pärnu Artists’ House 2009, Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
 2008 Wie lange soll dieser scheiss dauern. With Mare Tralla, Stuttgarter Kunstverein e.v., Germany
 2008 Karma Balance, Artcontainer, Tallinn, Estonia
 2007 Victim of Life, Pärnu City Gallery Artists' House, Estonia
 2004 Published book The Holy Truth, a collection of articles
 2004 Free Zone, The Kids of Rock´n´roll, Freedom of Speech and road exhibitions presenatation in Open Space, Berlin, Germany
 2004 The End Of Art. The Era Of Spirituality Begins, Gallery of Tartu Children Art School, Tartu, Estonia
 1992 Print exhibition Kalamaja, diele of the Museum of Histoy, Tallinn, Estonia

Grupinäitused 
 2010 Objective Monumentalism, pART gallery, Põltsamaa, Estonia
 2010 Academia Non Grata: Vijana na Anahangaika. Tartu Children's Art School Gallery, Estonia
 2009 Self Exposure, Artdepoo Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
 2009 Under The Flags, Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
 2008 Printmaking In, Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
 2008 Wake Up!, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
 2008 We Are Fallen Angels Who Must Rise Up, Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
 2008 Kirikyyt 15, Viljandi Town Gallery, Estonia
 2007 Printmaking In, Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
 2007 About Bread, Love and Winchester, Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
 2007 Pärnu Art of 21st Century, Old Mud Baths, Pärnu, Estonia
 2006 Installation in Old Mud Baths, exhibition Incubator Non Grata, Pärnu, Estonia
 2005 Installation Welcome to the Suo, exhibition The Great Estonian-Finnish Expedition, Helsinki Art Academy, Finland
 2005 Monument Capitalism, Limestone sculpture workshp, Orgita, Estonia
 2005 Sculpture workshop in Tammiste, Estonia
 2005 TrichtLinnBurg, futuristic newspaper La Dolce Vita, Tallinn, Estonia
 2005 Exhibition Pax Rauha, installation House & Car, performance with Non Grata group, Imatra, Finland
 2005 Festival Printmaking IN, Pärnu, Estonia
 2004 Free Zone on the exhibition "Alle Gegen Alles", UDK Berlin, Germany
 2003 I Have No Secrets I, exhibition "Rehabilitation", Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
 2003 Ad Free Zone performance and screening of The Will of People on Kaunas Performance Festival, Lietuva
 2003 Installations Iraqi Pavilion on Venice Biennale and Friendship of the Nations in group Tuupolev, exhibition The Clash Of Civilizations, Pärnu City Gallery
 1996 Exhibition OUT 30.02.96, slide installation The Model of the Metropolis, [‘mobil] gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
 1995 Exhibition I See, installation The Tops and Roots of the Estonian Art, [‘mobil] gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Videoteosed ja esinemine videofestivalidel
 2008 La Cinema Extraordinaire!, NG Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
 2007 Video Chile Love Story, Privat Message, Siauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania
 2007 Video Cleanness and Discretion, Samara Video Festival, Russia
 2006 Video Are you Afraid of Me?, performance video festival InPort, Tallinn, Estonia
 2005 Videos Lost in the Structures and Cleanness and Discretion on Pärnu International Film and Video Festival, Pärnu, Tallinn, Estonia
 2004 Screening of The Will of People at VIDEO 2004, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
 2000 Exhibition ArtGenda, video Freedom Of Speech, Lasipalatsi, Helsinki, Finland
 1998 Author of the scenario of the video documentary The Kids Of Roc-n-roll

Kuraatoritööd 
 2010–11 Curator of the Estonian exposition The Contemporary Art Triennial Eksperimenta! for school students, Tallinn, Estonia.
 2008 – ... coordinator of koolkond
 2006 Curator of the 12th International Pärnu Film ande Video Festival, Pärnu, Estonia
 2006 Co – curator of the performance festival Diverse Universe II, Estonia
 2005 Co-curator of the Printmaking IN festival, International Film and Video Festival, Pärnu, Estonia and performance festival Diverse Universe I, Estonia-Finland
 2004 Curator of the performance festival Time. Space. Movement unplugged, Paide, Estonia
 2004 Co-curator of the Perormnce Week, KU Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
 2003 Curator of the exhibition of the students of Art Studio of the Viljandi County gymnasium, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn and Viljandi Town Gallery, Viljandi
 2003 Curator of the exhibition The Clash Of Civilizations, Pärnu City Gallery
 2002 Curator of the exhibition of the students of Art Studio of the Viljandi County Gymnasium, Kilpkonna Gallery, Viljandi
 2002 Coordinator of the art festival Eco-Kirikyyt, Viljandi
 2000 Curator of the exhibition God and The Artist in Tallinn Art Hall
 2000 Curator of Estonian-Flemish exhibition 10 PAAR, Kuressaare, Estonia and Kuurne, Belgium
 2000 Curator of the Estonian exposition on Salon CDH 2000, Moscow Central Artists House, Russia
 1999 Curator of the Estonian exposition in the Eastern-European photoexhibition Together Again?, gallery Image, Aarhus, Denmark
 1999 Curator of the Estonian exposition in the festival of visual arts Eystrasalt, Replica Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
 1998 Art curator of the festival Kirikyyt, Viljandi, including road exhibition Speed II and the conference Local – Global
 1998 Curator of the exhibition All Together Much & Now, Estonian Art Museum Rotermann hall
 1997 Curator of the art projects of the Festival of Visual Arts in Tartu, Dionysia ´97, including road exhibition Speed

Isiklikku 
Tema ema on graafik Evi Sepp. Ta oli abielus Vitali Soboleviga. Ta elab Vaskjala külas.

Viited

Välislingid
 "Koolon. Mari Kartau: suur osa praeguseid näitusi on lihtsalt ökoloogiline raiskamine" kultuur.err.ee, 13. mai 2016

Eesti kunstnikud
Kuraatorid
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia vilistlased
Sündinud 1968