Pille-Riin Jaik

Curriculum vitae

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

Education

2023–... Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, PhD in Practice
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 Imperialistic Bears and Forever Lush Gardens. Seminar, 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 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 So many, many.. (reapeat 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 tradegy 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 ‘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 Art 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
202 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