Events

From Saturday 14 November, the Vault of A-gallery hosts the solo exhibition of Kätrin Beljajev which invites visitors to look closely at the ways we use energy during the times of vast societal change.   Epidemies have always plagued human society. When the previous one is forgotten, the next one knocks on the door. The land is then bedecked with an atmosphere of fear. Institutions are operating as they consider most useful for the society and people must follow with duty, disperse, keep distance and stay under.   The philosopher George Bataille writes in his 1949 book “The Accursed share: An Essay on General Economy” about energy as a resource that is always in excess and raises a choice of either using it beautifully and enjoyably or turning it into a destructive force [1]. During the times of an epidemic, the over-boosting energy of restrained people begins transforming into new forms.

TASE’19 and EAA (Estonian Academy of Arts) Young Artist’s Award winner Keiu Maasik and Madis Kurss in Draakon Gallery!     Co-exhibition by Keiu Maasik and Madis Kurss 100 Ghz to Midnight will be open in Draakon gallery from Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Exhibition will be open until November 21st, 2020. The authors of current exhibition 100 GHz to Midnight study the simulation of post-apocalyptic world through contemporary computer games. In standard online shooting games the player contests in a team against other teams. During the past ten years, first-person shooting games have increasingly gained popularity - in these gaming platforms, everyone stands for himself and the playground is much more expanded.     Battle Royal is a term used to describe a battle with multiple participants until the last man standing.

Exhibition “His Dreams were Nothing Remarkable” by Art Allmägi and Keiu Virro will be open in Hobusepea gallery since Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Exhibition will be open until November 23rd, 2020.   Early this year, Art Allmägi made an inventory of his artwork. Different exhibitions have included numerous sculptures and installations which have no extra function, unlike the artwork produced for public space. Among them are the sculptures exhibied in his personal exhibition “I Had a Dream Last Night” in Hobusepea gallery in 2012. Actually, these scupltures should have been stayed in a storage. Not because of damage by mice nor the battered beds but because of the controversial content of the dreams that Art has described beside the sculptures.   Hence, if there is something under question that perhaps it should not exist, Art’s artistic vision is mainly as follows: it should!

On Tuesday, November 10 at 5 PM we open the solo show "AL₂SI₂O₅(OH)₄" by Juss Heinsalu and workshop-exhibition “Ceramic Dimension” by Lauri Kilusk, Martin Melioranski and Urmas Puhkan at EKA Gallery. Exhibitions will remain open until November 28. The entrance to the opening is from Kotzebue street. Please wear a mask!     Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄

Sculptor and installation artist Elo Liiv will be opening her first personal exhibition in Tartu on Tuesday, November 3rd. “Useful (AB)use” is a collection of artworks that discuss serious and painful subjects of living in the form of visual short stories as installations. The exhibition showcases both new as well as remixed older works.   The exhibition focuses on being violent and malicious manipulation, #use – or rather #abuse – of loved ones and the world around us. We are living in a world where everything comes with a multilingual user and maintenance manual but where everyone has to build from scratch to live with their loved ones and find a way to a happy relationship sometimes through painful challenges. The world is a dangerous place where violent people always find justifications and reasons, and where victims acquire a heavenly gift to transform everything into goodness.

ARS Project Space 5.11.20-28.11-20   Printed matter endlessly repeats the image we find in its matrix.   The human psyche tends to amplify the mechanisms which spread certain knowledge necessary to certain people.   The ideologies move the masses; it is easy to generate biases and hysteria as demonstrated in this contemporary age.

From Friday, October 23 Karel Koplimets’s solo exhibition “Case No. 16. Elements of Fear (5 Ways to End the World)” can be visited in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The new exhibition will deal with different doomsday scenarios and their depiction in films. The curator is Kaisa Maasik.   In his new project, Koplimets continues examining fears and paranoias, focusing on sci-fi films that end with the extinction of humankind. These plots are combined with the effects of climate change, which are surprisingly under-represented in films. Even if the end in blockbusters isn’t the outcome of our ecological ignorance, it presumably won’t be as improbable and explosion-driven as the film industry leads us to believe.   Karel Koplimets (b 1986) is an artist working mainly with narrative installations through camera-based mediums.

The autumn issue of the Estonian Art magazine focuses on art in the Anthropocene. Writers and artists discuss different subjects such as biomass, the future of textiles, the Anthropocene in Estonian visual culture, eco-activism in the Baltics, the possibility of alternative narratives for the future and community gardens as part of an artistic practice. Artists Laura Põld and Lou Sheppard have created a special visual essay The Exquisite Corpse for this issue, which deals with the abandoned and toxic “zombie mines”.   Visual and written contributions by Hasso Krull, Eike Eplik, Peeter Laurits, Linda Kaljundi, Merilin Talumaa, Laura Põld, Lou Sheppard, Laura Toots, Paul Kuimet, Kärt Ojavee, Taavi Hallimäe, Ann Mirjam Vaikla, Saskia Lillepuu, Sandra Kosorotova, Laura Kuusk, Jaagup Irve, Ott Scheler, Inga Lāce and Heidi Ballet.   “The Anthropocene Issue” will be launched on October 15 at 6pm at Kai Art Center.

From 24 October, Tartu Art Museum will host the extensive and definitely colourful retrospective exhibition “Nostalgialess”. The two floors of the exhibition introduce the works of one of the best Estonian colourists from the 1960s to the present day. Pääsuke’s oeuvre conveys classic painting traditions through a contemporary prism, transcending times and trends. The exhibition is made even more exceptional by the fact that for the artist this marks a return to the location where in 1957 his professional journey began as a student of the Tartu Art School, since back then the classicist mansion from the end of the 18th century was the boys’ dormitory of the music school and the art school. This period of his life has a special place in the exhibition: visitors can experience the historic atmosphere and, as a rare gesture, works from the time of his studies are shown.

Lauri Koppel's personal exhibition “Demiurge's Tupperware” will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, September 13th, 2020. Exhibition will stay open until October 31st, 2020. The idea of the world being an abnormal state is emphasized by Gnosticism, a collection of religious ideas and systems originating from early Christian and Jewish sects. Demiurge, a fallen divine but evil being has created a world of negative matter. A global direct seller company Tupperware produces plastic containers for food storage and preparation - the hermetic and waterproof containers of various shapes have become a part of today's household culture.