Berit Talpsepp-Jaanisoo

Born 1984 in Tartu, Estonia
Lives and works in Finland

Email:berit.jaanisoo@outlook.com
Phone:+358 44 971 7115

Education

2010–2011 The Glasgow School of Art, Master of Research in Creative Practices
2007–2010Estonian Academy of Arts, Sculpture MA (unfinished)
2003–2007 Tartu Art College, Sculpture

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions

2025Mother's Flowers, solo exhibition at Galleria Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland
2024Paradise Beach, solo exhibition at the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
2023Ghost Ting, Tartu Art House, Estonia (with James Prevett and Luis Sagasti)
2020Ding Ting Ting, Kunsthalle Turku, Finland (duo with James Prevett)
2018Collector's Garden, solo exhibition at Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2017Åland Islands Art Museum (duo with Villu Jaanisoo), Mariehamn
2016Eike Eplik/ Berit Talpsepp-Jaanisoo (duo with Eike Eplik) Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia
2011The Tourists (duo with Gwenan Davies), Gallery Raja, Tallinn, Estonia

Selected group exhibitions

2025Gwenan International, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, UK
2023Lendlehed ja monumendid (joint exhibition of the Estonian Printmakers' and Estonian Sculptors' Union), the Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2023Kahekõne, Rapla Art Museum, Estonia
2023International Exhibition NordArt 2023, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2023Every Person is Born Broken into Pieces – the annual exhibition of the Estonian Sculptors' Union, ARS Project Space, Tallinn
2022Man and Woman – Dream, Mona the Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2022Tuur skulptuur, the exhibition of the Estonian contemporary sculpture, Telliskivi Loomelinnak, Tallinn, Estonia
2021Man and Woman – the Power and Spirit of Estonian Women in MONA the Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2021Naisten kuvia – Teoksia Heinon taidesäätiön kokoelmasta, Kimmo Pyykkö Art Museum, Kangasala, Finland
2020Oikeus Kohtuus Tasa-arvo, Kauppakeskus Linna, Hämeenlinna, Finland
2019 IN SITU, Kunstguss Museum, Hirzenhain, Germany
2019 Lumous (Fascination), The Art Centre Purnu Summer Exhibition, Orivesi, Finland
2019 Ihmisen aika (The Human Era), Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2019 Gweneva International: Eat, Prey, Love, 272 Allison Street, Glasgow, UK
2015 Face to Face – Portrait Now, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Time that Remains (with Emma Ainala and Ida Koitila), Helsinki Contemporary, Finland
2013 Monteaudio 13, international sound art festival, Montevideo, Uruguay
2013 International Winter Festival, City Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013 Gwenan International, Carlton Place, Glasgow, UK
2012 GOOD LIFE – Physical Narratives and Spatial Imaginations, 53rd edition of the October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2012 No Man's Land, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts, The Arches, Glasgow, UK
2011 MRes Graduate Show, Barnes Building, Glasgow, UK
2011 5 Spring Moments Gallery Vanha Savu, Merikarvia, Finland
2011 Project Library of Literature and Imagery, The Mutual, Glasgow, UK
2010 Sculpture and Palimpsest Nabaklab, Riga, Latvia
2009 AchtungX:mas! Von Krahl Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 Scary Challenge/ Raske Samm, Main Post Office, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Hare Christmas, Hare Weinachten! Y Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2008 The Monuments of Liberty, The park of Maarjamäe Castle, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Apartment for Rent, Gallery Raja, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Kajakas, The gallery of the Lindakivi Culture Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Tartu Art College Graduate Exhibition, Athena Centre, Tartu, Estonia

Other Projects

2017- The Floating Studio – artist-run art space in Helsinki, Finland
(ongoing project with Villu Jaanisoo)
Web: http://floatingatelier.blogspot.com

Works in Collections

Heino Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Kiasma Collection, Helsinki, Finland
October Salon Collection, Belgrade, Serbia

Memberships

Member of the Association of Finnish Sculptors
Member of The Mutual, Glasgow

Teaching/ Supervising

2022, 2023 Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Tartu, Estonia – visiting teacher of Sculpture and Photography Departments
2013 Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Tartu, Estonia – workshop supervising
2014–2018 Nordic Art School, Kokkola - workshop supervising
2014–2019 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki – workshop supervising
2015 Free Art School & Nordic Art School students' exhibition Paths that Cross in Valssaamo, Kaapelitehdas.
Project supervising and exhibition curating
2013–2014 Lahti University of Applied Sciences – workshop supervising
2013 Univeristy of Antioquia, Medellin – workshop and students’ exhibition supervising