Gregor Taul is a writer, curator and teacher based in Tallinn working as an assistant professor in the departments of Interior Architecture and General Theory Classes at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

He studied semiotics at Tartu University (BA in 2009) and art history in the Estonian Academy of Arts (MA in 2012; exchange studies in St Petersburg's Institute of Technology of Design in 2011) where he defended his master's thesis on public monuments in Tallinn's Freedom Square. He was a PhD candidate in the Lisbon Consortium of the Catholic University of Portugal  between 2016–2020 and in 2024 defended his thesis on late Soviet monumental-decorative art in the doctoral school of the Estonian Academy of Arts. The thesis was awarded the first prize in the field of humanities and arts at doctoral level by the the Estonian Research Council. The thesis also received a special award for a PhD thesis in the field of cultural heritage from the National Heritage Board of Estonia.

Gregor has written on visual art and architecture since 2009. In 2012 he co-authored a book on Estonian murals published by Lugemik. The re-worked English version was published in 2017. In 2016 Estonian National Museum published his book on the architecture of the museum's new building by DGT Architects. In 2018 Gregor received the Sirp Award - an honor presented by the cultural weekly newspaper Sirp to its best contributors since 1964.

Gregor worked as a gallerist of the Estonian Academy of Arts (2012–2014) during which he curated Lost in Space: Art Academies' Galleries in Vita Havet gallery, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Between 2014–2016 he was the director of the Kondas Centre of Outsider Art in Viljandi, the foremost institution dealing with peripheral forms of creativity in the Baltic states. 

Gregor's main research interest is art in public space. Besides monuments and murals of the Soviet era he focuses on contemporary public art commissions.

gregortaul@gmail.com 
+372 55690456 (Estonia)