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
Animated film "Flight" artist. Rein Raamat 1974 (3/4 jury special prize, II Zagrebi International Animated Film Festival. Croatia.)
Light Sculpture of Sunset 1995 https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/uks-pilt-aili-vint-skulptuur-paikeseloojangust
Estonian TV Estonian Art: Aili Vint 1998 https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/eesti-kunst-aili-vint
…and God created the woman ”Portraits of Aging. Channel 2, 2001
“Inimeselt inimesele”. Intervjuu Linnu Mäega. 2002, 08.
From person to person. Interview with Linnu Mägi. 2002, 08.
“Subboteja” saade A. Zukkermanniga Haiba lastekodu fuajee maalimisest lastekodu lastega. Kanal 2, 2004, 10.
“Subboteja” program with A. Zukkermann about painting the lobby of the Haiba orphanage with the children of the orphanage. Channel 2, 2004, 10.
Starship Aili Vint ETV 2007 https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/tahelaev-aili-vint/same-series
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
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)
1991 - 1996 Estonian Academy of Arts lecturer, a creativity mentor
1996 - 2002 Estonian Business School, creative know-how training for top leaders and businessmen
1999 - 2006 Estonian Euro Management Institute, creativity mentor
Since 2012 TTÜ creative training for architects
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOKS 1979 —2011
“Kollane sinises nagu päikene taevas” (Yellow in the blue as the sun in the sky). Published by Kirjastus Kunst. 1979
“Nagu päikene taevas” (Like a sun in the sky). Published by Ilo, Tallinn 2000 ISBN 9985-57-299-8
“THE SEA BOOK”. Published by Tulikiri, Tallinn 2011 ISBH 978-9949-21-899-8
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1971-2013
2013 The artists group ANK – 64 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2012 CHA Roads & Tracks Moscow International Art Salon, Russia
2010 Popkunst Forever Estonian Pop Art at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Kumu ART Museum
2002 The Baltics Museum of Rutgers University. New Yersey US
2001 Faulconer Galleri of Grinneli College, Iowa, USA
2000 Tallinn–Moscow 1956 — 1985 Joint exhibition of Estonian and Russian unofficial art. Tallinn Art Hall
1995 Osaka Sculpture Triennial, Japan
1994 Osaka Print Triennial, Japan
1993 Osaka Painting Triennial, Japan
1993 Substance — Unsubstance. The 1st annual exhibition of the Soros Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.
1988, 1991 Miniprint Triennial, Chamalières France
1987 Art of Soviet Estonia, Moscow
1987 Rostock Painting Triennial, Germany
1984 Space and Form, Art Hall, Tallinn
1983, 1986 Riga Miniprint Triennial, Latvia
1981, 1987 Lodz Miniprint Triennial, Poland
1977 Szecin, Poznan, Warssavi (with Toomas Vint) Poland
1975, 1984 Baltic Painting Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
1972, 1997 Cracow Graphic Art Biennial, Poland
1971, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1995 Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia
THE ARTISTS GROUP CATALOGS FROM EXHIBITIONS 2010 —2019
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.
2017 101 Eesti kunstiteost, raamat kirjastuselt Varrak, Estonia
2014 AILI VINT. and TOOMAS VINT. Artists footprint, kirjastus Tulikiri, Estonia ISBN 978-9949-9362-3-6
2013 THE ARTISTS GROUP ANK' 64 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2012 CHA ROADS & TRACKS, Moscow International Art Salon, Russia
2010 POPKUNST FOREVER Estonian Pop Art at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Kumu ART Museum ISBN 978-9949-9086-3-9
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.
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
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
2021 Woman & Sea Viinistu Art Museum, Tynngallery
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…