Kristina Norman

Kristina Norman (b.1979, lives and works in Tallinn) is an artist whose interdisciplinary work includes video installations, sculpture, and projects in the city space, as well as documentaries and performance. She is interested in the issues of collective memory and forgetting, the memorial uses of the public space, but also the subtle sphere of body politics that transgresses the boundaries between the public and the private. In 2009, she represented Estonia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with a solo project, a multilayered mixed media installation, After-War. The project was a study of a conflict around the relocation of a Soviet monument in Tallinn and Norman’s public intervention in the former location of the monument became one of the most debated artworks in re-independent Estonia. In 2022, Norman represented Estonia at the 59th Venice Biennial with an ecocritical exhibition, Orchidelirium. An Appetite For Abundance, a duo show with Bita Razavi, curated by Corina Apostol. Norman’s experimental film trilogy, commissioned for the Estonian Pavilion, offers multiple ways to reflect on the legacies of colonialism from a specific Eastern European perspective. 

Photo: Meelis Muhu