Tanel Veenre

Tanel Veenre, 1977, Tallinn, Estonia.

Education:
1995-2001 Estonian Academy of Arts, Metal Art Department by prof. Kadri Mälk, BA
1997-98 guest-study at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, jewellery design department by prof. Ruudt Peters
2001-2005 Estonian Academy of Arts, Metal Art Department by prof. Kadri Mälk, MA 

Works in public collections:
Estonian History Museum, Rotasa Collection Trust, California, USA

Solo exhibitions:
2014 Beyond the Animus, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Lend, Bruxelles, Belgium
2005 Extacy, Golden Section, Ennui, Köismäe Tower, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Ehted, mis on (Jewellery, That does Exist), HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | 21. century prince, photos, Lounge Stereo, Tallinn, Estonia | Pagan Poetry, Câmara Municipal do Funchal, Madeira
2008 When Words Are Not Enough, Hop galerii, Tallinn, Estonia | Folkcouture (with Aldo Järvsoo) Jardin de Mode, Lille, France | JEWEL, Wheat rye mill of Rotermann, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Pagan Poetry, gallery Ornamentum, Hudson NY / SOFA New York / Dust, Universe and the Queen, gallery Iida, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 "Paradise regained", MÄRZ project space, Tallinn | "Paradise regained", MÄRZ project space, Tallinn | Paradise regained, Historische Baumaterialen, Munich | Paradise regained, gallery Platina, Stockholm | Pairidaeza, gallery AV17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 Nightfly, Wheat rye mill of Rotermann, Tallinn, Estonia | My Kingdom, Tallinn Art Hall gallery, Estonia
2013 My Kingdom, The Foundry, Munich, Gemany | Personal Mythologies (with Jorge Manilla), Galería Valeria Florescano, Mexico City | Naturesque, SODA, Istanbul
2014 Naturesque, Pont&Plas, Ghent

