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![time is an animal]( "time is an animal")
info"time is an animal" is a series of 10 photographic images, made during the residency in Pianpicollo Selvatico Foundation. These layered images are a result of 15 sequential days of walking the same path and visiting the same locations. Supported by: Pianpicollo Selvatico Foundation With special thanks to Alice Benessia, Raffaella Spagna, Andrea Caretto
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![every second is kissed by billions of lips (love letter to 'dierkens')]( "every second is kissed by billions of lips (love letter to 'dierkens')")
infoVideo piece commissioned for the group exhibition "Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes", curated by Mateo Chacón Pino & Àngels Miralda, in Radius CCA
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![mineral everybodies II]( "mineral everybodies II")
info'mineral everybodies' brings together stone and human minerals in search of shared dissonances and resonances. This is the second version of the installation (first made in 2020), projected on volcanic tezontle stones. Supported by: The Cultural Endowment of Estonia
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!["wa(l)king the meteorite"]( "\"wa(l)king the meteorite\"")
info"wa(l)king the meteorite" is a combination of a projected video materials combined with realtime voiceover. The text is a first draft for a future video essay circling around meteorites, 19th century scientific language, walking and belonging. The video was a documentation of my action to measure a local lake with my footsteps, aiming to translate it into a meteorite crater. Supported by: Tartu2024 Photo: Maanus Kullamaa, Tartu2024
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![Stone Network]( "Stone Network")
infoStone Network is a knot of gatherings initiated by Anna Bierler and Marit Mihklepp. They began weaving the network with a week-long residency-ritual in March 2022 to connect the voices and bodies of the geologic and the human, as well as focused on modes of writing and reading as spaces for intimacy and collectivity. Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds
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![Research 'Black Earth' project]( "Research 'Black Earth' project")
infoWe (a group of eight artists and curators) spent six weeks living and working together in Canon del Blanco (southern Chile), focusing on topics of more-than-human relationships, seed-keeping and other earth practices. We were in active conversation with the local Indigenuous communities and we are still in contact for future long-term projects. Supported by: Stroom Den Haag and Mondriaan Fonds
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![KÕDU / THE REST]( "KÕDU / THE REST")
infoCommissioned piece for the 8th Artishok Biennial 'Botanical Witnesses', curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla. I worked with the tension between the desire to preserve and the inevitable slow decay of various herbariums.
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![mound network theory (with Meredith Root-Bernstein) of life]( "mound network theory (with Meredith Root-Bernstein) of life")
infoResearch on artistic and ecological methods of doing field work with the piles and mounds of Paris.
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![half-hidden, moss-driven, cloud-like]( "half-hidden, moss-driven, cloud-like")
infoPhotographs taken and weather observations written during daily walks in March 2021.
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![mineral everybodies]( "mineral everybodies")
info'mineral everybodies' brings together stone and human minerals in search of shared dissonances and resonances.
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![Tentacular Lecturette (photo credits: Romy Yedidia and Eva Meijer)]( "Tentacular Lecturette (photo credits: Romy Yedidia and Eva Meijer)")
infoTalk on multispecies entanglements and learning from other-than-human bodies.
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![Living or Nearly So (photo credits: ENE / Jean-Sebastien Veilleux)]( "Living or Nearly So (photo credits: ENE / Jean-Sebastien Veilleux)")
infoSounding actions for multiple stone bodies, developed during Est-Nord-Est residency. Supported by: Stroom Den Haag and The Cultural Endowment of Estonia
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![Geologic Turn]( "Geologic Turn")
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![Living or Nearly So (photo credits: ENE / Jean-Sebastien Veilleux)]( "Living or Nearly So (photo credits: ENE / Jean-Sebastien Veilleux)")
infoExercises on experiencing the geologic time and bodies. Supported by: Stroom Den Haag and The Cultural Endowment of Estonia
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![Talking Stones (photo credits: Michael Meili and H0 Institute)]( "Talking Stones (photo credits: Michael Meili and H0 Institute)")
infoA guided fieldwork and movement session with human and stone bodies.
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![Six Entanglements in Seven Stages (photo credits: Kristof Vrancken)]( "Six Entanglements in Seven Stages (photo credits: Kristof Vrancken)")
infoMicrobial landscapes as the reflection of collective self of six people.
