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Rein Kelpman

Sündinud / Born 1960

Rein Kelpman (b. 1960) is a self-taught painter, having worked as an artist at an advertising agency right after graduating high school (1979–1987). Kelpman’s artworks were first exhibited in 1986 at Tallinn Art Hall gallery. He became a member of Estonian Artists’ Association the same year. Kelpman won Estonian Culture Fund’s annual award in 1993 and Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s annual award in 1995. The artist’s cubist paintings easily recognizable by their soft lines are dream-like, enigmatic and always seem to be telling a story.
 

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1986  member of the Estonian Artists' Association
   Performed at exhibitions since 1981

 

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

 

1986  Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone
1988  A.H.Tammsaare House Museum, Tallinn
1989  Köpenicker Bank, Berlin
1990  Estonian Art Fund Gallery, Helsinki
1991  Oulu City Youth and Culture Centre, Finland
1992  Volleby Institute, Vastera, Sweden
   Tidö Count Castle, Sweden
   The Estonian House, Stockholm
   Gallery G, Tallinn
1993  Gallery Luum, Tallinn
1994  Hannelore Greve Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1995  Tuglas-Seura, Helsinki
   Tartu Art Museum
   Gallery Sebra, Tartu
   The German Culture Institute, Tallinn
   Gallery Vaal, Tallinn
   The Chaplin Centre, Pärnu
1998  Gallery Hassel, Stuttgart, Germany
1999  The Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn
2000  Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone
   The Estonian embassy in Latvia, Riga
2001  Eesti Ühispank gallery, Tallinn
   The Kivisilla Gallery, Tartu
2002  The Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
   The Haus Gallery, Tallinn
   Gallery of the Castellan House, Tallinn
2006 Am Kastell,  Unterrabnitz, Burgenland, Austria
  Siebensterngalerie,  Wien, Austria
2007 ArtDepoo gallery,  Tallinn
2008 Art Hall Gallery (with Jüri Ojaver), Tallinn
  Võru City Gallery, Estonia
  TAM Gallery, Tallinn
2010 Gallery Vaal, Tallinn
2011 Haus Gallery, Tallinn

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

1986 Youth Triennal of the Baltic States, Vilnius
1987 Man and environment, Kotka, Finland
1988 Ars Estonica 88 - exhibition of the Estonian artists in the Tampere Modern Art Museumis
  Exhibition of the young Estonian artists, Kaasan, Russia
1989 Group exhibition of graphic artists, Espoo (with A.Tali, A.Juurak and A.Ermeliga)
  Gallery of the Tapiola Centre of Culture, Helsinki
1991 Coonemans Institute, Brussels
  H.W.K. Gallery, Kassel, Germany
  Gallery of the Estonian Art Fund, Helsinki (with J.Arrakuga)
1992 Exhibition of the Estonian art, Le Treport, France
  Volleby Institute, Vastera, Sweden
1993 Exhibition of the Estonian art, Hannover, Germany
  Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
1994 Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
  Sollentuna Art Fair, Stockholm
1995 Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
  “5 painters”, the Tallinn Kunstihoone
2000 “The Estonian painting at the turn of the millennium”, Berlin
2001 “The Estonian painting in the XX century”, Paris
2008  SixEstonian artists, Eisenstadt, Austria

 

PRIZES:

 

1984 Annual prize of the youth assembly of the Estonian Artists' Association
1989 Annual prize of Tallinn city design for supergraphics
1991 Special prize of the III Baltic Young Artists' Triennal, Vilnius
1993 Annual prize of the Estonian Cultural Fund
1995 Annual prize of the Cultural Capital
2010  Annual prize of journal „Akadeemia“

 

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:

 

The Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinn Kunstihoone,
the Lithuanian Art Museum, the Puškin Museum, St. Petersburg; private
collections in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France,
Belgium, Denmark, USA.

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