HANNA PIKSARV PORTFOLIO

ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS
FACULTY OF FINE ARTS
SCULPTURE
PORTFOLIO
HANNA PIKSARV
2012

Hanna Piksarv
1. august 1989,
hanna.piksarv@eesti.ee
Education:
2008 - 2012 Estonian Academy of Arts
2010 - 2011 The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Awards:
2012 Young Sculptor Prize (given out by EAA)
2012 FIDEM (International Art Medal Federation) Scholarship for
Young Artists
Workshops:
2012 - “Victory over the sun” Lea Porsager ja Jacob Jessen
2010 - “Time and site specific painting” Tõnis Saadoja
Exhibitions:
2012 NOORE SKULPTORI PREEMIANÄITUS / YOUNG SCULPTOR
PRIZE SHOW, curators Kirke Kangro and Taavi Talve, Raja gallery
2011 ILLUMINAATOR, curators Kirke Kangro and Marko Mäetamm,
Raja gallery
2011 KAHEKSA EESTI KULTUURITEGELAST / EIGHT ESTONIAN
CULTURE CHARACTERS, Tallinn Treff Festival
2011 SILD / BRIDGE, Raja gallery
2011 KAS KUNSTIL ON SUGU? / DOES ART HAVE SEX?, Noorus
gallery
2010 KASULIK/KASUTU KINGITUS / USEFUL/USELESS GIFT Raja
gallery
2010 Group exhibition in gallery LOOP
2009 RASKE SAMM / SCARY CHALLENGE, Tallinn Post Office
2009 ASJAD, RUUM, SEISUNDID, curators Krista Mölder and Margot
Kask, Y-gallery
Projects with group SUHE (Sigrid Uibopuu, Ulla Juske, Hanna Piksarv,
Eva Järv):
2010 Glass art exhibition ÖÖVALGUS in Kalamaja graveyard-park
2010 Sculpture familiarisation dinners / artist-talks / performances part
of the Tallinn European Culture Capital 2011 warm-up programme “52
Suprises and Ideas”
2010 KOHVIK / CAFE in Estonian Academy of Arts graduation show
TASE
2010 MEIL ON KA SIIN HUVITAV / IT´S INTERESTING HERE TOO,
Raja gallery

111 KM
2012
graphite drawing on a wall
I converted the distance between Tallinn and my summerhouse into a 111 km long line. I drew the line with a
graphite stick on a six meter long wall walking back and forth. Always on a stressful time I get the longing for my
summerhouse. I start to miss the peaceful and balanced state of mind I enter while being there. I do not have
enough time to be there as much as I would like to, I have to stay in Tallinn and make art. But making this piece, I
did not have to run away to countryside, I escaped into work.

videodocumentation

HOUSES
2011
lead, ~ 5x5x1 cm
These are series of medals I made for my friends and family about important houses in their lives. Medal art has
some qualities that I value in art in general. By fitting in palm, medals can reach very close to a person. Also, medals
are usually addressed to someone, they have clear audience. In this work, medals keep memory of a house
that has been important in some point in their life, but has moved on the background. Lead gives a small item
suprisingly heavy weight.

ALL THE HOUSES I HAVE SLEPT IN
2012
plaster, wooden box
models 4x4x4 - 10x10x20 cm, box50x50x30 cm
It is growing piece of art that consist of 98 plaster models at the moment. I have made a model of every house I
have slept in. They are made by memory, so some of them are more abstract, some more detailed.

HOME = MATCHBOX
2009
installation consisting of 9594 matchboxes, 6X6m
Ones home is always important - it does not matter if it is your grandfathers farm between forests and swamps
or a small apartment in a blockhouse. It is just odd to think that so big feelings towards your home can fit into so
small room, divided from others only by a thin wall. Õismägi is a Soviet district built with great idealism. By its
concept it should be comfotable and nice to live there. Even its form, mandala-like circle, should give the feeling
like living in a beehive. In reality it is just another dysfunctional suburb. In my installation I built Õismäe up home
by home, so that one home equals one matchbox.

FOR RITTER
2012
graphite on paper, foto, 30X20cm, 16lk
I am going to work as assistant for an Austrian artist Georg Ritter in Autumn. He and his work work is completely
unknown for me. All that I know about him is that he is doing gigantic realistic drawings. What is the background
of these images and what motivates him to work is mystery for me. I also enjoy drawing, but I have had hard time
to convince myself to depict anything and I have not found a way to use drawing in my artwork. To find a common
ground with my future mentor I did this work. I searched out all the pencils I had, sharpened them and drew them
all til the end into a notebook.

HOMAGE TO JAAN TOOMIKULE
2009
digital print 110X70 cm
In Jaan Toomik´s video “Father and Son” I´m attracted by the connection between father and son. It seems that
worst thing that could happen, is that father would fall while skating on ice, maybe even fall through the ice, but
the sons singing keeps him on his feet. I don´t have a “son”, somebody to take care of and to be responsible for
and who would keep me on the track. On the other hand, I have always felt loved and taken care of by my friends
and family. But is it enough to keep me on my feet on thin ice in Spring?

IT´S INTERESTING HERE TOO - SCULPTURE FAMILIARISATION DINNERS
with an artist group SUHE
2010
As a part of the Tallinn European Capital of Culture 2011 warm-up programme “52 Suprises and Ideas” we organ-
ised three events to introduce Estonian contemporary sculpture. We made edible models of nine sculptures and
invited the authors and art critics to talk about those works to the wider audience. While discussing over artwork it
was also possible to taste it. Our aim was to make the relationship between artists, audience and artpieces more
comfortable and enjoyable.

Villu Jaanisoo. Hotei,
üks seitsmest õnnelikust
jumalast
Seaküla Simpson.
Pöffihunt
Elo Liiv. Kalev

Johnson ja Johnson.
Soundcheck
Johnson ja Johnson.
Soundcheck
Paul ja Anne Daniela
Rodgers. Oma lugu

Raul Kurvitz. Katedraal
Anu Põder. 20. saj mehe
jalaruum
John Smith. 100 John
Smith