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![Fossil Sound]( "Fossil Sound")
infoSound performance by stone and human ensemble, together with Edgars Rubenis. Supported by: Stroom Den Haag
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![Tree Reader]( "Tree Reader")
infoAudiovisual piece made for the exhibition WILD/METSIK.
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![(ghost)]( "(ghost)")
infoDetail/postcard from duo exhibition WALK.
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![Holobiont Tales]( "Holobiont Tales")
infoPage spread from the magazine Migrant Journal.
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![The Longest Movie Ever]( "The Longest Movie Ever")
infoAttempts to enter the geologic time scale.
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![On Becoming a Fossil (conversations with matter)]( "On Becoming a Fossil (conversations with matter)")
infoExercises on slowing down time.
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![Match Made in Heaven]( "Match Made in Heaven")
infoCollection of texts and images for exercising empathy towards objects.
Marit Mihklepp is an Estonian artist and researcher, who speculates on the im/possibilities of communication between humans and other-than-humans. In her work she is imagining and practicing togetherness, shared rituals and hidden histories with the other. Working with extended kinships – both with the relatively familiar (rocks, trees) and the unexplained (microbial dark matter) – Marit aims to get an intimate experience within the complex cross-species/cross-times entanglements. She is interested in questioning anthropocentric knowledge cultures, training ourselves in listening to the companion species and growing rhizomes between disciplines and organisms. Highlighting the less noticed – too far, too small, too slow –, Marit’s work includes instructed experiences, performative lectures, microbial perfume collections, video pieces, listening exercises, matchbox publications. Driven by processes of field work, attunement of the senses and discovering wisdom inherent in different bodies, she addresses ecological grief from the perspective of turning our attention towards more and less alive, more and less visible bodies. Her current work is focussed on the geologic imagination and encounters with stones.
Marit has studied in Estonian Academy of Arts (Textile Design BA) and in the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (ArtScience MA). She is currently based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Maakt deel uit van Kunstenaarsinitiatief / Collectief / Broedplaats
Stone Network (with Anna Bierler)
Lid van Beroeps- / Kunstenaarsvereniging
Haagse Kunstenaars
Estonian Artists' Association
Curriculum vitae
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2013 - 2015ArtScience Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2006 - 2006Philosophy and Semiotics University of Tartu Diploma behaald
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2004 - 2008Textile Design Estonian Academy of Arts Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2024time is an animal Pianpicollo Selvatico Foundation Levice, Italië Open Studios after the research residency at Pianpicollo Selvatico. I was showing printed photographs of variable sizes, writings, small objects and drawings. www.pianpicollo.org/portfolio/time-is-an-animal-marit-mihklepp Solo
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2024HIIS: A Digital Sanctuary Shoreditch Arts Club London, Verenigd Koninkrijk The digital display at Shoreditch Arts Club will be on view from 16 – 27 September 2024. Heiter X presents HIIS: A Digital Sanctuary, an immersive showcase comprising ‘The Longest Movie Ever Made’ by Marit Mihklepp, and digital work by Taavet Jansen with visuals by JoJo&me and soundscape by Jo Nurm, presented by Protopia Collective. Inspired by sacred groves (hiis in Estonian) – ancient sites to offer gratitude and wishes to forest spirits – HIIS: A Digital Sanctuary by Heiter X is a digital space where reflections collected from the physical exhibition are transported and blended with visual and auditory elements to create a ‘web of life’. Marit Mihklepp’s work The Longest Movie Ever Made delves into the concept of geological imagination and humanity’s connection with stones. shoreditchartsclub.com/events/hiis-opening-evening Groep
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2024Kordon Artist Film Festival KOFF KORDON AiR Kärdla, Estland123 Screening of "every second is kissed by billions of lips", a visual essay on our microbial entanglements or how the intimacy of our relationships is carried and shaped by our microbes. It's a love letter to the invisible presences inhabiting every body, every space, every surface, inside out and back again. www.eaa.ee/en/kordon-artist-film-festival-koff-0 Groep
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2024"running stars, air stones, ground holes" performative lecture ZHdK Zurich, Zwitserland "running stars, air stones, ground holes" performative lecture speculating around the possible blood-relation between humans and meteorites through the element of iron. Solo
