Events

On 27 August at 17:30, Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins solo exhibition It Is the Wind Which Swells the Sails will open at the Draakon Gallery. Continuing the themes explored in her previous exhibitions, Teinfeldt-Grins approaches landscape as an archive, a layered carrier of memory shaped by political power and human intervention. As the artist herself has said: „The momentum begins to fade. The highway falls behind, and the road grows narrower. The landscape, which at first unfolds as distant and unfamiliar, gradually begins to reveal itself. The edges of forests, strips of fields and bends in the road that moments ago were merely features of the scenery become landmarks. One could swear that, as the speed slows, time itself eases its pace.

On 27 August at 6:30 PM, the artist Andre Joosep Arming’s debut solo exhibition Chain Reaction will open at the Hobusepea Gallery with a festive, Renaissance-themed masquerade ball, directed by Linda Mai Kari. The exhibition is an exploration of human fragility, solitude, adaptation and perseverance, focusing on the tension field between the ending of life and new beginnings. The exhibition will remain open until 27 September. Chain Reaction is about celebrating the joy of existence and the privilege of being alive. Arming’s works serve as a poignant reminder to inhabit the present fully, with complete intensity, despite not knowing what the future holds. The artist adds: “I would like to remind everyone and acknowledge that life is hard, but it is worth it.”

On 28 August at 5:00 PM Külliki Järvila’s exhibition Apocalyptic 7 will open at the Vabaduse Gallery. The apocalypse referred to in the title is a Greek word that means ‘removing the cover’ or ‘revealing the hidden’ – the exhibition should be read as a vision of the world, and the role humans play in preserving it.

On Thursday, 30 July at 6:00 PM, the group exhibition Joie de Vivre will open at the Tallinn City Gallery, featuring the artists Andre Joosep Arming, Katrin Enni, Aksel Haagensen and Silvia Sosaar. The exhibition observes life as a process, wherein growth and decay, invasion and extinction are parts of the whole, striving for balance yet perhaps not achieving it. The four participating artists each tackle these subjects based on their own practices. Personal memories, bodily experiences, absurdity and environmental tact converge to produce an exhibition that is in bloom and in collapse, playful and melancholic. Andre Joosep Arming’s installation ∞ miracle combines personal memories with a desire for visibility and presence. Experiences detailed on bed sheets portray new locations, fears and relationships as parts of everyday change. The work tackles life as a cycle in which experiences are collected, cleansed and forgotten, in order to start over again.

Uno Roosvalt’s anniversary exhibition Home Shores, inspired by homely motifs, is open at the Vabaduse Gallery from 24 July. The exhibition is being curated by Katariina Pruus and it will remain open until 26 August. The exhibition features a comprehensive and contemplative ensemble of the artist’s most recent work, where nature and man, creator and creation come together and merge into a harmonious whole. The selected works highlight Roosvalt’s distinctive style, offering compositionally engaging insight into the lifelong dialogue of a master with his surrounding environment.

On 23 July at 5:30 PM the painter Johanna Mudist will open her solo exhibition Little Man at the Hobusepea Gallery. Mudist depicts the human figure in proportion to nature: as small. Through her practice, Mudist examines how humans relate to their surroundings, to other people, animals and the various elements of the natural world. In her paintings, the boundaries between humans and nature dissolve, become distorted or disappear altogether. Similarly to the melting figures that merge, reappear or dissipate, there is also a breaking down of familiar categories: human and nature, strong and weak, large and small.

The solo exhibition Selected Constraints by Vano Allsalu (curated by Liisi Kõuhkna) is open from 23 July at the Draakon Gallery. The exhibition can be viewed as a continuation of his 2014 exhibition Motive at the same gallery. Undoubtedly, both the artist and the world have changed during this time, yet the questions of (artistic) freedom, the artist's message and motivation remain relevant.