Hanna Piksarv
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PORTFOLIO HANNA PIKSARV
My practice is based on time-honoured and repetitive, even blunt work. My pieces often find a form of an odd everyday object or remain visible as only mark left behind of an activity. In my works I am measuring the limits of my physical body as well as my span of memory.
EXCELLENCE IN EBENSEE2015
Festival der Regionenexhibition, performance-tour
In collaboration with Fabian Faltin, Johann Reißer and Zuzana Gallikova, we explored the handicraft tradition in Salzkammergut, focusing on the Ebensee cross-stitch technique. Extremely difficult and time-consuming cross-stitch is practiced until today, mainly by women, in spite of its marginal position amongst other local traditional practices. Our research based on our relationship to several local stitchers, from whom we learned the craft, the value and the purpose of this activity. It can play different roles in the everyday life of a stitcher, it can work as a meditation, prayer or creative hobby, form to express affection or to earn extra money. Our project sought for new ways to exhibit cross-stitch works and raised the question where do these precious hand made works position in the environment where value is measured monetarily.
photo: Norbert Artner
photo: Julia Vogt
HEA JA HALG/WOOD AND GOOD
exhibition in Tartu Art House 23.10.-16.11. 2014
More and more I am beginning to sense my limits. My energy and strength gets a spatial dimension in my work. The materials seen at the exhibition are such that I can work with without using extra help. An important component, almost a material in itself aside from wood and lead is work. Work done with my hands is what creates a change in me, gives the work of art its body and significance when confronting the viewer.Exhibition consisted of two installations - Caressed Logs and My Luck.
PAITATUD HALUD /CARESSED LOGS2014
4m3 alder logs, 182 hours of work
I polished a pile of firewood with care until all the logs were nice and smooth.
MINU ÕNN / MY LUCK2014
61 kg of lead
I casted my own bodyweight of lead on the floor of a gallery. It is an Estonian tradition to pour small amount of lead into water in New Years Eve in order to conjure luck and predict future by translating the form of casted lead into upcoming events.
OTHER ARTWORKS BASED ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
NOVEMBER - MAI/NOVEMBER - MAY2015
physical activity, brushwood
Collecting sticks and twigs in the forest is an activity I find invigorating. Perhaps it is due to the moderate physical exertion, clear result of the activity or the natural scenery. I often experience natural environment as an artwork – I find fascinating objects and inspiring installations there with my urban eyes. But it is impossible to recreate those phenomenons in exhibition space without losing their impact. My collection of bundles will work only as a reference to the time and effort spent in woods.
photo: Kristina Õllek
ÜRITASIN TASAKAALU HOIDA, KUNI HELISTAS MULLE MU EMA / I TRIED TO FIND BALANCE UNTIL MY MOTHERCALLED ME2013
graphite, firebricks, plywood postaments
I don´t have good balance, so I decided totrain myself in order to feel more stable in myeveryday life. I stood on a block of stones so thatI can hardly reach to the ceiling with graphitebetween my fingers. I drew lines in order to keepmyself up. There was a round mark left behind ofmy action. I was there trying to balance myselfuntil my mothers call interrupted my activity.She calls me every day. Sometimes on the noon,sometimes later and sometimes not at all.Second time I exhibited this work, I used plywoodpostaments to climb up to the six meter highceiling. Raja gallery
Tartu Art House
111 km2012
physical action, graphite on a wall
I converted the distance between Tallinn and my summerhouse into a 111 km long line. I drew the line with a graphite stick on a six meter long wall walking back and forth. Always on a stressful time I get the longing for my summerhouse. I start to miss the peaceful and balanced state of mind I enter while being there. I do not have enough time to be there as much as I would like to, I have to stay in Tallinn and make art. But making this piece, I did not have to run away to countryside, I escaped into work.
stills from video documentation
RITTERILE / FOR RITTER2012
graphite on paper, photo30X20cm, 16lk
This work was born from the situation I was in spring 2012. I had a plan to work as an assistant for Austrian artist Georg Ritter. He and his work work was completely unknown for me. All that I knew about him was that he is doing gigantic realistic drawings. What is the background of these images and what motivates him to work is mystery for me. I also enjoy drawing, but I have had hard time to convince myself to depict anything and I have not found a way to use drawing in my artwork. To find a common ground with my future mentor I did this work. I searched out all the pencils I had, sharpened them and drew them all til the end into a notebook.