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2023The Death Began in Autumn Casa Lü AiR Mexico City, Mexico The Death Began in Autumn was a group exhibition of Kristi Kongi, Marit Mihklepp, Krista Mölder and Ann Mirjam Vaikla, and curated by Leslie Moody Castro. This is an exhibition by four female artists from Estonia, each of whom approaches cycles from a perspective and a lens that is unique and varied. Together we have talked about light, the sky, the aerodynamics of fluidity, the fluidity of being.Together in this space, Krista, Marit, Kristi, and Ann Mirjam bring the Estonian forest into the tropics of Mexico, the diffused light of winter together with the sharp contrasts of a tropical summer. Here the landscape bleeds both in and out of a space, setting the forest afire with light. www.ondamx.art/en/evento/The%20death%20began%20in%20Autumn-IGAEd4EpceduausTwQ4z Groep
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2023Celestial Bodies Tartu Observatory Tõravere, Estland123 The residency ended with a public showing at the observatory wherein the artists presented their process and outcome. Eglė Šimėnaitė is a performance artist who worked with the notion of a blue hour. The work took the shape of a collective meditation / performative installation. Piibe Kolka, who is an experimental filmmaker, has originally grown up at the observatory’s grounds as a daughter of a star scientist. The showing took the shape of a performative lecture where she guided us through the grounds of the space centre combining it with her personal childhood memories. Marit Mihklepp is an artistic researcher who is interested in meteorites. She presented to the audience an experimental video clip transforming a nearby pond into a meteorite crater through speculative storytelling. Juss Heinsalu is a ceramist whose main material and interest lies in the material clay. He ended up introducing us to limestone plates from where he had engraved scientific drawings – therefore bringing together to the same image plain fossils of the earth and the cosmic structures. magiccarpets.eu/residencies/celestial-bodies-navigating-between-scientific-knowledge-and-indigenous-wisdom/ Groep
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2023Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes Radius CCA Delft, Nederland Participating artists: Elina Alekseeva, Johanna Bruckner, Penelope Cain, Wim van Egmond, Lizan Freijsen, Escuela de Garaje, Aslı Hatipoğlu, Marit Mihklepp, Natalia Sorzano Curators: Mateo Chacón Pino & Àngels Miralda This exhibition gathers a group of artists who engage with bacteria, yeasts and microbes. In the three chapters THE INVISIBLE WORLD AROUND AND WITHIN US, PETRI DISH CULTURES and AN INTIMATE RELATION this exhibition asks which lessons we may learn from microbial life for our human existence on earth. The microbes that live in the crevices of this space and within our bodies are given a voice in a new sound-piece by Marit Mihklepp. Her work departs from a selection of writings by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek that describe his early encounters with microbes in a series of letters to other scientists. These words were a first glimpse at the inhabitants of the microscopic world that have been human collaborators for millennia. Van Leeuwenhoek’s astonishment at the discovery that bodies are full of these pulsating creatures was only the beginning of an entire scientific field. Mihklepp presents a variety of writings to expand on van Leeuwenhoek’s declarations of love to this invisible world. The microbe is taken by Mihklepp as the intermediary between the inside and the outside of the body, from the intestine to the walls of the exhibition space and beyond. Mihklepp searches for poetic images of possible interrelations between humans and the microbial world through language. Through a series of instructions, commentaries, and poetic inflections, we find a contemporary bestiary of an invisible world that she projects on the same wall that provided van Egmond’s starter cultures. www.radius-cca.org/en/exhibitions/radical-symbiosis-social-life-with-microbes Groep
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2022Polymorphic Futures Gessnerallee Zürich Zurich, Zwitserland In the face of the intertwined social and ecological crisis reductive doomsday scenarios have gained popularity. In an attempt to provide alternative, more hopeful narratives we set out to explore the potential of performative practices to imagine new forms of collectivity, of being attentive to environmental processes and aware of our own entanglements with them and with one another. Polymorphic Futures, curated by Michaela Büsse and Benjamin Burger, converges and materializes the collective process in the form of an interactive exhibition. The audience is invited to join as active agents by exploring different ecosystems of thought, attending to transformative micro-practices, or inhabiting proposals for multi-species collaboration. www.otherwise.network/ Groep