Group exhibitions:
1994 group exhibition, Mustpeade Maja gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 Forever Together, Tammsaare Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1997 Millenium II*, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 Subjects III Narratives*, Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki, Finland | Memento mori, Wuppertal, Germany
1999 Ornament as a crime*, Swedish-Estonian jewellery project, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden | Ferromenal, Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | Ferromenal 2, Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia | Tehnika ja traditsioon, Applied Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia | Memento mori, Kassel, Germany | Memento mori, Birmingham, England | Ars Ornata Europeana VI, Barcelona, Spain | Keha + Kate, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia | Fashion 2000, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia | Shamanism. Jewellery? Beurs von Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Spatial Palace*, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Augenlust*, Erfurt, Germany
2000 Barclay Art+Party, slide installations “Twins” and “Dance”, Tallinn and Riga, Estonia and Latvia | Ugriculture, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo, Finland | Memento mori, Berliner Dom, Germany | Fabergé Arts Foundation, St.Petersburg, Russia
2001 Close and Distant*, Riga, Latvia | õhuLoss*, Rakvere Museum, Estonia | castillo en el aire*, Barcelona Textile Museum, Spain | Mazzanon aika*, Helsinki Art Hall, Finland | Estnisk Konst, Galleri Tersaeus, Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden | LuftSchloss*, Raum für Schmuck, Cologne, Germany | NOCTURNUS*, Pädaste Manor, Muhu Island, Estonia | LuftKastell*, Galerie Metal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 Spatial Palace*, Galeria Uno, Lisbon, Portugal | L´ornament est-il toujours un crime?*, Geneva, Switzerland | Fabergé Arts Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia | Enampakkumine*, Applied Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2003 Estonian Art, Budapest, Hungary | Notes, 3-dimensional Estonian Art, Szentendre Art Mill, Hungary | The Link of The Body, 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery, Nîmes, France | (Un)dressed. Body in the Baltic Photo Art, Berlin, Germany 
2004 Laegas, Applied Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia | Lend, Bruxelles, Belgium | Estonian Jewellery, Beijing Arts & Crafts Museum, China
2005 Schmuck 2005*, Munich, Germany | 2. European Triennial of Contemporary Jewellery*, Museum of Silversmithing, Castle of Seneffe, Belgium | Closer*, Museu Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal 1 Rare Leid, Royal Academy of Arts, Edinburgh, Scotland | Spiritello, A-galerii, Tallinn, Estonia | CHROMA Jewellery from Six European Schools*, Le Arti Orafe, Florence, Italy
2006 CHROMA Jewellery from Six European Schools*, HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia | Schmuck 2006*, Chamber of Trade and Craft, Munich, Germany | Schmuck 2006*, Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York, U.S.A. | KORU 2*, International Contemporary Jewellery, South-Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland | Two Close Ones*, Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn | LuftShloss*, Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
2007 Skin Case*, Pedras e Pessegos, Porto | Masters of Arts, TAIK, Helsinki | Bijou contemporain. Regard sur l´Estonie* (with Kadri Mälk and Piret Hirv) Espace Solidor, France | Baltic Way, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff | 2nd skin Cork Jewellery*, Biblioteca de Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal | 2nd skin Cork Jewellery*, Villa Bengel, Germany | 2nd skin Cork Jewellery*, Galleria JOHAN, Helsinki | Jewellery (with Kadri Mälk and Piret Hirv), Gallery Biró, Germany | Lucca Preziosa 2007*, Villa Bottini, Italy | Lucca Preziosa 2007*, Barcelona, Museo Textil y de la Indumentaria, Barcelona
2008 2nd skin Cork Jewellery*, Museum of Applied Arts and Design of Estonia / Galerie Ra Amsterdam / Artesania Catalunya Gallery | Bijou Contemporain, Space Solidor , Ville de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France |  Lucca Preziosa*, Inhorgenta Munich Germany / Villa Bottini Lucca, Italy | Siamo Qui -We are here, Le Pagliere di Porta Romana, Florence | Just Must *, Suurgildi hoone, Tallinn, Estonia | Holiday Earring Show, Gallery Ornamentum, Seattle, USA
2009 2nd skin Cork Jewellery*, ESAD Art and Design Academy, Matosinhos, Portugal | SOFA, New York, USA | Flower flirt, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn | Gift*, Tallinn City Museum, Estonia | Loodus on ehe, ehe on ehe, The Museum of Geology of the University of Tartu, Estonia | Near and Far*, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki | Lingam*, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden / Lingam Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht, Holland
2010 Schmuck 2010, Munich | Estonian jewellery art in Munich, Spatial Palace, Munich | Letters to Padua, Marijke Studio, Padua, Italy | SpatialPalace, EXPO, Shanghai, China | Lingam*, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden / Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht, Holland / World Crafts Council, Belgium | ÖÖ: Was it a dream?, London Desing Week, Great Britain| spatialPalace*, Lübeck, Germany | Auf Vorradt, FABRIK Creative Project Space, Taiwan, China / Silke & the Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium | LightEST, gallery Vandeplas, Brugge, Belgium
2011 Nordic Look, popup gallery, Matkamaja, Tallinn | PHOTOSYNTHESE, Kunst.wirt.schaft gallery, Graz, Austria | SODAmore Summer, gallery SODA, Istanbul | Hart und Zart, Gallery Biro`, Münich | Border city. Tallinn-Lisbon*, Art Hall gallery and Town gallery, Tallinn | Cominelli award*, Palazzo Cominelli, Brescia, Italy | Kitsch between art and ornament*, Galleria La Ruota, Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy / Studio GR•20, Padua, Italy | BKV-Preis 2011, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein e.V, Munich, Germany | Auf Vorradt, Museum voor moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland | Ontketend (Jewellery Unleashed!)*, Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem, Holland | Castle in the Air*, gallery Some/things, Paris | Dreamscapes, gallery AV17, Vilnius, Lithuania | The Face of History*, Estonian History Museum, Tallinn
2012 BKV-Preis 2011, IHM Munich, Germany | Schmuck 2012*, Munich, Germany / Museum of Modern Art and Illustration in Valencia | Rituals: Estonian jewellery, gallery of Shenkar college, Tel Aviv | Border city*. Instituto Camões, Lisbon | International Jewellery Art - based on readymades, Telemark Art Center, Skien, Norway | Estonian Design. Then and Now, Pasaati gallery, Kotka, Finland | Ontketend (Jewellery Unleashed!)*, Museum Bellerive, Switzerland | Covet, SOFA New York / Sienna gallery, USA | Triennale du Bijoux Contemporain*, Mons, Belgium | Mazzano!, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia | ARTIFICIEL*, Noël Guyomarc'h gallery, Montréal, Canada | The Tree, Handwerkskammer Munich, Germany | LahtiJewelry, all around the town, Lahti, Finland | The Beauty Chase, Lille, France | Pensieri Preziosi 8*, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy
2013 From the Coolest Corner*, Museum of Decorative Arts, Oslo, Norway | Monochrome Noir, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA | Jewellery for Gods, Antikensammlung, Munich | LahtiJewelry, 84 GHz, Munich, Germany | Naturalienkabinette, Paleontology Museum, Munich, Germany | Words and Works from a World Away, Project Space, Melbourne, Austraalia | LuftShloss, Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany | Inspiration Lab, Inhorgenta Munich, Germany*

