MAARIT MURKA
Born on 02-12-81
www.murka.ee
EDUCATION
2009- … Baltic Film and Media School screenplay MA
2004- 2006 Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki painting MA
2000- 2004 Estonian Academy of Arts painting BA
1997- 2000 Old Town Educational College art department
ASSOCIATIONS
2007 Estonian Artists Association
2007 Estonian Painters Association
2005 Estonian Authors` Society
SOLO-EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Out of shape" Sensus Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2021 "Escape room nr 2" Vana Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery Võru Estoni
2020 “Realistic situation target” Meno Nisa Gallery Vilnius Lithuania
2019 "Illusions" Artdepoo Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2019 “Escape room nr 1” Vaal Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2018 “Mindroom” Vilnius Contemporary Art Fair Vilnius Lithuania
2018 “Kontekstiväline / out of context” Artdepoo Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2017 “Mindroom” ARTag Gallery Helsinki Finland
2015 “Contents” Vaal Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2015 “Repetition” Fahle Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2014 “Short Art Film Based on a True Story” Gostiny Dvor Moscow Russia
2014 “Kontakt” Tartu Art HouseTartu Estonia
2013 “Nobject” Vaal Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2013 “Mission” Estonian Parliament Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2013 “Eclectic captures” Estonian House Gallery Stockholm Sweden
2013 “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” Korjaamo Gallery Helsinki
2010 “Dark Land” Hobusepea Gallery Tallinn
2010 “Hairpower” Gallery 21 Riga Latvia
2010 “Hairpower” Korjaamo Gallery Helsinki
2010 “Hairpower” Bottega Gallery Kiev Ukraine
2010 “Hairpower” Y Gallery Minsk Belarus
2010 “Hairpower” Vaal Gallery Tallinn
2009 “0.43” ArtDepoo and SooSoo Gallery Tallinn
2009 “0.43” Korjaamo Gallery Helsinki Finland
2008 “I´m an artist from post-soviet country?” Nobilis space Paris France
2007 “ART+POLITICS=POWER” ArtDepoo Gallery Tallinn
2007 “STALKER” City Gallery Tallinn
2007 “Fotofobia” Patarei prison Tallinn
2007 “The new beginning” Draakon Gallery Tallinn
2006 “Wake up!” ArtDepoo Tallinn
2005 “The truth is out there” Vaal Gallery Tallinn
2003 “Estonian boy. Estonian girl” (with Tõnis Saadoja) Vaal Gallery Tallinn
GROUP-EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Crazy, crazy" Artdepoo Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2023 "No shit about the shitty feeling" Artdepoo Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2023 "Monumental" Haus Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2022 "7 artists. Body" Tartu Art Hall Estonia
2022 "Spring exhibition" Tallinn Art Hall
2022 "Womanwoman" Pärnu City Gallery Estonia
2022 "Treatment of deseases. Checked." Vaal Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2021 "Exhibition as conversation" Tartu Art Hall Tartu Estonia
2021 "7 Estonian artists" HAA Gallery Helsinki Finland
2020 "Artists painting artists" Art Hall Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2018 “Jubilee spring” Estonian Artist Association exhibition in Tallinn Art Hall Tallinn Estonia
2018 “30 of June” Vabaduse Gallery Tallinn Estonia
2018 “Est.Eetiline” Pärnu New Art Musem Pärnu Estonia
2017 “Surface video project” Muratcentoventidue Bari Italy
2017 “Body language. Works from Tartu Art Musem” Tartu Art Museum Estonia
2017 “Right now/ Just nüüd” The Museum of New Art Pärnu Estonia
2016 “White water” Haus Gallery Tallinn
2016 “1091” Vaal Gallery Tallinn
2016 “NordArt 2016” Nord Art Rendsburg Germany
2016 “Cold look. Variations of Hyperrealism in Estonian Art” KUMU Art Museum Estonia
