uku
sepsivart

Uku Sepsivart is born 1988  Estonia, Rakvere. He has obtained both his MA (2015) and BA degree (2009) from the department of sculpture and installation of Estonian Academy of Arts. During the studies Sepsivart has taken additional courses in Finland - in 2009 in Villu Jaanisoo’s studio and during 2013-2014 in Helsinki Art University, 2015-2016 Antti Laitinen studio. The artist has been taking part in several street-art festivals and has released a book about street-art together with Tõnis Palkov and Andres Siplane. In 2012, Uku Sepsivart was awarded the Young Artist Prize (by non-profit organization Noor Kunst and Estonian Academy of Arts).
In recent years Sepsivart has been practicing process art and opened up nature related topics. Sepsivart tries to cooperate with other spiecies, and from these encounters new works of art arise. The results of his artworks open up new lines of thinking and offer new experiences concerning the division of labour between animals and humans.