Events

26.06.2020–10.09.2020   glass artists Maarja Mäemets, Rait Lõhmus   In collaboration with Barrakuuda Sukeldumisklubi and Rummu Adventurecenter, glass artists and freedivers Maarja Mäemets and Rait Lõhmus are for the first time opening an unique underwater glass art exhibition u n d e r  t h e  w a t e r  o n  t h e   m o o n  at Rummu quarry in Summer 2020. Rummu, with its clear waters and one of a kind environment, attracts both national and international audiences . One could compare the sunken prison ruins with an underwater museum that is simply asking for a more comprehensive exhibition.

Temnikova & Kasela is pleased to invite you to Kaido Ole’s solo exhibition “All Together” comprising three new works and three monumental paintings previously shown at the artist’s solo show at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga in 2019. In the series, Ole finds himself in a museum dressed in overalls putting together an imaginary exhibition which brings together works by his Estonian colleagues, international contemporaries and modern classics. With help from various invented characters from his own oeuvre over the years, Ole performs the roles of an artist, curator, installer and museum director.   "I have never had a big party where all my good friends and acquaintances could convene at once. Many people organise these quite often, not only for anniversaries. But parties, especially if I am the host, are really not my thing.

From 12 June the exhibition “Silver Girls. Retouched History of Photography” can be visited in the Tartu Art Museum. The exhibition introduces a selection of works by ten early women photographers from Estonia and Latvia and places them in the company of three contemporary European artists who contemplate the lost and the neglected in our visual history.   Photography is commonly believed to document the world as it is. Similarly, archives and historical collections are believed to represent imagined universal truths. On closer inspection, however, it turns out that archives are collected and later investigated by historians with a particular goal in mind.

Valeri Vinogradov's personal exhibition Vinogradov Without Dubossarski will be open in Draakon gallery since Tuesday, June 9th, 2020. The exhibition will be open until July 4th.   Painter Valeri Vinogradov (b. 1952 in Moscow) has studied in Moscow State Academic Art School 1905 and in former Estonian State Art Institute (now Estonian Academy of Arts). Vinogradov has participated in exhibitions since 1984 – besides holding numerous personal exhibitions, the artist has taken part in more than three hundred group exhibitions both in Estonia and abroad. Vinogradov's artwork has been acknowledged with Konrad Mägi Award (1992) and Kristan Raud Art Award (2010).   Valeri Vinogradov's artwork can be characterized by the balanced combination of aesthetics and intricacy.

On its twentieth year, the legendary annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association will open its doors at Tallinn Art Hall on 11 June, in addition to the already opened exhibitions at the City Gallery and Art Hall Gallery.   The largest exhibition in two decades will present works by 142 artists, who have been selected by a jury from more than 300 applications. The jury of the exhibition this year consisted of Elin Kard, Indrek Köster, Tiit Pruuli, Indrek Grigor, Tamara Luuk and Andra Orn. Visitors can purchase their favourite works from the exhibition and also vote for the recipient of the Audience Prize.   The Spring Exhibition offers the joy of recognition. Above all, the display focuses on works by the middle and older generation of artists, but the list of participants also includes younger artists.

On Friday, 5 June at 5 p.m. the community exhibition “It’s Incredibly Cool to See All of You Here!” will be opened in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is compiled and designed by the artist and art writer Kaire Nurk.   The exhibition has formed through subjective sensibilities and according to Nurk she has seemingly been curating it for the last thirty years. The participants are authors whose oeuvre / exhibitions Nurk has been inspired by and has felt the need to delve deeper by writing about them. Since the meeting of the artists takes place in a real space that, by nature, is limiting, the number of participants has demanded another selection: these are mostly authors about whom Nurk has written more, with whom she has socialised more or with whom she has had collaborative projects.

On Friday, 5 June at 5 p.m. Juss Heinsalu’s personal exhibition “Surface View” will be opened in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House.   “Surface View” is an installation-based setting presenting patterns, topography and fractal relations. It gathers together various works that convey the artist’s wide interest in clay and its uses. Heinsalu treats clay-patterns as embedded material language, essence and memory; as knowledge of a specific site, its formation and environment. While moving through the range of scale within the works, the sense of time and micro-macro relations are being altered. Monumental gallery displays silk screened clay-prints, ceramic elements, video-works of enlarged particles and much more.   Heinsalu adds: “Merging mythological narratives and folklore, scientific hypothesis as well as my own studio practice, in recent years I have taken the embodiment of life within clay as a core idea for my creation processes.

On Friday, 5 June at 5 p.m. Vilen Künnapu’s personal exhibition “Everyday Atlantis…” will be opened in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. At the opening, the catalogue “Vilen Künnapu. Paintings” containing 65 works of art and the accompanying commentaries by authors from different countries will be presented.   According to Plato, Atlantis was located somewhere on the island of Santorini. That is exactly the place where Künnapu’s first paintings were made in 2012. The artist continued developing his slightly dream-like style for the next eight years. In addition to large-scale paintings inspired by Santorini, the exhibition also includes compositions based on Andalusia and Cuba and motifs from Tallinn and Tartu have have found an original abstract guise. The paintings are full of pure colours, energy, magic ornaments and ancient symbols.

Manfred Dubov's personal exhibition Revellers in the Dark will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 and will stay open until June 29th. With his current exhibition, the artist asks whether it is possible to be happy during the difficult times, in the middle of a catastrophe?   Catastrophes and happiness may happen both on a personal and global level. One way of being joyful is not having to worry about the essentials. A catastrophe can be defined as a larger amount of problems and lack of resources for coping with the situation. Self-realization is possible only when basic needs are guaranteed. Thus, we can call ourselves happy when we don't have to be concerned about the essentials. Even during the pandemic-free period our basic needs can be perceived - what is vital and what's not.

Featuring a large number of participants, the 20th Spring Exhibition of the Estonian Artists Association will be opened in two parts.   In 2020, the Spring Exhibition of the Estonian Artists Association will celebrate its 20th anniversary. The display will be opened in two parts: the exhibition Artists Painting Artists, curated by Kai Kaljo, will be opened at the Art Hall Gallery on 21 May, while the opening of the general exhibition at the Art Hall and City Gallery will take place on 11 June.   The anniversary exhibition of the Estonian Artists Association received the largest number of participation requests to date: of the 313 applications, the jury and the curator selected works by 142 artists. For the past number of years, the Spring Exhibition has been designed to form a single whole by Kaarel Eelma.