2016 ” Changeing and unchangeable” The Museum of New Art Pärnu Estonia
2014 “Horror stories” Haapsalu City Gallery Estonia
2014 “Valge maika” Tartu Art Museum Estonia
2013 “Interactions” AQB Budafok Budapest Hungary
2013 “XV Vilnius Painting Triennial “Painting contexts“ ” Contemporary Art Center Vilnius Lithuania
2013 “100×100=900” Magmart festival, 100 video artists to tell a century, Rome, Italy
2012 “Art in Mind” The Brick Lane Gallery London UK
2012 “48H CRONO” La Friche la Belle de Mai Marseille France
2012 “Muuda oma meelt/ change your mind” Viljandi City gallery Viljandi Estonia
2012 “Aesthetics vs Information” Klaipeda Cultural Center Lithuania
2011 “Aesthetics vs Information” 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery Moscow
2011 “Laura Põld, Maarit Murka, Sirja – Liisa Eelma. Tapyba iš Estijos” Old Town Art Gallery Vilnius Lithuania
2011 “Woman`s glance” Magmart Film Festival Palazzo delle Arti Napoli Italy
2011 “My erotica” Rakvere Museum Estonia
2010 “Convert!” The Museum of Estonian Architecture Tallinn Estonia
2010 “Kunst macht frei” Pecs Hungary
2010 “III International Festival of Video Art Gamagüey” Cuba
2010 “23es Instants Video Numeriques et Poetiques” Marseille France
2010 “VIDEOHOLICA 2010 3rd” Varna Bulgaria
2010 “The Sovereign Art Foundation Exhibition” Barbican Centre London UK
2010 “Festival Internazionale del Cinema d`Arte – IXth edition” Bergamo Italy
2010 “MAGMART, THE BEST OF” Naples Italy
2010 “Deflection being. 21 century art from the collection of Tartu Art Museum” Tartu Art Museum
2009 “Note” Võru City Gallery
2009 “Sleepwalkers – Black Nights Film Festival” Estonia
2009 “AsoloArtFilmFestival XXVIII edition” Naples Italy
2009 “II Festival International de Videoarte Decamaguey” Decamaguey Cuba
2009 “Souveniers from earth” international Cable TV station
2009 “Self-portraits. Poses and diagnosis” KUMU Art Museum Estonia
2009 “MAGMART – video under volcano” Naples Italy
2009 “IGVFest” Dublin Ireland
2009 “CDH – 2009” Moscow Russia
2009 “Sarajevo Winter Festival” Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
2009 “Life 69” Rakvere Estonia
2008 “The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition” Agora Gallery Chelsea New York U.S.A
2008 “Baltic Biennale 2008” Manege Sankt-Peterburg
2008 “Place, that moves” KUMU Art Museum Estonia
2008 “Nord Art `08” Rendsburg Germany
2008 “Perfect ring” ArtDepoo Tallinn
2008 “Roll Up Art” Bucharest Romania
2008 “3rd AAW International Youth Salon” Atelier of Alexandria Egipt
2008 “Liberty Square” Art Hall Tallinn
2007 “Estonian landscape `07” Tartu Tigu tower
2007 “ArtDepoo highlights-estonian young painting vol.1” ArtDepoo Tallinn
2007 “Tartu.University and painting school” Artists House Tartu
2007 “JCE 2007” Montrouge France
2007 “Body changing” ArtDepoo Tallinn
2007 “Nord Art `07” Rendsburg Germany
2007 “New Wave” Tallinn Art Hall
2006 “Spring exhibition” Helsinki Art Hall
2005 “Zielpunkt” ArtDepoo Tallinn
2005 “New Estonian art” Art Centre “Kannel” Võru
2005 “Identities” Tallinn Art Hall Estonia
2004 “Here, but not now” Picture Gallery Kaunas Lithuania
2004 ” Notes about paintings. Estonian and Lithuanian young art” Vaal Gallery Tallinn
2004 ” Lets go” Salt Storage Tallinn
2004 “Ich bin ein Maler” Tallinn Art Hall
2003 “Inevitable to live at the same time” Estonian Art Museum
2001 “Real realism” Tallinn Art Hall
PRIZES
2008 Sankt-Peterburg I Baltic Biennale prize
2005 Vaal Gallery art prize
PUBLIFICATIONS
2019 “Gendering Military Sacrifice A Comparative Feminist Analysis” Redfi Koobak
2007 “Pärnu in estonian art” Andra Orn and Anneli Lepp
2005 “22+ Estonian young artists” Karin Laansoo
COLLECTIONS
Artist Pension Trust, APT Global
Tartu Art Museum
Private collections – in Estonia Latvia Finland Sweden France Hungary Italy Russia Denmark