Pille-Riin Jaik
Born 1991 in Tallinn, Estonia
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Tallinn, Estonia

Education

• 2023–... Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, PhD in Practice, prof. Anette Baldauf and Renate Lorenz
• 2015–2020 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art and Digital Media MA, prof. Constanze Ruhm
• 2010–2015 Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts Photography BA
• 2013–2014 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Expanded Pictorial Space/Action/Sculpture/Installation, Erasmus exchange studies, prof. Florian Reither

Teaching

• 2025 Notes on Research: The Last Relic, lecture-performance, BAL Conference, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Winter Semester, Imperialistic Bears and Forever Lush Gardens, course seminar of Fine Arts MA program, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
• 2022 Your story as a movie! Workshop at QM&A Kids Summer, Stand 129, Vienna, Austria
• 2021 Paramount Parasite Parade. Workshop together with Janina Weißengruber, Spooky Butt group show, curated by Daniel Hüttler and Šimon Kadlčák, Teren, Brno, Czech Republic

Solo exhibitions

• 2023 Unbound, PrevenhuberHaus, Weyer, Austria
• 2021 Parasitic Symbiosis, together with Miriam Esther Meyer, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2018 I'm a good girl, I am, LOW offspace, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 There‘s an other woman behind every woman, Haapsalu Linnagalerii, Haapsalu, Estonia
• 2015 Halfway, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2013 Prooviruum, RUNDUM artist-run space, Tallinn, Estonia

Group exhibitions

• 2025 Margins of the Visible, curated by Mia Milgrom, Austrian Cultural Forum and Galerie AVU, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2025 Specks of Dust, Feast # 1, together with Baurjan Aralov and Barbara Tunkowitsch, Pfefferhof, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Ship of Fools, curated by Julia Znoj, Ann Muller and Kerstin Von Gabain, ES49, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Curated Timeframe, curated by Daniel Hüttler and Janina Weißengruber, Proyecto Celesta, Madrid, Spain
• 2024 Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029, curated by Leon Hösl, Magdalena Stöger together with Martina Genetti, Exhibit Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• 2024 Elastic Chronologies, curated by Katharina Swoboda (Golden Pixel Cooperative) Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, Austria
• 2024 Dressing… Man Nequinn Episode 2, curated by Janina Weißengruber, Nana Sorgo, Olga Mathilde Gärtner and Maya Lempelius, Kunstverein Zink, Vienna, Austria
• 2024 ...beginnt die Initiation in die eigene Fußspur, Haus Grünspan, curated by Margot Fassler, Mühlboden/Feffernitz, Austria
• 2024 Apartment exhibition “KOLKAPLIKA!", curated by Liina Pääsuke, Viljandi, Estonia
• 2023 Wiener Lichtblicke, Schwendermarkt, Vienna, Austria
• 2023 Identity Paradox, Improper Walls, Vienna, Austria
• 2023 Plants as a site of knowledge, curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Marlies Pöschl, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, intervention on billboards, Flucc, Vienna, Austria
• 2023 Reshaped memories ( werktitel : unbekannt ), curated by Siena Brunnthaler and Ada Karlbauer, Aussenstelle Kunst, Vienna, Austria
• 2022 Approximating, QM&A collective, AG18, Vienna, Austria
• 2022 People are fragile beings but soft targets, together with Nazira Karimi, curated by Lucie Nováčková, Tereza Nováková, Petra Janda and Martina Fridrichová, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2022 Speculative Fiction, curated by Stephanie Damianitsch, Exhibit Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• 2022 Worktitle unknown: heart shaped box, an abandoned museum at river Enns, curated by adO/aptive, Ada Karlbauer and Siena Brunnthaler, Weyer, Austria