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20228th Artishok Biennial: Botanical Witnesses Tallinn Botanical Garden Tallinn, Estland123 The title of the 8th Artishok Biennial – Botanical Witnesses – will shift the field of human perception while elevating botanical specimens from the passive into the active state, to the role of engaged witnesses. Under the aegis of the current biennial, plants have become companions on the artists' creative journey while challenging the general approach towards plants as a piece of decor or commodity. From September 29 to October 30 ten artists present their new artworks during a 10-day-long opening marathon and each work is paired with ten critical writings produced by ten writers. The Tallinn Botanic Garden, this year’s biennials’ location, has been the initial impulse for the almost a year-long creative process for the artists and writers – a joint space for learning and unlearning. Accepting the challenge to create an artwork based on what they experienced in the botanical garden, the participating artists relate to various aspects of the site – the ones going beyond the visible contours of conventional plant collecting and categorisation. artishokbiennale.com/ab2022/#kunstnikud_est Groep
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2021Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention Narva Art Residency Narva, Estland123 International group exhibition, curated by Saskia Lillepuu and Ann Mirjam Vaikla, which focuses on prolonged attention to human and other-than-human beings, rhythms, and worlds, in order to sense our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness. www.nart.ee/en/exhibitions/nart-annual-exhibition-2021-point-of-no-return-attunement-of-attention/ Groep
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2021Changing Landscapes online The Hague, Nederland Exchange program and online exhibition between Brazilian and Dutch artists around the topics of landscapes and land use. Curated by Yasmine Ostendorf and Gabriela Maciel. alterandopaisagens.art/artistas/ Groep
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2020On the Nature of a Name Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam Amsterdam, Nederland Performative lecture in front of Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, in collaboration with an artist Amy Pekal. We were playfully and critically looking at Western knowledge making and naming practices, and drawing attention to the relations between plant species and how they might communicate and evolve with each other. framerframed.nl/en/projecten/finissage-on-the-nature-of-a-name/ Duo
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2020Tentacular Lecturette A Tale of A Tub Rotterdam, Nederland Talk with performative elements, focusing on multispecies entanglements and wonder of encounter. a-tub.org/online/parliament-of-corona-animals/ Groep
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2020Verwerelden Eva Meijer's garden Landsmeer, Nederland Another version of the Tentacular Lecturette for the occasion of an outside garden exhibition curated by Eva Meijer and Gijsje Heemskerk. verwerelden.blogspot.com/ Groep
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2019OTHERWISE festival-as-research Gessnerallee Zurich, Zwitserland The programme for OTHERWISE comprised an exciting mix of sessions about bodily experiences, introspective practices, collective and individual quests and liminal performances. 18 collaborators were in the core of this research endeavour called festival and together with us explored the potential for collective transformation. h0.institute/ Groep
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2019Open Studios Est-Nord-Est résidence d'artistes Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada Research residency and open studios (with thanks to Stroom Den Haag) www.facebook.com/events/449635949240804/ Groep
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2019Fossil Sound Centrala Birmingham, Verenigd Koninkrijk Sound performance with stones in collaboration with a Latvian composer Edgars Rubenis Duo
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2019ARTEFACT 2019: Parallel Crossings STUK Leuven, België Exhibiting a photographic series on microbial landscapes within the installation of Migrant Journal www.stuk.be/en/program/artefact-2019 Groep
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2018METSIK/WILD Piirimäe Farm Mooste, Estland123 Exhibition and symposium moks.ee/projects/metsik-wild?locale=en Groep
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2018Expanded Body #2 _ Inhabiting Time. An experience about Time in Oasi Zegna Cittadellarte Biella, Italië Exhibition following field work www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=102 Groep
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2018WALK (postcards from the border) Valga Museum Valga, Estland123 Exhibition about Estonian-Latvian border together with composer/musician Edgars Rubenis Duo
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2017Performance Objects Bodies Tetem Enschede, Nederland Exhibition with Ludmila Rodrigues instrumentinventors.org/event/performance-objects-bodies-at-tetem/ Duo
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2017Performance Objects Bodies Quartair and TodaysArt Festival The Hague, Nederland Exhibition todaysart.nl/2017/program/connect-the-dots/ Groep
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2016Archive of Flying Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland OpZicht presentation, research on sleep and dreams of flying www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/kleine_presentatie.php?kt_id=3626656 Solo
