Social sciences MA level, Tallinn University Anthropology

MFA at Estonian Academy of Arts

BA in sculpture at Estonian Academy of Arts

Konstfack, University College of Art Craft and Design, Stockholm/ Sweden

Escola Massana i La Llotja, Barcelona/ Spain

Art College, Kankanpää/ Finland

Kalju Reitel Sculpture Studio

Tartu Valgus, TAVA2024 main curator

Sculpture and light art lecturer, Estonian Academy of Arts

Main organizer of Tartu Light festival TAVA 2016 and 2018, 2021

Chief specialist of city lighting at Tallinn Municipality

Main organizer of Downtown Winter Festival 2015, 2016

Managing Director at Estonian Animation School for Children

Co-organizer of Tallinn Light Biennale 2013

Art teacher, Kuressaare Regional Training Center

Assistant professor, department of sculpture at Estonian Academy of Arts

Art teacher at secondary schools

Kristjan Raud Art award for active creative activity in 2020 and for the developing of the discipline of Light Art

[d]arc awards nominee: "Tram Travelers" commissioned by WSP Design Studio, Finland/ co Põvvat Kama

II prize Tabasalu riigigümnaasium art contest (co Alyona Movko) // Tallinn

III prize Tulika 37 Tallinn dormitory art contest(co Alyona Movko) // Tallinn

I prize of the monument contest of Kalju Lepik / Koeru

selected sculptor to create annual prize of Aadu Lass for Road Administration of Republic of Estonia // Estonia

III prize of Voldemar and Elfriede A.Lender memorial (co. Grete Veskiväli) // Tallinn

III prize Estonian National Archive art contest (co. Taavi Suisalu) // Tartu

Selected sculptor for Muhu memorial // Liiva, Muhu

II prize – monument to philias who were forcibly taken to Siberia by Soviet authorities // Tartu

selected sculptor - Jaan Poska monument // Tallinn

Eripreemia Tartu Raekoja Platsi valguslahenduse ideekonkursilt (co. Eva Tallo) // Tartu

Joint I prize - Tartu Ski Marathon monument contest // Tartu, Estonia

I prize – World War II Memorial contest // Kärdla, Estonia

I prize – Sangaste Rye monument contest // Sangaste, Estonia

Special prize – International Sculpture Quadrennial 'Crossroads' // Arsenal, Riga

First prize – Estonian Children Literature annual sculpture contest // Estonia

Monument of Heino Kurveti // Pärnu

„Planter of the Turu street“ Tartu, Turu tn 17 // Tartu, SmartEnCity

„Tram Travellers“ co Põvvat Kama, WSP Design Studio // Tampere, Soome

Monument of Kalju Lepik / Koeru

Circle // Rotermann CITY

Monument of Ülo Pärnits // Ülemiste City, Tallinn

Monument of Jaan Poska at park of Kadriorg // Tallinn

Memorial place to the fallen Hiiumaa's soldiers of World War II // Kärdla

Interactive light installation "What's here, what's there"/ Narva, Paide

Interactive light installation "What's here, what's there"/ Tartu in Light, TAVA2021

Installation for Annika Haas exhibition "Greenhouse effect" // Dokfoto center, Telliskivi creative city, Tallinn

Interactive light installation "What's here, what's there" // Tartu Town Hall Square, Voronja Gallery Garden

Audiovisual construction " Titled ornament " // Square in front of Saue Town Hall

Audiovisual construction " Titled ornament " // Tampere

"WHERE TO TAKE?" // E-waste lighthouse, Telliskivi Loomelinnak

Perceptual installation „EV100“ //1000 hanged Kalev chocolates

Light installation „Shortcut“ // Tallinn Music Week

Audiovisuaalne konstruktsioon „Peal(t)kiri“ // Eest Rahva Muuseum, Tallinna Raekoja plats

Audiovisual structure „Titled ornament“ (7 m high) // National Museum of Estonia, Townhall square at Tallinn

