CURRICULUM VITAE
TAJE TROSS
Born in 06.04.1978 Estonia
1. EDUCATION
2008 - 2009 Academy of Fine Arts, MA, Helsinki, Finland
2000 - 2005 Academy of Fine Arts BA, Helsinki, Finland
2003 - 2004 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2000 - 2004 Estonian Art Academy, Estonia
1998 - 2000 Academia Non Grata, Pärnu, Estonia
1996 - 1998 Sytevaka Art College, Pärnu, Estonia
2. CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
2011
2011 Experimental Instrumentarium, Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
2010
2010 “Defibrillator” Performance art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2010 2nd International Performance Festival of John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, USA
2010 “Night Market” San Francisco, California, USA
2010 BOOK Thug Nation, New York, Williamsburg, USA
2010 Exhibition “Kiss My Prints” Beaumont, Texas, USA
2010 Solo Project House, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2010 ART STUDIO INC. Beaumont, Texas, USA
2010 “Gulf Print Storm” Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, USA
2010 Beaumont Art League, Texas, USA
2010 Notsouh Club, Houston, Texas, USA
2010 Fountain Art Fair, Miami, Florida, USA
2010 Invisible Cottage, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
2010 LOS ANGELES "Ne Travaillez Jamais!", Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010 Survival Kit Festival, Riga, Latvia
2010 “Halles Delacroix” Preavis De Desordre Urbain, Marseille, France
2010 Théâtre of Bernardines, Marseille, France
2010 Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2010 Preavis De Desordre Urbain, Marseille, France
2010 Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2010 ACG Gallery In Williamsburg, New York, USA
2010 Chuncheon Mime Festival, South-Korea
2010 Hasla Performance Festival, South-Korea
2010 Busan Performance Festival, South-Korea
2010 Beah Hayama City Kanagawa, Japan
2010 Kawasaki Performance Festival, Japan
2010 Shizuoka, Japan
2010 Gang Jin International New Hamel 's Castaway Diary, South - Korea
2010 KEAF Performance Festival “Making a City of Art - Docking", Seoul
2010 Beauty of the Car Accident, Tartu Artist House, Tartu, Estonia
2010 Perf01 Performance Festival, Gallery 3H+K, Pori, Estonia
2010 Skånes Konstförening, Scene For Live And Crossover Art, Malmö
2010 Festival Désordre urbain Paris - Urban Disorder, Confluences, Paris
2010 L’associació de Performers, Artistes i Poetes Associats, Barcelona
2010 “L’Estruch”, Live Arts Center in Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
2010 Centre d'Art de Terre Blanque, Toulose, France
2010 “Archivo del Arte”, TempoRares Paradies and Fein Raus, Cologne
2010 International Open Space Festival of Free Arts, Aqua Carre, Berlin
"A City with no Subground is a dead place - No Culture without Subculture!"
2010 MYFEST "WORLD STAGE" in Bullenwinkel, Berlin-Kreuzberg
2010 Diverse Universe Performance Festival, ALYTUS, Lithuania
2010 Diverse Universe Performance Festival, Club "Piens", Riga, Latvia
2010 Diverse Universe Performance Festival, Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
2010 Writers Union – Diverse Universe Performance Poets, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 KOPAS – Korean Art Spirit, Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
2010 Printmaking In Festival, Pärnu, Tartu
2009
2009 Pärnu Filmi- ja Videofestival, Port Artur 2, Pärnu, Estonia
2009 „Cartesian Theatre“ performance, Kultuurikatel, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 „Psycomagic“performance, Theaterkapelle, Berlin, Germany
2009 “Zero Sum Game” performance, MyFest, Berlin, Germany
2009 Kaskakondensator, performance, Basel, Switzerland
2009 Terré Blanque, performance, Toulouse, France
2009 Mix'art, performance, Toulouse, France
2009 Le Filet, performance, Marseille, France
