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maarit murka

s. 1981

Maarit Murka is among the few living proofs that resignation and rejection of humanism are not an absolute thing within the so-called new generation. She takes an active interest in socio-historic circumstances, while studying it through her personal prism: what made me what I am as an artist and a person? Art-historical connotations do not mean much in this context, but for example the mass deportation of June 14th, 1941 is very painful. Painful not because it traumatized the soul, but because the trauma just isn’t there. Physical memory of the fear is replaced by the stories heard about it; the ample mythology that surrounds the whole deportation issue. Instead there are different ritual gestures, including setting a candle with a black ribbon and drinking vodka for mourning; but those gestures have worn pretty thin a long time ago already. They sit because you are supposed to. Murka does not criticize the gestures for becoming empty; instead she seems to say that being filthy drunk can come across as morally inappropriate and insulting to the dead, but really it is just the admitting the tragic aspect of time in history. Everything passes. And rituals that are meant to help the remembering run dry at one point and only an empty shell is left. Which is more immoral? The emptiness of the shell or admitting to that emptiness? 

 

2004-2006

Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki master in department of painting

2000-2004

Estonian Academy of Arts department of painting

1997-2000

Old Town Educational College art department

1988-1997

Saku Gymnasium

2007 Estonian Artists Association
2007 Estonian Painters Association

solo exhibitions

2009	"0,43" Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki
2008	"I`m an artist from post- soviet country?" Nobilis space Paris France
2007	"ART+POLITICS=POWER" ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia  "STALKER" City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia "Fotofobia" Patarei prison Tallinn, Estonia "Ulli-elo" Võru city Gallery, Võru, Estonia "The new beginning" Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2006	"Wake up!" ArtDepoo Tallinn, Estonia
2005	"The truth is out there" Vaal Gallery Tallinn, Estonia "UMABILL" Culture Centre Kärdla, Hiiumaa, Estonia
2003	"Estonian boy. Estonian girl" (with Tõnis Saadoja) Vaal Gallery Tallinn

group exhibitions

2009	"Life69" Rakvere, Estonia
2008	"Liberty Square" Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia "The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition" Agora Gallery Chelsea, New York, U.S.A "Baltic Biennale 2008" Maneez, Sankt-Peterburg "Place, that moves" KUMU Art Museum, Estonia "Nord Art `08" Rendsburg, Germany "Perfect circle" ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn "Roll Up Art" Bucharest, Romania "3rd AAW International Youth Salon" Atelier of Alexandria, Egipt "Liberty Square" Art Hall Tallinn
2007	"Estonian landscape `07" Tartu Tigu tower, Tartu "ArtDepoo highlights-estonian young painting vol.1" ArtDepoo Gallrey, Tallinn "Tartu.University and painting school" Artists House, Tartu "JCE 2007" Montrouge, France "Right choice" Artists House, Tartu "Body changing" ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn "Nord Art `07" Rendsburg Germany "New Wave" Tallinn Art Hall
2006	"Naked" Tartu Art House "Spring exhibition" Helsinki Art Hall "Pure painting" Jõhvi Concert Hall
2005	"Zielpunkt" ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn "New Estonian art" Art Centre "Kannel" Võru "Identities" Tallinn Art Hall
2004	Here, but not now" Picture Gallery Kaunas Lithuania "Notes about paintings. Estonian and Lithuanian young art" Vaal Gallery, Tallinn "Pre- position" Haapsalu "Lets go" Salt Storage, Tallinn "Ich bin ein Maler" Tallinn Art Hall
2003	"Inevitable to live at the same time" Estonian Art Museum "Self- portrait" Pärnu Art Summer Endla Theatre
2001	"Real realism" Tallinn Art Hall

prizes

2005 Vaal Gallery annual art prize

publifications

2007 "Pärnu in estonian art" Andra Orn and Anneli Lepp
2005 "22+ Estonian young artists" Karin Laansoo

 

 

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