Site-specific installations „Gates“// Tallinn Old Town

Kalev, monument, 7m high // Tallinn, Estonia

„Useful (AB)use“ // Pärnu New Art Museum

„Ma ise olen süüdi / It’s my own fault“ // Ugala theatre

„Useful (AB)use“ // Gallery Noorus, Tartu

"Searching for the System" vol 2 // Rotermann City

"Relationship" // Kuressaare Castle, Saaremaa

"Searching for the System" // The Ambassy of Estonia, Helisnki, Finland

"The home of Universe" // Kohtla-Järve City Gallery, Estonia

"The Home of Universe" // Pärnu Contemporary Art Museum, Estonia

"We are Them" // Kuressaare, Estonia

"20% of Seconds 80% of Centuries" // City Gallery, Estonia

"The Big Centrum & Nothing" // Stockholm, Sweden

"Zero in Black" // Gallery Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

"Zero" // Gallery Vaal, Tallinn, Estonia

„Conserved materia“ Annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors //Viinistu

„I don’t understand - sculpture“ art festival// Telliskivi Loomelinnak

Small plastic exhibition "Floods into being"// Galerii Pallas, Tartu

„ Notice board from Kütioru to Kadriorg. Force" “ // Vana-Võromaa kultuurikoda, Võru

"Parellel world" // Pärnu Loovlinnak

Small Light // Tornide väljak, Tallinn

Annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors „From the wood and painted red“ //Rahvusraamatukogu, Tallinn

„ARM“ // Triigi Filharmoonia

Ultimate Beuty // Pärnu City Gallery

Site-specific video mapping and audio solution „Interferents“// Keila-Joa Light festival

„The study of sight“ // Vana-Võromaa Kultuurikoda, Haapsalu and pärnu City Gallery

„100 sculptures“ // Kujurite Ühenduse aastanäitus // Vaal Galerii

“Katedraal tehnikale” // Tallinn Artweek, Tallinna Laevatehas

„The study of sight“ co Annika Haas, Jekaterina Kultajeva // Tallinn Art Hall

„Today I will save as many flys as possible“, annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors //Tartu Art House and Tallinn Zoo

Culture festival „Särin“ //Contemporay Art Centre of Rapla County

„Back to Chaos“// Pärnu City Gallery

„Pond Vita“, annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors // Park of Kadriorg

Site-specific video mapping and audio solution „Interferents“//Patkuli, Downtown Winter festival

"Figurative and abstract", annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors // Uue Kunsti Muuseum, Pärnu

"The Sky is Falling" // Katlamaja, Pärnu

“Body language” // Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

"Paper suffers all", annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors // Pärnu Uue Kunsti Muuseum

"Paper suffers all", annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors // Gallery of Disain and Architecture, Tallinn

"Diverse Universe" // Pärnu Linnagalerii

"Ornamental" // Tallinn Art Hall

Tallinn Lightbiennale 2013 // Helios, Tallinn

"Machinery" // Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn

spring exhibition of Estonian Artists Association //Tallinn Art Hall

VII Small forms exhibition "My mytology" // Gallery Noorus, Tartu

Site-specific light installation "Black Hole" // Tallinn

Spring exhibition of Estonian Artists Association //Tallinn Art Hall

International art-train “Cosmic Underground” // from Tallinn to Guimaraes

"Liberte" // Paris, France

"Two is Better Than One", annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors Association // Turku, Finland

"Arteground", international art festival // Viljandi, Estonia

"The Time of Procent", annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors Association // Rotermanni Soolaladu, Tallinn, Estonia

Open space exhibition of traditional wood sculptures// Kuressaare

“Inner burning”, site-specific light installation // Tallinn Light festival

"Lumbago" // ArtDepoo gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Small forms exhibition, //Tartu, Estonia

"Unintentionally", annual exhibition of Estonian Sculptors Association // Pärnu, Estonia

"Inner and Outer Light", site-specific light installation // Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

Kohaspetsiifiline kunstiprojekt “Sisemine ja välimine valgus” // Harju tänav, Tallinna Valgusfestival

"The Air, Light and Flying", site-specific light installation // Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

"Transit – South Pole", international exhibition // Bishkek, Kyrgystan

"Interspace", site-specific light installation // Hirvepark, Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

Pain, international exhibition // Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia

"Aluminum, Art +New Technologies," international festival // Baku, Azerbaijan

Art Summer // Roma Art Gallery, Gotland, Sweden

Art Summer // Kuressaare, Estonia

"Aquarium", International exhibition // Rotermanni soolaladu, Estonia

"Estonian Sculpture" // Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

Estonian sculpture Throw the Ages // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Crossroads, International Sculpture Quadrennial // Arsenal, Riga, Latvia