2009 AdriAntic, performance, Barcelona, Spain
2009 A la Papa Multimedia, performance, Barcelona, Spain
2009 “Seedless Brain” performance, Ystad Konstmuseum, Sweden
2009 Meeled ja Meeletus Art Hall, performance, Pärnu, Estonia
2008
2008 Non Grata Explosion, exhibition, Leo Kesting Gallery, Manhattan
2008 Burning Man Festival, performances, Nevada, USA
2008 KEAF Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul, South-Korea
2008 Horse Cow Art Space, performances, Sacramento California, USA
2008 BITCHIN SPACE, performances, Sacramento California, USA
2008 NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Davis, USA
2008 Research of Reality, Graafika IN Festival, Pärnu City Gallery
2008 Alternative Mardi Gras Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana
2008 “On the Road” exhibition Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
2008 Performance Lecture Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2008 Prints Gone Wild Contemporary Museum of St.Louis, Missouri, USA
2008 Jonathan Shorr Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
2008 Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, Florida, USA
2008 Undercurrent Arts, Miami, Florida, USA
2008 “Art of the Invisibles” Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
2008 Live Action PIFAS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2008 Fountain Art Fair, GES, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2008 Performance Explosion, Diverse Universe IV Festival, Estonia
2007 - 1997
2007 “In G + PNP 2007” Pärnu, Estonia
2007 “BIG PERFORMANCE” Concert Hall, Pärnu Estonia
2007 “Encuentro 2007 – Danza y Performance” Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 “Uus laine” Non Grata Kunstikonteiner, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 The Present Tense Performance Event Boston Massachusetts
2007 “Sanitary Climax Slicer” Brick house, Sacramento California
2007 Nongrata Performance Event Horse Cow Art Space, Sacramento, CA
2007 Burning Man Festival, Black Rock City Nevada Desert, Nevada
2007 Gallery Hop Live Performances Louisville, Kentucky
2007 Nongrata Performance Event Adorno Studios, Louisville, Kentucky
2007 Edge Zones Contemporary Art Centre, Miami Florida
2007 The Butcher Shoppe: Slaughterhouse Performance Event, Boston, MA
2007 Nongrata Performance Event West Nyle At Brooklyn, New York
2007 Festival of Free Arts, Fasslagerhalle Berlin, Germany
2007 Armastusest, Leivast ja Vintpüssist, Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia
2007 KOPAS Festival of Experimental Arts, Seoul, South - Korea
2006 Graafika In Festival Pärnu Estonia
2006 America, America, America! Performance Festival Sacramento, USA
2006 ARS Focus on the Human Factor Kiasma, Finland
2006 Technobia Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2006 Diverse Universe II, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2006 Inkubaator, Pärnu Mudbath, Estonia
2006 Backlash of Diverse Universe Open Space Berlin, Germany
2006 Art of the Invisibles Grace Exhibition Space New York, USA
2006 VIVA! Art Festival Montreal, Quebec
2006 SEXE Festival Montreal, Quebec
2006 La Biennale d'art performatif de Rouyn Noranda” Canada
2006 “Agora” Festival, Mc Carren Pool, Williamsburg, New York, USA
2006 “Art of The Invisibles” Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA
2006 “HEP”Crane Arts Center 1400 N American Street,Philadelphia, USA
2006 “Final Construction” 72 Hours Non-Stop Action, GES, New York
2006 “Pärnu International Film & Video Festival” Mud Bath, Pärnu, EST
2006 “Pain in the Class” Videoclub Protoplay, Brighton, England
2005 Art of The Invisibles Ystad Art Museum, Sweden
2005 Pax 5 Passio Rauha, Finland
2005 Diverse Universe I Performance Festival, Estonia-Finland
2005 Der Freie Wille Treptow, Berlin-ARENA, Germania
