Events

“If nothing saves us from death may love at least save us from life” – Pablo Neruda This miniature exhibition invites you to take a little moment and seek for solice in something we all yearn for. Pieces of totally abstract act of love, poured in nest-like constructions presented in noble frames. Hammer and Soome are melting together abstract painting, fragile installation and fine silverwork – it’s a mixture of subtle emotions. Kärt Hammer (1988) and Patrick Soome (2002) are artists and best friends who found each other through creative process with their first co-exhibition “drowning” (2020). They have an undoubtably similar intuitive understanding of aesthetics where clean minimalism flirts with intense destructiveness and romantic gentleness. In this somewhat chaotic process there is always an element of existential darkness. Opening 19:00, 07.10.2022 07.10-13.10.2022 Galerie 3M2, 145 Galerie de Valois, 75001 Paris Supporters: Estonian Embassy in Paris, BiboVino Kärt Hammer krt@krthammer.com

The Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) and Von Krahl Cinema invite you to the art event “Audiovisual Compost” on 29 September at 20.00.  Participating artists: Tõnis Jürgens, Kaarel Kurismaa, Art Nõukas, Francesco Rosso, Karl Saks, Hanna Samoson, Mare Tralla The art event “Audiovisual Compost” presents a variety of video and sound works created in the past 20 years to which the participating artists have recently added a new layer of comments. They used motifs from older works to create new audiovisual compositions and look into historical processes from today’s perspective.

Kert Viiart will open his solo exhibition As It Came Out of the Earth, It Returns in Hobusepea gallery at 17:00 on Friday, September 23rd, 2022. The exhibition will be open until October 17th, 2022. According to the artist, one can presume that the future in plastic ruins will arrive unexpectedly; however, the dystopian narrative has become almost an inevitable part of the future of our planet; creating unimaginable landscapes. Nondegradable plastic waste will be unavoidable part of the history of humankind. Perhaps instead of the achievements of certain civilizations, the future archaeology will tell about the dystopian results of civilization and humankind.

On Tuesday, 27th of September at 18:00, Maarja Mäemets' personal exhibition „Sabotöör / Saboteur“ will be opened in Jakobi gallery. The exhibition will stay open until the 21st of October. The focus of the exhibition is the artist’s hidden antagonist, a deliberate thwarter who criticises, subverts and judges. This cunning inner speech undermines one’s footing and in the worst case prevents one from dreaming and enjoying life to the fullest. Skillfully set up fine sensitive traps need excellent swimming skills. There is continuous movement through major and minor obstacles, dead ends, repetitions and ambiguity in the hopes of reaching to the other side. Eili Soon, Kaie Vakepea, Andra Jõgis and Rait Lõhmus contributed to the materialisation of the exhibition. Thank You! Additional information: Jakobi Gallery E-mail: jakobigalerii@gmail.com Jakobi 52, Tartu Tue–Fri 13.00–18.00

‘Well,’ they start. ‘Now this was all refreshing, but what are we doing here, Hal? Huh? What are we doing here?’ ‘I don’t know.’ You shrug. ‘What are you doing here?’ ‘I’m asking you – what are we doing here?’ ‘I don’t know,’ you say, still shrugging. ‘I don’t know. Ask them.’ You look at me. I show you. Whether you see or not is hard to tell. We all continue. ‘We don’t know what we’re doing here either,’ I hear them say. You look back towards them. ‘You don’t know what we’re doing here?’ ‘Shit,’ they say. ‘We’ll deal with this later. Let’s do something else. It’s getting vaguely exhausting. Does anyone know anyone who has anything? Hey Hal, do you have anything?’ they ask. ‘The smoke machine is busted,’ I answer. They sigh. ‘Listen, Hal.’ They are now staring at their phones, checking for something. ‘Hey Hal, are you listening?’ they whisper. ‘Yes,’ I whisper back. ‘Are you listening to me?’ you whisper. ‘...’ ‘Hey Hal?’ ‘I’m going to propose that I tell you a joke on the condition that afterwards you stop with the questions and let me think.’

Mari Männa will open her personal exhibition Let’s live in friendship! in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Tuesday, September 20th, 2022. Exhibition will be open until October 12, 2022. “Let’s live in friendship!” refers to a text that was found on a blackboard of a schoolhouse in Novyi Bykiv in Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine after the pillage by Russian soldiers. Current exhibition alludes to a self-contradictory Russian propaganda campaign. Mari Männa has combined playful artwork and documentary found material in her unique world. The landscape she has created alludes to a location that is flushed by conflicting energy. The artwork that has formed is just like a frozen moment in this chaos. Männa started to work with her new sculptures before the Russian invasion to Ukraine. Her half-figures began to embody the ongoing events while taking on the emotions, postures and objects of the changing society.

Karel Koplimets' personal exhibition in Kanal gallery will at first glance take us to an artificial urban space, which observes our daily (precisely: nightly) surroundings, this time focusing on light pollution, machines and the relationships between them and humans.   Exhibition Intolerable Brightness of Artificial Light in Nocturnal Urban Darkness consists of two artworks: Untitled (2021) and Your Order Is on Its Way (2021). Also, this is their premiere in Estonia.  Video work Your Order Is on Its Way is a dance video, in which a bicycle courier and a parcel robot meet. This artwork studies the relationship between humans and machines in a new robotisation age and at the same time, asking, if humans and machines can coexist or has it changed the current definition of work. 

Journeys can sometimes be life-altering. Over the atmospheric and geopolitical heat of the summer of 2022, curators Corina L. Apostol and Kristaps Ancāns invited eight artists, four based in Estonia and four in Latvia, to travel across the Baltic coast to discover each other and create this exhibition together. Working in collaboration, each of them brings their personal approach to art practice and co-habitation of the exhibition space at Tallinn Art Hall Gallery in the show I came here to be alone – I also came here to be alone.

9.09.-30.09.2022 ARS Project Space Borrowing the name for the exhibition from a snippet in an interview by a colleague where she characterises my previous exhibition (Perfect Wordls) using those two words, I have made and found a collection of pieces, which in a longer duration of time formed within the influence of this imaginary double helix. The name and concept stuck and demanded attention, refusing to be binned. Figures, forms and sounds swirl in a gravitational field of tranquil beauty as if to pose a question what chance do they have in these times of turmoil, uncertainty and dust. The exhibition will extend from physical into virtual space. Raul Keller (1973) is an Estonian contemporary artist who since the 90s has worked within the field of experimentalism with a focus on location, improvisation and sound practices.

In this exhibition, it is possible to experience three works, all of which deal with playing and observe different aspects of playing or a game. Martin Buschmann's work focuses on the phenomenon where a computer game simulates a specific job (driving a truck), doing it as realistically as possible. In the game, the author was able to drive through the most important hubs of human settlement in Estonia, despite the fact that in real life he does not have the right to drive, and to capture his journey using photographic tools. To experience his work, visitors can use a tablet in the exhibition hall or download the Overly app to their smart device. There are two works by Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo. Both works focus on a certain abstraction or simplification that comes with the game. In the video, he focuses on the different passage of time in real life and in the computer game world. In its essence, this simplification is also diametrically different from simulation (which Buschmann observes, for example), although there is also a certain attempt at realism in the gameworld.