BIOGRAPHY

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

1948-1950 Teachers' Seminary of Rakvere

1950-1958 Graduated from Secondary School of Rakvere

1962-1967 Studied at Institute of Art, (now EKA) Tallinn, Estonia

1964 -1970 Member of ANK’ 64

1967 — present is married to painter and writer Toomas Vint.

1970 Member of the Estonian Artists' Union

1970 — present Freelance artist

1970 Member of the USSR Artists' Union

1991 — 1996 Lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts

1991 present creative mentor to top leaders of the republic

PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY SINCE 1991

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 Euromanagement Institute, creativity mentor for a small business

Since 2012 TTÜ creative training for architects.

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

1971-2025 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 “Spiegel im Spiegel”, Dresden, Germany. Largest exhibition of Estonian art in Germany ever.

2025 “36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts”. Ljubljana, Slovenia

2024 “Unicorn in the Magical Forest”. Niguliste Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (+ A Book “Unicorn in the Magical Forest).

2023 Exhibition of female graphics “Läbi su silmaterade musta kuru”. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2021 “Woman & Sea” Viinistu Art Museum, Tynngallery, Viinistu, Estonia

2019 Open Collections. “The Artist Takes the Floor”. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

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

2018 Kris Lemsalu and Aili Vint at Bozar, Brussels @bozarbrussels Belgium

2017 “Man & Woman”, MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia

2014 Aili Vint's and Toomas Vint's exhibition: “Artist’s footprint”. Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

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, Tallinn, Estonia

2002 The Baltics Museum of Rutgers University. New Jersey US

2001 Faulconer Gallery of Grinnell College, Iowa, USA

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

1995 “Retro. The Sun sets on & rises from the Art Hall”. Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia.. Light meditative sculpture and my first performance.

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, Russia

1987 “Rostock Painting Triennial”, Germany

1984 “Space and Form”, Art Hall, Tallinn

1983, 1986 “Riga Miniprint Triennial”, Latvia

1981, 1987 “Lodz Mini Print Triennial”, Poland

1977 “Exhibition: Aili and Toomas Vint” In Szecin, Poznan, Varssavi, Poland

1975, 1984 “Baltic Painting Triennial”, Vilnius, Lithuania

1972, 1997 “Cracow Graphic Art Biennial”, Poland

1971, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1995 “Tallinn Print Triennial”, Estonia

2010 —2019 SOME CATALOGS FROM EXHIBITIONS

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, A Book “101 Eesti kunstiteost” (“101 pieces of Estonian Art”), publisher Varrak, Estonia

2014 Aili Vint and Toomas Vint “Artists footprint”, publisher Tulikiri, Estonia ISBN 978-9949-9362-3-6

2013 “The Artist Group ANK' 64” Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

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

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

WORKS IN MUSEUMS

Sudkovsky’s Seascapes Muuseumin 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

PRIZES

1994 Konrad Mägi prize, Estonia

1994 Town of Pärnu prize, Estonia

2002 Order of the White Star, Estonia

2015 Kristjan Raua prize, Estonia. The prize was given to me and my husband, an artist, Toomas Vint.

Whenever someone asks me how long you've been painting this or that painting, I want to answer: a long, long time, since childhood. To be honest, the Real Creator of my works is my Inner Child - little Aili. I can proudly say that all my sea paintings, light sculptures, joyful gouache paintings and graphics, as well as happenings, performances and Land-Art, were made on her initiative. I have only made it possible for her ideas to become alive.

It has been said that the most powerful source of creation is the Child in our souls.