Institutions and positions
27.08.2001– …
Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Professor, Head of Department of Textile (1,00)
Education
1986–1991
Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn Art University), MA
Selected personal exhibitions:
2022 Waiting you Come Home, Estonian National Museum, Tartu
2021 In Dreams and Awake, Tallinn Jaani Church
2021 There is Time, There is No Time, Gallery Pallas, Tartu (with Madis Liplap)
2020 Together and Alone. Anu Raud and Aet Ollisaar, Galleria Laikku, Tampere, Finland
2019 A Moment Before Tomorrow, HOP gallery, Tallinn
2019 TEKOÄLYTÖN, Forssa Museum, Finland (with Tuiti Paju, Tiina Karhu)
2018 Jäljed/Footsteps, Hopneri Maja, Tallinn
2017 Somewhere Else, Imatra, Finland (with Heli Tuksam and Tuuli Puhvel)
2016 Somewhere Else, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia (with Heli Tuksam and Tuuli Puhvel)
2015 Memories from Future, HOP-gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Content, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
2011 Life Story, Võru Town Gallery, Estonia
2011 Reflections, Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia (with Ellen Hansen)
2010 Womens World, HOP-gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Journey, Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2008 Through the Time, Winter Garden of National Opera Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia (with Ellen Hansen)
2008 Timelessness, Emil-gallery, Tampere, Finland
2007 Timed Dreams, HOP-gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Picture on Fabric – Land and World, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia (with Aino Kajaniemi)
2006 FEELINGS, Estonia Talveaed, Tallinn
1999-2001 CASTLE CARPETS, long-term exhibition in Purtse castle
1999 Generations, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia (with Ellen Hansen)
1998 Kiviõli School of Arts
1996 Central Finland Art School, Petäjävesi, Finland
1995 Chaplin Centre, Pärnu
1994 Pentikmäe Art Gallery, Finland (with Vallo Kalamees)
1994 Kilpkonn Gallery, Viljandi (with Vallo Kalamees)
1993 Waitings and Comings, gallery Sinimandria, Tartu
1991 Exposition of diploma thesis in the representative shop of UKU, Tallinn
Selected group exhibitions:
2017 7th Triennial of Applied Art, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Idealists,Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2016 Ajaj jälg Eesti vaibal, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2016 Lodz Triennial of Tapestry, Poland
2016 Mission, Kulturbäckerei Lüneburg, Germany
2016 Takes Space, Estonian National Library, Tallinn; Võru Town Gallery
2016 Äär, serv, veer. Albu manor, Estonia
2015 Meeting Point Tartu, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia
2015 SADA. Hundred year of Estonian Textile Art, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2014 Estonian Contemporary Textiles, Guimaraes, Portugal
2014 OrnaMENTAL, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2014 Meeting Place, Gallery of Architecture and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 SEA, Gallery Filosoffen, Odese, Denmark
2012 Book Marker, ETAA Exhibition Project, MONA Pärnu, Võru Town Gallery, Estonia
2011 Slingshot, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2010 Ars Häme, Finlayson, Finland
2010 Reward, Pärnu Museum of New Art
2010 On top of the Hill, Võru; Pärnu Museum of New Art
2010 On top of the Hill, National Library, Tallinn
2010 Free Will, Kuressaare
2009/2010 Free Will, Narva Museum Art Gallery
2009/2010 Meeting, Free Will, Estonian Theatre
2009 Estonian Textile Art, Art Museum, Kohtla-Järve
2009 Estonian Textile Art today and before, ST Peterburg´s Etnological Museum, Russia
2009 Free Will, Museum of New Art, Pärnu
2009 ZOOM-in, Hop-gallery, Tallinn
2009 Vaibasadu, Estonian National Museum
2008 Plural, Annual exhibition of the Estonian Textile Artists Association, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
2008 Textile Artist of a Year, Hop-gallery, Tallinn
2007 Vaba semester, Town Gallery, Võru
2007 10 years of group Free Will, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
2007 Positions, Jõhvi Concert Hall
2007 Asjade seis, Tallinn Art Building
2007 Vaba Tahe sõpradega, Tartu Kunstnike Maja
2006 Needles and Pins, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Two Close Ones, Applied Art Triennial, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Large and Small, Pärnu
2006 I say…, Teachers of Tartu Art College, Tartu
2006 Vaba Tahe sõpradega, Võru 2005 Textile05, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005 Textile 05 , Kaunas, Lithuania
2005 Free Will, Viljandi
2005 Ordinary treasures, Gdansk, Poland
2005 Estonian Textile Artists …, Riga, Latvia; Pihkva, Russia
2004 Free Will, Kuressaare´, Pärnu
2004 Black, White and Colour, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
2004 TeXtiil, Estonian National Museum, Tartu
2004 Tradition and Innovation, Riga, Latvia
2003 Carpets of Mountain and Valley, Vargamäe,
2003 Textile Artists, Tartu
2000 VISIONS II, Tallinn Art Building
1999 Unknown Art of Tartu , Estonian National Library, Tallinn
1999 Generations, Museum of Applied Arts, with Ellen Hansen
1999 Tapestry. Stained Glass, Narva Museum of Art
1998 Grandmother and Granddaughter, Chaplin Centre, Pärnu, with Ellen Hansen
1998 Pihkva Museum of Art
1998 Temporal, Estonian Museum of Art , Jõhvi
1998 Self Portrait, Chaplin Centre, Pärnu
1998 King`s Advice and Wanderers, Sebra gallery, Tartu
1998 Visions I , Tallinn Art Building
1998 Story of Estonian Textile, Chaplin Centre, Pärnu
Works in Collections:
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
Estonian National Museum
Museum of New Art, Pärnu
Tampere Art Museum, Finland
Private collections
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