Short Bio
Raoul Kurvitz (born 1961) started his creative work after graduating from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (currently the Estonian Academy of Arts) in 1984, with a degree in architecture. In 1986, along with his classmate Urmas Muru, Kurvitz formed the Rühm T group. They were soon joined by the architect Peeter Pere and several other artists and creative people. Rühm T called their paintings Cold Expressionism, which conceptually denied passion and were distanced, but were still interventionist. Criticism at that time primarily linked Rühm T’s activities with the concepts of Postmodernism, the Transavantgarde and “expressionist decadence.” Besides artistic activities he has also acted in films.
Personal Exhibitions
1991 Ormus I. Intermedia Centre Fylkingen, Stockholm
1992 Infected. Gallery Okra, Vantaa, Finland
1992 Myra Art Limited I. Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
1992 Myra Art Limited II. Tallinn Art Hall's Gallery, Tallinn
1992 Ormus II. Gallery Marius Project, Copenhagen
1993 Ormus III. Luum Gallery, Tallinn
1993 Sammas Gallery, Tallinn
1996 Topographic. Rüütli Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
1999 He and She. (with Ene-Liis Semper), Gallery Noass, Riga
1999 Sümfoonia Si-bemoll. Tallinn Art Hall
2000 About Love. Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2002 Impeerium. Rakvere Town Gallery, Rakvere
2005 Viinistu Art Museum, Viinistu, Estonia
2006 Tädi Klaara ja teised. Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
RAOUL KURVITZ's (1961) personal exhibition Project VOOL opened in Hobusepea and Draakon galleries at 5pm on March 24, 2010.
References
"EKM Digitaalkogu". digikogu.ekm.ee. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
"Raoul Kurvitz - Eesti filmi andmebaas". www.efis.ee. Retrieved 2 March 2022.