Merike Talve

Merike Talve (January 31, 1957 – November 27, 1997) was a Canadian curator, artist and independent writer who lived and worked in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was known for her writing and curatorial activities related to contemporary art, and the feminist art movement.

Early life and education Merike Talve was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on January 31, 1957. She was a performer and a Rhythmic Gymnastics instructor in Richmond in 1976. Talve studied at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where she earned a diploma in two-dimensional art.

Career In the early 1980s, Talve worked for the Vanguard magazine and the Surrey Art Gallery in British Columbia, Canada. She was appointed as the curator to the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1987. Her curatorial activities at the Contemporary Art Gallery and Surrey Art Gallery included organizing exhibitions of the work of Canadian artists, such as Stan Douglas, Kim Tomczak, Vera Frenkel, referred to Talve's essay "Vestiges of the Avant-Garde in Installation" in "La instalación como hipermedio (una aproximación)" from his book Escritos de vista y oído ' (2016). In this essay, Bonet's cited in part Talve's views as follows,

Sin embargo, esta circunstancia posmoderna del arte de la instalacion no esta renida, en opion de merike talve, con el hecho de que pueda simultaneamente ser considerado como la unica de las formas contemporaneas de arte qu soporta directamente el peso de la vanguardia, tanto por recrear una interrelacion entre el arte y la realidad cotidiana – a traves de los elementos y cosas que extrae del prosaico entorno, como porque, muy a menudo, comporta un compromiso critico y etico caracteristico de las antagonias vanguardistas. [Talve, 1986] However, this postmodern circumstance of installation art is not affected, in Merike Talve's opinion, with the fact that it can simultaneously be considered the only contemporary art form that directly supports the weight of the avant-garde, both for recreating an interrelation between art and everyday reality – through the elements and things that it extracts from the prosaic environment, such as because, very often, it involves a critical and ethical commitment characteristic of avant-garde antagonisms. [Talve, 1986] Video Guide, C Magazine, Parachute magazine, and the Parallelogramme. Her critical reviews included exhibitions that were presented at the Western Front Gallery "Street Culture:" Kim Tomczak, et al. Video Guide (1984) 6.4 [#29]: 4–5. "Fugue:" Joey Morgan. Parachute 36 (Sep–Nov 1984): 64–65 "Television Interference:" Paul Wong, et al. Video Guide (May 1984) 6.3 [#28]: 4-5. "Martin Honsich." Surrey Art Gallery (1985). "Absense of Body Presence of Voice," Voice Over: Sara Diamond et al. Contemporary Art Gallery (1985) 1–20 . "Crafty women and the hierarchy:" Kati Campbell. C Magazine (Winter 1985) 4: 19–21. "Vestiges of the Avant-Garde in Installation," "Trigger:" Colette Urban. Vanguard (Sept 1987) 16: 29. "Installations:" Katherine Knight and Laura Vickerson. Surrey Art Gallery (1987) 1–8. "Repo:" Georgiana Chappell, et al. Contemporary Art Gallery (1988) 1-10. "Television spots:" Stan Douglas. Contemporary Art Gallery (1988) 1–34. and Marie (Õunpuu) Talve, Both her parents were born in Estonia.