Photo by Dénes Farkas, 2007
ANU PÕDER 1947–2013 EDUCATION: 1967–1970 Tartu Art School 1970–1976 Estonian State Art Institute, department of sculpture EMPLOYMENT: 1993–2011 lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts 1989–2012 teacher at the Tallinn Art School 1976–1986 freelance artist AWARDS: 2008 Kristjan Raud Art Award 2000 Award of the Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 1995, 1997 Annual scholarships of the Estonian Ministry of Culture 1994 Teacher of the Year 1990 Award of the Estonian Artists’ Association 1979 Annual Award of the Young Artists’ SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2024 Anu Põder: Space for My Body. Curated by Cecilia Alemani at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland 2019 Ruum minu ihu jaoks Une pièce pour mon corps Space for my body. Curated by Barbara Sirieix at La Galerie Noisy-Le-Sec, Paris, France 2007 Super at Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 1999 Tested Profit at Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia 1996 Softly in Light at Tartu Art Museum, Estonia 1994 Solo at Kotka City Gallery, Finland 1985 Form and Colour in Textile. With Ivika Kärmik at Tallinn Town Hall Museum, Estonia |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations. Curated by Andrea Kroksnes and Briony Fer at the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway 2022 Is There Hope for Lovely Creatures? Curated by Tamara Luuk at Tallinn Art Hall's Lasnamäe Pavilion, Estonia 2022 the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: The Milk of Dreams. Curated by Cecilia Alemani. Venice, Italy 2022 A Clearing in the forest. The Tanks, Tate Modern, London, UK 2021 Drawings. Gianni Manhattan gallery, Vienna, Austria 2021 Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and the Port. Curated by Manuela Moscoso at Tate Liverpool, UK 2020 To the River. Curated by Laura Windhager at Gianni Manhattan gallery, Vienna, Austria 2019 Be Fragile! Be Brave! Curated by Rebeka Põldsam at Pori Art Museum, Finland 2018 Border Poetics. Estonian Art 1918–2018. Curated by Eha Komissarov and Tatjana Zelukina at National Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2018 Chthonic Rift at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany 2018 The Baltic Triennial exhibition Give Up the Ghost! Curated by Vincent Honoré at CAC Vilnius, Lithuania 2017 Anu Põder. Be Fragile! Be Brave! Curated by Rebeka Põldsam at Kumu Art Museum, Estonia 2016 Every Letter is a Love Letter. Curated by Marge Monko at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2015 Body Language. Curated by Tiiu Kirsipuu and Mari-Liis Tammi at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2013 A Sketch for Estonian Feminist Art Canon. Ladyfest Tallinn 2013. Curated by Rebeka Põldsam. Y-Gallery, Tartu, Estonia 2012 The Sky is Made of Paper. Haapsalu City Gallery, Estonia 2011 Two is Better Than One. Annual exhibition of the Estonian Sculptors’ Union. Old Town Hall Gallery, Turku, Finland 2010 Gender Check, Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland 2009 Gender Check, Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. mumok, Vienna, Austria 2009 Annual exhibition of the Sculptors’ Union, Pärnu, Estonia 2007 Sculpture Speaks: Power and Freedom at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2006 Shiftscale at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2005 Homo Grandis Natu at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2005 Duo show with Jaan Elken at Deco gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2005 Trace at Tartu Art House and the University of Tartu Botanical Gardens, Estonia 2004 Me and Other, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2004 Estonian Sculptors’ Union show at Pärnu Concert Hall, Estonia 2003 Group exhibition with Mare Mikoff and Aili Vahtrapuu at Intro gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania 2002 Expressions around the Baltic at Karlskrona, Sweden 2002 Tempo di scultura at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 2002 Closing the Distance at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland 2001 I and You. Duo show with Jaan Elken at Deco gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2000 AIDS in Culture. The Loss of Immunity at the Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn 2000 International Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga, Latvia 2000 International art project of Hanseatic towns, Lübeck, Germany 2000 The Teacher and the Student, Sammas gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 1999 Aquarium at the Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn 1999 Mothers and Daughters, Tallinn University, Estonia 1999 10 sculptors at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 1996 Estonia As a Sign. 4th annual exhibition of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts in Estonia. Curated by Ants Juske at Tallinn Art Hall, Art Hall Gallery, Vaal Gallery, and Tartu Art House, Estonia 1994 10 sculptors, Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 1994 Nude in Art, Chaplin Art Centre, Pärnu, Estonia 1994 International sculpture exhibition, Porvoo, Finland 1994 Code-ex, gallery of the Institute of History, Tallinn City Gallery, Draakon gallery, Estonia 1992 10 sculptors, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 1990 Group Para ’89, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia 1989 Estonian Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia 1988 Baltic Young Artists’ Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania 1987 Object in Art, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia 1984 Young Artists’ Exhibition, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia CATALOGUES: Anu Põder. Space for My Body. Edited by Cecilia Alemani and Agnieszka Sosnowska. Skira. 2024 Anu Põder. Ruum minu ihu jaoks Une pièce pour mon corps Space for my body. Edited by Barbara Sirieix. La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain. 2019 Anu Põder. Be Fragile! Be Brave! Edited by Rebeka Põldsam. Art Museum of Estonia. 2017 Anu Põder. Edited by Reet Varblane. Tallinn Art Hall. 2009 SELECTED REVIEWS AND WRITINGS: Hedi Rosma and Reet Varblane. Untold backstories: Anu Põder (1947–2013) and her posthumous rise to international fame. KUNST.EE 3/2022 Jan Verwoert. From Life. On the Work of Anu Põder. A Shade Colder. April 2022 Adomas Narkevičius. Latent Corporeal Dialogues from the Baltics: Anu Põder and Virgilijus Šonta. post | notes on art in a global context - MoMA. 14 July 2021 Kathrin Heinrich. Coming up for Air. PW-Magazine. 29 June 2020 Merilin Talumaa. Scattered Space(s). Anu Põder. Echo Gone Wrong. 2 August 2019 Neringa Černiauskaitė on Anu Põder. Artforum International. September 2017 Jennifer Boyd, A Tactile Dialect of Strong and Soft and Spiked: Anu Põder at Kumu Art Museum. Afterall. 1 August 2017 Gabriela Acha, Anu Põder. Frieze. 31 May 2017 Agnese Pundiņa. Two steps forward, one step back. Arterritory. 5 April 2017 Eha Komissarov and Rebeka Põldsam in conversation. About Anu Põder and the Feminists. KUNST.EE 1/2017 Mari Laanemets. Dissected Bodies. An insight into the works of sculptress Anu Põder. Estonian Artists 2, 2000. Center for Contemporary Arts MEMBERSHIPS: Estonian Artists’ Association Estonian Sculptors’ Union COLLECTIONS: Anu Põder Estate, Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Tate's Collection. |