Aili Vint was born in 1941, 25. April in Estonia

1962-1967  Studied at Institute of Art, Tallinn, Estonia

1964 -1970  Member of ANK’ 64

1967 — present is married to painter and writer Toomas Vint. 

Is Toomas Vint a writer who paints or a painter who writes,— I don’t know.

1970 — present Freelance artist, a member of Estonian Artist’s

1991 — present creative mentor to top leaders of the republic

the story of my destiny  

Once upon a time, when I was a child there was a seascape with gigantic wave, hanging on the wall by my bed. I remember how, at bed-time, instead of going to sleep, I roamed on crests of the waves and slid down to the trough. In that stormy sea I had my own place to crawl into when I felt sleepy, and so I often dozed off in the embrace of the silky wave. The picture by my bed was a copy of The Ninth Wave (1850), by Ivan Aivazovski.

And today, three of my seascapes are hanging in one room side by side with Ivan Aivazovski’s works at the Sudkovsky’s Seascapes Muuseum in Otšhakiv, Ukraine. —- Can you imagine! Now sleep together our pictures!

WORKS IN MUSEUMS    

Sudkovsky’s Seascapes Muuseum in Otšakiv, Ukraine

Tretyakov’s Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

FILMOGRAPHY

1974  Rein Raamat Animated film "Flight" artist. - 3/4 jury special prize, II Zagrebi International Animated Film Festival. Croatia.

Light Sculpture of Sunset 1995 https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/uks-pilt-aili-vint-skulptuur-paikeseloojangust

Estonian TV  Estonian Art: Aili Vint  1998 https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/eesti-kunst-aili-vint

And God created the woman ”Portraits of Aging. Channel 2, 2001

“Inimeselt inimesele”. Intervjuu Linnu Mäega. 2002, 08.

 From person to person. Interview with Linnu Mägi. 2002, 08.

“Subboteja” saade A. Zukkermanniga  Haiba lastekodu fuajee maalimisest lastekodu lastega. Kanal 2,   2004, 10.

“Subboteja” program with A. Zukkermann about painting the lobby of the Haiba orphanage with the children of the orphanage. Channel 2, 2004, 10.

Starship  Aili Vint ETV  2007 https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/tahelaev-aili-vint/same-series

Exchange of presenters of "Glasses Box": Tiina Park 2018

PRIZES

  1994    Konrad Mägi prize, Estonia

  1994    Town of Pärnu prize, Estonia

  2002   Order of the White Star, Estonia

  2015    Kristjan Raua prize , Estonia

PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY  SINCE 1991

1991 - 1996  Estonian Academy of Arts lecturer, a creativity mentor

1996 - 2002  Estonian Business School, creative know-how training for top leaders and businessmen  

1999 - 2006  Estonian Euro Management Institute,  creativity mentor   

Since 2012  TTÜ creative training for architects

creativity is the only permanently faithful capital

Creativity mentor Aili Vint: Whatever your profession, switch on your creative light and you will see a genius!

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On more creative training video is here: Eesti kunst, Aili Vint /ERR/ 1998  Eesti kunst: Aili Vint 


1980 —2011

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOKS

Aili Vint THE SEA BOOK published by Tulikiri, Tallinn 2011 ISBH 978-9949-21-899-8

Aili Vint From the book: LIKE SUN IN THE SKY  published by Ilo, Tallinn 2000 ISBN 9985-57-299-8

From animated film "Flight" (Rein Raamat) — 3/4 jury special prize, II Zagrebi International Animated Film Festival (Croatia),  1974

Award for discovering ingenuity and new possibilities in animation.


SELECTED INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1971-2013

2013  The artists group  ANK – 64 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 

2012  CHA Roads & Tracks Moscow International Art Salon, Russia

2010  Popkunst Forever  Estonian Pop Art at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Kumu ART Museum   

2002    The Baltics Museum of Rutgers University. New Yersey US

2001     Faulconer Galleri of Grinneli College, Iowa, USA

2000    Tallinn–Moscow   1956 — 1985  Joint exhibition of Estonian and Russian unofficial art. Tallinn Art Hall

1995   Osaka Sculpture Triennial, Japan

1994   Osaka Print Triennial, Japan

1993   Osaka Painting Triennial, Japan

1993    Substance — Unsubstance. The 1st annual exhibition of the Soros Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.

1988, 1991   Miniprint Triennial, Chamalières France 

1987    Art of Soviet Estonia, Moscow

 1987    Rostock Painting Triennial, Germany

 1984    Space and Form, Art Hall, Tallinn

 1983, 1986   Riga Miniprint Triennial, Latvia

 1981, 1987   Lodz Miniprint Triennial, Poland

 1977   Szecin, Poznan, Warssavi (with Toomas Vint) Poland

 1975, 1984   Baltic Painting Triennial, Vilnius,  Lithuania

 1972, 1997   Cracow Graphic Art Biennial, Poland

 1971, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1995   Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia

SOME CATALOGS FROM EXHIBITIONS 2010 —2019

2019 Catalog: “Border Poetics. Estonian Art 1918–2018” is an exhibition of the Art Museum of Estonia and the National Tretyakov Gallery, combining Estonian art of the last hundred years from the collections of the two museums.

