Pille-Riin Jak
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
Pille-Riin Jaik (born 1991 in Tallinn, Estonia) is a Vienna and Tallinn based interdisciplinary artist working with camera based mediums, performance and sound as well as with various weavings in textual or spatial form. She has a Bachelor of Photography from the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (2015) and a Masters from Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2020). Currently she is studying in a PhD in Practice program in Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a member of Golden Pixel Cooperative. Her artistic work is focused on text, plants, textile, storytelling, surplus and waste materials/thoughts in feminist and class aware discourse.
Her videoworks have been screened in several film festivals around Europe (21st Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Diagonale 2018, FrauenFilmTage 2018, VI Kinodot Experimental Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Red Love international video competition in Sofia, Terrarista.tv, FIDCampus Marseille 2021, EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL - EMAF etc). Recently she has also been part of group exhibitions at Hobusepea Gallery in Tallinn, Improper Walls, LLLLLL, PFERD, Flucc, xE, Exhibit, AG18, Ausßenstelle Kunst, 21Haus and Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna.
Currently she is working on her PhD research about political and poetic storytelling in Baltic landscapes. In her artistic research she looks at different leads from post-colonial writers in search for alternative ways of storytelling with particular focus on land- and cityscapes of the region.