Eva Labotkin is a visual artist working mainly with performance and video, but also experiments with photography, installation and other media.
Since 2010 has worked with 10 x 10 meters group for performance and theatrical projects.
Lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts since 2014.
Education
2007 - 2011
Estonian Academy of Arts (MA, interdisciplinary arts)
2009
University of East London (Erasmus exchange program, Fine Art)
2001 - 2006
University of Tartu (BA, Painting)
Awards
2011
2008
Young Artist Prize (for best MA work of Estonian Art Academy Arts departement), by MTÜ Noor Kunst
Eduard Wiiralt scholarship, Estonian Ministry of Culture
Exhibitions
Solo
2020
“Koridori lõpus oli peegel”, solo exhibition in Positiiv gallery, Tallinn
2012
“A Trilogy of darkness I: Falling Asleep”, Percival Space gallery, Oslo
2011
“Journey to the end of the world”, Loop gallery, streetcar nr 4, Tallinn
2010
“Falling asleep”, City Gallery, Tallinn
2009
“Falling asleep”, Tartu Art House
Group
2022
“Self reflection”, curator Peeter Talvistu, Valga museum, Valga
2022
2019
2019
2018
“Spirit”, curator Reet Varlane, Univeristy of Tartu museum, Tartu
“Musta augu kuma”, Vabaduse gallery, Tallinn
“We did it”, performance with 10X10 meters group, for Made in Estonia Marathon, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn
“OBJECT 8:13”, performance with 10X10 meters group, for NU Performance Festival opening event, Tallinn
2018
WHAT DO YOU SEE? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE?, curator Tanel Rander, Valga Museum gallery
2017
“Stranger”, performance with 10X10 meters group, TOLM festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia
2014
2014
“Warrior”, performance project with Mai Sööt, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Tallinn
"Väljasõit rohelisse. Tartu 1860–2014", curator Peeter Talvistu, Tallinn Art Hall
2014
“Shifing Identities”, curator Ludovico Pratesi, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, organized by Väino Tanner Foundation
2014
"Baltic Gold / Baltiskt guld", curator Marje Taska, Galleri 21, Malmö
2013
“Man Overboard”, research and performance- project with 10X10 meters group, for August Dance Festival, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
2013
“Global City - Local City” residency program and research with 10X10 meters group, Kanuti Gildi SAAL
2012
“Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes”, curator Eha Komissarov, with 10X10 meters group, KUMU, Tallinn
2012
“Human Forestry”, performance with 10X10 meters group, KIASMA, Helsingi
2011
“Public Folklore”, curator Søren Grammel, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
2011
“Away from Tartu”, ART IST KUKU NU NUT production prize, Y-gallery, Tartu
2011
“Acts of Refusal”, curators Ellen Blumenstein and Kathrin Meyer, Tartu Art House
2011
“Lets' Talk about Nationalism! Between ideology and identity”, curator Rael Artel, Labor, Budapest
2010
“Exculpation”, curator Eva Labotkin, apartement show, Tallinn
2010
“Birds of a Feather”, Sueli Turner gallery, London
2010
“Let’s talk about nationalism! Between ideology and identity”, KUMU, Tallinn
2009
“one15 – Sculpture in the workplace”, One Canada Square, London
2009
“GRaSS’n’aSPHaLt”, Performance art Studies with bbb Johannes Deimling, k-salon, Berlin
2008
2008
“Dilemmas: artists and the idea of the nation”: Rael Artel Presents new video from Estonia, CEC artsLink, New York City
„Is that the Estonia we wanted?! “, Rael Artel Gallery: non-Pro t Project Space, Tartu
2007
Estonian artists of the 21st Century”, curators Anders Härm and Hanno Soans, Tallinn Art Hall