Events

Gloria Hao’s and Madlen Hirtentreu’s exhibition “Lost Future Figure. oh whistle, and i'll come to you, my friend” in Draakon gallery will be open from November 24, 2021.  l An old nun steps out of the abbey after years of isolation. Perhaps she is on a mission. She meets two strangers. What does one see and think of the world outside the walls of the abbey after years of living in one religious utopia? What doubts does she meet in herself and what can she share with those two strangers?

Kaisa Maasik's personal exhibition “Blow Hot and Cold” will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Wednesday, November 24. Exhibition will be open until December 13, 2021.    The saying “blow hot and cold” expresses ambivalence, alternating between two states. In her artwork presented at the current exhibition, Kaisa Maasik examines depicting of (alternation of) emotions.    When it comes to languages, expressions about moods tend to involve opposite colours: for instance the saying “see red” means the same as “turn blue with anger” in Estonian, and yet, in both languages, one becomes “green with envy”. Various studies have also proved that human face is changing undertones depending on a specific emotion (Benitez-Quiroz, F., Srinivasan, R., Martinez, A. M. (2018) Facial color is an efficient mechanism to visually transmit emotion.

Meeli Kõiva (aka Mery Crystal Ra) will celebrate her 30-year career as a visionary and pioneering international artist with a conference, “IN THE LIGHT OF ENERGY FIELDS: MEELI KOIVA MEETS MERY CRYSTAL RA,” at the KUMU Auditorium in Tallinn on December 5. A 1991 exhibition of Meeli Kõiva's unique and innovative work, which combines moving lasers and quartz glass sculptures, paved the way for the artist's international career. Her work has been featured at numerous galleries and venues, including a UNESCO Light Year solo exhibition in Mexico and a Nobel panel.  A leader in the fields of glass sculpture, lighting art and monumental multimedia, Meeli Kõiva has created more than 50 unique architectural monuments in both Europe and the United States, including a glass-video work at the European Parliament's headquarters in Brussels and a light-glass sculpture at Glaston Corporation's main building in Tampere.

Tõnis Saadoja’s exhibition “September, October, … ” opens in the WIELS Project Room, Brussels. The exhibition opening takes place on December 1 at 18.   In the painting series “September, October, …” the artist’s focus lies equally on two aspects – how to portray an unfunctional environment and how to paint a picture that is primarily about painting?   “I’m interested in the poetic dimension of an image and the conditionality inherent in the painting process provides one possibility to amplify this,” says Saadoja. “Painting is, first and foremost, a potential that may lead to new connections and meanings. It can also lead back to old routes and there’s nothing wrong with that either.

On Saturday, December 4th at 19:00.   Estonian Writers' Union Harju 1, Tallinn 10146   Please join us for book launch of Jaanika Peerna's monograph “Glacier Elegies”.   Külliki Tõnisson is moderating a discussion with the artist and Helo Laatspera. 

NEONAIVISM 26.11.2021 - 4.01.2022 Opening of the exhibition: 25.11.2021 kell 17.00

Uno Roosvalt's anniversary exhibition “My Studio” will be opened in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021. Exhibition will be open until November 22, 2021.    Uno Roosvalt turned 80 in August this year. Current exhibition comprising Roosvalt's drawings is one way to celebrate this important landmark in the artist's life. Uno tends to lead his life with a modest flow – and his loving gaze accompanies the various subjects of his artwork, whether it be Nordic nature, coastal landscapes, evergreen bushes or cats and dogs. And there have always been cats and dogs in the Roosvalt family's home.    Artist's studio is an artist's home. It is the birthplace of the artist's artwork. Even when the works leave the studio, there will be a memory of the space in the artworks as the space in the artist's head where the creative ideas were born. Yearning for one's studio is a part of every artwork's charm.

5–28 November 2021 Opening 4 Nov 2021, 6–8 pm Laura Põld

The exhibition is a combination of different setting with a predetermined spatial order. There is light, there is shadow. There are sources, there is spectacle. Does there have to be a logical link between these entities? Is everything that looks the same, actually the same?   The Moon also reflects light as if it was its own…   The staged space allows visitors to experience states of relief from the causes and consequences and to sense the moments where the overestimation of understanding has passed. Something that initially seemed logical and intellectually not demanding, becomes increasingly unfounded on closer inspection.   How to display black light; how to measure love; how to move in a way that the shadow stays in place?

On Saturday, 13 November Kristen Rästas will open his solo exhibition “Somewhere Over the Rainbow II” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The exhibition is a continuation of a solo project with the same title. Their unifying theme is the “breaking of the fourth wall” through the amplification of the technical structures of the artworks and by demystifying art as an exhibit. Sculptural and painterly artworks and ready-made objects mimic natural elements and artificially created environments. They call into question how precisely can we perceive the world itself, when in reality we are merely exposed to unambiguous conventions and visual language that only describe the characteristics of the world.   The video included in the exhibition functions as a visual letter to the artist’s future self.  It was created amidst the ongoing climate crisis during the first months of the global pandemic.