2017 101 Eesti kunstiteost, raamat kirjastuselt Varrak, Estonia

2014 AILI VINT. .TOOMAS VINT Artists footprint, kirjastus Tulikiri, Estonia ISBN 978-9949-9362-3-6

2013  THE ARTISTS GROUP ANK' 64 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 

2012  CHA ROADS & TRACKS, Moscow International Art Salon, Russia

2010  POPKUNST FOREVER  Estonian Pop Art at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Kumu ART Museum ISBN 978-9949-9086-3-9

2013  THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM ART IN EUROPE SINCE 1945, 30th Council of Europe exhibition. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn ISBN 978-3-942422-98-7

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SEA UNDER THE DARK SKY 1975, oil on canvas 92 x 115 cm, Kumu ART Museum

SOME LATEST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2015—2019

2019 in Kumu Art Museum: Open Collections. The Artist Takes the Floor invites visitors to walk through a forest of art history and sees to it that the walk is a meandering journey, taking museum-goers from main paths to enjoyable side trails which have not yet been fully assessed and categorised in art history.In inviting the artists, the curator considered their creative profiles with the aim of involving different media. Several invited artists made the initial choice of pieces of interest based on the electronic museum database MuIS and the digital collection of the Art Museum of Estonia, which was followed by actual work with the collection. The works of art on exhibit cover the period from the 17th to the 21st centuries.

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This project curated by Maria Arusoo is centred around the theme of the female body in Aili Vint’s prints and the Serbian artist Ivana Bašić’s sculptures.


2018 -2019 Estonian Art 1918 - 2019, Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow “Border Poetics

Estonian Art 1918–2018” is an exhibition of the Art Museum of Estonia and the National Tretyakov Gallery, combining Estonian art of the last hundred years from the collections of the two museums.

The Atlantic Sea 1981 Oil on canvas 175 x 200 cm Tretjakov Gallery

On The Island of Tütarsaar 1985 Oil on canvas 115 x 145 cm Tretjakov Gallery,

XXX Baltic Regatta. Waiting for The Wind, Triptychon II, 1979 Oil on canvas 174 x 150 cm Tretjakov Gallery,

2018 Kris Lemsalu and Aili Vint at Bozar, Brussels @bozarbrussels until August 19,

curated by Maria Arusoo, director of CCA, Estonia! ••• The exhibition is part of the project "Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe" in Bozar. Brussels

2017  Man & Woman, MONA The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia

2016 Soviet Hippies are present at the exhibition: PEACE AND LOVE

Soviet Hippies, a new exhibition at London's Red Gallery, takes visitors back to Soviet Estonia to step into a parallel universe — the hippie movement that existed within the Brezhnev regime. Curated by KIWA and Terje Toomistu, the exhibition is based on an in-depth anthropological study, which saw the pair interview 15 people who were part of the hippie movement in the “Soviet West”, as Estonia was known owing to its bohemian feel and rock music scene. Visitors to Soviet Hippies will be able to get a privileged insight into the experience of this generation, with the interview films and a rich array of archive photography due to be shown at the exhibition.

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Soviet Hippies are present at the exhibition: PEACE AND LOVE, 2016 Malmö Moderna Museetisse. Soviet hippies: psychedelic underground of 1970s, Estonia / Nõukogude hipi / YouTube)

Aili Vint Illustration from the book "Yellow in blue like the sun in the sky" 1979, gouache on paper,28 x 42 cm

Aili Vint Illustration from the book "Yellow in blue like the sun in the sky" 1979, gouache on paper,28 x 42 cm

Aili Vint: Sometimes I get the feeling that the Sea has completely drawn me in, that it rules my thoughts and emotions. Quite often I paint the Sea in my dreams or have bizarre dreams about it. I remember a particularly clear and brightly coloured dream of myself, sitting on a slope and admiring the greenest meadow from Toomas Vint’s painting in front of me. Suddenly I heard the roar of the sea getting louder and louder, and a huge wave, stretching over the whole meadow, rumbling towards me. The wave was so transparent that I could see the blades of grass bend under it, quivering in confusion after the wave had passed. When the wave reached me, I sat quietly and just lifted my elbows to let the wave roll past me. When I looked behind me, I saw that I was sitting by a boundless expanse of water, created by the wave. But I was bone dry. That puzzled me most in this dream – how I could have remained dry in this huge whirl of water? The fact that a gigantic wave had rolled across a green meadow felt completely natural to me.

