Events

5 GESTURES TOWARDS was born out of an on-going dialogue with fellow artist resulting in realisation that: - local performing arts scene needs a space for experimentation and alternative formats supporting works not focusing on an end result and the delivery of a ready made product - 80% of immaterial labour of the artist focusing on producing a performance end up in the note books, smoking rooms and the heads of the authors and collaborators, never seeing the light of the day - each art medium is rarely meeting any other mediums and its practitioners; we are all living living in our uniquely crafted bubbles and hardly get out of our niches - as an art institution and a production house elektron.art wants to host daring and experimental projects challenging the norms of our society and the world at large, resulting in a more kind, open, caring, risk taking, open-minded and non-violent world

On Thursday, June 6th at 7 pm, Eero Alev will open his solo show "Broken Sun" at Tütar gallery. Eero Alev (1983) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a BA in Painting (2020) and an MA in Contemporary Art (2022). Alev’s works display various dreamlike narratives, characterized by a melancholic and nostalgic atmosphere.

24.05.–24.07.2024; „Real - Unreal“ - Opening 24.05 17:00 A-Art Gallery, Astri Center , 2nd floor. Tallinna mnt 41, Narva ______

On Saturday, May 25 at 2:00 p.m., there will be a walk and conversation in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House at the joint exhibition "Room for Many" by Thea Gvetadze and Diana Tamane. In the walk-through of the exhibition the artists will discuss the thinking and working process behind the exhibition, which is both a close-up of their current selves, a dialogue between the two artists, and also a space connecting their stories with narratives of resilience and survival experienced by other women. 

On Thursday, May 23, the artist Jaanus Samma’s first comprehensive monograph "Flow of Patterns" will be launched in Estonia at the Kumu Art Museum. Before the book launch, at 17:00, you can join a guided tour of the exhibition "Elisarion: Elisàr von Kupffer and Jaanus Samma" led by artist Jaanus Samma and curator Kadi Polli.  The book launch begins at 18:00 in the Kumu atrium, followed by a panel discussion featuring the artist Jaanus Samma, the Dutch curator, critic, and editor of the book, Krist Gruijthuijsen, and curator of contemporary art Ann Mirjam Vaikla. Both events are in English. 

Reigo Nahksepp, Henri Hütt “PROVOCATIVE VOID / sütitav tühjus May 18 – June 2, 2024 Metropol gallery, Vana-Kalamaja 46   A sad endgame of upgrading emptiness.   Idea/production/performance: Reigo Nahksepp, Henri Hütt

On Friday, 24 May at 5 p.m. painter Jaan Elken opens his solo exhibition On the Road at Vabaduse Gallery. The exhibition can be visited until 19 June, 2024.

“Congregation of Chaos 101” at the Tartu Art House On Friday, 24 May at 5 p.m., the joint exhibition “Congregation of Chaos 101” will open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The curator of the exhibition is Martin Rästa. With the exhibition, the Congregation of Chaos (witnesses of eternally disappearing and appearing, immutably changing the immeasurable) is celebrating its 101st anniversary. “Chaos Congregation 101” is a spontaneously changing space filled with an infinite flow of chaos. Similar practices were also used as the basis for the 2019 exhibition “Congregation of Chaos. Retrospective” at the Kogo Gallery (Tartu). 

Peradam is a special crystal in René Daumal’s allegorical novel Mount Analogue (Le Mont Analogue, 1952). The novel tells the story of a group of adventurers who decide to embark on an expedition to a mysterious mountain located at the end of the world. To do so, they must first obtain the crystal-clear gem – the peradam – which can only be found by someone who truly seeks it. In her exhibition named after this priceless stone, artist Merike Estna reflects on where human civilisation is heading and how our prospects may sometimes seem as hopeless as those trying to reach the mystical mountain in Daumal’s novel. What role does art created over centuries or love experienced in our lifetime play when the future looks dark? It is a journey into the cave within the mountain and out again to discover what matters most.