Triinu Jürves, Kaarel Kütas, Villem Jahu “BELOW TIME”

Triinu Jürves, Kaarel Kütas, Villem Jahu
“BELOW TIME”
(painting, objects, video, sound, installations)

May 5 – July 12, 2026
Haapsalu Art School Basement Gallery (Jaani 2, Haapsalu)

The exhibition “Below Time” addresses the relativity of time and space and their cyclical repetitions – traces that disappear and reappear, remain or fade away entirely. It exists simultaneously inside and outside, below and above, hidden and visible, both once before and now.

The 13th-century basement of the art school, with its stairs, doors, and small chambers, provides a suitable framework for these shifts, both physically and conceptually. The works in the exhibition are created and selected in response to the site’s specific character, entering into dialogue with it and forming a whole that is both familiar and strange.

Visitors are invited to step from a sunny summer day into another reality – one that exists below time. The basement functions as a place of storage and preservation, a space from which things are taken and to which they are brought. It is also a place to put things aside, to avoid dealing with them, to forget. Mysterious and ambiguous, it allows room for something other – a space for hiding or retreating, a prison cell, a band rehearsal room, or a techno hub.

In Haapsalu, the three artists continue a similar approach to their previous joint exhibitions (e.g. “On Branch Road”, Tartu Art House, 2025), where each artist presents individual works that lose clear boundaries within the space and merge into a single narrative.

Each artist approaches the work in their own way:
Triinu Jürves through object-based commentary and repetition,
Kaarel Kütas through poetic robustness,
Villem Jahu through sonic abstraction.

Triinu Jürves, Kaarel Kütas, and Villem Jahu have worked in close proximity for many years across various collaborations and contexts, including Arrowgroup, pedagogical work, artist-run galleries, and performance-based practices. They are united by a shared interest in combining and merging different formats within contemporary art. They work with equal commitment in industrial spaces and white cube galleries, valuing collective creation and the blending of practices and authorship.

Opening: Sunday, May 3 at 4 pm

Location: Haapsalu Art School Basement Gallery, Jaani 2
(entrance from the courtyard, next to Haapsalu Bishop’s Castle)

Opening hours:
May: Tue–Fri 2–6 pm, Sat 12–4 pm
From June 1: Wed–Sun 12–6 pm
Free admission

Acknowledgements: Aide Leit-Lepmets, Haapsalu Art School, Taave Tuutma

Additional information:
Triinu Jürves
+372 510 2572
trjyrves@gmail.com