born 1985, Tartu, EST
lives and works in Tallinn, EST
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VILLEM JAHU is an interdiciplinary artist, free improviser, synthesist.
next:
january 2024 sound performances in Manchester, TBA
doings:
july-august 2023 summer exhibition & culture programme @ White Forest Studio Gallery, Valgemetsa, Estonia
july 2023 solo live sets @ Kühlspot & WestGermany, Berlin, DE
march 2023 sound for Mikk Jäger’s installation @ exhibition Deadline!………?, Islington Mill, Manchester
november 2023 solo live sets in Salford & Aberdeen, UK
october 2022 live sets with Juhan Vihterpal @ BRUITAL BERLIN FURORE festival & PAS, Berlin, Germany
august 2022 festival MÄO RIST, Ajuokse avangaar, Tartu, Estonia
july 2022 White Forest Project Space (VMPR), gallery opening, Valgemetsa, Estonia
summer 2022 RAJA VIIVAT / PIIR JOONED / BORDER LINES (installations, objects, videos, photo) Estomania 3, Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland, →
march 2022 compilation VAHELÜLI / THE LINK BETWEEN
february 2022 Electronic instrument building workshop for students of Calouste Gulbekian Music Conservatory and Georg Ots Music School, Braga, Portugal
september 2021 exhibition SEALT SINNA / Let’s Take the Romantic Way, ArtDepoo gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
sept-oct 2020 exhibition Performative Pärnumaa, Pärnu Linnagalerii. →
august 2020 installation Thread with no name, Symposion: Katkestus. Maastike teke ja kadu, Tammiku, Kohila, Estonia (with Kaarel Kütas & Triinu Jürves)
nov-dec 2019 exhibition –> CHECK IN –> <– CHECK OUT<– @ Working Man Gallery, Salford, UK (with Kaarel Kütas & Triinu Jürves)
october 2016 – solo live @ Kanuti Gildi Saal, Improtest concert series
august 2019 → Arrowgroup permanent installation @ Uuden Maailman Spektaakkeeli, Tampere, Finland
may – june 2019 → Arrowgroup residency and permanent outdoor object PASSTROUGH in Copper Leg Artist Residency, Vaskjala, Estonia
may 2019 Adhesion @ Working Man Gallery, Salford, UK
january 2019 → Arrowgroup solo exhibition “In Murky Water” @ Haapsalu Town Gallery, Estonia
November – December 2018 group exhibition Self Identity @ Galleria Kuja, Finland
October 2018 Composer’s Guesthouse, digital album, Daniel Lercher / Villem Jahu
October 2018 live set with Martiini & Riho Kall, Čē (Riga, Latvia)
16.08.-14.09. – residency @ DAR / MOKS
june – Endless Connections. Tallinn Art Week , Noblessner, (→ installation)
17.05 – Aufritt Tallinn, EKKM, Tallinn (solo live)
28.04 – live set with Martiini & Riho Kall, MIM Stuudio
03.03. – live set with Eleonora Tikas & Tont, MIM Stuudio
january 2018 – album monomers | oligomers by adhesion, (C40)
january 13 – album 85,68m presentation at Ateljeelive, Tallinn
december 22th – live set @ Eduard Tubina muuseum, Alatskivi, Estonia
december 2017 – Found Sound Art 1-5, (→, ready-made), group exhibition in ARS Project Space, Tallinn
december 2017 album 85,68m,(C60)
october 2017 → Arrowgroup exhibition in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
october 2017 Ear Swap workshop in Klaipeda, during 7 DAYS OF SOUND w. students from Vilnius Art Academy
october 07 – Turbulent M o l e Performance M o d e – music+performance art event, Tallinn
august 2017. Through a Forest Wilderness, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V.
14-15.07. Hundred Years (→ installation), festival Futu Muhu 2017, AI Artist Residency, Nõmmküla, Muhu
18.06. Soil Mole Prism Sculptor, Paldiski, Estonia. Experimental music concert day in Paldiski (co-organized with Juhan Vihterpal)
02.06. live soundtrack for Visions in Meditation (Stan Brakhage, 1990) with Rachel Kinbar, Madis Zilmer & Jonas Van den Bossche, festival Detune, Supersonicum, Viljandi, Estonia
16.05. Improtest 12. hooaja lõpujämm, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn
13.05. live set w. Tont, M. Kleis, Benzokai, Kiwa / KUKU Klubi, Tallinn
19.04. live soundtrack for Un chien andalou (Bunuel/Dali, 1929) with Jonas Van den Bossche, Helikopter, Tallinn
28.03 live sound for performance by Niña Yhared, Okapi Galerii, Tallinn
march-april 2017 Kasutu Rikkus (→ installation), näitus Elust Maal, Kunstihoone, Tallinn
feb. 2017 performances in Turku & Helsinki, Finland
27.01. live set with Eleonora Tikas & Tont, MIM Stuudio
2017 jan. Sound design for Saskia Järve‘s exhibition Memory Fades II, Linnagalerii, Tallinn
17.12.16 Synthetic Mole curves to Prism Mole, experimental music concert event. Grafodroom, Tallinn
(co-organized with Juhan Vihterpal)
17.11.17 live set in Kuku Klubi, Tallinn
10.11.16 live set in Supersonicum, Viljandi
sept-oct 2016 autumn 2016 tour with Jonas Van den Bossche & Tont. /26.09 – LT Vilnius – Kirtimu Kulturos Centras/29.09 – PL Poznan – LAS/30.09 – DE Dortmund – MEX/01.10 – NL Tilburg – Gifgrond/02.10 – NL Rotterdam – De Nieuwe Ruimte/15.10 – DE Berlin – Hangar 49/16.10 – DE Berlin – Noiseberg/18.10 – Dresden – Zentralwerk
28.08.16 solo sound performance @ A L A T E A D U S Closing Event, Amandus Adamsoni Majamuuseum, Paldiski
27.08.16 Window Show, City-Tour-Art-Exhibition, Tallinn (co-organized with Paulo Ramos & Kersti Vallikivi)