2005 Die Kunst der Unsichtbaren Schillerpalais, Neukölln-Berlin
2005 Kunst Nacht der Performance Kunsthalle Berlin Pankow, Germania
2005 24h Living Action Schillerpalais, Neukölln-Berlin, Germania
2005 Non Grata Film Nacht Open Space, Kreutzberg-Mitte, Berlin
2005 Woman & Monster SoToDo Performance Congress Munster
2005 Non Grata – Art of the Invisibles videoscreening, Valmiera, Latvia
2005 Insurgence Brighton, England
2005 Be Queer Performance Festival on board of Stubnitz, Dunkirque
2005 Primera Bienal Internacional de Performance Santiago, Chile
2004 Performance Labor, Slovenia
2004 PAX 4 Paratiisi Imatra, Finland
2004 Welcome Cold Performance Festival, Seoul, South – Korea
2004 Gwang- ju Biennale South – Korea
2003 336 H Ghettomaraton Gallery elf 68, Köln, Germany
2003 Non Grata Exhibition/presentation LADEN Gallery, München
2003 The Clash of Civilizations Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
2003 Contemprorary Art Exhibition Modern Art Museum, Pärnu, Estonia
2003 „9th“ Performance Gongress Gallery SoToDo, Berlin, Germany
2003 Europe in the City of Jurgis Kaunas National Museum, Lithuania
2002 Doctors 173 performance Helsingi, Finland
2002 Paraati Videopresentation Sörnäinen metrostation, Finland
2002 Ghettomaraton around Iceland, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2002 Research Centre of Reality Helsingi, Finland
2002 Gasthof Frankfurt, Germany
2002 High Calibre Performance Festival Berlin, Germany
2002 “240 h” Experimental performances Paris Project Room, France
2001 Time and Space visits Leena Kuumola Gallery, Helsingi, Finland
2001 LOOP!performance Kiasma, Finland
2001 Exit Performance Festival Helsingi, Finland
2001 Breaking the wall Performance Muu Gallery, Helsingi, Finland
2001 Gott und Huhn Performance Haapsalu City Gallery, Estonia
2001 Flammable exhibition Pedvale, Latvia
2001 Twelve II Twelve Performance Festival Tampere, Finland
2001 Postsovkohz City & Postsovkohz person Mooste, Estonia
2000 Phenomenon Kosken gallery, Imatra, Finland
2000 Women exhibition Modern Art Museum, Pärnu, Estonia
2000 Estonian Printmaking 2000 Tallinn Art House, Estonia
2000 Laboratorium Performance Festival Vilnius, Lithuania
2000 37 h Experimental Space Turku, Finland
1999 Cocons Performance Riga Foreign Art Museum, Latvia
1999 Le syndrom of Millenium Paide, Estonia
1999 Dionysia Festival Tartu, Estonia
1999 Extereza Performance Festival Mexiko, South America
1999-2005 Art Non Grata Pärnu, Estonia
1998 48 h experimental action Kasarminkatu Gallery, Helsingi, Finland
1998-2008 Pärnu Film and Video Festival Pärnu, Estonia, Pedvale, Latvia
1998-2000 Big Alternation Pärnu, Estonia
1997-2009 Graafika In Festival Pärnu, Estonia
1997-2000 Time, Space, Movement Festival Paide, Estonia
1997 Suprematism Festival Pärnu, Estonia
3. SOLO EXHIBITIONS1999 Baking Print,Museum Hall, Pärnu, Estonia
1999 River Exhibition, Pärnu, Estonia
2000 Water Exhibition, Jõgeva, Estonia
2000 Women exhibition, Pärnu New Art Museum, Estonia
2001 Still-life, Haapsalu City Gallery, Estonia
2002 Consternated Performance, Kilpkonna Gallery, Viljandi, Estonia
2003 Asylum, Kasarminkatu Gallery, Helsingi, Finland
2004 Performance Formula/Memorial Order, Pärnu, Estonia
2005 Intelligibel-Sensibel Helsinki, Finland
2006 La Clinica de lo Existente, Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
2008 ABCEDARIUM Pärnu Artist House Gallery, Estonia
2009 ABCEDARIUM Ystad Art Museum, Sweden
4. CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
2000 Women exhibition, Pärnu New Art Museum, Estonia
2003/04 Estonian Art Exhibition Series, Open Space, Berlin
2004 Alle Gegen Alles, Berlin, Germany
2005 Art Of the Invisibles, Ystad Art Museum, SwedenMember of organization:
2005/11 Pärnu Film and Video Festival, Estonia
2005/11 Printmaking In Festival, Estonia
2005/11 Diverse Universe Performance Festival, Europe