Rein Kelpman

1960

Rein Kelpman (b. 1960) is a self-taught painter, having worked as an artist at an advertising agency right after graduating high school (1979–1987). Kelpman’s artworks were first exhibited in 1986 at Tallinn Art Hall gallery. He became a member of Estonian Artists’ Association the same year. Kelpman won Estonian Culture Fund’s annual award in 1993 and Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s annual award in 1995. The artist’s cubist paintings easily recognizable by their soft lines are dream-like, enigmatic and always seem to be telling a story.

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1986	member of the Estonian Artists' Association
	Performed at exhibitions since 1981

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

1986	Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone
1988	A.H.Tammsaare House Museum, Tallinn

1989	Köpenicker Bank, Berlin
1990	Estonian Art Fund Gallery, Helsinki

1991	Oulu City Youth and Culture Centre, Finland
1992	Volleby Institute, Vastera, Sweden

	Tidö Count Castle, Sweden
	The Estonian House, Stockholm

	Gallery G, Tallinn
1993	Gallery Luum, Tallinn

1994	Hannelore Greve Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1995	Tuglas-Seura, Helsinki

	Tartu Art Museum
	Gallery Sebra, Tartu

	The German Culture Institute, Tallinn
	Gallery Vaal, Tallinn

	The Chaplin Centre, Pärnu
1998	Gallery Hassel, Stuttgart, Germany

1999	The Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn
2000	Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone

	The Estonian embassy in Latvia, Riga
2001	Eesti Ühispank gallery, Tallinn

	The Kivisilla Gallery, Tartu
2002	The Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn

	The Haus Gallery, Tallinn
	Gallery of the Castellan House, Tallinn
2006	Am Kastell, Unterrabnitz, Burgenland, Austria
	Siebensterngalerie, Wien, Austria
2007	ArtDepoo gallery, Tallinn
2008	Art Hall Gallery (with Jüri Ojaver), Tallinn
	Võru City Gallery, Estonia
	TAM Gallery, Tallinn
2010	Gallery Vaal, Tallinn
2011	Haus Gallery, Tallinn

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1986	Youth Triennal of the Baltic States, Vilnius
1987	Man and environment, Kotka, Finland

1988	Ars Estonica 88 - exhibition of the Estonian artists in the Tampere Modern Art Museumis
	Exhibition of the young Estonian artists, Kaasan, Russia

1989	Group exhibition of graphic artists, Espoo (with A.Tali, A.Juurak and A.Ermeliga)
	Gallery of the Tapiola Centre of Culture, Helsinki

1991	Coonemans Institute, Brussels
	H.W.K. Gallery, Kassel, Germany

	Gallery of the Estonian Art Fund, Helsinki (with J.Arrakuga)
1992	Exhibition of the Estonian art, Le Treport, France

	Volleby Institute, Vastera, Sweden
1993	Exhibition of the Estonian art, Hannover, Germany

	Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
1994	Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany

	Sollentuna Art Fair, Stockholm
1995	Art Cologne, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany

	“5 painters”, the Tallinn Kunstihoone
2000	“The Estonian painting at the turn of the millennium”, Berlin

2001	“The Estonian painting in the XX century”, Paris
2008	SixEstonian artists, Eisenstadt, Austria

PRIZES:

1984	Annual prize of the youth assembly of the Estonian Artists' Association
1989	Annual prize of Tallinn city design for supergraphics

1991	Special prize of the III Baltic Young Artists' Triennal, Vilnius
1993	Annual prize of the Estonian Cultural Fund

1995	Annual prize of the Cultural Capital
2010	Annual prize of journal „Akadeemia“

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:

The Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinn Kunstihoone,
the Lithuanian Art Museum, the Puškin Museum, St. Petersburg; private
collections in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France,
Belgium, Denmark, USA.