Events

On Friday, 21 February at 6 pm exhibition “The Anatomy of Estonian Art Jewellery 1953-2019“ will be opened at the Tartu Art Museum.     Jewellery is one of the most wide-ranging areas of applied arts: despite the small size of most pieces of jewellery, they are intimately close to people. This exhibition highlights art jewellery as a means of individual self-expression that values people in diverse ways, offering them new visions and contexts, and it is based on experimentality in ideas, use of materials and the required skills.   Art jewellery conveys the characteristic elements of its time but can also transcend time.

On Thursday, 20 February at 6 p.m. the exhibition of the first Tartu Art Auction will be opened in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The auction is organised by the Tartu Artists’ Union in co-operation with the gallery Art & Tonic. Auction takes place on 13 March!   Altogether, 169 artists applied for the auction with 287 works. Of them, fifty artists and fifty one works were selected.

On 21 February, Flo Kasearu’s solo exhibition “Endangered Species” will open in the Tartu Art Museum. It deals with closing a business based on the example of a small shop in Pärnu. The exhibition has been curated by Marika Vaarik.   A small shop in the suburbs of Pärnu. A barbershop in Puhja. An accounting office in Maardu. … In the 1990s, many were glad to exploit the newly liberalised opportunities for entrepreneurship and haven’t stopped doing business ever since, even when continuing their entrepreneurial activities hasn’t been their heart’s desire for a long time.   Small businesses, or more accurately micro businesses, form about 95% of Estonian companies. Most of them have only a couple of employees, often only one: the owner. 28% of all entrepreneurs are women. Great. Of these women, 72% are solo entrepreneurs.

On Thursday, 20 February at 5 p.m. the artist Vello Vinn will open his anniversary exhibition “UMBLUU Time and Space. Vello Vinn feat. Kiwa” featuring Kiwa in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition has been curated by Andra Orn from NOAR.eu The exhibition reveals the world of symbols of the singular printmaker Vello Vinn where words and shapes transform together. The simplest and probably the most precise definition for Vinn’s prints is “psychedelic” but often the term “surreal” is used to define them. The title of the exhibition comes from Aino Pervik’s book “Umbluu. New and Old Capers” that was illustrated by Vinn. Among many others, Kiwa was once infected by the magic of this book and the exhibition is therefore based on the principle of remix: the original works of the classical master have been combined with new interpretations.

As our lives are more and more digitally controlled, our bodies’ relationship to the environment has also changed in profound ways.

How do the advertisements we consume daily affect our behavior and establish certain gender roles? Can self-care become an empowering alternative to consumption? Or another clever advertising strategy that furthers oppression?   The solo exhibition The Best You Can Ever Be by artist Ede Raadik will open on Friday, February 14, at Tallinn Art Hall. In her work, Ede Raadik has employed socially conscious art installations as a tool to engage with the world that we inhabit.

Seeing double: Estonian-born, Belgium-based artist Ingel Vaikla overlaps past and future, time and space in her audio-visual investigation of the subjective and the collective. In her first solo exhibition in Belgium, Ingel Vaikla conceptualises her work through the idea of the double exposure. We see archival footage of the city of Slavutych, the last city ever built by the Soviet Union, and we see it now as a young city in present-day Ukraine. In this way Vaikla invites us to let these overlapped realities develop simultaneously in our minds. If we have the courage to climb through the image, through time, space and experience, then we can start to understand how subjective and collective identities are formed, and how they in turn materialise on film, in politics and in architecture.

Kirke Kangro and Sheri Wills will open their exhibition The Solemn Admonition of Your Breathing in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Thursday, February 6th, 2020.   Exhibition will be open until February 23rd, 2020.   Today as then I turn to stone in your presence, sea, but no longer feel worthy

Sten Eltermaa's personal exhibition Transparency Register wil be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, February 4th, 2020.   Transparency Register is a project based on image and language, making the windows and facades of governmental authorities visible to the audience. The project involves various layers: reflective window transparencies, photographs on the wall and on the showcase table, and publication of the artist's research.   The title of the work, Transparency Register, also refers to the US-inspired database introduced in 2011 to shine public light on the communication between lobbyists and the representatives of EU institutions.

On the 30th of January at 6pm.  photo artist Diana Tamane presents her book Flower Smugger at Tartu Art Museum Raekoja plats 18.   As part of the presentation, Tartu Art House’ curator Peeter Talvistu will conduct an artist talk with the author.   The book “Flower Smuggler”, published by “APE” (Ghent, Belgium), compiles several bodies of work with Tamane herself and her family as the main characters. Often, her relatives also become co-authors both actively participating in making of the work, as well as providing her with vernacular images, which initially were not meant to be presented in a gallery context.