Kaido Ole (born 23 February 1963) is an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n painter.
Ole was born in
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...
. His great-uncle was artist
Eduard Ole. In 1992, he graduated from
Estonian Academy of Arts
The Estonian Academy of Arts (Estonian: ''Eesti Kunstiakadeemia'', EKA) is the only public university in Estonia providing higher education in art, design, architecture, media, art history and conservation-restoration. It is based in Tallinn.
Ac ...
. He worked as a painting instructor at the Tallinn Art School from 1992 until 1993. From 2003 until 2010, he taught painting at Estonian Academy of Arts. Since 2010 he is a freelance painter.
Since 1989 he has exhibited his works. In 2003 he represented Estonia at 50th
Venice Biennale
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(with
Marko Mäetamm) in the
Estonian pavilion.
Most of his works can be classified as
conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...
.
Awards
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Kristjan Raud Award (1998)
*Sadolin Art Award (1998)
*Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine Arts and Applied Arts (1999)
*Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine Arts and Applied Arts (2005)
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Konrad Mägi Medal (2012)
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Order of the White Star, Class III (2014)
References
External links
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Living people
1963 births
20th-century Estonian painters
20th-century Estonian male artists
Conceptual artists
Estonian Academy of Arts alumni
Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Arts
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class
Artists from Tallinn
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