Liina Siib is a visual artist, filmmaker, educator, curator and editor based in Tallinn, Estonia. She has studied printmaking and photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and in exchange at the University of Westminster in London. Her practice is driven by the manifestations of how people’s everyday practices and social spaces are experienced and performed. Across various mediums of film, video, photography, installation and performance, Siib looks into characters, spaces and mundane situations that often go unnoticed, silenced, or ignored. Siib’s works bring together field observations with archival sources and historical accounts together with psychoanalytic approaches and contemporary art and film theory. Many of her projects are inspired by specific places or events that have taken place in a particular location, often emanating elements of social haunting. Her working method resembles that of an ethnographer, as she spends time observing the places and people depicted in her projects, recording her observations and analysing them. Siib aims to create complex visual spaces in order to explore the phenomena of contemporary human existence and the spirit of place, and to investigate the hidden structures within society.
In 2011 Liina Siib represented Estonia with her project A Woman Takes Little Space at the 54th Venice Art Biennale. She has been artist at residence at the TYPA in Tartu (2025), Narva Artist Residency (2022–23), Vasulka Chamber, Reykjavik (2018); HIAP, Finland (2016, 2017) and at Civitella Ranieri, Italy (2016) among other places. She has held personal exhibitions in Estonia, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Latvia. In 2020 she co-curated the international group show Resemblance Through Contact: Grammar of Imprint.
2002–2013 she was editor of the magazine Estonian Art published by the Estonian Institute.
Since 2015, Liina Siib works as Professor of Graphic Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts.