Events

On Friday, 3 July at 5 p.m. Margus Lokk will open his personal exhibition “Crossing the Blue Line” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House.   Lokk shows his latest paintings that have been made specially for the exhibition.   The artist adds: “This might be freedom. I will not draw a red line. Everything take place in a blue glow. But too much blue can kill. Did I want this blue? I will remain polite. I would like to be a quiet observer but I make an involuntary scream. I just came across the Toome Hill.”   Margus Lokk (b 1979) has studied painting in the Tartu Art College and in the Painting Department of the University of Tartu.

The opening reception of the exhibition “Resemblance Through Contact. Grammar of Imprint” will take place at the Tartu Art House on Friday, 3 July at 5 pm.   The exhibition focuses on printmaking as a process that is cultivated through contacts between forms and counterforms (negative space), and by the tension produced by these interactions. We are not so much interested in specific images, proofs, shapes or manners as in printed matter’s ability to introduce the new space that emerges between matrix and multiplicity. We focus on forms, and their dissemination through various statements and manifestations of printmaking in the post-disciplinary era. We define material as a subject, while the predicate denotes what the material does. We wish to return to the beginning of the functions of imprint and investigate its points of contacts with other disciplines.

Saturday 04.07.2020 at the Copper Leg Art Residency 14:30 Opening of Raul Keller's photo exhibition

On Friday, 3 July at 5 p.m. Jaak Kikas will open his personal exhibition of photo(de/re)constructions “Totems” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.  The artistic vision of Jaak Kikas is certainly influenced by his educational and occupational background as a physicist. Symmetries, reflections, experiments with the elements of physical reality are important keywords in physics. However, the exhibited photo manipulations give the viewers an opportunity for exercises in pareidolic thought games, enabling them to become co-authors of the works and to see in the images their own hopes, expectation and fears.

Tallinn Biennial is a chance to witness and experience the freshest works of contemporary art from across the Nordic and Baltic region. The aim is to offer a more underground look into the creative scene, where the need to experiment and express prevails over the need to be right or perfect.   Welcoming all the undercurrents, that get shunned by the prim mainstream, this is where you find the views freed from the constraints of convention, the edgiest and most unpolished raw breath of real air. You get to witness the dialogue between the artist and the art itself, where being certain means failure. Biennial urges you to keep on asking, exploring and feeling by accepting the unpolished, strange and unexpected realities of life.   Tallinn Biennial has grown out organically from Tallinn Art Week and is taking place for the first time in 2020 as a pilot.

Artist Crisis Center is open from 2 until 9 of July in the welcoming premises of ARS Project room to provide support for the creative types cheated by Fortune or beaten by the hooves of Pegasus.   Accompanied by a shelter for unwanted art and a soup kitchen, it is providing refuge and assistance for those in need, all while surrounded by a soothing atmosphere to ease agitated minds and restless souls. Soothing voices might lead visitors through the pleasantly beige interior of Artist Crisis Center and instruct in the use of the healing equipment as well as provide the guidance to artists experiencing troublesome times.   The difficulty of placing your uncomfortable body in the usually pompous setting of an art event has been eliminated by the convenient seating, while soft lighting hides the flaws of disgraced artists and embarrassing artwork as well as those found in the faces of viewers.

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.