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2015Graduation Festival 2015 The Royal Academy of Art The Hague The Hague, Nederland Exhibition of graduating students 2015 archive.kabk.nl/graduation2015/ Groep
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2015Ready-made Language Metaphor Vrije Akademie Gemak The Hague, Nederland ArtScience Graduates Preview Exhibition stichting.interfaculty.nl/preview-exhibition-2015/ Groep
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2014White City White Canvas White Noise Kuća Kulture FMK Belgrade, Servië en Montenegro Exhibition following field work www.interfaculty.nl/white-city-white-canvas-white-noise/ Groep
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2022
Narrating Just Sustainability in the City Institute for Advanced Study Amsterdam, Nederland ias.uva.nl/content/events/2022/04/narrating-just-sustainability-in-the-city.html The research project “Narrating Just Sustainability in the City” - led by ArtScience curator Bergit Arends, literature historian Tom Idema and environmental scientist Paul Behrens -, asks what forms of narrative might be required to support ‘just sustainabilities’ in the context of the Anthropocene. As part of the research three artists were invited to be part in this project: Temitayo Ogunbiyi (Lagos); Marit Mihklepp & Edgars Rubenis (Den Haag); Esmee Geerken (Amsterdam). The artists were asked to design ‘Instructions for performative actions’; to engage with their immediate environment in a playful way and respond to just sustainability in the city, addressing circular economy, teleconnections, ecosystems and power. Their instructions have been distributed within different communities, and responses to the instructions were shared in a workshop held in IAS.
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Stone Network Stone Network The Hague and Rotterdam, Nederland Stone Network is a knot of gatherings initiated by Marit Mihklepp and Anna Bierler. In March we held a week-long residency where we connected the voices and bodies of the geologic and the human, as well as focused on modes of writing and reading as spaces for intimacy and collectivity. We will further investigate this relational approach and embodied research practice in a performative lecture during the Hackers & Designers Summer Academy (tbc); and two Sensing Workshops commissioned by Field Academy at StrandLab Almere and Zone2Source in summer-autumn 2022.
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2022
Transitional Waters FieldARTS Amsterdam and Texel, Nederland www.fieldarts.net/about FieldARTS is an annual residency designed for emerging scholars and artists engaged in environmental and artistic research. The intensive week-long program allows for collaborative knowledge creation in dialogue with experts both on and in the field. During the residency, participants are invited to attend extended field trips, lectures by key theorists in the field of environmental humanities, collaborative workshops, and public-facing roundtable discussions.
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OTHERWISE: Polymorphic Futures OTHERWISE Zurich, Zwitserland www.otherwise.network/artists OTHERWISE is a collaborative platform that explores the potential of artistic research to contribute to societal and ecological transformations. Over 8 months artists, designers and researchers will exchange their ideas and practices, and develop a performative display of their ongoing learnings.
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2018
Holobiont Tales Diffrakt Berlin, Duitsland diffrakt.space/en/micro-odysseys-migrant-journal-no-5/ artist talk
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2018
Meaning Seeking Animals Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nederland www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/stedelijk-book-club-press-print-publish-2018 in conversation with Lisa van Casand as contributing artist to her text collection Meaning Seeking Animals published by oneacre.online
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2016
Microbial (t)Issues Mediamatic Amsterdam, Nederland artist talk
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2024Pianpicollo Selvatico Foundation Levice, Italië Walking, breathing, noticing and resting with the beings and landscapes of Pianpicollo Selvatico became my practice during the residency. During the open studios I presented a mixed media installation, including printed photographs, small objects, writings and drawings. www.pianpicollo.org/portfolio/time-is-an-animal-marit-mihklepp
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2024Väino Tanner Foundation Mazzano Romano, Italië One month residency to focus on writing a script and developing a new photo series around the small town carved out of volcanic stone. www.vainotannerinsaatio.fi/
