Aili Vint was born in 1941, 25. April in Rakvere, Estonia.


1962 - 1967  Studied at Institute of Art, Tallinn, Estonia

1964 - 1970  Member of ANK’ 64 

1967 - Is married to painter and writer Toomas Vint

1970 - Freelance artist, a member of Estonian Artist’s

1991 -  Creative mentor for top leaders in Estonia


WORKS IN MUSEUMS    

Sudkovsky’s Seascapes Muuseum in Otšakiv, Ukraine

Tretyakov’s Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA


FILMOGRAPHY

  1. Animated film "Flight" artist. Rein Raamat 1974 (3/4 jury special prize, II Zagrebi International Animated Film Festival. Croatia.)

  2. Light Sculpture of Sunset  1995  https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/uks-pilt-aili-vint-skulptuur-paikeseloojangust

  3. Estonian TV  Estonian Art: Aili Vint  1998    https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/eesti-kunst-aili-vint

  4. …and God created the woman ”Portraits of Aging. Channel 2, 2001

  5. “Inimeselt inimesele”. Intervjuu Linnu Mäega. 2002, 08.

  6.  From person to person. Interview with Linnu Mägi. 2002, 08.

  7. “Subboteja” saade A. Zukkermanniga  Haiba lastekodu fuajee maalimisest lastekodu lastega. Kanal 2,   2004, 10.

  8. “Subboteja” program with A. Zukkermann about painting the lobby of the Haiba orphanage with the children of the orphanage. Channel 2, 2004, 10.

  9. Starship  Aili Vint  ETV  2007  https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/tahelaev-aili-vint/same-series

  10. Exchange of presenters of "Glasses Box": Tiina Park 2018


PRIZES 

 1994    Konrad Mägi prize, Estonia

 1994    Town of Pärnu prize, Estonia

 2002   Order of the White Star, Estonia

 2015 Kristjan Raua prize , Estonia


CREATIVE ACTIVITY

  1. 1991 - until now. Creative mentor for top leaders in Estonia. (Sample of creative training video: Eesti kunst, Aili Vint /ERR/ 1998  Eesti kunst: Aili Vint)

  2. 1991 - 1996  Estonian Academy of Arts lecturer, a creativity mentor

  3. 1996 - 2002  Estonian Business School, creative know-how training for top leaders and businessmen  

  4. 1999 - 2006  Estonian Euro Management Institute,  creativity mentor   

  5. Since 2012  TTÜ creative training for architects


ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOKS 1979 —2011

  1. “Kollane sinises nagu päikene taevas” (Yellow in the blue as the sun in the sky). Published by Kirjastus Kunst. 1979

  2. “Nagu päikene taevas” (Like a sun in the sky). Published by Ilo, Tallinn 2000 ISBN 9985-57-299-8

  3. “THE SEA BOOK”. Published by Tulikiri, Tallinn 2011 ISBH 978-9949-21-899-8


SELECTED INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1971-2013

  1. 2013  The artists group  ANK – 64 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 

  2. 2012  CHA Roads & Tracks Moscow International Art Salon, Russia

  3. 2010  Popkunst Forever  Estonian Pop Art at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Kumu ART Museum   

  4. 2002    The Baltics Museum of Rutgers University. New Yersey US

  5. 2001     Faulconer Galleri of Grinneli College, Iowa, USA

  6. 2000    Tallinn–Moscow   1956 — 1985  Joint exhibition of Estonian and Russian unofficial art. Tallinn Art Hall

  7. 1995   Osaka Sculpture Triennial, Japan

  8. 1994   Osaka Print Triennial, Japan

  9. 1993   Osaka Painting Triennial, Japan

  10. 1993    Substance — Unsubstance. The 1st annual exhibition of the Soros Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.

  11. 1988, 1991   Miniprint Triennial, Chamalières France 

  12. 1987    Art of Soviet Estonia, Moscow

  13.  1987    Rostock Painting Triennial, Germany

  14.  1984    Space and Form, Art Hall, Tallinn

  15.  1983, 1986   Riga Miniprint Triennial, Latvia

  16.  1981, 1987   Lodz Miniprint Triennial, Poland

  17.  1977   Szecin, Poznan, Warssavi (with Toomas Vint) Poland

  18.  1975, 1984   Baltic Painting Triennial, Vilnius,  Lithuania

  19.  1972, 1997   Cracow Graphic Art Biennial, Poland

  20.  1971, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1995   Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia


THE ARTISTS GROUP CATALOGS FROM EXHIBITIONS 2010 —2019

  1. 2019 Catalog: “Border Poetics. Estonian Art 1918–2018” is an exhibition of the Art Museum of Estonia and the National Tretyakov Gallery, combining Estonian art of the last hundred years from the collections of the two museums.

  2. 2017 101 Eesti kunstiteost, raamat kirjastuselt Varrak, Estonia

  3. 2014 AILI VINT. and TOOMAS VINT. Artists footprint, kirjastus Tulikiri, Estonia ISBN 978-9949-9362-3-6

  4. 2013  THE ARTISTS GROUP ANK' 64 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 

  5. 2012  CHA ROADS & TRACKS, Moscow International Art Salon, Russia

  6. 2010  POPKUNST FOREVER  Estonian Pop Art at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Kumu ART Museum ISBN 978-9949-9086-3-9

  7. 2013  THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM ART IN EUROPE SINCE 1945, 30th Council of Europe exhibition. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn ISBN 978-3-942422-98-7


SEA UNDER THE DARK SKY  1975,
oil on canvas 92 x 115 cm, 
Kumu ART Museum


EXHIBITIONS

 

2019 in Kumu Art Museum: Open Collections.