Salad, group exhibition // Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

Man and Woman, International exhibition // Pärnu, Estonia

Biotopos, SKKEK third annual exhibition // Tallinn, Estonia

6+1, group exhibition // Gallery Art Leonardo, Tampere, Finland

Estonian Young Artist, annual exhibition of Artists Association // Tartu, Estonia

TAKKK Land Art symposium Interruption. Appearance and disappearance of man-made landscapes III” //Tammiku

"The Voices of Land and Sea", international sculpture symposium // A.Adamson museum, Paldiski, Estonia

International workshop on traditional wood sculptures // Kuressaare

International symposium on stone sculpture // Kato Polemidia, Cypros

Symposium on stone sculpture // Paide, Estonia

Symposium on sculpture // Salacgriva, Latvia

World Tree, Symposium on wood sculpture // Fenno-Ugric World Congress, Sagadi, Estonia

Open Circle, international Land Art symposium// Kuressaare, Estonia

Land Art symposium // Haapsalu airfield, Estonia

Land Art symposium // Nordingrå, Höga Kusten, Sweden

TAKKK Land art symposium “Interruption. Appearance and disappearance of man-made landscapes III” // Tammiku, Kohila

EKA Kohaspetsiifiline valguskunsti projekt “Piirivalgus” //Gerassimovi park, Narva, TMW22

EKA Kohaspetsiifiline valguskunstiprojekt “Väljapääs” // Niguliste kiriku haljak, TMW21

TAKKK Landart symposium “Interruption. Appearance and disappearance of man-made landscapes II”// Tammiku, Kohila

TAKKK Land art symposium “Interruption. Appearance and disappearance of man-made l andscapes”// Tammiku, Kohila

“The beginning and the end of the light” site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Noblessner, TMW20

„Time as light“, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Noblessner, TMW19

“Darkness is light”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Kanuti, Tallinn Music Week

“Easy Access”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Reisijate street, Tallinn MusicWeek

“Second dimension”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Patkuli trepp, Tallinn

„Stears of Patkuli" site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Patkuli trepp, Tallinn

Tallinn Lightbiennale indoor exhibitions „299,792,548 m/s" and "Luminous utopies" // Tallinn

“Black Hole”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy //Tallinn, Estonia

“Pilgrimage”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

“Black Light”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

“Light Installation”, site-specific art project of Art Academy // Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

“Inner and Outer Light”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Tallinn Lightfestival

“The Air, Light and Flying”, site-specific light art project of Art Academy // Tallinn Lightfestival

“Interspace”, site-specific light art of Art Academy // Hirvepark, Tallinn Lightfestival, Estonia

“Seto Pattern” // Estonian National Museum, Tartu

Estonian Center of Contemporary Art International exchange program

MOKS, Mooste Art-residencies project „Wild. Fermentation along borders of normality“

video mapping/ video projection art at water screen/ Tõrva Loits event/ Tõrva

Light solution of the concert of Kärt Tomingas //Lodjakoda, Tartu jand Theatrum, Tallinn

Snow sculptures area // Tornide väljak, Tallinn

Lighting solution for the recognition event of the Tartu Youth Board // Tartu

Mapping TARTU2024 „Kultuurikompass“ conference // Tartu

Fire sculpture "Phoenix" // Tuvi park, Tallinn

Fire sculpture "The first man" // Sunset festival of Kabli

Fire sculpture “The falling sun/Kaali meteorite” // Sea festival of Kuressaare

Monumental snow stage "Drummer´s Dream" (co. M.Hiiemäe, M.Mee, T.Jaanimäe) // Geilo Ice Music Festival, Norway

Icesculpture "Ancient drive" // Tallinn winterfestival

Lightpainting // Vabaduse väljak, Tallinn

Icesculpture "Shaman" // Pärnu Icefestival

Monumental snowstage"Alley of sounds" (co. L.Kuutma, M.Hiiemäe) //Geilo Ice Music Festival, Norway