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AILI VINT & TOOMAS VINT (painted together): AILI WATCHING HER DREAM 2011 oil on canvas 110 X 190,5 cm artist*s collection

2014-2015   Aili Vint's and Toomas Vint's  exhibition: ARTIST'S  FOOTPRINT, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

Together with Toomas Vint,

it was our pleasure to bestow, on all the visitors at the Tallinn Art Hall, the warmth of summer in the middle of a cold and dark northern winter. The sun rose and set at our exhibit – for a whole month! Never mind that it did so in paintings and installations!

It was our intent to impart visitors, as they entered the Art Hall, with the right frame of mind. To that end we prepared a surprise for the people rushing in from the winter gloom, feeling all too grey. They could see the sun rising in the display window, and upon entering they were walking on grass and the scent of fresh-mown hay tickled their noses!

THE SUN SET AND RISES FROM THE TALLINN ART HALL 2014-2015 Time-and-Space Specific Light Installation.

It is a 30000 x 900 x 1400 cm expanse of sky where on light itself mixes the colours of the sunset, and so subtly that no artist could equal it.



RETRO 1995

THE SUN SETS ON & RISES FROM THE ART HALL

how light meditative sculpture and with it my first performance spontaneously was born in Tallinn Art Hall

Aili Vint: In Estonian there is a beautiful word KUMAMA (GLOW) that means reception of ones surroundings and at the same time a desire to give back even more generously. For example the glow of the sun reflected on a child’s face or the glowing reflection of sky on the sea. Light Sculpture of Sunset is a piece that was already conceived in my childhood, although it materialized only in 1995, when the renovation of Tallinn Art Hall was completed but all its rooms were still empty.

This performance took place in October 1995, in May, when our Northern summer had not yet begun. The event lasted for two days. During the first day people were enjoying the beach and sent off the Sun. The next morning everyone gathered to greet the real sunrise.

see the video below:

https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/uks-pilt-aili-vint-skulptuur-paikeseloojangust





2016 Caprices in Tartu Art House

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EXHIBITIONS 2021

Woman & Sea Viinistu Art Museum,Tynngallery

WOMAN & SEA 2021 Curator: Andra Orn, Viinistu Art Museum

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ART IS DESIGN IS ART 2021 Curators: Eda Tuulberg, Karin Vicente Kumu Art Museum

Estonian design in the second half of the Soviet period – the 1970s and 1980s – was marked by significant overlap and interactions with art. Many artists, designers and architects were active in both fields. Artists trained in applied arts frequently designed items for mass production or crafted limited-edition studio pieces, while those who had studied design or architecture also created works of fine art. The borders between the categories of art were also blurred for the artists themselves, whose works, despite the artists’ different backgrounds, were often inspired by the same problems and driven by similar impulses.

  • And now, 50 years later I writed a letter…

    Dear Ay-O!

     I am an artist Aili Vint from Estonia, Europe. I'm writing to You for the first time, even though I've wanted to do it for 50 years. We are not acquainted, but I know You already from the 1970s, when Your work was exhibited at the Krakow Biennale. Do You remember: Ay-O, 1970  Paysage d’arc-en-ciel  A — serigraphie. We remember these Golden Sixties Forever! And Yours Fluxus Group! 

    Our ANK '64 Group was formed in 1964 under the aegis of the Student Scientific Society of the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR.

    We often forget that we are not physical beings exploring spirituality, we are spiritual beings who experience ourselves throught the different physical worlds. In this case, one of us has lived in a free world, but the other has lived in a banality which was introduced into the Estonian life by the Soviet system. 

    In the beginning of my career as an artist I loved picking vibrant colors, comparing their lightness-darkness and boldly transferring them to the paper without much awareness of where this came from. This resulted in pop-art, which was innovative at the time. Years later (1970), from the Krakow Biennale III catalogue I learned, that there is an acclaimed artist named Ay-O in Japan, who uses the same kind of striped gradient motifs in his serigraphy. 

    You were already famous at that time and I might have been pegged as a plagiarist: Someone named Ay-Li does the same thing as the Japanese Ay-O! 

    I abruptly gave up the style I had invented, despite the fact that it held a lot of promise for development. It was a pity, of course, but I actually enjoyed this unexpected turn in my work, which gave me the opportunity to start painting the Sea instead, something that I had already dream of as a child. I still paint the Sea the old-fashioned way. Miles and miles of it, from the home shore to the horizon. But something still is on my mind. It is known that every person on earth has „a doppelgänger“.  Are we perhaphs kindred spirits? 

    What else do we have in common? I educate students as well, teach them to use their 5 senses more actively – just like You do.

    http://www.ailivint.com/creativity

     Although our creative paths have taken us to different parts of the world at the same time our works have been remarkably similar. It would be amazing, if we could finally meet in order to show the phenomenon -- the similarity of our works to the world.

    In case I will get a chance to have an exhibition in Tallinn, then my greatest wish would be to do it together with You.

     I am sending my best wishes to You through the Estonian Embassy in Japan and hope to get into contact with You.

    Until we meet,

    Sincerely Yours,

    Aili Vint 

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