Photo Rene Suurkaev
CONTACT:
nils.hint@gmail.com
+372 53 822 650
Education:
2011–2013 Estonian Academy of Arts (blacksmithing, MA)
2006–2010 Estonian Academy of Arts (blacksmithing, BA)
2009 Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Porto, Portugal)
2005–2006 Vana-Vigala Technic School (blacksmithing)
Membership:
2013 International Sculpture Center http://www.sculpture.org/
2012 Estonian Artists’ Association http://www.eaa.ee/
2010 OTSE! creative group http://www.otse.eu/
exhibitions:
2020 Nils Hint “Fragments from the conversations we never had”, Hop Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 Nils Hint, “Nowhere”, Brooklyn Metal Works Gallery, NY, USA
2017 Nils Hint, Peter Bauhuis, Florian Weichsberger, ATTA Gallery , Bangkok, Thailand
2017 Nils Hint, Kaspar Aus "SULA", Tallinn väike train depot, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 Nils Hint, "Gatherer is a King", Gallery RA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Nils Hint, "BEAT", Gallery Four, Gothenburg, Sweden
2015 Nils Hint, "KÜTE/HEAT", Hop Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Nils Hint, Sophie Hanagarth, Rebekah Frank, Gallery RA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 OTSE!+A5 (Annika Pettersson, Romina Fuentes, and Adam Grinovich), ”Corpus Container III”, Gallery Parallell, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 OTSE!+A5 (Annika Pettersson, Romina Fuentes, and Adam Grinovich), ”Corpus Container II”, Lloyd Hotell, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2012 OTSE!+A5 (Annika Pettersson, Romina Fuentes, and Adam Grinovich), ”Corpus Container I”, Hop Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 OTSE! „Personal Devil“, Gallery AV17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 OTSE! „Concrete Age“, A-Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 OTSE! „Unroom“, Project Space MÄRZ, Tallinn, Estonia
Group exhibitions:
2022 “Précieux” Berlin, Germany
2022 “Extended Family” Munich, Germany
2021 “Sharing is Caring II”, Ferrous22 Festival, Hereford, UK
2021 “KORU” main exhibition, South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
2020 “Sharing is Caring” Orangerie, englisher garten, Muninc, Germany
2020 SHMUCK 2020 official selection, Munich trade fair, Germany
2020 “Extraordinaire” MUDAC museum of contemporary desing and applied arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 “Appetites and objects”, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, US
2019 Scale “Animate”, Gallery “Not Quite”, Sweden
2019 “Fogspeak”, Gallery PUTTI, Riga, Latvia
2018 “21 Gram”, Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial, China
2018 “Next to the Skin”, BF Gallery, city of Mons, Belgium
2018 “Tuba”, EDTM (Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design) Tallinn, Estonia
2017 "Forge", Ruthin craft center, Ruthin, UK
2016 "Ra Now", Gallery Ra, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 "CULT", Stedeljik Museum ’s-hertogenbosch, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 "20/20" , Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Bradford, UK
2016 "KaФedra" , Narva kunstiresidentuur, Narva, Estonia
2016 "The Cutlery Show", Gallery Valerie Traan in the context of Milano Design Week, Milano, Spain
2016 "Imprint", Gallery easy!upstream, Munich, Germany
2016 "Estonishing" Gallery Thomas Cohn, Munich, Germany
2015 "Tool, jewelery, weapon" 8th Annual Deleuze Studies conference – Daughters of Chaos, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 "Protsess", Nils Hint/Urve Küttner, Tallinna Linnagalerii, Estonia
2015 "Schmuck 2015" 67. Internationalen Handwerksmesse München, Germany
2014 "METALLO phone: personally", Gallery AV17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 "Ferromenaalne", Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia
2014 "A-∞ Sõnadeta lingvistika", A Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 „TUNGraud“, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 „TUNGraud“, Tartu Kunstimuuseumi Kunstikabinett, Tartu, Estonia
2013 „Words and Works from World a Way“, Project space Spare Room, Melbourne, Australia
2013 „TASE ’13“, The Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 „Revolt“, Legnica International Jewellery Competition, Legnica, Poland
2013 ”Our Time”, Pilestræde 42, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 ”Art Jewellery from the Coolest Nordic master students“, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway
2012 „Back in Black“, Marijke Studio, Padua, Italy
2012 „Ritual“, Shenkar Collage Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 ”Art of Collecting”, The 6th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Estonian Applied Art and Design Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 „Dreamscape“, Gallery AV17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 „UltraMarine“, Noblessner Foundry, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 ”Hart und Zart“, Gallery Biro, München, Germany
