Jaak Kadarik
photographer
About
Education:
1980 - Life University
1979 - 1980 Tallinn’s 2nd School of Technology (Degree in Photography)
1964 - 1975 Juuru High School (Secondary Education Graduate)
Further Education:
2010 Estonian Folk Culture Centre - Video production, Reportage filming
1987 Tartu Art Museum - Visual Arts Course (Painting, Drawing, Art History)
Career History:
08.2016 - freelancer / free man
04.2002 - 07.2016 FIE Jaak Kadarik - Photographer
11.2012 - 01.2016 Publisher Nädaline OÜ - Photographer
04.2010 - 05.2012 Mahtra Peasantry Museum - Video Specialist
08.1995 - 09.2005 The Baltic Guide - Photographer
12.1986 - 03.1987 Rapla Service Production Company - Photographer
08.1984 - 11.1985 Factory of Commercial Advertisement - Photographer
08.1982 - 06.1984 EKE, Harju Electricity - Photographer
04.1981 - 12.1982 Film Studio Tallinnfilm - Photographer
05.1980 - 05.1981 Tallinn’s 1st High School of Vocation - Photo Lab Technician
Community:
1985 - 1987 Rapla Photoclub
1991 - 1993 Photogroup „Igavesti Sinu“ (Always Yours)
Personal Exhibitions:
1991 „Caprizzio“, Film Studio Tallinnfilm
1992 „Ameerika vanaema“ (The America`s Grandmom ), Museum of Art Photography, Helsinki, Finland
1995 „Ilmutatud fotod“ (The Revelation & Development), Gallery„Lee“, Town Jail Photography Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1997 „Valguse jäljed“ (Signs of Light ), Central Library of Rapla, Estonia
1997 „VALGUSE JÄLJED“ (Signs of Light ), Museum Vallitorni, Paide, Estonia
1998 „Valguse jäljed_(Signs of Light vol 2), „ Inimene Jumalata“ (The Human Without God) , Museum Vallitorni, Paide, Estonia
2000 “Pildid ja tekstid" (Photos & Texts) with the texts of Marko Tiitus, in Mahtra Museum, Estonia
2001 “Pildid ja tekstid" (Photos & Texts) with the texts of Marko Tiitus, in Rapla Church, Estonia
2017 "ILMUTATUD ILMUTUSED" (Developed Revelations), The Gallery of Rapla County Local Government
2017 „Ilmutatud ilmutused vol2“ (Developed Revelations), Library of Märjamaa Parish, Estonia
2017 „LOOKING THROUGH“, "LÄBIVAADE" Culture Center of Järvakandi, Estonia
2017 „BLACK`N WHITE“ , Library of Kohila Parich, Estonia
2017 „PHOTOGRAMS & PHOTOS 1998-2017“, Tohisoo Manor house, Kohila, Estonia
2018 „LOOKING THROUGH“ / "LÄBIVAADE" Gallery Ly , Culture Center of Märjamaa, Estonia
2018 „BLACK & WHITE“ / "MUST & VALGE", The Rapla County Centre of Contemporary Art, Rapla, Estonia
2021 "FROM WALL TO WALL" / "SEINAST SEINA" , painted portraits, Culture Centre of Juuru, Estonia.
2021 "MEETING IN THE ATTIC" / "KOHTUMINE ÄRKLITOAS" , painted portraits, privat gallery Ärklituba in Paide, Estonia
2021 "EYE TO EYE"/ "SILMAST SILMA" , painted portraits, Glass Hall Gallery in Türi Cultural Center, Estonia
2021 "N-SUBSTANCE" / "N-AINE" , acrylic paintings, Rütman Gallery, Rapla, Estonia
2021 "THE BRIGHT SOULS OF THE HOMELAND / OMAKANDI HELGED HINGED", painted portraits, Rapla Central Library
2021 "NUDES & PORTRAITS / AKTID & PORTREED", oil-, acrylic & guashpaintings, Gallery Ly, Culture Centre of Märjamaa, Estonia
2022 "FOTOGRAMMID / PHOTOGRAMS" Glass Hall Gallery in Türi Cultural Center, Estonia
2023 "ILMAVAADE / VIEWPOINT" ,
University of Tartu Library (Wilhelm Struve 1)
1st floor’s open archive / 2nd floor’s conference center.
This exhibition is the most extensive one I have had so far, it includes analog photography, digital photo editing, experimental photography (deviations from classical chemical processing of analog photography, photograms, brush development, painting on photos), gouache, oil, and acrylic paintings, 182 works from 1985-2023.
2023 "VIKATIKONTSERT / CONTCERT FOR SCYTHES"
Photograms, painting, video, installation. Rütman Gallery, Rapla, Estonia.
2023 HELGED HINGED / THE BRIGHT SOULS vol2, painted portraits, Galerii Ärklituba, Paide
2023 HELGED HINGED / THE BRIGHT SOULS vol3, painted portraits, Märjamaa raamatukogu
2023-2024 HELGED HINGED / THE BRIGHT SOULS vol4, painted portraits, Rapla Keskraamatukogu saal.
2024 VANA & UUS / OLD & NEW photos & paintings on the subject of the Old and New Testaments. Märjamaa Library Gallery / Märjamaa raamatukogu galerii.
2024 RIIGIMEHED / STATESMEN painted portraits of Estonian statesmen of the 20th century. Juuru Community Centre.
Collective Exhibitions:
1981-1985 Year exhibitions of Association of Estonian Art Photography
1985-1987 Collective exhibitions of Rapla Photoclub
1989 “Sekaiset Ajat" (Troubled Times), Roam exhibition in Finland
1991 „Always Yours“, Kiek in de Kök, Tallinn, Estonia
1991 „Contemporary Soviet Photography", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
1991 „Photographers Estoniens ", Charleroy Photographic Museum, Belgium
1991 „Contemporary Soviet Photography", Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, USA
1992 „Contemporary Baltic Photography", Odense Photographic Museum, Denmark
1997 „Persona“, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
1997 "Taevas keldris" (Heaven in the Cellar), Jaak Kadarik, Toomas Kaasik,
Kiek in de Kök, Tallinn, Estonia
1999 „Enesepaljastajad“ (The Self-Revealers), Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2011 "DARK, DARKNESS", Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
2018 „The X-Files [Registry of the Nineties]“, KUMU, Art Museum of Estonia
2022 SKATING ON THIN ICE („Uisutades õhukesel jääl“). Art Gallery in Türi Cultural House
2023 XXX rahvusvaheline aktinäitus "MEES JA NAINE" / XXX international nude exhibition "MAN AND WOMAN", , Museum of Contemporary Art, Pärnu, Estonia.
Photos in poetry books:
Hasso Krull. Jazz. Forty Poems (Poetry, Estonian)
Published by Vagabund, 1998, pp. 54
http://www.vanaraamat.ee/Hasso_Krull_Jazz_Nelikummend_luuletust_Vagabund_1998_45926-33.htm
Jüri Leesment. Saada mind kiusatusse (Get Me Into Temptation).
Published by Ilmamaa. 2007
https://www.ilmamaa.ee/raamatud/saada-mind-kiusatusse
Jüri Leesment. Täna mängime elu (Today we play life).
Published by Ilmamaa, 2018