Mari Volens ‘Sudden Disentanglement’ (2020). Installation: metal structures, vertical blinds, stepper motors, arduino microcontroller, sound, pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, hinges. View from personal exhibition ‘Sudden Disentanglement’, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia, 2020. Photo: Mari Volens
Mari Volens ‘Sudden Disentanglement’ (2020). Installation: metal structures, vertical blinds, stepper motors, arduino microcontroller, sound, pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, hinges. View from personal exhibition ‘Sudden Disentanglement’, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia, 2020. Photo: Mari Volens
Mari Volens ‘Sudden Disentanglement’ (2020). Installation: metal structures, vertical blinds, stepper motors, arduino microcontroller, sound, pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, hinges. View from personal exhibition ‘Sudden Disentanglement’, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia, 2020. Photo: Mari Volens
Mari Volens ‘Sudden Disentanglement’ (2020). Installation: metal structures, vertical blinds, stepper motors, arduino microcontroller, sound, pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, hinges. View from personal exhibition ‘Sudden Disentanglement’, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia, 2020. Photo: Mari Volens
Mari Volens ‘Sudden Disentanglement’ (2020). Installation: metal structures, vertical blinds, stepper motors, arduino microcontroller, sound, pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, hinges. View from personal exhibition ‘Sudden Disentanglement’, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia, 2020. Photo: Mari Volens
Mari Volens ‘Sudden Disentanglement’ (2020). Installation: metal structures, vertical blinds, stepper motors, arduino microcontroller, sound, pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, hinges. View from personal exhibition ‘Sudden Disentanglement’, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia, 2020. Photo: Mari Volens
Mari Volens ‘Untitled’ (2020). Pigment print on aluminium composite, sizes variable. From the series ‘Taking Shape’ (2020)
Mari Volens ‘Untitled’ (2020). Pigment print on aluminium composite, sizes variable. From the series ‘Taking Shape’ (2020)
Mari Volens ‘Untitled’ (2020). Pigment print on aluminium composite, MDF board, silvery hinges, metal construction, 38 × 47 × 77.5 cm. From the series ‘Taking Shape’ (2020). Photo: Kaisa Maasik

Mari Volens (1981) is an artist, photographer and translator. She graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in French philology (2007) and from the Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA, 2013; MA, 2017). She has studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts (2015–2016) in the Walls & Space Department. Using photography and installation as her main means of expression, Volens seeks ways of looking at things from different angles in her work and a relief from the established (power) structures. She recently had a solo exhibition at Tartu Art House (2020) and participated in the group exhibition ‘The Art of Being Good’ curated by Siim Preiman in Tallinn Art Hall (2019).

Works for sale

Mari Volens

Untitled

39 × 20 × 3 cm; 50.5 × 26.5 × 3 cm

850 EUR

Mari Volens

Untitled

38 × 47 × 77,5 cm

650 EUR

Mari Volens

Untitled

61 × 29 × 12.5 cm

420 EUR