CV — Sandra Jõgeva

Sandra Jõgeva 1976

Education

2009 University of Tartu, Faculty of Education, teacher training course
2002 Estonian Academy of Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, MA
2000 Estonian Academy of Arts, Painting, BA
1995–1996 Estonian Institute of Humanities

Memberships

2004 Estonian Artists’ Association
2001 Estonian Authors’ Society

Art groups

2001–2006 Avangard (Sandra Jõgeva, Margus Tamm)
2003–2006 Pink Punk (Sandra Jõgeva, Kristin Kalamees, Margus Tamm)
2006–2007 Pink Punk (Sandra Jõgeva, Kristin Kalamees, Aino Ingrid Sepp, Kaarel Sammet)
2009– Kunstikonteiner / Art Container (Tanel Saar, Erik Alalooga, Sandra Jõgeva, Mai Sööt, Janno Bergmann, Kilian Ochs (Germany) et al.)
2019– Kolm Punkti / Three Dots (Sandra Jõgeva, Teet Raudsepp, Rodrig Kokla)

Documentary films

Documentaries in production:
“The Spirit of Ando Keskküla”, in production
“He Flies Toward the Beehive” (portrait film of art classic Raul Meel), in development
“Kaspar Jassa” (portrait film of the writer of the same name), in development

2024 “Art and the Cold War”, Maagiline Masin (director, screenwriter)
2022 “The Secret of Mare Tralla”, Maagiline Masin (director, screenwriter)
2017 Love…, Laterna (director, screenwriter)

Works in museums

Kumu
Tartu Art Museum
Pärnu Museum

Awards

2018 EFTA, Documentary of the Year, “Love…”
2018 Cultural Endowment of Estonia annual award for the documentary “Love…”
2018 Doki Kild, peer award of the Estonian Documentary Guild, for “Love…”
2017 Zoja Kosmodemyanskaya Award, private initiative
2009 Betti Alver Debut Prize for the short-story collection Draamapunkt
2004 Cultural Endowment of Estonia Visual and Applied Arts Endowment Prize (together with Margus Tamm, for the activities of the Avangard group)

Residencies

2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Grace Space Gallery residency, Brooklyn, New York
2005 Break the ICE, international collaborative project with a residency in Iceland

Solo exhibitions

2026 “Do You Know What Happened to Hanif Kureishi?”, Mikrogalerii opening exhibition, Tartu
2026 “Big Blue”, Writers’ House, Tallinn
2026 “Servant of the People”, Metropol Gallery, Tallinn
2025 “Pied-à-terre”, Lai tn 36 studio, Tallinn
2023 “Road to the Lost City” creative residency satellite gallery opening exhibition, Tallinn
2023 “Paintings 1997–2004”, Haki Gallery, Tartu
2022 “Twenty Years Later”, Jüri Culture Centre, Jüri
2020 “Twenty Years Later”, Fahle Gallery
2017 “Softcore”, Avangard Gallery, Pärnu
2016 A Matter of Faith, Voronja Gallery, Varnja village
2014 Another Me, Luunja Culture House
2014 Untitled, Tam Gallery, Tallinn
2012 Collected Territorial Wars, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn
2012 The Walls Have Ears. Metropol Gallery, Tallinn
2011 Contact Improvisation. Pärnu Artists’ House, Pärnu
2010 Amendment. Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
2009 Human Touch. Divine Touch. Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York
2008 Draamapunkt. NG Kunstikonteiner, Polymer Culture Factory, Tallinn
2008 The Ranks (with Kaarel Sammet), Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2007 Ars Longa. Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn
2007 The Third Eye (Pink Punk). Ville Karel Ghetto Space, Pärnu
2007 Pink Punk is dead! (Pink Punk). Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
2006 Black Market. Y-Gallery, Tartu
2006 Leave like a Lady (with Kristin Kalamees), Draakon Gallery basement hall, Tallinn
2006 Guestbook of the Heart, Estonian Academy of Arts Gallery
2005 Bomb (Avangard). Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2003 Up and Down (Avangard). Kuku Club, Tallinn
2002 Smells like Teen Spirit. Rakvere Museum, Rakvere
2002 Avangard Presents: Classics (Avangard). Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn
1998 Animaalia. Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn

Curatorial projects

2025 Malle Leis 85. Memories from Travels, Vernissage Gallery
2016 Andy Warhol: Life After the Soup Can. Film, video art and installations 1963–1987, curated exhibition with Marian Kivila; Pärnu Museum
2012 Dinner for Five, international performance event, Luunja Culture House, Tartu County
2010 New Age, international curated exhibition, Pärnu Artists’ House, Pärnu
2009 New Age, international curated exhibition, Y-Gallery, Eclectica festival, Tartu
2009 Loomakari/Animal Collective, international curated exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2009 Fair Trade (drawing exhibition curated with Krista Sokolova). IN Graphic Arts Festival, Pärnu

Group exhibitions, festivals, fairs (selection)

2026 “Ebbs and Flows. Art and Sport in Dialogue”, curator Eneli Valge, ArtDepoo, Tallinn
2024 “KOOS|KÕLA”, curator Mareli Reinhold, Pärnu Museum
2022 “Art in the Comfort Zone? The Estonian 2000s”, curator Eha Komissarov, Kumu
2022 “Woman & Woman”, curator Marian Grau, Pärnu City Gallery
2020 “Pärnu Fotofest”, curator Marian Grau, Pärnu Central Library
2019 “Woman & Woman”, curator Marian Grau, Pärnu City Gallery
2018 13th Baltic Triennial, curator Vincent Honoré, kim?, Riga
2016 Idealists, curator Karin Paulus, Tallinn Art Hall
2015 From Explosion to Plateau, Tartu Art Museum (Avangard)
2014 Art Container, retrospective exhibition, Pärnu City Gallery
2012 Dimanche Rouge, Polymer Culture Factory, Tallinn
2012 ESTOMANIA. Curator: Johanna Sipilä. Galleri Bergman, Helsinki
2012 CREATurE, Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 Global Container XXIV, Totaldobze, Riga
2012 Supermarket Art Fair 2012 (with Art Container). Stockholm
2012 Mother and Daughter. Curator: Reet Varblane. Tartu Artists’ House, Tartu
2011 Global Container XVII. Not Quite Culture Centre, Fengersfors (Sweden)
2011 Honor thy Father and thy Mother. XVI Mänttä Art Festival, curator Otso Kantokorpi, Mänttä (Finland)
2011 Family. Curators: Anna-Stina Treumund and Jaanus Samma. Project room März, Tallinn
2010 Provocations and Confrontations. A Look into Estonian Art. Curator Eha Komissarov, Szczecin National Museum contemporary art branch, Szczecin (Poland)
2010 Brisbane Festival, Australia

Performances (selection)

2022 “Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime”, with Teet Raudsepp, Von Krahl
2021 “The Struggle for Resources”, … (Kolm Punkti), Haihahtus, Finland
2020 “Twenty-Two – The Last Taxi”, ArtDepoo Gallery
2019 “The Chauvinist’s Birthday”, group … (Kolm Punkti/Three Dots), New World Spectacle festival, Tampere, Finland
2018 “Tit Show”, 13th Baltic Triennial, kim?, Riga
2017 “EV 100: Greek Edition”, Prelude, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre
2016 Klatsch: Part II, performance. Kuku Club, Tallinn Art Week
2016 Artists during the Post-Capitalist Era: Invincible Business Plans, performance. Conference “Art in the Digital Capitalist Age”, Kultuurikatel

Books

2021 “One Day in Year 0”, Rahva Raamat
2018 “Public and Private Notes”, Koobakene
2008 “Draamapunkt”, Võluri tagasitulek

Other:

2026– “Välja sõit / Fieldnotes”, YouTube channel on art
2025– “Pied-à-terre”, project on OnlyFans
2023 Founding of the Molini di Triora creative grant (with Henrik Jõgeva and Triinu Keskpaik)
2023 Founding of the “Road to the Lost City” creative residency satellite gallery in Tallinn’s Old Town
2023 Founding of the “Road to the Lost City” creative residency in the village of Molini di Triora, Imperia Province, Liguria, Northern Italy (with Henrik Jõgeva and Triinu Keskpaik)
2021 “My Adventures in the Estonian Social System”, video project on YouTube with Teet Raudsepp (supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia)
2020 Founding of the Malle Leis Prize with Henrik Jõgeva
2018 Labour market web broadcasts (host and editor), CV.ee portal
2014 Culture programme editor, art programme host and editor, Kanal 8
2010–2012 Art programme Kultuuritehas (host and editor), Tallinn TV
2007–2014 Co-curator and co-organiser of the Culture Factory Festival and event series Global Container’s workshop programme, Kultuuritehas Polymer
1998– Contributions to media outlets (Eesti Ekspress, Delfi, Eesti Päevaleht, Postimees, Sirp, Kunst.ee, Teater Muusika Kino, etc.)