Kairi
Orgusaar

Kairi Orgusaar (b 1969) graduated in painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1995, in 2002 she earned M.A. in glass art from the same school. Since 1996 she has participated in various exhibitions at galleries and museums in Estonia and abroad, incl the Museum of Glass Art on Yelagin Island in St Petersburg, Russia, the Finnish Glass Museum at Riihimäe, Finland, LWL-Industriemuseum Glashütte Gernheim in Germany, etc. She has twice been awarded the annual Cultural Endowment of Estonia Regional Award. Her works can be seen in the glass art collection of Ernsting Stiftung Alter of Herding, the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design and several private collections. Since 2004, she is heading her own glass art studio Kunivorm LLC, since 2010 she is a founding member and a member of the board of the Centre of Contemporary Arts of Rapla County. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:2018 " Different Angle" international exhibition of contemporary glass art Evald Okas Museum, Estonia2018 "Darkening" Janinos Monkutės-Marks Museum Gallery, Lithuania2017 “Verre en forme” – Centre des Artes Pluriels, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg2017 The Exhibition of VII International Glass Festival Luxembourg, Asselborn, Luxembourg.2017 “Bio Glass”, the exhibition of XI Haapsalu International Hot Glass Symposium, Estonia2017 ” Life on Earth” – art programme of Culture Festival “Särin” (“Sizzle”), Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art, Estonia2017 COLD-HOT. Estonian Glass art 80.Tallinn Creative Hub, Estonia 2016 “GlassJazz /International Glass Art Symposium” exhibition , PANEVĖŽYS CIVIC ART GALLERY, Lithuania2016 “2D →” International Glass Exhibition, The gallery of artsists union, Vilnius, Lithuania,The Museum of New Art, Pärnu and RCCCA, Estonia2016 "Civilization 2: the Trousers of Time", Tallinn Seaplane Harbour’s aquarium, Estonia2014 “Visitor: Estonia”, Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Lette, Germany2012 ” Estonian Contemperary Glass Art”, Jelegin Glass Museum, St Peterburg , Russia2012 “New Acquisitions 2011” Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Germany 2012 “Grand Fragility” Art Hall, Tallinn2012 “Sincerely Yours”, The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia2012 ” Estonian Contemperary Glass Art”, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn,2011 “Estonian Glass Art in the 2000s” The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki.Finland