LAURENTSIUS (LAURI SILLAK)

Born on August 20, 1969 in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia

Education:
1996 graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts as a painter

Selected solo exhibitions:
1996 City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 Galerie Jüttner, Vienna, Austria
1998 Raatuse gallery, Tallinn
1999 City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2000 Turku Art Museum, Finland
2001 Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia
2003 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
2004 Gallery Vivian Napp, Tallinn
2005 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2005 Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn (with Peeter Laurits)
2006 KU gallery, Tallinn (together with Sirli Hein)
2007 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2008 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2009 Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
2010 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2011 Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
2012 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2012 Haus Gallery, Tallinn
2013 Tallinna Art Hall Gallery
2014 Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
2014 Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu
2014 Parikas House Gallery, Tallinn
2015, 2017, 2018 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2018 Haus Gallery, Tallinn, (with Katrin Piile)
2018 Hyvinkaa Art Museum, Finland

Selected group exhibitions:
1993 Noise, Tallinn Art Hall
1994, 1995 Painting, Tallinn Art Hall
1996 Figurative, Tallinn Art Hall
1996 ArtGenda, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Estonia as a Sign, 4th annual exhibition of the SCCA, Estonia, Tallinn
1997 Confrontations /Agreements, Rotermann's Salt Storage Arts Center, Tallinn
1998 Word of Painting Rotermann's Salt Storage Arts Center, Tallinn
1998 Works by Tommy ja Laurentsiuse from the collection of Mati Miliuse, Tartu Art House, Estonia
1999 Painting '99, Rotermann's Salt Storage Arts Center, Tallinn
1999 Sotheby's International Young Art, Berlin, Rostock; Germany
2000 Baltic Art, NY, Washington, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago; USA
2000 Duchamp’s Suitcase, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
2001 Realism, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2002 Closing the Distance, exhibition of Estonian art, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Poland
2003 Paradise of Painting, Gallery 008, Tallinn, Estonia
2004 Quand l’art change la Baie, France
1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 Nord Art, Rendsburg, Germany
2010 “Confrontations”, Tallinn Art Hall
2011 CDH-2011, Moscow, Russia
2011 Border City, Tallinn Art Hall
2012 “Colorfest”, Minsk, Belarus
2013 “Homage to Classical Art”, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2018 “X files”, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn

Awards:
1996 Vaal Gallery annual prize
1997 Scholarship, Vienna, Austria
1999 Estonian Painters' Association's annual prize
1999 Kunstivaramu Wall Painting prize, Estonia
1999 Konrad Mägi Award, Estonia
2011 Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Award
2014 Kristjan Raud Annual Prize

Collections:
The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
Turku Art Museum, Finland
Bibliography:
“Laurentsius & A.D.” (catalogue), Turku Art Museum, Kerava, 2000