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2024IfCAR Oberwald, Zwitserland How do we deal with a world that is melting, flooding, and drying up? What can we learn from rivers and bodies of water about our own being-in-the-world? What transformative forces are engaged by the temporalities of waterscapes, and how do these translate into our bodies and our collectivity? Liquid Stays is a collective process of artistic field research exploring relationships to more-than-human beings and capacities for change. The group investigates interactions between water and time, materiality and metaphor, landscape and body, ecosystem and art. "Melting (Re-)Sources, Sacred Places" was the first collective residency of our artist research collective. www.zhdk.ch/forschung/ifcar/river-calls-23260/liquid-stays-artist-research-group-on-water-and-time-23882
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2023Tartu2024 Neeruti, Tõravere, Estland123 We spent three weeks together with three other artists Eglė Šimėnaitė, Juss Heinsalu and Piibe Kolka. Our residency was curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla and focused on the dialogue between the artists and the space centre’s scientists - and how that dialogue influenced artists’ creative work. In parallel artists-in-residence were looking into folklore connected to astronomy that used to be an important part of the old Estonians way of living. Vaikla writes about the residency: “Witnessing a change of light and feeling a strange, satisfying kind of enchantment somewhat sums up the common ground and approach between the invited artists of the residency Celestial Bodies – Navigating Between Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Wisdom. Initially thought of as a continuation of last year’s residency, Attending To Liminality – Smoke Sauna Tradition which focused on a regional phenomena offering an immersive bodily learning experience from the intangible of ritualistic cleansing and healing, I pictured how Celestial Bodies, aka heavenly bodies, invites the artists to direct their attention outwards – to the physical entities beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. In retrospect, I can admit the opposite – to comprehend Celestial Bodies that appear to be absurdly far from human perception, made the artists look inwards, resulting in artistic processes connected to geological formulations, childhood memories, one’s own body, or recurring movement of terrestrial light.” magiccarpets.eu/residencies/celestial-bodies-navigating-between-scientific-knowledge-and-indigenous-wisdom/
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2023Casa Lü Mexico City, Mexico Networking and production residency for a group exhibition "The Death Began in Autumn". ondamx.art/en/cdmx/evento/The%20death%20began%20in%20Autumn-IGAEd4EpceduausTwQ4z
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2022KORDON AiR Kärdla, Estland123 Research residency and public walk around the Kärdla meteorite crater in Hiiumaa, Estonia. www.kordon.ee/artists-in-residence
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2022Creative Europe Roots & Seeds XXI project Paris, Frankrijk Two-week-long research residency with an ecologist Meredith Root-Bernstein. In the center of our collaboration was thinking and being with the mounds, heaps and holes of Paris. Piles are the most primordial form of technique or technology, accumulations that make possible new materialities, affordances, and interactions. All of ecology (and a lot of art) can be described as moving and reshuffling piles of things. The mound, heap, or pile, is also an archive. We approached ‘large piles of something’ with field work practices from both ecological and artistic perspectives. We started with finding and mapping specific mounds and writing field notes. In the process we asked the following questions from the mounds: what kind of knowledge are you an archive of? What kind of movements are you holding? How did you get here? How would you make me part of you? rootsandseedsxxi.eu/open-call/
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2022Valley of the Possible Cañon Del Blanco, Chili BLACK EARTH was a research programme where first two weeks were immersive and guided (field trips, workshops), and last four weeks were predominantly self-guided. This residency was centred around the Indigenuous Mapuche culture, seed and soil practices, non-hierarchical thinking, human and more-than-human care. valleyofthepossible.com/
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2021online, Nederland 'Changing Landscapes' online residency which concluded with the online group exhibition with the same name. greenartlaballiance.com/changing-landscapes-alterando-paisagens/
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2021Narva Art Residency Narva, Estland123 During the residency in Narva Art Residency (Narva, EE) I was developing the commissioned work 'Mineral everybodies' which was exhibited in NART’s 2021 annual exhibition 'Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention'. www.nart.ee/en/artists/marit-mihklepp/
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2020Kone Foundation The Hague, Nederland Home Residency Grant from Finnish independent non-profit organisation Kone Foundation, for continuing my artistic practice in the field of geologic imagination. koneensaatio.fi/en/grants/tuetut/2020-2/home-residency-grant-call/
