Marit Mihklepp

STUDIES:

2013-2015       MMus ArtScience (The Royal Conservatoire,The Royal Academy of Art: The Hague, NL)

2004-2008       BA Textile Design (Estonian Academy of Arts: Tallinn, EE)

2007                Faculty of Philosophy, exchange semester (Tartu University: Tartu, EE)

EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS:

2026 Liquid Practices: Melting (Urban Waters WZ Wipkingen: Zurich, CH)

2025 ...CIER: curator Sunna Sunna Dagsdóttir (SÍM Korpúlstaðir: Reykjavik, IS)

2025 Now-Soon-Later (Á milli: Reykjavik, IS)

2024 Open Studios (Pianpicollo Selvatico: Levice, IT)

2024 HIIS: A Digital Sanctuary: curator Helis Heiter (Shoreditch Arts Club: London, UK)

2024 KOFF Film Festival (Kordon: Kärdla, EE)

2024 fossil monologue (Langstrasse 200: Zurich, CH): text reading at a book launch event

2024 running stars, air stones, ground holes, performative lecture (ZHdK: Zurich, CH)

2023 Celestial Bodies: curator Ann Mirjam Vaikla (Tartu Observatory: Tõravere, EE)

2023 Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes: curators Mateo Chacón Pino & Àngels Miralda (RADIUS CCA: Delft, NL)

2023 Death Began in Autumn: curator Leslie Moody Castro (Casa Lü: Mexico City, MX)

2022 8th Artishok Biennial Botanical Witnesses: curator Ann Mirjam Vaikla (Tallinn Botanic Garden: Tallinn, EE)

2022 Polymorphic Futures: curators Michaela Büsse & Benjamin Burger (Gessnerallee: Zurich, CH)

2021 Changing Landscapes: curators Yasmine Ostendorf and Gabriela Maciel (online)

2021 Point of No Return. Attunement of Attention: curators Saskia Lillepuu and Ann Mirjam Vaikla (Narva Art Residency: Narva, EE)

2021 HALL08: An Encounter Gathering, with TAAT Projects (Dommelhof: Neerpelt, BE)

2020 Tentacular Lecturette performative lecture (Verwerelden garden: Landsmeer, NL)

2020 On the Nature of A Name performative lecture, with Amy Pekal (Hortus Botanicus: Amsterdam, NL)

2020 Tentacular Lecturette performative lecture (A Tale of a Tub: Rotterdam, NL)

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND RESEARCH PROGRAMMES:

2025 Artist residency (Öres: Örö, FI; supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia)

2025 Liquid Stays: Salty Confluences, Humid Dissolvings (Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, FR)

2025 Liquid Stays: Flying Rivers, Rewilding Cycles (Villa Rhona: Andancette, FR)

2025 Artist residency (SÍM Korpúlstaðir: Reykjavik, IS)

2024 Väino Tanner´s Foundation artist residency (Villa Marjatta: Mazzano Romano, IT; supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia)) 

2024 Liquid Stays: Melting (Re-)Sources Sacred Places (Rhone glacier: Oberwald, CH)

2024 Process/research residency, invited by Caretto/Spagna (Pianpicollo Selvatico: Levice, IT)

2023 Celestial Bodies residency (Maajaam and Tartu observatory, EE; supported by Tartu2024)

2023 Research residency (Casa Lü: Mexico City, MX; supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia)

2022 Research residency ‘walking the meteorite’ (KORDON: Kärdla, EE; supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia)

2022 FieldARTS research residency ‘Transitional Waters’ (Amsterdam, Texel, IJmuiden, NL)

2022 BLACK EARTH research programme and residency (VOTP: Cañon del Blanco, CL; supported by Stroom Den Haag and Mondriaanfonds)

2022 Roots & Seeds XXI research residency (Maison Malina: Paris, FR; Creative Europe project)

2022 Stone Network residency, with Anna Bierler (CLOUD/Danslab: The Hague, NL; supported by the Experiment Grant from Stimuleringsfonds)

2021-22 Transforming Environments research programme (online and Zurich, CH)

2021 OTHERWISE: Polymorphic Futures collaborative platform (online and Gessnerallee: Zurich, CH; supported by Stroom Den Haag) 

2021 Changing Landscapes residency (online)

2021 Point of No Return residency (Narva Art Residency: Narva, EE; supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Stroom Den Haag)

2020 HALL08 collective residency (Dommelhof: Neerpelt, BE)

2020 3-month Kone Foundation Home Residency (home studio: The Hague, NL; supported by Kone Foundation)

GRANTS:

2026 Research grant: field pigments (IfCAR, ZHdK)

2025 National Cultural Stipend (Estonian Ministry of Culture)

2024 PRO Research grant: Liquid Stones (Stroom Den Haag)

2024 National Cultural Stipend (Estonian Ministry of Culture)

2023 Research grant: Metelore: Air Stones, Ground Holes (IfCAR, ZHdK) 

2022 SPOT grant for Botanical Witnesses exhibition (Stroom Den Haag)

2020 PRO Invest Grant (Stroom Den Haag)

WORKSHOPS/TEACHING:

2025 Art&Research: Working with the Wild (ZHdK: Zurich, CH)

2024 Becoming Stones workshop (KV Leipzig: Leipzig, DE)

2024 Art&Research: Ways of knowing when travelling and collecting (ZHdK: Zurich, CH)

2024 too far, too slow, too small; Academy of Architecture Winter School (AHK: Amsterdam, NL)

2023 Meteorite Inks, with Greta Facchinato (Studio Greta Facchinato: The Hague, NL)

2023 Art&Research: Inter-viewing as artistic practice & conversation with more-than-human (ZHdK: Zurich, CH)

2022 becoming stone, with Anna Bierler (Zone2Source: Amsterdam, NL)

2022 becoming stone, with Anna Bierler (Veldacademie zomersessies, StrandLAB: Almere, NL)

2022 built out of memory, built out of seams, with Anna Bierler (HDSA2022 Connecting Otherwise: online)

2022 Observing Fourfold, with Edgars Rubenis (IAS: Amsterdam, NL)

2021 falling like a meteorite (Gessnerallee: Zurich, CH)

PUBLICATIONS:

2023 Field Docket publication (FieldARTS, Sonic Acts Press)

2023 Ecoes #4: If there is nowhere to hold on to, root to yourself and grow from there (Sonic Acts Press)

2022 Theater of Vegetal Appreciation (Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance)

2022 KLIMA No.5: Stone Tides