Events

Please join us for the launch of Crystal Grid – a new artists’ book by Paul Kuimet – on Thursday, November 23 at 6 pm. The event will begin at Draakoni Gallery with a guided tour by the artist. The tour will be held in English. After the tour the book launch will take place at Kanuti Gildi SAAL. At the launch the artist will be in conversation with the art critic Hanno Soans. Discussion is held in Estonian. During the launch the publication will be sold at a special price of 20 euros. On the evening of the launch Paul Kuimet’s exhibition at Draakoni Gallery will be open until 8 pm. Paul Kuimet’s new book presents two series by the artist – “Crystal Grid” (2020–2023) and an ensuing series of assemblages “What It Is to Be What You Are Not” (2022).

Opening 16.11.2023 at 17.00! 16.11.23 – 13.01.24 Everybody is probably beginning to realise that one era, one civilisation is about to end, and some still significant phenomena of today are quickly disappearing into the dustbin of history. People’s consciousness is also opening up, expanding. The new man sees the world as more compact, everything is connected with everything else. The new man knows that honesty, goodness and compassion are keys to wellbeing, health and happiness. Great changes are taking place in painting as well. The new, as always, comes through the back door, from aside, from above, from below. And then it has arrived and all changes. Instagram is one such back door. Kindred spirits can easily find one another, new friends, schools spring up as if by themselves. Some elitist journals and galleries no longer control the development of the art (of painting). 

On Friday, 17 November at 5:00 p.m. Keiu Maasik will open her solo exhibition “Meadows of Change, a Place Called Home” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is about life in virtual reality and reflects on the possibility that human life may move there in the future. It also deals with the fear that this could happen and what we as humans would lose as a result.

On November 9, 2023, at 7 pm a group exhibition titled Fragile Balance opens at Atletika gallery in Vilnius featuring the works of artists Hedi Jaansoo, Nokukhanya Langa, Anna Mari Liivrand, Emma Luukkala, Mari Männa, Laurynas Skeisgiela and Mark Soosaar. The show is curated by Estonian curator Kaisa Maasik and it will remain open until December 16, 2023. The exhibition Fragile Balance focuses on the relation between I can and I cannot - the collision of the frail and the sturdy. Something that artists deal with daily, but voice ever so less. Each of the participating artists has created a practice out of their relationship to the material. The chosen matter becomes an extension of the creator themselves and their capabilities. The struggle is kept in motion even after the work has been put out on display.

On Friday, 17 November at 5:00 p.m. Alice Kask and Neeme Külm will open their joint exhibition “Something Righter in This” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.  The exhibition is seemingly a continuation of the show “In Vanity Alone”, which Alice and Neeme organised in the Tallinn City Gallery a year ago. At the same time, it is also not. While the selection at that time was firmly orchestrated by Neeme, who worked as a demiurge transforming the comprehensible space into an incomprehensible one, today the roles have been switched and Alice has reclaimed the space which she had surrendered to Neeme, filling it with her large paintings. Neeme has handed over the reins saying: “Let grace accompany our actions”.

On 10 November at 6 pm, Anna Škodenko’s solo exhibition At Arm’s Length will be opened in Tallinn City Gallery. Depicting fragments and layers of reality, the artist also shows the complex and scatterd nature of the surrounding world, where the whole falls out of hand and it seems impossible to grasp anything. However, this fascinating painting exhibition serves as a confirmation that what is impossible in life becomes possible in art. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.

Open 12.11.2023 - 9. 03.2024 Opening 11.11.2023 at 16.00 The Earth has been shaken off its axis, and we find ourselves once more living in an era of legends and fairy tales. Before our very eyes, new heroes and new villains are born; an evil cook turns his ladle in the Kremlin, and a ghost dashes about in the sky above Kiev. A legend can sometimes be scary and nightmarish, but ultimately, its purpose is to give hope - to segment a confusing time into intelligible stories with a beginning and an end; to give meaning to lives lost, to show light at the end of the tunnel. In both love and war, the victory belongs to one who tells the more credible story.

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin New cinema and contemporary art October 31 - November 5, 2023 Paris, France My video work 'the enforced memory' was selected for the main program of the festival Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. The screening of my work will take place as part of the session 'Against': on November 1, 8pm at MEP European House of Photography 5/7 rue de Fourcy - 75004 Paris

On Wednesday, November 1 at 18:00 the group exhibition of young photography artists What Colour Is the Sky Above the Port Today? will open in Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition will remain open until November 27, 2023 It is an important exhibition in the history of higher education of Estonian photography, where, inspired by the spirit of our time, the current students or recent graduates of the Estonian Academy of Arts and Pallas University of Applied Sciences have their say. The themes of Tallinn Photomonth 2023 are centered around camera-based media, with a focus on photographic representations of our daily information flow.

From Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Crystal Grid will be open in Draakon gallery. The opening event takes place on November 1 at 18:00. The project-related artist’s book presentation will take place on November 23 at 18:00 adjacent to the gallery in Kanuti Gildi SAAL.   “... How to give structure to something that itself is lacking one? How to present something like that? This is a question of visibility and making visible. What are the means for making visible something that always remains invisible? More precisely: the thing that remains invisible in real life, but of which we can get a glimpse in Crystal Grid, is the structure of capitalism. But how to display something like that?”