Graphic art exhibition “Urban Utopia III: Foundscape”

On Friday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m., the group exhibition “Urban Utopia III: Foundscape” will open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. 

Ten graphic artists have taken on the task of depicting urban visions. The exhibition focuses on phenomena that fall outside the mainstream depiction of the city: artists find the invisible, the marginal, the absurd in urban space and imagine new landscapes, patterns and shapes inspired by it.

“This time, the artists' perspectives have slipped to the edges of the city. These are the places where the city begins, or where it ends, depending on how you look at it. The motifs originate from suburbs and badlands, but also from complete abstraction or a fading memory or from just right here, the corner of the eye. Foundscape marks a landscape that, much like wasteland, has somehow been overlooked or abandoned. But instead of being lost to us, it exists as a total opposite to the latter: suddenly something new is found here,” explain the exhibition’s curators.

“Urban Utopia” is a series of group exhibitions that began in the summer of 2024. Behind it is a self-organised collective of graphic artists from different generations and backgrounds. The result are exhibitions that combine masterfully executed traditional graphics with figurative and technical experimentation.

The exhibition features Britta Benno, Lauri Koppel, Riin Maide, Mark Antonius Puhkan, Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, Helen Tago, Liis Tedre, Kadri Toom, Vello Vinn and Marje Üksine.

Exhibition organisation and curatorial team: Liis Tedre and Riin Maide
Graphic design: Aimur Takk
Co-thinker: Eik Hermann
Technical support: Siim Asmer

The exhibition is being supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
The exhibition will be open until 19 July.

Additional information:
Maret Tamme
Producer of the Tartu Art House
produtsent@kunstimaja.ee
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The Tartu Art House (Vanemuise 26) is open Wed–Mon 12.00–18.00. All exhibitions are free of charge.
The exhibition activities in the Tartu Art House are supported by the Tartu city government and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.