05.07.1966

aollisaar@gmail.com

www.aetollisaar.com

Career

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

CREATIVE WORK

Selected personal exhibitions:

2023 House with a Sea View, HOP gallery, Tallinn

2023 Moon is Still the Same, Riga, Latvia

2022 Time is Invisible, Vidget Factory, Tartu

2022 Waiting you 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:

2023 Spring Exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall

2022 ELUOLULINE, ETAA Annual Exhibition, Gallery Pallas, Tartu

2022 CONTEXTILE, Guimaraes, Portugal

2022 Spring Exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall

2022 YTAT Mentors, Lodz, Poland

2021 MIMIKRI, ETAA Annual Exhibition, Museum of New Art, Pärnu

2021 Genius Loci II. Legend, Reigi Pastoraat, Hiiumaa

2021 Spring Exhibition, Talinn Art Hall

2020 DOERS, Exhibiotion of Laureats from ETAA Annual Prizes, Museum of New Art, Pärnu 

2020 PAUS, Exhibition of Estonian Artists, Võru, Estonia

2020 FREEDOM, ETAA Annual Exhibition, Gallery Pallas, Tartu, Estonia

2018 Abstraction, Gallery Pallas, Tartu, Estonia; Gallery Laikku, Tampere, Finland

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