2016 july, sound installation Experimental Field, exhibition Omega 3, Mooste, Estonia
2016 may, solo exhibition Paldiski soundsystem, Amandus Adamson Studio Museum Gallery, Paldiski, Estonia
2016 april, album presentation performance @ Arhiiv, Tartu
2016 april, sound design for Saskia Järve‘s exhibition “Mälu kaob”, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu
2016 march, soundscape for Mikk Jäger’s installation Transition Area, EKKM, Tallinn
2016 jan 201501 / lyllemäe mixtape – split tape with Underground Forest, c90
2015 oct, Live audiovisual performance in KUMU Art Museum
2015 oct, Beach (→, installation) event Blue Blood, Balti Jaam depot, Tallinn, EST
2015 sept, 4 channel sound performance with Taavi Suisalu, MIMStuudio, Tallinn, EST
2015 july, sound performances with Taavi Suisalu, Loviisa & Helsinki, FI
2015 july (Silma)piiripunkt, (→, installation), festival Future-Horizon, Muhu island, EST
2015 Metamorphoses of the Black Square (photo, video) KUMU, Tallinn / group exhibition
2014 THORNMENTA (→, installation), Super Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany
2014 OKKAVIBRA (→, installation), Kreutzberg Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
2013 GOOD DEAL (→, installation), Estomania Festival, Huuto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2013 MAN OVERBOARD, (10x10meters, “dance” performance) Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn
2013 The End of The World is a Catastrophe Only When Someone Survives (10x10m, performance), Made in Estonia Maraton, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn
2012 Human Forestry (10x10meters, performance, video), Esityskomposti, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Next Wave (→, installation), Estomania Festival, Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsingi, Finland
2012 6×10 Heroes (10x10meters, performance), Kanuti Gildi Saal, EST
2012 A Horse, Indian & Red Haired Girl (→, installation), 2nd International Tartu Print Festival, Estonia
2011 survial kit. from estonia with love (→, installation), Survival Kit Festival, Riga, Latvia
2011 For Love Not Money. For Beginners (→, installation), 15th Tallinn Print Triennal, EAST Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 FULL OF LOVE (→ , installation), Gallery Metropol, Tallinn
2010 Passage (→, video installation), Pärnu Filmi- ja Videofestival FIDEOSUPERMARKET, Port Artur2, Pärnu
2010 Bussijaam Heliseb (→, video installation), Tallinn Bus Station, Estonia
2010 Fallen Madonna With Big Boobies (→, painting, video), EAST Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Pidusöök(Stiihia) (→, performance), Kiltsi lennujaam, festival Seanahk, Estonia
2010 Sculpture&Palimpsest (→, photo), Nabaklab, Riga, Latvia
2010 Black Sea (→, performance), Diverse Universe 2010, Pärnu
2009 Paradise Is Not Lost (photo), Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
2009 Immunity Summary & the Outside World (→ , installation), Y- Gallery and Kultuurikatel, Tartu/Tallinn
2009 Landscape With an Arrow (→, paintings) Võru Town Gallery, Estonia
2008 Execution (photo), IX Biennale of Graphic Art of the Baltic Sea Countries Kaliningrad-Königsberg, Kaliningrad, Russia
2008 Casting Fro a New Member (→, installation), 1st ARTISHOK Year Exhibition, Tallinn Town Gallery
2007 Money For Nothing or Flowerchildren (→, installation), Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2007 A Man and a Woman (→, photo)Tallinn IXV Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
2007 Jeune création européenne, (→, video), Montrouge, France
2007 Violently Happy (→, installation/photo), Tallinn Town Gallery
2006 Snow-White’s Campaign (→, full-house installation), Kullo Gallery, Tallinn
2005 Living Sculptures (living sculpture), Tallinn Art Hall
Discography
2017 JVB, (self released, audio cassette, each copy has different length) with Jonas Van den Bossche & Juhan Vihterpal
2016 lyllemäe mixtape, (c90, self released)
2016 201501 / lyllemäe mixtape – split tape with Underground Forest, c90
2015 Live Recordings 2012-1014, C60, Trash Can Dance
2013 Kuldaveärt Karud – Æstivation, C60, Oluheli Records
2012 Kuldaveärt Karud – sügis 2011/kevad 2012, C60, Oluheli Records
2011 Demo Träcks, cd-r, self released
Studies
2008 – Estonian Academy Of Arts (Interdiciplinary Arts, MA)
2009 – 2010 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Facultad de Bellas Artes
2004 – 2008 Estonian Academy Of Arts (Graphic Art, BA)
Scholarships:
2009/10 Erasmus Placement in Valencia, Esp
2007 Eduard Viiralt’s fund
Organized Workshops / exhibitions
2016 Window Show, exhibition-city-tour, Tallinn (with Paulo Ramos, Kersti Vallikivi)
2014 “Ear Swap” (with Hannah Harkes), sound dislocation, city tour, Tallinn, Helsinki, Vilnius
Collaborations
2014 – adhesion / dance-music-performance group, with Hannah Harkes and Kaspar Aus
2011 – Viru Realist / black psychedelic music group, with Lauri Koppel
2006 – Kuldaveärt Karud / art-music collective, changing lineup over the years
2004 – → Noolegrupp / artist group, with Triinu Jürves
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