* exhibitions with cataloque

Lectures at international conferences:
2004 Jewellery and Fashion, jewellery art seminar Laegas, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn
2005 6 Clouds: the presentation of the Young Jewellery of Estonia (based on the lecture of Kadri Mälk), Royal Academy of Arts, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Escaping into the Jewellery, KORU 2, Lappeenranta, Finland 2006 | Estonian Young Jewellery, British Chamber of Commerce, Tallinn
2007 Jewellery in Estonia (with Kadri Mälk), 2nd skin Cork Jewellery, Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Matosinhos, Portugal | Lucca Prezioca, Barcelona Caixa Forum
2008 7 reasons to love Jewellery, Zimmerhof, Germany
2009 Estonian Young Jewellery, Tartu University, Eesti
2010 Estonian Young Jewellery, FH Trier, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
2011 How to build castles in the air, gallery AV17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 Young Estonian Jewellery (with Kadri Mälk), ARCO, Lisbon, Portugal | Young Estonian Jewellery, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Where is home of the Soul? From the Coolest Corner seminar, Oslo, Norway | Twilight jewellery, Otro Diseño Foundation and Travelling Workshop, Mexico City / San Louis Potosi / Guadalajara, Mexico | KAAMOS – darker side of Estonian fashion, CUMULUS conference, Dublin, Irland | Personal mythologies, Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Messages from North, Sint Lucas, Antwerpen

Giving workshops:
2012 Imaginary landscapes (with Piret Hirv), , Shenkar college, Tel Aviv, Israel | Contexting jewellery, South Carelia Polytechnic, Finland
2013 FaceBack (with Jorge Manilla), Otro Diseño Foundation and Travelling Workshop, Mexico City / San Louis Potosi / Guadalajara, Mexico

Membership:
Estonian Artists´ Association

Tanel Veenre is working since 2005 as a teacher in Estonian Academy of Arts. Since 2013 as professor in Department of Design.

Tanel Veenres designworks have been exposed in most of estonian newspapers (Postimees, Eesti Ekspress, Päevaleht, Sirp, SlÕhtuleht, Äripäev etc), magazines (Vikerkaar, Kunst.ee, Stiil, Anne, Trend, Diivan, Avenüü etc) and in foreign press (Zoo (Germany), L`Officiel (Russia), MFF Magazine for Fashion (Italy), Stern (Germany), Arte Yjoya (Spain), Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), Parnass (Austria) etc)

Jewellery in books and cataloques
1997 Millenium II, Tallinn, ISBN 9985-60-336-4
1998 Memento Mori, Köln, ISBN 3 00 003353 X | Narratives, Helsinki, IBSN 952-9878-11-7
1999 Ornament as a crime, Tallinn, ISBN 9985-60-598-5 | Metall, Tallinn, ISBN 9985-60-564-0 | Galerie Marzee, Marzee | Augenlust, Erfurt ISBN 3-9805434-2-0
2000 Ugriculture 2000, Helsinki, ISBN 952-9739-12-5 | The Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery, CD-Rom, Birmingham, ISBN 0 90435423
2001 Nocturnus, Tallinn, ISBN 9985 78 413 8
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Mazzanon aika/Il tempo di Mazzano, Helsinki, ISBN 951-97509-4-0
2002 Closing the Distance, Poland
2003 õhuLoss, Tallinn, ISBN 9985-94-653-7
2005 Metall 2, Tallinn, ISBN 9985-9555-1-1-x | Triennale Europee`nne du Bijou Contemporain, IBSN D/2005/6269/4 | Closer, Lissabon, ISBN 972-776-283-2 | Schmuck 2005, Münhen
2006 Kaks lähedast, Tallinn, ISBN 9949-13-486-2 | Schmuck 2006, Münhen | Chroma/Monochroma, Tallinn, ISBN 978-9985-9803-0-9 | KORU 2, Lappenranta, ISBN 952-5155-87-0
2007 Regard sur l’Estonie, Ville de Cagnes-sur-Mer | 2nd skin Cork Jewellery, Porto, ISBN 978-972-98303-3-4 | Timelines, Firenze, ISBN 9 771132 674568
2009 Just Must, Tallinn, ISBN 9783897902961
2009 "Ehe. Kahtlused kunsti kujul / Jewel. Hesitations in art“
2010 Schmuck 2010, München | Dust, universe & queen, Tallinn | Lingam: Fertility Now, Amsterdam, ISBN 3897903253 | Letters to Padua, Estonian Academy of Arts, 2010 | Schmuck 2010, München
2011 Border city. Tallinn-Lisbon, Tallinn, ISBN 9789949917303 | Premio per il gioiello contemporaneo Fondazione Cominelli, Italy | Kitsch tra arte e ornamento 2000-2011, Italy | Ontketend (Jewellery Unleashed!), Stuttgart, ISBN : 978-3-89790-349-4 | Castle in the Air, Tallinn/Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-89790-359-3 | Contemporary Jewelry Art Innovative Materials, London CYPI Press, ISBN 978-1-908175-04-5
2012 Jewellery in Finland, Helsinki, ISBN 9789529878789 | Selected art from gallery AV17, Vilnius | Schmuck 2012, München | European Prize for Applied Arts, Mons, ISBN 978-2-87536-011-3 | Pensieri Preziosi 8, Padua | Jewel Book -International Annual of Contemporary Jewel Art ISBN 978-90-5856-410-8 | From the Coolest Corner*, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-89790-373-9