• 2021 Social Lubricant & Water Politics, together with Nazira Karimi, XX Flânerie Festival, curated by Georgij Melnikov, Ale Zapata, Lluís Lipp, Justina Špeirokaitė and Oona Zyman, Kunstbogen, Vienna, Austria
• 2021 Jamais Vu, curated by Liudmila Kirsanova, LLLLLL, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna diploma show, Ungargasse 38, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 Haiku & Light, curated by Johan and Beatrice Simonsen, PFERD – forum for contemporary art, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 Unhomely, curated by Liudmila Kirsanova, Fluc billboards, Vienna, Austria
• 2019 #screenisnotthelimit, virtual biennale, together with Herwig Scherabon, curated by ENTKUNSTUNG
• 2019 Special School for Sculpture, xE, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 To be in, but not of, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna library, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 Academy season Finale: Rundgang, C H O I R S, Medien klasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semper Depot), Vienna, Austria
• 2017 Red Love, Sofia Queer Forum 2017, curated by Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov, art space Æther, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2017 Nordic Feeling, Nordiale, Urania Kino, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 Rascal, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, Vantaa, Finland
• 2016 Gegenwartsbewältigung - When Everything Happens Now, curated by Mona Hermann and Elisa Schiller, Gallery HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
• 2016 Academy season Finale: Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semper Depot), Vienna,  Austria
• 2015 Empty Garden, Nakanojo biennale, curated by Thomas Wendland, Nakanojo, Japan
• 2015 TL;DR, curated by Stacey Koosel, Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 Let me tell you about myself, curated by Siim Preiman, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia
• 2014 Ava(tud) piirid, curated by Merilin Talumaa, Eda Tuulberg and Tiiu Parbus, EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2014 Rundum Photo Fair, Näitamiseks/müümiseks, Sadamarket, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2014 Exhibiton for Kopli Girls/Where’s Smoke There’s Fire, curated by Liina Pääsuke, Nancy Nakamura Shelf of Ideas, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2014 Solipsism – No More, ISFAG, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2014 Ladyland Biennale, Galerie Schloss Damtschach, Kärnten, Austria
• 2014 Strange Teaching: Monads with Windows, Kaufhaus HELD, Leipzig, Germany
• 2014 Side Effects II, with T.B.C, curated by Laura Kuusk and Pascale Riou, Ancien Musée de Peinture, Grenoble, France
• 2014 Olohuonenäyttely Living Room Exhibition, with Liina Pääsuke, Helsinki, Finland
• 2014 Academy season Finale: Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semper Depot), Vienna, Austria
• 2013 Multicrash, Gallery Musterzimmer, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 BiteVilnius, Šv. Jono Street Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
• 2013 .gif it space, site-specific exhibition in Rüütelkond, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2012 Art as text, Text as Art, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2012 Whose Salong, curated by Laura Hatfield, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2011 August, pin-hole experiments, Muhu, Estonia

