Events

The exhibition “Tactilite: Stone that Tickles the Gaze” by jewellery artist Darja Popolitova will open in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on August 5thHobusepea gallery. The solo show incorporates five video works, jewellery and installations that will create a fictional world where witch Seraphita helps to cope with the frustrations of everyday life.   “Seraphita is a fictional character who helps me to expand the usual functions of jewellery.

XXI Kohila Symposium closing ceremony will take place on Saturday 31.07 at 19:00 at the Tohisoo Manor. Liz Wirestring will perform on harp. Heat will be added by the parallel program: opening of the fire sculpture in front of the audience. The petal kiln has been built by kiln master Andres Allik, the fire sculpture by Sander Raudsepp.   Artists around the world have spent 3 weeks in Kohila. They have been creating ceramic scluptures that are wood-fired in an Anagama kiln. The topic this year is light! Created ceramic sculptures will be lit by light artist Rene Manivald Tamm. The final exhibition will take place at the Kohila Paper Factory and stays open until the next day, 1. August.   Program: 19:00 Opening at the Tohisoo manor (EST)

On Friday, 30 July at 5 p.m. Triin Kerge and Aksel Haagensen will open their exhibition “Off We Go!” in the large gallery of Tartu Art House.   The exhibition is based on the stories of people who fled as children from Estonia in 1944 or were deported as children to Siberia in 1949. The artists place these two narratives from Estonian history into a dialogue and question the cultural understandings that exist around the deportations and the exodus of refugees.   Triin Kerge presents to the viewer six women who were deported as children to Siberia in 1949, focusing on the personal aspects of collective memory.

Just as the giant lizard in Robin Nõgisto’s painting and the tiny green dinosaur on the screen of a computer disconnected from Internet know that they belong together, Robin himself is convinced that “the world I paint does indeed exist somewhere.” The exhibition Picture People will be opened at Tallinn City Gallery on Thursday, 29 July at 6 pm.   The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.   Robin Nõgisto’s exhibition Picture People features three large two-part paintings, four film and music videos, as well as a few other artworks. The artist features visionary worlds full of vibrant characters, connected by an absence of hierarchies, a strange reality and a passion for life. Canvas after canvas, cats, dogs, lizards, hipsters, skeletons, and aliens appear in various, always striking constellations.

  Dark Finitude is an interactive sound based and nonvisual web-exhibition by the Estonia-based artist Sten Saarits hosted by post-gallery.online. The exhibition is essentially a dark screen that welcomes viewers on an auditory journey taking place in a nighttime forest setting, accompanied by a voice addressing the boundless, curved and unknown landscape.   Dark Finitude has no true ending or a beginning. The set up is much like a sandbox game where the visitor has an option to construct their own route by clicking on different areas of the screen on their handheld or desktop devices. Every click takes the participant further on a chosen path and a sound clip accompanies every advancement.

Excess and Refusal

You are welcome to XXI Kohila Symposium artist talk on Wednesday 21.07 at 14:00 at the Tohisoo manor. All presentations will be in English.

There’s Time There’s No Time Aet Ollisaar and Madis Liplap at Gallery Pallas 15.–31. 07.2021 Exhibition opening 14.07 at 17.00–19.00   How to find balance between excess and shortage? Aet Ollisaar and Madis Liplap play with ideas and time at Gallery Pallas.   Time can be difficult – sometimes there’s so much of it that there’s left over and yet there’s always too little of it. It is almost impossible to find balance between the two extremes. Thus, it often seems that these two extremes exist simultaneously, eliminating yet complementing each other. There‘s always more ideas than time, but it's the lack of time that can lead to new discoveries. There’s time.

On 9th July at 7 PM a drawing performance (with heartbeat, breathing) “Shadow Catcher” by Ülle Marks will take place in the courtyard of ARS, producing a large-format weather-proof artwork (ca 300x800 cm).   The shadow: Ireen Peegel Sound engineer:  Hans-Gunter Lock IT, camera: Robert Luig Sound mixer: Riho Rausma 18.30 Sound installation   19.00 Drawing is started.

Hedi Jaansoo will open her personal exhibition “Sweet Peas, Snapdragons and Forget Me Not” in Hobusepea gallery at 5pm on Thursday, July 8th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until August 2nd, 2021.   Hedi Jaansoo: “I have photographed half-dried cut flowers. I have depicted these with myself, with the wall, with my granny. I have glued the pieces of pictures together and photographed these with more or less fresh flowers, notes, walls and vases. I have pressed wrinkles into the clay. I have braided scarves. I’d like to be like a snapdragon, symbolizing the strength of women. I’d like to polish my nails again, but afterwards I have to take it off, and I have no time, and then these remain longer in a half-polished state. Like flowers in a vase, lasting much longer when half-dried than fresh. I’d like to say there’s no need to press yourself together, because it won’t help.   The beautiful nymph Paeonia once caught the eye of Apollo.