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2020TAAT Neerpelt, België TAAT operates as a performative spatial practice in between the fields of architecture, performance and artistic research. TAAT facilitates encounters between audience members, institutions, practitioners, researchers and students and has been unfolding as ‘rehearsals through space’. HALL08 is one of these encounter-based collaborations, extending into the other-than-human, studying the ecology of an encounter. HALL08 will be officially opened in April 2021. taat-projects.com/archive
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2019Est-Nord-Est résidence d'artistes Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada 2-month residency for further unfolding and experimenting with the geologic desires and dramas estnordest.org/
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2018Üle Maa Heli Puhtu, Estland123 short residency and audiovisual concert www.facebook.com/events/1073699036113067/
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2018Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy). Artist in Residence Biella, Italië residential module in Biella and in Oasi Zegna mountains www.cittadellarte.it/en/
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2017Austrian Federal Chancellery and KulturKontakt Austria (Salzburg, Austria) Salzburg, Oostenrijk 3-month residency www.salzburger-kunstverein.at/en/
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2014FMK Kuća kulture Belgrade, Servië en Montenegro residency and exhibition
Aankopen/werken in collecties
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2017sama #1 private collection Linz, Oostenrijk drawing
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2017sama #2 private collection Salzburg, Oostenrijk drawing
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2012slide Carousel Collection Paide, Estland123 print
publicaties
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2023Field Docket Boek Sonic Acts Press various Amsterdam, Nederland www.sonicacts.com/archive/field-docket In July 2022, as part of the first FieldARTS residency, two dozen artists and researchers conducted undisciplined and collaborative fieldwork across the logistical flows of the Amsterdam port, the brackish waters of the IJmuiden estuary, and the shifting dunes of Texel Island in dialogue with marine chemists, Marxist theorists, Black feminist thinkers, and benthic ecologists. This research was conducted with the conviction that fieldwork might name an intimacy with the field and those drawn to it, not the variously distilled outcomes that typically follow once the sand bank is translated as a bank of data. Alive to the plural currents, contours and conflicts of the terrains of study – sensitive, in other words, to its milieu-specificity – the FieldARTS Docket details some coordinates for thought and practice as they were encountered in the field. The pocket-sized book contains thirty entries that are provisional, excessive, dialogic, often brackish, only lightly edited and arranged. Consisting of critical orientations drawn into focus during the collaborative residency, these entries present a sustained engagement with a field languishing at the edge of cultural concern while remaining central to the shape of transitions already well underway.
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2022Botanical Witnesses Catalogus Artishok Biennial various Tallinn, Estland123 artishokbiennale.com/ab2022/tekstid.html#mihklepp Printed and online exhibition catalogue of The 8th Artishok Biennial: Botanical Witnesses, curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla. 10 Estonian and international writers wrote about my new commissioned work 'THE REST' that was presented at the exhibition.
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2022Stone Tides Boek klima magazine various authors, including myself Paris, Frankrijk klima-magazine.com/en Stone Tides is a visual-textual experiment combining two different works into one.
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2021Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention Catalogus Narva Art Residency Narva, Estland123 www.nart.ee/app/uploads/2021/04/PONR_artists.pdf Catalogue for the 'Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention' international group exhibition in Narva Art Residency.
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2018Meaning Seeking Animals Catalogus oneacre.online Lisa van Casand The Hague, Nederland www.oneacre.online/?id=lisa-stef-J1541248969078 Guided text-walk inside the online publication of diverse fragments of collected knowledge.
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2018Holobiont Tales Boek Migrant Journal various authors, including myself London, Verenigd Koninkrijk migrantjournal.com/products/pre-order-migrant-journal-no-5-micro-odysseys Artistic research piece about our microbial identities and gardens under and on our skins.
Recensies
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2024Schuif aan, parasieten! Over schimmels en parasieten als welkome verstoringen Magazine Stella Kummer Utrecht, Nederland metropolism.com/nl/feature/schuif-aan-parasieten-over-schimmels-en-parasieten-als-welkome-verstoringen/ Exhibition review of "Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes", where also my work is mentioned.