Performances

• 2025 Notes on Research: The Last Relic, lecture performance, BAL Conference, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 So many, many.. (repeat from beginning). Performance together with Klaus Rabeder, exhibition 'Verlorene Form', Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Murky Business III. Performance at the group exhibition 'Leakage, Breaching, Motley Tongues', Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Murky Business II. Curated Timeframe, curated by Daniel Hüttler and Janina Weißengruber, Proyecto Celesta, Madrid, Spain
• 2024 Murky Business I. Fantastic Wednesday, PhD in Practice department, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz, Vienna, Austria
• 2023 Thule, closing performance for the exhibition 'Open floor: practice of a common ground', curated by Natalia Gurova, Rafael Lippuner and adO/Aptive (Janina Weißengruber, Daniel Hüttler), Versuchsanstalt WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien
• 2022 So, I weed presentation, Volle Blüte: literature walk, organized by Beatrice Simonsen, University’s Botanical Garden in Belvedere, Vienna
• 2022 Bobby without organs: a tragedy in 3 acts, together with Janina Weißengruber, Daniel Hüttler, Kai Philip Trausenegger, Saara Hukka, Winona Hudec, Julian Siffert, Teuta Jonuzi, Pawel Szostak, Klaus Rabeder and Anna Schall, Megaworld.xyz festival
• 2021 Another Puma has Capitalised the Darkness, feat. Klaus Rabeder, STATION art off-space, organized by Steffi Alte and Simone Bader, Vienna, Austria
• 2021 Pollution in the Chest II, in context of Jamais Vu exhibition, curated by Liudmila Kirsanova, LLLLLL, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 Unboxing: 2020, together with Nazira Karimi, QWAS Radio: Contact Zones, curated by Rada Leu and Peter Tränkle, off-space Material, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2020 Witchcraft Yoga: blobs and eels, together with Pia Wurzer, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna season finale: Rundgang, amantes amentes amateurs, Semper Depot, Vienna, Austria
• 2019 Pollution in the Chest with Klaus Rabeder, Academy season Finale: Rundgang, Wenn ihnenen die Tür zu klein ist, dann gehen sie doch durch die Wand, Medien klasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semper Depot), Vienna, Austria
• 2018 Cipolla, with Sanja Lasić and Eva Sommer, RAW matters #68 – Large and Long Special, Arbeitplatz Wien, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 I didnt die I just..., with Liina Pääsuke and Gregor Anreiter, ÄQUIDISTANZ festival, Republic of Kugelmugel, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 Ready or not, with Aurelia van Kempen and Olga Anabel Steiner, VBKÖ, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 I didn’t die I just stopped going out, with Liina Pääsuke and Gregor Anreiter, Tanz durch das Tarab, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 I didn't die I just stopped going out, with Liina Pääsuke and Gregor Anreiter,  Academy season Finale: Rundgang, Tête-à-Tête, Fluc, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 Torpor / Tardumus, Academy season Finale: Rundgang, C H O I R S, Medien klasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Semper Depot), Vienna, Austria
• 2017 Torpor / Tardumus, Re-perform (under different conditions), curated by Alexander Felch and Sanja Lasić, part of exhibition DADADADA, Mo.ë, Vienna, Austria

Screenings

• 2025 ‘Tangled’, CONSUMED Finissage Festival Film Night, Capital House, St Helier, Jersey
• 2025 ‘Xeroines’, GPC STREAMS, curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Huda Takriti, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, online screening
• 2025 ‘Torpor/Tardumus’, Art Lab Gnesta, curated by Nathalie Koger and The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Gnesta, Sweden
• 2025 ‘a trap & thousand tongues’, curated by Myrto Vratsanou, Hybrida Fest, Sweden
• 2025 ‘All I had was weed (but what they wanted was flowers)’, Unha imaxe, unha foresta, curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Normal, Coruña, Spain
• 2025 ‘Tangled’. Film und Photography #5, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
• 2024 ‘Freedom in the Present Past’, in collaboration with Daniel Hüttler, Klaus Rabeder and Janina Weissengruber, Shadowcasting, Elektron artspace, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2022 ‘Falling’, Amateurinnen, EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL - EMAF in Osnabrück, Germany
• 2021 ‘Still of a House’, Film Night at the Castle, Prešov, Slovakia
• 2021 ‘Xeroines’, Contemporary Art Festival – VIDEOPARK, Reflektor Gallery, Užice, Serbia
• 2021 ‘Falling’, Amateurinnen, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 'The Darkest Flower', Terrarista.tv, Kassel's documentary Film and Video Festival, online screening
• 2020 'i didnt die i just stopped going out', together with Liina Pääsuke and Gregor Anreiter, curated by Adele Knall, Kaffee Adele VI, online screening
• 2020 'The Darkest Flower', Academy of Fine Arts Vienna season finale: Rundgang, amantes amentes amateurs, Topkino, Vienna, Austria
• 2019 'Still of the House', An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2019 ‘Still of the House’, Propeller, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 ‘Tangled’, BRNO16, Brno, Czech Republic
• 2018 'Tangled', Gitter, WUK, Kino Fotogalerie Wien, organized by Patrick Winkler and Noel Dinse, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 'Tangled', VI Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, Rodina cinema, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2018 'Tangled', Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film, Innovative Cinema Shorts, Schubertkino, Graz, Austria
• 2018 'Moving body in aggressive motion' with Miriam Esther Meyer, short film competition 'Geschlechterkonstruktionen in kurzen Formaten', collaboration between FrauenFilmTage, proFRAU and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 'Tangled', 21st Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Fascinations Competition Section, Jihlava, Czech Republic
• 2017 'Torpor / Tardumus', Red Love international video competition shortlist, Sofia Queer Forum 2017, Creative Hall Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2017 'Tangled' and 'Torpor / Tardumus', Relationships/Love/Sexuality short film competition, collaboration between FrauenFilmTage, proFRAU and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Metro Kinokulturhaus, Vienna, Austria

