Taavi Suisalu is working in the contexts of technology, sound, and performance, mixing traditional and contemporary sensibilities and activating peripheral spaces for imaginative encounters. His practice is informed by phenomena of contemporary society and its relations to and use of technologies, being interested in the behaviour, perception and thinking of social beings. In 2014, Taavi Suisalu received the Young Estonian Artist Prize for curating a distributed exhibition throughout non-existent villages of Southern Estonia. In 2017, his work Distant Self-Portrait was awarded 2nd prize in Riga Photography Biennial Awards. In 2018 he was one of the selected artist-in-residence e within the EMAP – European Media Art Platform network. In recent years he has shown at KUMU in Tallinn; Riga Photography Biennale and RIXC festival in Riga Art Space and Latvian National Museum of Art in Latvia; Le Lieu Unique in France; Impakt in Netherlands; European Central Bank in Frankfurt; BOZAR and European Parliament in Brussels; Gallery Triumph in Moscow; Gallery Horseandpony Fine Arts and Gallery Weisser Elefant in Berlin; WRO Media Art Biennale in Four Domes Pavilion in Poland and many venues and festivals in Estonia.
Contact: taavisuisalu.ee