Monumental sandsculpture "The stubbornness of culture" // Võru

Icesculpture // Kadrioru park, Tallinn

Firesculpture „Inner flight“ (co. K.Saks) // Tuleskulptuuride festival, Tallinn

Firesculpture „Inner fire“ (co. K.Saks) // Tuleskuptuuride festival, Tallinn

Icesculpture "eagle" // exhibition of icesculptures Tammsaare park, Tallinn

Gerilja Light, Lightfestival, Tallinn

Lightpainting, Lightfestival, Tallinn

Firesculpture „DNA-koda“ (co. E.Maripuu, K.Saks) // Firesculpture Festival Tallinn

Icesculpture "Pig" // Jääskulptuuride näitus, Vabaduse Plats, Tallinn

Icesculpture „Euro-rabbit“ // Tartu Raekoja Plats

Lightinstallation (co. P.Tiimus ja E.Tallo) // Pop-Up disainigalerii “ÖÖ: Was it a dream”, Helios, Tallinn

Light-perfomance "Lumen Interius" (co. K. Saks)// Eesti Kunsti näitus ”Liberte/Vabadus”, Pariis

Light-perfomance „Vabaduse võimalikkusest süsteemis“ (co K.Saks) // Disain House, Tallinn

Icesculpture "Memm" // exhibition of icesculptures, Kadrioru park

Snow happening (co. K. Saks) // Kultuurikilomeeter, Tallinn

Icesculpture festival // Jelgava, Läti

Sculpture Network Online Club Presentation “The power of memory: monuments”

Sculpture Network Online Club Presentation „Fire, Fog, Light & Electricity!“

LUCI Annual Conference "Improving Urban Lighting Through Workshops and Education"

"Light as art in public space - on the examples of Tallinn and Tartu", practical seminar of the NGO Estonian Municipal Economy Association

"Light as art in public space - on the examples of Tallinn and Tartu", practical seminar of the NGO Estonian Municipal Economy Association

“Home of an Item”, poster presentation, IV Autumn Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory “Things in culture, culture in things” // Tartu, Estonia

„Home of an Item" / CECT, Kultuuriteooria tippkeskuse IV Sügiskonverents “Things in culture, culture in things”

"Natural sacred places researcher vs user", poster presentation at conference 'Holy Groves Around the Baltic Sea' // The Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Thing's (a) home as our home, speech, conference of the Võro Institute „ Fenno-Baltic home“ // Võru, Estonia

Seto Patterns, poster presentation, Võro Institute conference " Border Cultures and Languages” // Võru

X Fenno-Ugric folklore festival, Tver, Karelia

XI All-Russian folklore festival Tšeboksarõ, Chuvashia

Etno-futu conference, Iževsk, Udmurtia

Ese-me kodu, Acta Semiotica Estica V. Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus: lk. 253-270

Ese-me kodu. Asja kodu (Home of a thing). Õdagumeresoomõ kodo. Läänemeresoome kodu. Publications of Võro Institute 20: lk 133-145

Liiv, Elo (2018). Linnutee igatsus./ Sirp 12.10.2018 Liiv, Elo (2018). Saagu Valgus! Teist korda./ Kes-Kus 2018 september

Kaks uut näitust Uue Kunsti Muuseumis/ Sirp, 18.10.2022 https://www.sirp.ee/s3-pressiteated/kaks-uut-naitust-uue-kunsti-muuseumis/

Kaisa Eiche, „Monumendid, trendid, mendid: mida teeb skulptuur avalikus ruumis?“ / Postimees, 09.06.2022 https://kultuur.postimees.ee/7541958/monumendid-trendid-mendid-mida-teeb-skulptuur-avalikusruumis

Iiris Viirpalu, „Elo Liiv: et Eestis kunstnikuna ellu jääda, tuleb olla mitmekülgne“/ Edasi, 27.11.2021 https://edasi.org/102768/elo-liiv-et-eestis-kunstnikuna-ellu-jaada-tuleb-olla-mitmekulgne/

Kaisa Eiche, „Väike kangelastegu igas päevas“ / Sirp, 20.11.2020 https://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/c6-kunst/vaike-kangelastegu-igas-paevas/

Kiri minu nooremale minale, Rahva Raamat, ISBN. 9789985351895

NGO Väike Valgus, founder and board member

OÜ Männisalu Mahe, founder and CEO

OÜ Kunst ja Pärimus, founder and CEO

Union of the Estonian Sculptors, member of the board

Association of Anthropology, member

Valgusklubi, board member

Estonian Academic Religious History Society, member

Leisi Valla Folk Culture Society Leisi VÄRKS, member of the board