1991年生まれのエリース・ラウルは、エストニア出身の写真家、写真研究者、アーティストであり、現在は日本に在住し勉強をしています。彼女の芸術活動は、ストリートフォト、陶芸、絵画、詩に焦点を当てています。精神性、神話、人間の記憶に関連するテーマと、現代社会において絡み合う個人と集団の歴史に関心を持って取り組んでいます。ラウルはエストニア芸術アカデミーで写真と現代アートを学び、2019年に学士号、2021年に修士号を取得しました。現在は筑波大学大学院、芸術学博士課程3年生です。
Eliis Laul (b. 1991) is an Estonian photographer, photo researcher and artist currently living and studying in Japan. Her artistic practice focuses on street photography, ceramics, paintings and poetry with an interest to topics related to spirituality, mythology and human memory, but also personal and collective histories that are intertwined in contemporary society. Laul has studied previously photography and contemporary art at the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA 2019, MA 2021) and is currently a third year Ph.D. student in Art, in the University of Tsukuba.
CV
2023 – University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Doctoral Program in Art
2019-2021 Estonian Academy of Arts, Contemporary Art MA
2016-2019 Estonian Academy of Arts, Photography BFA
2010-2015 Tallinn University, Psychology B.SOC.SCI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Paradiis”, Pensee Gallery, Kiryu
2023 “SAMENESS”, Pensee Gallery, Kiryu
2022 “Tokyo Screen”, Art Gallery T+, Tsukuba
2021 “The Skin of the City”, Vent Space, Tallinn
2020 “NIVEA FOTODOSE”, Showcase gallery, Tallinn
2018 “Otherness”, Tallinn Photo Museum, Tallinn
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “The Skin of the City”, Pärnu PhotoFest, Pärnu
2024 The 21st DC Show, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
2024 “Every Day Today”, Research Building D-gallery, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
2024 The 20th DC Show, University of Tsukuba 30th Anniversary Hall, Tsukuba
2023 “Shikohin”, Art Gallery T+, Tsukuba
2023 IMM Open Call Exhibition “It’s Not a Cultural Showcase, but a Window to the Soul”, Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo
2022 “Sumimasen – Japan through the eyes of an Estonian photographer”, Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre, Tallinn
2020 “We all arrived with art”, Zollamt Gallery, Offenbach
2019 “The Glances of Things”, Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu
2019 “Otherness”/ “Art is Popcorn for the Brain”, HBKSaar, Saarbrücken
2018 “All is gone. Everything is recalled”, Pictorico gallery, Tokyo
2018 “Plexus”, ISFAG gallery, Tallinn
2017 “BFO16: First”, Positiiv gallery, Tallinn
NOMINATIONS
2021 Recipient of the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship (Research Student)
2019 “FRESH EYES” (GUP Magazine) 100 new photo artists from Europe
2018 Shortlisted in Riga Photo Biennial and ISSP competition “Seeking the Latest in Photography”
