ARTIST

 

Maarja Mäemets

Education & Teaching (Selected)

2015-2018 The Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Design, Department of Glass Art, MA in Glass Art
2012-2015The Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Design, Department of Glass Art, BA in Glass Art
2017-2019The Olustvere Service and Rural Economy School, assistant glassblower studies
2016-2017Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Faculty of Contextual Sculpture, exchange studies in prof Heimo Zobernig s class

Awards / Grants (Selected)

2018Erasmus+ Scholarship for professional practice at the GlassPoint studio in Riga, Latvia
2017

Ene Silla s Scholarship for glass art MA studies, Estonian Students Fund in USA

Maks Roosma s creative scholarship for an outstanding glass art student, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

2016

Erasmus+ scholarship for exchange studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

Private entrepreneur ‘s Ott Kikkas‘ scholarship for an outstanding glass art student, EKA, Estonia

2014Ene Silla’s Scholarship for glass art BA studies, Estonian Students Fund in USA
2009

Resident, KCCC, Klepeda Port, Lithuania

Exhibitions (Selected)

CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2020

Estonian Glass Artist’s Union’s annual exhibition “Colour – RED“ at ARS Project Space in Tallinn, Estonia 2020 “u n d e r t h e w a t e r o n t h e m o o n“ in the waters of Rummu quarry, Rummu, Harjumaa, Estonia

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2017“aega on küll/there’s time”-first solo exhibition uniting glass art and photography in Positiiv gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
2020

“Colour-RED II“ Estonian Glass Artists‘ Union’s annual exhibition at City Gallery of Rakvere, Estonia

“Colour-RED“ Estonian Glass Artists' Union's annual exhibition at ARS Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia

“underthewateronthemoon II“ at Okapy Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

“underthewateronthemoon“ in the waters of Rummu quarry, Rummu, Harjumaa, Estonia


2019

“Resonants” Estonian Glass Artists’ Union's annual exhibition at Vana-Võromaa Museum in Võru, Estonia

“Give a new life” 7th Recycling Art Exhibition at The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia

“Lennujaam” at Olustvere Manor’s glassblowing studio, Viljandi, Estonia

2018

“ARS Concept – Estonian Art” at T1 Mall of Tallinn, Estonia

“Stanislav Libensky Award 2018” at DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic

“Estonian glass design @ Estonian Design Festival“ at Okapy Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

“Glass @ The Forge” at Craft Central, London, United Kingdom

“I SPY with my little eye vol 2” at EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia


2017

“I SPY with my little eye” – one night experimental exhibition show at Polymer A-korpus, Tallinn

“Kooskõla. Ongoing / Going on” at Haus Gallery, Tallinn

“Rundgang 2017” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria


2016

“10th International Blown Glass Symposium” Lviv, Ukraine

“HÜPE/HYPE - a jump into Estonian’s fresh accessory design” in Tali design shop, Tallinn, Estonia

“Ongoing / going on - Estonian young glass art” Jelagin’s Glass Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

“Abandoned House Project - transformation, poetry of space” Suva Sock Factory, Tallinn, Estonia

2015

“Interpretation” Mentzentorffs’ House, Riga, Latvia

“Interpretatsioon” Olustvere Manor’ s glassblowing studio, Viljandi, Estonia