BIOGRAPHIE


E L E O N O R E D E M O N T E S Q U I O U 
nagrane@gmail.com 


Eleonore de Montesquiou is French-Estonian, she was born in 1970 in Paris. Her work revolves around the articulation between private and official histories, personal and national identities. It tackles the intricacies and ambiguities of living in the margins, based on her personal experience of up rootedness. Eleonore is primarily working with film, she tapes testimonies, creating prosthetic memories of repressed histories. In her documentary-informed works, her camera becomes the voice of these voiceless people. Her work is based on a documentary approach, translated in films, drawings and texts; it deals mainly with the search for freedom, issues of integration/immigration/meaning of a nation in Estonia, giving voice to the Russian community. Since 2007, she films women living on the Estonian-Russian border town of Narva: “Na Grane”, in 2016, she started working with asylum seekers from French speaking countries in Estonia: “Hope is no home” while pursuing a long time film project in France with peasants in the Haute-Alpes : “Traverses”. 


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B l o g s http://eleonoredemontesquiou.blogspot.com/ https://hopeisnohome.tumblr.com/ 

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D i s t r i b u t i o n 

Arsenal, Berlin - CIM : Cinémathèque de Montagne, Gap - DAFILMS.com - KKEK, Tallinn, Estonia 

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S t i p e n d i u m – R e s i d e n d e n c y – T e a c h i n g 

2024 2. DAN aikido
Since 2020 Member of the Refuge and Tous Migrants, Briançon, France 
Since 2017 Head of Sheroes Group, Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, Berlin 
2024 We don’t want to be stars, but parts of constellations, Amsterdam 
2022 KULKA (“Difficult pasts”, publication), Estonia 
2021 KULKA (“Difficult pasts”, research), Estonia 
2019 EKA, Tallinn, guest professor, Graphic dept, Narva residency 
2017 Goethe Institut, Moscow 2018 Recherche Stipendium, Senat Berlin 
2018 LCCA (Latvian contemporary art center), summer school in Kuldigas 
2017 Tunis, Goethe Institut Residency Programm 
2017 EKA, Tallinn, guest professor, Graphic dept, Estonia 
2017 ESA Tarbes, guest professor, atelier video, France 
2017 EKKM, Tallinn, Estonia, e-resident 
2012 Künstlerinnen Programm, Senat Stipendium für Film, Berlin 
2008 Moskau, Senat Stipendium, Berlin 
2009 KULKA (Narva näitus, filmid ja raamat), Estonia 
2006 Künstlerinnen Programm, Senat Stipendium für Film, Berlin 
2006 VILLA MEDICIS Hors les Murs, Poland 


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E x h i b i t i o n s 


2024 Difficult pasts…, Kunstihoone, Tallinn
2024 EX-LIBRIS, Sillart, Sillamäe, cur: Francisco Martinez 
2022 DIFFICULT PASTS, National Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, cur. I. Astahovska, M. Tali 
2022 KUNST MUGAVUSTSOONIS? Art in a comfort zone? KUMU, Tallinn, EE 
2021 LIFE IN DECLINE, Kôhtla Nômme, Estonia, cur. Francisco Martinez 
2020 LENINSKIJ PROSPEKT 95a, Goethe Institut, Moskau
2019 GAUMONT Hackaton, IF Berlin – Maison de France 
2019 ANSTEUERUNG VON SÖSTWEUSCHLAND, Sophiensaele, Berlin 
2019 HEA OLEMISE KUNST, Kunstihoone, Tallinn Art Hall, cur. Siim Preiman 
2019 OBJECTS OF ATTENTION, etdm Museum, Tallinn, cur. F. Martinez 
2018 VIDEOFORMA, Kuryokhin center, Saint Petersburg, Russia 
2018 POPPOSITIONS, Bruxelles, with EKKM, Tallinn 
2017-18 DIE GRENZE, Russia & Germany, cur. Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter 
2017 A WORLD NOT OURS, Mulhouse Halle, France, cur. Katerina Gregos 
2016 KUMU HITS, KUMU Muuseum, Tallinn, Estonia 
2016 LAZY GENIUS, Club Friedrichhain, Berlin 
2014 PRESENT TENSE, Kalmar Museum, Sweden, cur. M. Garin, A.Kurg 
2014 CARNATIONS AND TULIPS, cur. R. Pôldsam, Fuga gallery, Budapest 
2011 SURVIVAL KIT, Riga, Latvia, cur. A. Luse 
2010 FILM/FABRIK, Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France, with R. Schmalisch 
2010 FOR EXAMPLE, FABRIKA, ProektFabrika, Moscow 
2009 NA GRANE, Tallinn and Narva Museuum, Estonia, cur. R. Varblane 
2009 NA GRANE, Sergey Kuryokhin Art Center in Kino Priboy, NCCA, Petersburg 
2009 KALAMEES, UqBar, Berlin, cur. A. Weitzel 
2009 3rd MOSCOW BIENNALE, cur. A. Parchikov 
2008 PILOT PROJEKT GROPIUSSTADT, Berlin 
2008 DELTA, Moscow contemporary city foundation, Moscow, cur. A. Parchikov 
 2008 DIE PENDLERINNEN, Magdeburg Museum 
2007 2nd MOSCOW BIENNALE, Monuments of discontents, cur. L. Jablonskiene 


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F e s t i v a l s - P r o j e c t i o n s 

2023 CYLAND, Yerevan, Arménie (Film EKSPERIMENT KATJA) 
2023 GYUMRI AW, Arménie (Film SANS RETOUR) 
2022 Paris und HKW Berlin, RENCONTRES festival (Film EKSPERIMENT KATJA) 
2021 KINO SIEMENSSTADT, Berlin, online (film WOMEN OF CERBERE) 
2021 Shortshotfest, short films festival, Moscow (film EKSPERIMENT KATJA) 
2020 DUMBO film festival, Brooklyn, USA (film EKSPERIMENT KATJA) 
2020 24th JI.HLAVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (film EKSPERIMENT KATJA) 
2019 KONTEKCT, lake Baikal, Russland (film OLGA&OLGA) 
2018 VAM, Videoart at midnight festival, Kino Babylon, Berlin 
2018 Forum des Images and HKW, Berlin RENCONTRES festival (film OLGA&OLGA) 
2017 Gaieté Lyrique, Paris und HKW Berlin, RENCONTRES festival (Film DIAMONDS) 
2016 Gaieté Lyrique, Paris and HKW Berlin, RENCONTRES film festival (film RSC) 
2015 OPUSZEN Film Festival, Croatia (film NOTES) 
2013 TRANSMEDIALE, BWPWAP, Berlin, cur. Marcel Schwerin (film GAZETTE) 
2013 NO festival, Ufa, Russia (film REMEMBER) 
2012 Belo Horizonte International Film Festival, Brazil (film REMEMBER) 
2012 EMAF, Osnabrück (film REMEMBER) 
2012 INDIE LISBOA, Portugal (film RADIOTEHNIKA) 
2012 IFFR, Rotterdam (REMEMBER, RADIOTEHNIKA, PAROLE) 
2011 BERLINALE, Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival (film PAROLE A LA FEMME) 
2011 KIFF, Kenyan Internation Film Festival (films KALAMEES, NAINE, GAZETTE) 2011 LADYFEST, Tallinn (film NAINE ) 
2010 les Ecrans documentaires, France (film KALAMEES) 

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