KÜLLI K.  KAATS

Contacts: 
Mobile: +372 51 678 03; home: +372 65 761 42 
E-mail: kyllikaats@yahoo.com

2002 –  ….   Conductor of the chamber choir of Estonian Academy of Arts
2000 – 2003 Estonian Academy of Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, M.A. 
2002 – 2003 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy 
studies in the frame of Socrates/Erasmus program 
1995 – 2000 Estonian Academy of Arts
Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Fine Arts (B.A. 2000) 
1993 – 1996; 2000 – 2002 Estonian Academy of Music
Conducting Department, (B.A. 2002) 
1982 - 1993    Music High School in Tallinn. Major: Choir conducting

Selected group exhibitions:
2004 MANIFESTA 5
         European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Donostia-San Sebastián; Spain
2004 My Fatherland is My Love, Tartu Artists’ House, Estonia
2002 Breath (Estonian video art), Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary
2002 Experiments and Classic, “Fideo & Vilm Festival”, Pärnu, Estonia
2001 12th Tallinn Print Triennial, young artists’ exhibition’
         [conditionally existing][conditionally non-existing], Tallinn, Estonia
2001 Online Auction. The Graduates. ArtLink@Sothebys.com, International Young Art
2001 Gooseflesh, video- and performance art festival, Rakvere, Estonia
2000 Exhibition of Estonian Art, Tartu Artists’ House, Estonia
2000 Kiriküüt, video and film festival, Viljandi, Estonia
1999 Your Hidden Life: Estonian Printmaking, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1999 Church 2000 - “GAADS” / Church 24 h, Muhu island, Estonia
1999 Exhibition of paintings, Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1999 Media Non Grata, internet café Enter, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 In Touch, Gallery of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 Collected Relations, Gallery of the National Library, Tallinn, Estonia
 

Video art:
2004 Blueblackwhite
2003 Pigeon, Crow, Seagull
2002 The Eye
2001 What the Women Want I, II (with Elisabeth Salmin)
2001 Among the Bird Population III: Choir
2000 Among the Bird Population II: The Ward
2000 Among the Bird Population I
2000 Zefiir Roosa (Pink Zephyr)
1999 Behave in Cave
1999 “ … “
1999 Emergency Stop

Performances:
2003 Tuttpütt Présente, (performance with the M. A. students of Interdisciplinary Arts from the Estonian Academy of Arts) Rummu prison, Estonia
2002 / 2003 The Catalogue of Birds, an artistic research in Estonia and Italy
2002 Double / Multiple Works, an artistic research (with DIADA’laboratorio and Nuova Icona, Itaalia) Tallinn Children Hospital, Estonia
2001 Man is the Architect of the Universe of Morals (performance with the M.A. students of Interdisciplinary Arts from the Estonian Academy of Arts), Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2000 Birth / Don’t Teach Me How To Live, Help Me Financially, (performance with the M. A.
students of Interdisciplinary Arts from the Estonian Academy of Arts), birthday of the Students Newspaper in Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn
2000 A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A, (performance with Kristin Kalamees & Katri Sipiläinen),
performance / workshop of the Lone Twin Art Academy of Turku, Finland
2000 In the Birds’ Choir, (happening with the students of Estonian Academy of Arts), Muhu
island, Estonia
1999 Behave in Cave, (with Kristin Kalamees, Ly Lestberg & Allan Tõnissoo), Muhu island, Estonia

Composition (in music):
2001 Prelude in F
2001 External Identification Guide of Estonian Birds. Choir cycle (first performed: May 16,
2001 at Tartu Teachers’ Seminar, Estonia)
2000 Little Princess. Cycle of piano pieces (first performed: October 20, 2000 at the House of Brotherhood of Blackheads, Tallinn, Estonia)

Music in print:
2004 External Identification Guide of Estonian Birds. Choir cycle, edition 49
2000 Little Princess, Cycle of piano pieces, “Piano Pieces 2000”, Estonian Music Foundation

       I (Basso ostinato)

       Herilaseviu   Vzz-vzz.mp3
       Honey buzzard 

       Rooruik   Tök-tök-tök.mp3
       Water rail (Rallus aquaticus) 

       Lasuurtihane   Tserr-pinn.mp3
       Azure tit (Parus caeruleus) 

       Tait    Kru-hii-io.mp3
       Moor hen (Gallinula chloropus) 

       Aul    Aa-a-uu-li.mp3
       Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) 
 

       II (Fuga)

       Räusk    Kvrrääh Vhiijeh Vhiih .mp3
       Caspian tern (Hydroprogne tschegrava)

       Merikajakas   aag-aag-aag.mp3
       Sea gull (Larus marinus)

       Hõbekajakas   Kjau-kjau-kjau.mp3
       Herring gull (Larus argentatus)

       Tõmmukajakas  Kjao kjao.mp3
       Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus)

       Mustpeakajakas  Äaa-äaa-äaa.mp3
       Black-head gull (Larus melanocephalus) 

       Kalakajakas   Kjäkk-kjäkk.mp3
       Gull (Larus canus)
 

       III (Postludium)

       Karmiinleevike  Vid-jö-di-dö sip.mp3
       Scarlet grosbeak (Carpodacus erythrinus)

       Männileevike   Piid-je-piid-je Kurr.mp3
       Pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)

       Leevike   gjööp diü.mp3
       Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

       Herilaseviu   Vzzz-vzzz.mp3
       Honey buzzard 

       Rooruik   Tök-tök-tök.mp3
       Water rail (Rallus aquaticus)

       Lasuurtihane   Tserr-pinn.mp3
       Azure tit (Parus caeruleus) 

       Tait    Kru-hii-io.mp3
       Moor hen (Gallinula chloropus)