2010“Ferri Canes”, Institutum Mauritanum, Tallinn, Estonia
Events:
2015 Steinbeisser experimental gastronomy, Nobelhart & Schmutzig, Berlin, Germany http://www.steinbeisser.org/
2014 Steinbeisser experimental gastronomy, Lindenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
2013 Steinbeisser experimental gastronomy, Lloyd Hotell, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Artist in Residence:
2013 Art st. Urban, residence program by Gertrud and Heinz Aechlimann, Luzern, Switzerland http://www.art-st-urban.com/
Teaching:
2019 workshop together with Urmas Lüüs in HDK Steneby, Sweden
2018 workshop “BLACKSHOPWORKSMITH” in Oslo National Academy of Arts, Norway
2018 workshop “Fundamental Forging” in Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA
2017 workshop in Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, Japan
2015 workshop in HDK Steneby, Sweden
2014-Associate Professor in Blacksmithing, Jewellery- and blacksmithing department, Estonian Academy of Arts http://www.artun.ee/
2012-2014 Blacksmithing teacher in Kopli Vocational school of Tallinn
Grants, prizes and contests:
2016 Kristjan Raua nimeline kunstipreemia
2014 Grant for creative work from Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2013 Estonian Ministry of Culture, culture-friendly enterpriser gift object, competition winner
2012 SA “Noor Ehe” special prize at The 6th Tallinn International Applied Art Triennial
2012 Bocuse d’or 2013, ceremonial dishes design, competition winner
2010 Contest for the design of the ring of Estonian Academy of Arts (contsest winner with Rainer Kaasik–Aaslav)
Works in collections:
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia http://www.etdm.ee/
Art St. Urban art center, St. Urban, Switzerland
Gallery of Art in Legnica, International Collection of Contemporary Jewellery
The Fund of Student Works of the Chair of Jewellery and Blacksmithing of Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Private collections
Publications, exhibition designes and curate:
2016 Exhibiton "KaФedra", part of the design team, Narva kunstiresidentuur, Narva, Estonia
2014 Exhibition "Ferromenaalne" design, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia
2014 Exhibition „TUNGraud“ curating and design, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
2013 Publication „Rauast/On Iron“. assisting the editor Kadri Mälk
2013 Exhibition „TUNGraud“ curating and design together with Rait Siska ja Risto Tali
2011 Exhibition „Eheteoor“ design together with OTSE!
2010 (e)stonians (compiling, layout)
In media and publications:
Studio Visits with Schmuck 2015 artists, Current Obsession Paper, 2015
Rauast, ausalt, Tanel Veenre, Eesti Päevaleht, 18.09.2013
http://epl.delfi.ee/news/kultuur/rauast-ausalt.d?id=66752319
Multi Pronged-Cutlery, 2013
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/utensil-design
Food will be challanged! 2013
http://www.architectureoflife.net/en/food-will-be-challanged/
Pealelend, Nils Hint, Sirp, 12.09.2013
"Tarbekunst kogub, jagab ja rabab" Tanel Veenre, 5.12.2012 Eesti Päevaleht
http://www.epl.ee/news/melu/tarbekunst-kogub-jagab-ja-rabab.d?id=65360180
"Elus sepakunst". Heili Sõrmus, 22.07.2010. Sirp, http://www.sirp.ee/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10954:elus-sepakunst&catid=6:kunst&Itemid=10&issue=3305
"Viis sepapoissi näitavad raua tulist ilu". Tanel Veenre, 17.06.2010. Eesti Päevaleht, http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/578732
"Raua koerad issanda koerte kojas". Heili Sõrmus, 27.06.2010. Artishok, http://artishok.blogspot.com/2010/06/raua-koerad-issanda-koerte-kojas.html
"Ebatuba ehk mäng reaalsusega". Heili Sõrmus, 30.11.2010. Artishok, http://artishok.blogspot.com/2010/11/ebatuba-ehk-mang-reaalsusega.html
"Ehtekunsti pidusöök". Heili Sõrmus, 10.12.2010. Sirp, http://www.sirp.ee/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11729%3Aehtekunsti-pidusoeoek-&catid=6%3Akunst&Itemid=10&issue=3325
„Neli eri viisi“. Tanel Veenre, 4.06.2011. Eesti Päevaleht,
http://www.epl.ee/news/kultuur/neli-eri-viisi.d?id=51298229
„Meniškas požiūris į finansus“. Violeta Bagdanavičiūtė, 27.02.2012 eVERSUS,
http://versusteritorija.eversus.lt/naujienos/2392
„Pamąstymai apie OTSE“. Eglė Dean, 29.02.2012 Bernardinai,
http://www.bernardinai.lt/straipsnis/-/77918
„Metalo karalystė“. Miglė Morkūnaitė, 2.03.2012 Šiaurės Atėnai,
http://www.satenai.lt/?p=14934
Interview in Klassikaraadio, broadcast Delta 10.04.2012
http://klassikaraadio.err.ee/helid?main_id=1391603
In catalogues and magazines:
"Schmuck 2015" München 2015
"Metall 3" . Tallinn 2015
„Rauast/On Iron“. Tallinn 2013
„Words and Works from World a Way“ Melbourne 2013
„Tase 2013“ Tallinn 2013
„Ritual“ in Tel Aviv 2012: www.artun.ee/virtualritual
„Kunst.ee“ 3/2012 cover and pp 34-37, Tallinn 2012
„(e)stonians“. Tallinn 2011
„UltraMarine“. Tallinn 2011