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Diana Tamane
born 1986, Riga (LV)
works in Tartu (EE)
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Education
2022 – 2023 Dance and Movement Therapy, Tallinn University, EE (Microdegree)
2021 Visual Art Therapy, Tallinn University, EE (Microdegree)
2015 – 2016 HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), Ghent, BE (Post-academic)
2013 – 2014 LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, BE (MA)
2006 – 2012 Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Tartu, EE (BA)
2009 – 2010 Escola Superior Artistica do Porto, PT (ex-change)
1998 – 2006 Janis Rozentals Riga Art School, LV
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Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Room for Many, with Thea Gvetadze (Curator: Inga Lāce) Tartu Art House, EE
2024 Half-Love (Curator: Hirohisa Koike) Kanzan gallery, Tokyo, JP
2023 Half-Love (Curator: Hanna-Liis Kont) Rüki gallery, Viljandi, EE
2023 Half-Love (Curator: Evita Goze) Riga Photography Biennial, Latvian Museum of Photography
2023 The Sea is You (Curator: Siim Preiman) Tallinn City gallery, EE
2023 Flower Smuggler (Curator: Inga Lāce) Kahán Art Space, Budapest, HU
2022 Flower Smuggler (Curator: Inga Lāce) Kahán Art Space, Vienna, AT
2022 Half-Love (Curator: Shoair Mavlian) Tartu Art Museum, EE
2022 Under the Same Sky (Curator: Šelda Puķīte) Kogo gallery, Tartu, EE
2022 Typology of Touch (Curator: Peeter Talvistu) EKKM (Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia) Tallinn, EE
2021 Portrait of an Emotion, with Jevgeni Zolotko and Lydia Hannah (Curator: Laura Toots) NART, Narva, EE
2020 Within Arm's Reach (Curator: Evita Goze) ISSP gallery, Riga, LV
2020 Letters from mum III, Myshanya, Kordon Container gallery, Kärdla, EE
2020 Typology of Touch (Curator: Nadia Bijl) De Vereniging, S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE
2018 Commissions (Curator: Evita Goze) ISSP gallery, Riga, LV
2017 Maman (Curator: Sasha Pevak) Shuttle 19, Espace 19 Côté Cour, Paris, FR
2017 Sensitive Traces, with Mark Raidpere, Sint-lukas gallery, Brussels, BE
2017 Flower Smuggler (Curator: Lu Mingjun) Surplus Art Space, Wuhan, CN
2016 Message: 147 of 494, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
2015 Typology of Touch, Tartu Art House, EE
2014 You can't have me for real, Recyclart, Brussels, BE
2013 From my family album II, Y galerii, Tartu, EE
2012 From my family album, Y galerii, Tartu, EE
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Selected group exhibitions
2024
My Home, Our City (Curator: Siim Preiman) Tallinn Art Hall (Lasnamae Pavilion), EE
Love is Louder Bozar, Brussels, BE
Antibiography (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) Museu de Granollers, ES
Antibiography (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) Centre d’art contemporani La Sala de Vilanova i la Geltrú, ES
In the Name of Desire (Curators: Laura Brokāne, Igors Gubenko) Latvian National Museum of Art, LV
Antibiography (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) Centre d’arts contemporànies de Tarragona, ES
Antibiography (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) MAC Mataró Art Contemporani, Mataró, ES
2023
The hands, the breasts, the fingers (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) MAC Mataró Art Contemporani, Mataró, ES
Antibiography (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) Centre d’Art Muxart, Martorell, ES
Emotional Landscapes (Curator: Šelda Puķīte) Arka gallery, Vilnius, LT
Looking for Trouble (Curator: Adam Mazur) Image gallery, Aarhus, DK
Don't cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965–2023 (Curator: Elita Ansone) Latvian National Museum of Art, LV
I constantly wonder what time it is where you are (Curator: Hana Ostan Ožbolt) Sector 1 gallery, Bucharest, RO
Greetings, and Whatever Customarily Restores a Bond About to Break (Curator: Brigit Arop) Kogo gallery, Tartu, EE
2022
From Little Acorns... Photoworks Festival, UK
ÕPPE ÕUD (Curator: Taavi Piibemann) Pallas gallery, Tartu, EE
Hortus PallasFoto II (Curator: Peeter Linnap) Pallas gallery, Tartu, EE
Antibiography (Curator: Alexandra Laudo) Centre d'Art Maristany, Sant Cugat del Vallès, ES
2021
Allied (Curated by East Europe Biennial Alliance) Kyiv Biennial, UA
Exhibition as Conversation (Curator: Hanna-Liis Kont) Tartu Art House, EE
Flower Smugglers (Curator: Adam Mazur) Art Inkubator, FFWRS, Sopot, PL
Letters from a foreign mind (Curator: Laura Toots), Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, EE
As she sees it, Pallas gallery, Tartu, EE
2020
Wunderkammer (Curator: Šelda Puķīte), Riga Photography Biennial, LV
On Monday it was still snowy (Curator: Peeter Talvistu), Tartu Art House, EE
2019
Borders of Mind (Curator: Peeter Linnap) European Month of Photography, Bratislava, SK
Female artists from Pallas 1919 – 2019, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, EE
HISK moving image (Curator: Daniella Geo), Tick Tack, Antwerp, BE
SURVIVAL KIT 10.1: Outlands (Curators: Solvita Krese and Inga Lāce, Àngels Miralda), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV
2018
25 years! Shared histories, shared stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More (Curator: Katerina Gregos) RIBOCA, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, LV
