Tõnis Jürgens 'Sleep with Pointing' (2023). Digital video, 12’06’’. Video still
Tõnis Jürgens 'Sleep with Pointing' (2023). Digital video, 12’06’’. Video still
Tõnis Jürgens 'Sleep with Pointing' (2023). Digital video, 12’06’’. Video still
Tõnis Jürgens, view from exhibition 'A Practice for Surrender', Vent Space gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022. Photo: Tõnis Jürgens
Tõnis Jürgens 'A Practice for Surrender' (2022). Digital video, 12’49’’. View from exhibition 'A Practice for Surrender', Vent Space gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022. Photo: Tõnis Jürgens
Tõnis Jürgens 'A Practice for Surrender' (2022). Digital video, 12’49’’. Video still
Exhibition view from 'Dreaming of Babylon', Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, 2023. Curator: Indrek Grigor. Photo: Paul Kuimet
Exhibition view from 'Dreaming of Babylon', Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, 2023. Curator: Indrek Grigor. Photo: Paul Kuimet
Tõnis Jürgens 'Dreaming of Babylon' (2023). Digitised 16mm film. Video still.
Tõnis Jürgens 'BRIDGE' (2023). Two-channel digital video, 4’20’’. Video still
Tõnis Jürgens 'BRIDGE' (2023). Two-channel digital video, 4’20’’. Video still

Tõnis Jürgens (1989) is an artist and writer based in Tallinn, who works mainly in the medium of film and video essay. He holds degrees in culture theory from Tallinn University (BA, 2012) and new media from the Estonian Academy of Arts (MA, 2016). Additionally, he’s studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague (2021–22). He is currently a PhD candidate and guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His artistic research practice involves themes such as sleep tracking, surveillance capitalism, and apophenia, or the inadvertent emergence of meaning.