The Artist Takes the Floor
invites visitors to walk through a forest of art history and sees to it that the walk is a meandering journey, taking museum-goers from main paths to enjoyable side trails which have not yet been fully assessed and categorised in art history.In inviting the artists, the curator considered their creative profiles with the aim of involving different media. Several invited artists made the initial choice of pieces of interest based on the electronic museum database MuIS and the digital collection of the Art Museum of Estonia, which was followed by actual work with the collection. The works of art on exhibit cover the period from the 17th to the 21st centuries.


This project curated by Maria Arusoo is centred around the theme of the female body in Aili Vint’s prints and the Serbian artist Ivana Bašić’s sculptures.


2018 Kris Lemsalu and Aili Vint at Bozar, Brussels @bozarbrussels until August 19, 2013 curated by Maria Arusoo, director of CCA, Estonia! The exhibition is part of the project "Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe" in Bozar. Brussels


2018 -2019 Estonian Art 1918 - 2019, Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow, “Border Poetics”

Estonian Art 1918–2018” is an exhibition of the Art Museum of Estonia and the National Tretyakov Gallery, combining Estonian art of the last hundred years from the collections of the two museums.

Pictures e

The Atlantic Sea 1981 Oil on canvas 175 x 200 cm Tretjakov Gallery

On The Island of Tütarsaar 1985 Oil on canvas 115 x 145 cm Tretjakov Gallery

XXX Baltic Regatta. Waiting for The Wind, Triptychon II, 1979 Oil on canvas 174 x 150 cm Tretjakov Gallery


2016 Exhibition Soviet Hippies. PEACE AND LOVE at Malmö Moderna Museet.


2016 Soviet Hippies. Psychedelic underground of 1970s in Estonia, at London's Red Gallery.

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Soviet Hippies, a new exhibition at London's Red Gallery, takes visitors back to Soviet Estonia to step into a parallel universe — the hippie movement that existed within the Brezhnev regime. Curated by KIWA and Terje Toomistu, the exhibition is based on an in-depth anthropological study, which saw the pair interview 15 people who were part of the hippie movement in the “Soviet West”, as Estonia was known owing to its bohemian feel and rock music scene. Visitors to Soviet Hippies will be able to get a privileged insight into the experience of this generation, with the interview films and a rich array of archive photography due to be shown at the exhibition.

Aili Vint Illustration from the book "Yellow in blue like the sun in the sky" 1979, gouache on paper,28 x 42 cm

Aili Vint Illustration from the book "Yellow in blue like the sun in the sky" 1979, gouache on paper,28 x 42 cm


2014-2015 Aili Vint's and Toomas Vint's exhibition: ARTIST'S  FOOTPRINT, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

It was our pleasure to bestow, on all the visitors at the Tallinn Art Hall, the warmth of summer in the middle of a cold and dark northern winter. The sun rose and set at our exhibit – for a whole month! Never mind that it did so in paintings and installations!

It was our intent to impart visitors, as they entered the Art Hall, with the right frame of mind. To that end we prepared a surprise for the people rushing in from the winter gloom, feeling all too grey. They could see the sun rising in the display window, and upon entering they were walking on grass and the scent of fresh-mown hay tickled their noses!


THE SUN SET AND RISES FROM THE TALLINN ART HALL 2014-2015 Time-and-Space Specific Light Installation.

It is a 30000 x 900 x 1400 cm expanse of sky where on light itself mixes the colours of the sunset, and so subtly that no artist could equal it.


1995 RETRO. THE SUN SETS ON & RISES FROM THE ART HALL

Story how light meditative sculpture and with it my first performance spontaneously was born in Tallinn Art Hall

Aili Vint: In Estonian there is a beautiful word KUMA (GLOW) that means reception of ones surroundings and at the same time a desire to give back even more generously. For example the glow of the sun reflected on a child’s face or the glowing reflection of sky on the sea. Light Sculpture of Sunset is a piece that was already conceived in my childhood, although it materialized only in 1995, when the renovation of Tallinn Art Hall was completed but all its rooms were still empty.

This performance took place in October 1995, in May, when our Northern summer had not yet begun. The event lasted for two days. During the first day people were enjoying the beach and sent off the Sun. The next morning everyone gathered to greet the real sunrise.

see the video: https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/uks-pilt-aili-vint-skulptuur-paikeseloojangust


2016 Caprices in Tartu Art House

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2021 Woman & Sea Viinistu Art Museum, Tynngallery

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NB! First exhibition, where I had a real curator helping me! And I enjoyed it so much! Thank you, Andra Orn!


2021 ART IS DESIGN IS ART Kumu Art Museum, curators: Eda Tuulberg, Karin Vicente

Estonian design in the second half of the Soviet period – the 1970s and 1980s – was marked by significant overlap and interactions with art. Many artists, designers and architects were active in both fields. Artists trained in applied arts frequently designed items for mass production or crafted limited-edition studio pieces, while those who had studied design or architecture also created works of fine art. The borders between the categories of art were also blurred for the artists themselves, whose works, despite the artists’ different backgrounds, were often inspired by the same problems and driven by similar impulses.




More exhibitions - information coming soon…