Borderline (Curator: Peeter Talvistu) Valga Museum Gallery, EE
Viewing and reading room, Kogo gallery, Tartu, EE
The Opposing Shore (Curators: Sasha Pevak & Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou) Les Abords, Brest, FR
Seeking the latest in photography, Riga Photography Biennial, LV
VIDEOARTE AGORA VIDEOARTE (Curators: Anna Bella Geiger & Fernando Cocchiarale), A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2017
EXTENSION.LV (Curator: Kristina Romanova), National centre for Contemporary Art, Nizhnii Novgorod, RU
Close to me (Curators: Lindley Warren & Roxi Pop) National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, RO
The Opposing Shore (Curators: Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou & Sasha Pevak) CCI Fabrika, Moscow, RU
EXTENSION.LV (Curator: Kristina Romanova), Victoria gallery, Samara, RU
EXTENSION.LV (Curator: Kristina Romanova), Triumph gallery, Moscow, RU
The City, My Studio/ The City, My Life (Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren), Kathmandu Trienniale, NP
2016
The Empty Fox Hole (Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren), HISK, Ghent, BE
Promised Light (Curator: Tanel Rander), Tartu Art House, Tartu, EE
Tallers Oberts Poblenou, Hangar, Barcelona, ES
Coming People 2016, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, BE
HISK Open Studios, HISK, Ghent, BE
The moving image: HISK, De studio, Antwerp, BE
Wide angle II, Tartu Art Museum, EE
2015
The Silent Dimension (Curator: Filip Luyckx) Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Leuven, BE
And no matter that the phone is ringing, CCI Fabrika, Moscow, RU
HISK Open Studios, HISK, Ghent, BE
HISK artist 2015, Art Brussels, BE
2014
Another dream, another sense, another mind (Curator: Filip Luyckx) Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Leuven, BE
Young Artists 2014 (Curator: Filip Luyckx) Sint Lukas Gallery, Brussels, BE
Väljasõit rohelisse. Tartu 1860–2014 (Curator: Peeter Talvistu) Tallinn Art Hall, EE
Master Photography Exhibition, Tagcity, Brussels, BE
Connecting Points/ Poper Magazine, Kanepes Culture Center, Riga, LV
2013
Losers (Curator: Peeter Talvistu), Tartu Art Museum, EE
2012
Cross time, (Curator: Peeter Linnap), Gallery Noorus, Tartu, EE
Middle Town, Depo, Istanbul, TR
Portucale, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, LV
Cross time (Curator: Peeter Linnap), Prospekto galerija, Vilnius, LT
Middle Town, Art House, Trabzon, TR
OMG! See teeb pilti, kui ma siia vajutan (Curator: Sirla) Gallery Noorus, Tartu, EE
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Works in collections
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvia
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
Leuven University, Belgium
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Grants, awards
2024 Artist's salary laureate 2024 – 2026, Estonian Ministry of Culture, EE
2023 Foam Paul Huf Award shortlist artist, NL
2022 Ado Vabbe prize, Tartu Cultural Endowment, EE
2022 Live and shine grant, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, EE
2020 Flower Smuggler winner of Author’s Book Award at Recontres d’Arles, FR
2020 Flower Smuggler shortlisted for Aperture First Photobook Awards, US
2019 Kim? Residency Award 2019, Artport, Tel Aviv, LV/IL
2018 Best portfolio at Plat(t)form 2018, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2017 Development grant, the Flemish Government Ministry of Culture, BE
2017 Riga Photography Biennial Award 2018, the first prize, LV
2017 Estonian Photographic Art Fair Acquisition Fund (Outset Estonia), EE
2016 .tiff magazine, Young Belgian Talent, FotoMuseum (FoMu), Antwerp, BE
2016 ‘Friends of the S.M.A.K. Prize’, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
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Residencies
2024 Paradise AIR, Matsudo, JP
2023 Kahán Artists in Residence, Chianti, IT
2022 Magic Carpets, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Pankisi, GE
2020 Kordon, Kärdla, EE
2019 Artport, Tel-Aviv, IL
2016 Hangar, Barcelona, ES
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Artist talks, lectures, presentations
2022 Trasversal Orientations II, C-MAP Seminar, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2020 Flower Smuggler book presentation / talk with Shoair Mavlian, Photoworks, UK
2020 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Studio visit by Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Tartu, EE
2018 Contemporary Geographies. To Map Places, Experiences and Ideas, International Summer School by Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Kuldiga, LV
2018 DIP Talks, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, BE
2018 May contain: Goods from the Road, Rundum, Tallinn, EE
2017 ISSP School, Riga, LV
2017 Kathmandu Triennale, NP
2016 .tiff TALKS, FoMu, Antwerp, BE
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Workshops
2015 Gabriel Paiuk: Space, sound and instances of media, Herculeslab, Ghent, BE
2015 Michel Schöpping: Movement in Sound, Space and Image, Herculeslab, Ghent, BE
2014 Broomberg & Chanarin, FOMU, Antwerp, BE
2013 Elina Brotherus: Contemporary Self-portraits, ISSP, Kuldiga, LV
2012 Bas Vroege and Hans van der Meer: Middle Town project, ISSP, Trabzon, TR
2011 Arno Rafael Minkkinen, ISSP, Kuldiga, LV
2010 Adriana Lestido, PHOTO ESPANA, Madrid, ES
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