Events

The main exhibition of the 8th Tallinn Applied Art triennial “Translucency” will take place at Kai Art Center from May 29th to August 15th, 2021. “Translucency” is an international applied art exhibition, curated by Danish glass artist and art historian Stine Bidstrup. The exhibition includes 21 artists, one quarter of them from Estonia.   Exhibition tour with curator Stine Bidstrup will take place on Saturday, May 29th at 1pm. We kindly ask you to sign up for the tour beforehand here. Please note that the maximum number of participants is 15.   The 2021 Tallinn Applied Art Triennial highlights the creative and critical potential of translucency.

From Saturday, 29 May the joint exhibition “Island of a Thousand Eyes” by Mirjam Hinn and Alar Tuul is open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.   Hinn is abstract and dynamic while Tuul is more powerful and brutal, even forthright. The idea of the joint exhibition is based on a fiction that is used to introduce numerous stories and abstract interpretations about our society and subconsciousness. This means that the dialogue of the artists creates a novel and idealistic utopia. The exhibition offers an original glimpse at the post-technological society where ideas about nature and artificial structures have become intertwined. A story of the contemporary society is told using a motif of an abstract island.   The paintings transform under artificial illumination and the exhibition uses lights, colours, space and sounds to play with the senses of the viewer.

Urmas Lüüs's personal exhibition “Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders” will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Thursday, May 20th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until June 7th, 2021.   Urmas Lüüs: “After my grandmother's death I started to empty her apartment before the renovation works – 83 years of life piled up in front of me. In three summer months, I was able to dig through hardly half of the layers imbued by a human spirit. The pile included a coat hanger secured by a wooden stick and a band aid; a dress made of a curtain; mended socks; a patched oilcloth. There were some kind of knowledge and presence in all of these things. I gathered that I was able to read this knowledge more and more every day. When I discovered a shelf full of crocheted and embroidered doilies, I got the feeling that I was the one who had to continue with the tools I also found there. So I learned from what was there in front of me and gradually my skills improved.

White building of the Estonian Mining Museum, Kohtla-Nõmme

Veiko Klemmer's personal exhibition “What You Can't Get for Money” will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, May 18th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until June 5th, 2021.   Artworks of this exhibition serve to continue the series of abstractions that Klemmer started working with in 2011. Presently exhibited pieces have been completed during the autumn and winter of 2019. The exposition was initially planned to be exhibited in 2020, but due to the conditions of pandemic the exhibition takes place a year later.   Veiko Klemmer comments on his exhibition: „On one hand, the purpose of creating artwork has been mainly the process itself, particularly the experiments with adding tension to space and stimulating a sharpened state of mind where an artwork hovers between an image and imagination. On the other hand, there are definitely some motifs and ideas floating in zeitgeist recorded in the exhibited works.

Exhibition "Imaginary Landscapes" by Estonian textile artist Riste Laasberg in St. Jacob Church in Viimsi opened on 4th of May. It can be visited from Tuesday to Friday 2 pm-6 pm. (One should follow current healthcare regulations). A presentation of the exhibition will be on 23rd of May at 12 pm. The exhibition is open until the end of May. Curator of the exhibition is Erkki Juhandi, exhibition design by Krista Virkus, Kalle Laasberg helped in practical matters. Recent tapestry "Stroomi Beach" (2021) is shown here, photo by Tarmo Tilsen. Additional information: erkki.juhandi@eelk.ee; laasbergriste@gmail.com

Baton from Kütiorg to Kadriorg. Force. Spirit. Power. First stop "Force" at Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery 15.05. – 04.07.2021   Curators Jana Huul, Marje Taska and Reet Varblane, coordinator Stella Mõttus, designer Villu Plink.   Artists Anna Hints, Peeter Laurits, Ivo Lill, Elo Liiv, Raul Meel, Len Murusalu, Terje Ojaver, Villu Plink and Silja Saarepuu, Uku Sepsivart and Sanne Sihm (Sweden).   "Force" will be introduced with curators Jana Huul, Marje Taska and Reet Varblane's visualized force conception: notionally charged silver object with text "Sanctus praesens" and a filming of the sanctification of the baton in Kütiorg's sacred natural site Tammetsõõr during the waning crescent moon phase.

The opening project of the 2021 season, “A rescripted visit to EKKM’s collections” turns the exhibition space into a series of art storage spaces and invites visitors to take part in guided tours, conducted by the production platform RESKRIPT (Maarin Mürk and Henri Hütt). Invited by EKKM, Reskript has taken stock of EKKM’s collections, retrieved from garages and storage and gathered folklore related to the artworks and what has been left behind. This research has resulted in restructuring of EKKM’s collections, establishing of several new collections and developing suggestions for new future-oriented collecting principles.

From Monday, 3 May Krista Mölder’s solo exhibition “The Blue Bird. To the Other Me” will be open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The limits of photography are set by the human vision. Mölder plays with these limits, tests them like a foot testing the water: entering it, letting herself be enveloped by it. The water is tepid, almost the temperature of the body. Therefore the crossing of the line, the change of the environment, is barely perceptible. Impossible to place.   The artist has turned light, the tool of photography, into the substance of her work.

From Monday, 3 May Jaanus Samma’s solo exhibition “Pattern” will be open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. It was created last spring during the artist’s residency in the Art House and his artistic research in the Estonian National Museum.   Examples of the 19th century Estonian women’s coifs (tanu) from the collections of the ENM are exhibited side-by-side with drawings and embroidery inspired by them. Samma continues his research into the covert dating culture and fetishes of the gay community begun in his earlier works. This time the focus is on men’s underwear that have been provocatively juxtaposed with folk flower embroidery.   As a headwear, tanu indicated marriage and Estonian peasant women had to wear it daily as a status symbol.