Scholarships and awards

• 2025 Demokratie Leben, one of the winners of the public art competition, project between Gewista and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
• 2022 Mentorship scholarship of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
• 2020 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Diploma Appreciation Award
• 2020 Nomination for Ö1 Cultural Stipend
• 2017 Main award in shortfilm competition 'Relationships/Love/Sexuality', collaboration between FrauenFilmTage, proFRAU and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
• 2016 Culture Stipend, Estonian Ministry of Culture
• 2016 Aavo Reiman named scholarship, Estonian Students Fund in USA

Residencies

• 2025 Feldversuche Symposium, Kleine Stadt Farm Wien, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 7WINKEL / 7ANGLES IV, curated by Pia Wurzer, Metnitztal, Carinthia, Austria
• 2025 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Interdisciplinary Residency, Virginia, USA
• 2023 7WINKEL / 7ANGLES II, curated by Pia Wurzer and Aaron Nora Scherer, Metnitztal, Carinthia, Austria
• 2023 Contemporary Art Festival VIDEOPARK, Užice, Serbia
• 2022 Pragovka Gallery, together with Nazira Karimi, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2022 7WINKEL / 7ANGLES, curated by Pia Wurzer and Aaron Nora Scherer, Metnitztal, Carinthia, Austria
• 2022 Medienfrische, new media & experimental art days, Bschlabertal, Tirol, Austria
• 2021 Nada Lokal, Vienna, Austria
• 2021 WAFF II, organized by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler, Barcelona, Spain
• 2019 WAFF, organized by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler, Ville Veille, France

Concept projects

• 2019–2020 No Drama Festival podcast, together with Liina Pääsuke
• 2018 I didn't die I just stopped going out, with Liina Pääsuke and Gregor Anreiter, AU Multimediaraum, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 Headache of Truth, with Michael René Sell, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Semper Depot, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 Siin me oleme! #fomo, with Liina Pääsuke, EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 Confession Pool, with Liisa Jugapuu and Helena Keskküla, EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Other Projects

• 2023 – ... Member of Golden Pixel Cooperative
• 2017 – 2023 Member of the choir Mala Sirena
• 2022 Member of QM&A artist collective
• 2021 FIDcampus, FID Marseille Filmfestival, Marseille, France
• 2015 – 2018 Assistant to filmdirector Johann Lurf
• 2013 ERASMUS internship in Gallery and Communication Space Školskà 28, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2009–2013 MTÜ Kulduur. Culture education club, vice-chairman, Tartu, Estonia
• 2012 Jeremy Hutchison´s exhibition ERRATUM opening performer, Paradise Row, London, UK
• 2012 Rui Ferreira exhibition „The Tomb and the Fountain“ volunteer, Gallery Hotel Elephant, London, UK

Workshops

• 2019 How to Play Violence, instructed by Markus Öhrn und Makode Linde, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in collaboration with Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 Viewers, instructed by Jianan Qu, The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
• 2015 WARP Artist Village, in context of Bruges Triennial for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Brugge, Belgium
• 2013 Electric Protesters, instructed by Stefanie Wuschitz, Galerii Školská 28,  Prague, Czech Republic
• 2013 Děkuju Man Records, instructed by Camille Laurelli, AVU Intermedia, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2013 Constructing Room with GIF-medium, instructed by Camille Laurelli, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2012 KUNO course: „The Poetics of Open Work : Art as Text, Text as Art“, instructed by Matthew Rana, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2012 Single Frame Filmmaking in the Avantgarde, instructed by Martin Arnold, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2010 Summer practice: Doings or Not, Sitespecific project, instructed by Laura Kuusk and Laura Toots, Estonian Art Academy, Muhu, Estonia