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Andrus Joonas

Birthday:	12.05.1970
Education:	2000 Academia Grata, College of Estonian Academy of Arts
Solo Exhibitions:	1995 Gallery Graniit, Pärnu, Estonia 1998 “The Endless Simplicity of Being”, Obu Gallery, Tartu, Estonia “The Beautiful Town”, Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2000 “Aledoia”, Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia “Lycantropy”, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia “Paintings”, Pärnu Museum of New Art, Estonia Road exhibitions on the 8th km of the Pärnu-Tõstamaa road 1995 “Summer in the Countryside” 1996 “Abstract” 1997 “Long Story” 1998 “Romantics” 1999 “Jesus Christ and Midsummer Night Fire” 2000 “Feria or Wonderland” Since 2000, November and ongoing, duration performance Life without CV, the artist has ceased using the artist´s CV as an evidence for being an artist.
Selected group exhibitions:	1997 “Speed”, Tallinn-Tartu highway, participant and the author of the idea, Estonia Road exhibition on Paide-Türi road, Estonia “All Together Much & Now”, Estonian Art Museum Rottermann exhibition hall, Tallinn, Estonia 1998 “EKG”, Estonian Art Museum Rottermann exhibition hall, Tallinn, Estonia “Territory”, Viru Street, Tallinn, Estonia “Artist Kills the Beast”, Chaplin Art Center, Pärnu, Estonia “Time. Space. Movement”, performance “Longing and Dance”, Paide, Estonia “The Endless Simplicity of Being “. Performance about manipulations with mass media and provocation of art censorship. Pärnu In Graafika Estonia Road exhibition “Speed II”, Estonia “Nice Story”, Art Summer, Kuressaare, Estonia “Painter, the Holy Storyteller”, Annual exhibition of Estonian Painters Union, Estonian Art Museum Rottermann exhibition hall, Tallinn, Estonia “Artist Kills the Beast”, Kullo Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia “Backdoor Media”, Estonian Art Museum Rottermann exhibition hall, Tallinn, Estonia Performance “Longing and Dance”, Valga, Estonia 1999 “The Syndrome of Millennium”, Paide, Pärnu, Estonia Nongrata performances, poster action “The Way”, Helsinki, Finland Video festival “Archeology in the Self”, Sofia, Bulgaria “Fashion Zone”, Viru Street, Tallinn, Estonia “Longing and Dance 2”, festival Time.Space. Movement, Paide, Estonia “Flow”, Art Summer, Pärnu, Estonia Performance “Don’t Look at Me”, Haapsalu, Estonia “Where Is Your Innocence”, Pootsi Limestone Days, Estonia “Erotica”, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia Poster action “A Dream”, Tallinn, Estonia 2000 Nongrata exhibition “Selection”, curator and participant, Haapsalu Town Gallery, Estonia “The Last Exhibition”, Pärnu, Estonia International Pärnu Fideo and Vilm Festival, Estonia Performance “The Territory of Yellow Wolfman”, Time. Space. Movement, Paide, Estonia “Naturalism”, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia Exhibition of Estonian art, Narva, Estonia “Man and Woman”, Pärnu Museum of New Art, Estonia “10 Paar”, Estonian-Flemish exhibition, Kuresaare, Estonia and Kuurne, Belgium Nongrata exhibition “Kree”, participant and curator, Riga Academy of Art, Latvia
Organisations:	Estonian Artists’ Association
Awards:	Yearly Award by Pärnu Cultural Endowment Art Award of Pärnu City, Estonia
Works in collections:	Art Museum of Estonia, Museum of New Art (Pärnu, Estonia), Pedvale Museum (Latvia) and private collections in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania.
Description:	Andrus Joonas or The Answer is Aledoia Andrus Joonas (12.05.1970) is a performance and installation artist and painter, and also a curator. He started his career as a painter with powerful roadside exhibitions (1995-2006), displaying gigantic monumental paintings on the Pärnu-Tõstamaa highway. He has graduated from the Academia Grata, a college formed by the Pärnu Sütevaka Department of Art and the Estonian Academy of Arts, and has been a lecturer in both Academia Grata and Academia Non Grata. Joonas has also been a member of the performance art group Non Grata (1998-2007). In 2000 he executed a conceptual act by ceasing to present his CV in order to prove that he is an artist. Aledoia is a word from the artist’s own mythology that initially stood for a series of flower paintings, but later extended to the whole body of art. Joonas is definitely one of the Estonian artists who most powerfully cultivate the mystical and romantic myth of an artist. His life includes epiphanous moments of inspiration, tumultuous decisions, works burned in fits of depression, and pictures painted from visions. His tender and obscene performances have brought fourth both great admiration and also scandals that end in court cases. His short summary of his creative process is: break the illusionary reality and follow your inspiration, it is the only chance to find ourselves inside this illusion; losing one’s way from time to time is an inevitable part of the journey. Joonas’s artistic language has evolved into extreme idiosyncrasy and makes it difficult to place him in formal canons due to the lack of direct role models in his creative path. This has not bothered him – for Joonas, that is a natural process. His creative travels can be described as contemporary mysticism – especially in the light of developments in recent years – where the synthesis of irony and different types of art and cultures provides a strong energetic boost; where the extremely expressive, often excessive diversity is glued together by the artist who does not need mediators between himself and cosmos. He has entered the art world as an outsider and an independent thinker and has also asserted himself as such, walking a totally idiosyncratic path like an icebreaker on a frozen sea, carving completely new routes. He has performed in many European countries, the U.S. and Russia. Works by Joonas in collections: Kumu, Tartu Art Museum, the Museum of New Art in Pärnu, the City of Pärnu, and in many private collections in Estonia and Europe. Compiled on the basis of articles printed in press by: Chatlyn Ljuboverova cultural historian
Homepage:	http://www.andrusjoonas.pri.ee

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