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2023If There Is Nowhere to Hold on to, Root into Yourself and Grow from There – Marit Mihklepp interviewed by Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou Magazine Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou Amsterdam, Nederland sonicacts.com/archive/marit-mihklepp-if-there-is-nowhere-to-hold-on-to In early July 2022, artist Marit Mihklepp – with the support of Sonic Acts – participated in Transitional Waters, the inaugural FieldARTS residency, initiated by professors and researchers Jeff Diamanti and Fred Carter. During the intense weeklong programme, emerging scholars and artists engaged with the shifting estuarine environments of the littoral dune ecologies of Texel Island, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), and the colonial infrastructures of the Port of Amsterdam at Ijmuiden, now site of the world’s largest sea lock and offshore wind farm development. During the residency, Mihklepp further developed a project provisionally titled mound network theory of life, which she originally initiated with ecologist Meredith Root-Bernstein. The project investigates the mound, heap or pile as a threefold manifestation: as an epistemological object, the most primordial form of technique or technology, and one of the few methodologies utilised by science, art and nature, alike. The intention is to create a playful multidisciplinary methodology, or ‘repeatable instructions’, to think and be with mounds, piles, and heaps around us. This project is also the latest instance in Mihklepp’s long-term engagement in exploring the possibilities of communication between humans, more-than-human entities, and all other kind of things.
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2023Leven in de katakomben van RADIUS’ Website Frits Dijcks Delft, Nederland jegensentevens.nl/2023/10/leven-in-de-catacomben-van-radius/
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2022Event: ‘POLYMORPHIC FUTURES’ by OTHERWISE at Gessnerallee Zurich Website CLOT Magazine online, Zwitserland www.clotmag.com/news/event-polymorphic-futures-by-otherwise-at-gessnerallee-zurich CLOT Magazine is an online publishing platform dedicated to art and science explorations. We aim to collect, display, broadcast and promote the crossover of Art, Science and Technology.
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2021Ootan aega, kui inimesed enam ei valitse Krant Piret Karro Tallinn, Estland123 www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/c6-kunst/ootan-aega-kui-inimesed-enam-ei-valitse/ Exhibition 'Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention' review in the Estonian culture newspaper Sirp
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2021Life cannot thrive in a monoculture – it needs diversity Website Una Meistere online, Letland arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/topical_qa/25547-life_cannot_thrive_in_a_monoculture_-_it_needs_diversity Arterritory.com is an art and culture website in Latvian, Russian, and English, which focuses on Baltic, Scandinavian, and Russian art and its manifestations elsewhere in the world.
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2021Photo reportage from the exhibition 'Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention' at Narva Art Residency Website Echo Gone Wrong online, Litouwen echogonewrong.com/photo-reportage-from-the-exhibition-point-of-no-return-attunement-of-attention-at-narva-art-residency/ Echo Gone Wrong is an international contemporary art daily on-line, representing Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian contemporary art scenes.
Prijzen en stipendia
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2024Residency stipend The Cultural Endowment of Estonia Tallinn, Estland123 Residency stipend for Mazzano Romano artist residency in Italy in October 2024
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2024National Cultural Stipen Estonian Ministry of Culture Tallinn, Estland123 Small-scale stipend for creative work
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2023Residency stipend The Cultural Endowment of Estonia Tallinn, Estland123 Residency stipend for Casa Lü artist residency in Mexico in September-October 2023
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2022PRO Research Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland for the BLACK EARTH research residency (Valley of the Possible, Chile)
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2022Projectinvestering Kunstenaar en Bemiddelaar Mondriaan Fonds, NL Amsterdam, Nederland for the BLACK EARTH research residency (Valley of the Possible, Chile)
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2022SPOT subsidy Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland SPOT subsidy for "Botanical Witnesses" exhibition in Estonia
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2022Residency stipend Tallinn, Estland123 Residency stipend for a short stay in KORDON AiR in August 2022
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2022Experiment Grant Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Rotterdam, Nederland Experiment Grant for Stone Network collective residency and radio show in March 2022.
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2021PRO Research Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland for the research of two projects: residency at Narva Art Residency and residency+workshop at OTHERWISE festival
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2020PRO Invest Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland
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2019The Cultural Endowment of Estonia Tallinn, Estland123 3-month creative stipend
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2019SPOT subsidy Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland for Post-Paradise performance in Birmingham, UK
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2019SPOT subsidy Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland for artist residency at Est-Nord-Est art centre in St-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
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2017The Cultural Endowment of Estonia Tallinn, Estland123 stipend for WALK residency in Valga-Valka, Estonia
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2017PRO Research Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland
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2017Austrian Federal Chancellery Salzburg, Oostenrijk stipend for residency at Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg, Austria
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2016PRO Invest Stichting Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Nederland
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2015The Cultural Endowment of Estonia Tallinn, Estland123 study grant
artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2019 - 2019Guest curator for Bartalk
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2018 - 2018Guest curator for Ephémère