ARTIST PROFILE

Tanel Hubertus Bergmann

  • Estonia (b. 1980 in Kallaste)
  • Currently in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Originally with a focus on performance art, TH Bergmann has spread his artistic activities over the years and has received international acknowledgement in the fields of photography, video and installation art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013

  • Art Makes You (*) Fly, Artists' House, Pärnu, Estonia.

2010

  • Picasso on the Moon, Metropol Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Glasperlenangst, Artists' House, Pärnu, Estonia.

2004

  • Plink & Berg, City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia.

2002

  • Kunstplatze, Kunstplatze U.B., Pärnu, Estonia.

2000

  • 38 Boxes, Graafika IN, Pärnu, Estonia.

1999

  • Black and White Positions, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Assemblage, City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia.
  • Black and White Positions, Graafika IN, Pärnu, Estonia.

1998

  • Bluecut, Graafika IN, Pärnu, Estonia.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

  • Culture Factory Festival, Polymer, Tallinn, Estonia.

2013

  • Hybrid object. Eastern Promises. , Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany.
  • SICHT/BETON/UNG/ACHT, FriedrichStattZentral, Dresden, Germany.
  • Revelation and Illusions, City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia.
  • The Presence of Absence, Art House, Tartu, Estonia.
  • Act 777, Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania.
  • Art Container goes Berlin, Grimm 30, Berlin, Germany.
  • Street as a Museum - Museum as a Street, III Int. Festival of Contemporary Art, Samara, Russian Federation.

2012

  • Archeology and Future of Estonian Art scenes, KuMu, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Shape - Face - Form, Hanseartworks, Lüneburg, Germany.
  • Baltic Biennale, Rizzordi Art Foundation , St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
  • Schwarzwaldmaschine, Castle of Neuenbürg, Neuenbürg, Germany.

2011

  • ISEA, Cumhuriyet Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Global Container XVII: Ultra White Asylians, -, Fengersfors, Sweden.

2010

  • The Bathers, Theater Festival, Brisbane, Australia.

2009

  • Omas Konfitüre, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Animal Collective, Talinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia.

2007

  • Art of the Invisibles, Adorno Studios Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
  • Open Space, Fasslagerhalle, Berlin, Germany.
  • Non Grata Performance Tour in USA, Polymer, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Visions of Divisions, The Basement Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom.
  • Art of the Invisibles, Brickhouse Gallery, Sacramanto, United States.
  • Art of the Invisibles, Grace Exhibition Space Broadway 840 Brooklyn, New York, United States.

1997

  • - 2006: several exhibitions all around the world, mainly Estonia, USA, Finland, Germany, several cities, Estonia.

1996

  • Toilet Exhibition (linocut), Academia Grata House, Pärnu, Estonia.

LOCATION

  • Born 1980 in Kallaste, Estonia.
  • Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia.

EDUCATION

  • 2009 - 2010
    Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
    Master in interdisciplinary Art
  • 2002 - 2010
    University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
    Diplom in Media Art
  • 2002 - 2004
    German Technologyschool, Pärnu, Estonia
    Diploma in networking/programming
  • 2000 - 2001
    Ilja Kabakovi Studio, New York, United States
    Diploma in (Ilja Kabakov)
  • 2000 - 2006
    Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
    Master in Fine Art (Time and Space department)
  • 2000 - 2002
    Academia Grata, Pärnu, Estonia
    Master in Performance Art
  • 1998 - 2000
    Academia Non Grata, Pärnu, Estonia
    Bachelor in Performance Art