MEDALLIC ART AND SMALLER SCULPTURAL OBJECTS
HARMING HAND2015
fabric, 21x18x4 cm
KIRIKUKÜÜNLAD/ CHURCH CANDLES
Stadtpfarrkirche Urfahr, Stadtpfarrkirche Linz, Pöstlingbergkirche, Alter Dom, Tallinna Jaani kirik, Tartu Jaani kirik, Tallinna Jaani Seegi kirik, Jumalaema Kiirestikuulja ikooni kirik2013
paraffine
Unlimited edition of candles shaped as four churches in Linz and four Estonian churches. Churchcandles have been exhibited as a large room installation as well as separately, but I really like when these candles find their way to peoples homes, where they han offer private ritual. It stays up to the viewer whether by burning a church-shaped candle, one glorifies the church or depreciates it.
exhibition view in Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz
exhibition views in Deutschvilla Strobl
documentation of a private experience of the artwork
WISDOM OF THE CAT MOTHER2015
brass, 9,5 X 7 cm
ISA NÄGU HAAMER JA VANAISA NÄGU KIRVES /HAMMER WITH FATHER´S FACE AND AXE WITH GRANDFATHER´S FACE2014
wood, bronze, iron
MAJAMEDALID / HOUSES2011
lead~ 5 x 5 x 1 cm
These are series of medals I made for my friendsand family about important houses in their lives.Medal art has some qualities that I value in artin general. By fitting in palm, medals can reachvery close to a person. Also, medals are usuallyaddressed to someone, they have clear audience.In this work, medals keep memory of a housethat has been important in some point in theirlife, but has moved on the background. Leadgives a small item suprisingly heavy weight.
2013 - 2015 Estonian Academy of Arts, MA Fine Arts2012 - 2013 Leonardo da Vinci internship in Georg Ritter studio2008 - 2012 Estonian Academy of Arts, BA in Sculpture2010 - 2011 The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Erasmus programme
2014 Eduard Wiiralt Stipend (Estonian Ministry of Culture)2012 Young Sculptor Prize (Estonian Academy of Arts)2012 FIDEM (International Art Medal Federation) Scholarship for Young Artists
2015 EXCELLENCE IN EBENSEE with Fabian Faltin and Johann Reißer (as. Zuzana Gallikova), Festival of Regions in Ebensee, Austria2014 GOOD AND WOOD / HEA JA HALG, Tartu Art House, Estonia2013 HÄNDE HOCH...WIR ERGEBEN UNS...NICHT with Ferdinand Götz and Georg Ritter, Deutschvilla Strobl, Austria
2015 ONE MAN - ONE NOTE - re/calling Siachilaba, curators Fina Esslinger and Peter Kuthan, Deutschvilla Strobl, Austria2015 LOADING...100%, Tartu Art House2014 RITUALS ON CONDITIONS OF CLARITY / RITUAALID SELGUSE TINGIMUSTEL, ISFAG gallery, Tallinn2014 WIND MAKES WAVES / TUUL TEEB LAINEID together with Ulla Juske, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Sigrid Uibopuu in Amandus Adamson Atelier Museum in Paldiski 2014 PORTRAIT OF UNSEEN, curator Kirke Kangro, ISFAG gallery, Tallinn2014 BOOKS! / RAAMATUD!, curator Kaspar Tamsalu, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn2014 SUSPICIOUS MATTER / KAHTLEV MATEERIA, curator Kirke Kangro, Haapsalu Linnagalerii2013 100% LINZ. KALEIDOSKOP EINER STADT, curators Andrea Bina, Klaudia Kreslehner, Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz, Austria 2013 ESCAPE LANDSCAPE / VÄLJAPÄÄSUMAASTIK, curator Kirke Kangro, Tartu Art House2012 NOORE SKULPTORI PREEMIANÄITUS / YOUNG SCULPTOR PRIZE SHOW, curators Kirke Kangro and Taavi Talve, Raja gallery, Tallinn2011 ILLUMINAATOR, curators Kirke Kangro and Marko Mäetamm, Raja gallery, Tallinn2009 RASKE SAMM / SCARY CHALLENGE, curator Jüri Ojaver, Tallinn Post Office2009 ASJAD, RUUM, SEISUNDID, curators Krista Mölder and Margot Kask, Y-gallery, Tartu
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Group shows:
2013 EKADENTS in 1.mai gallery, Tallinn2010 Glass art exhibition ÖÖVALGUS in Kalamaja graveyard-park, Tallinn2010 Sculpture familiarisation dinners / artist-talks / performances part of the Tallinn European Culture Capital 2011 warm-up programme “52 Suprises and Ideas”2010 KOHVIK / CAFE in Estonian Academy of Arts graduation show TASE, Tallinn2010 MEIL ON KA SIIN HUVITAV / IT´S INTERESTING HERE TOO, Raja gallery, Tallinn
Projects with group SUHE(Sigrid Uibopuu, Ulla Juske,Hanna Piksarv, Eva Järv):