Events

Kristi Kongi is the artist in residency this spring at roam project space. The residency concludes with the solo exhibition, “Colours reminded me that life can get so interesting that we forget to be afraid.”, taking place during the Gallery Weekend and Sellerie Weekend in Berlin! Opening: 28.04.23. 6 - 9 pm Open until: 7.05.23. Thursday - Sunday 4 - 7 pm & by appointment roam Lindenstraße 91 10969 Berlin /// “Fragility is a force of extreme strength, a force which we must tap for art.” - Miriam Cahn “What is the importance of the concept of saturated colour?” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

On 11-13 May 2023 III International performing arts festival of Spooky Action at a Distance will take place in Tallinn. Live performances, music program, workshop, discussions and a bookshop by artists from Estonia, Portugal, Ukraine, Latvia, the Netherlands and the UK. The concept of spooky action at a distance, first described by Albert Einstein, describes how an object can be affected without being physically touched by another object. Just like we get touched, provoked, inspired by words, images, sounds. Just how arts, sciences, technologies and culture constantly influence each other. For three days and nights we will be exploring this phenomenon with the focus on the montage between natural and artificial, natural and synthetic. We invite artists whose experimental and risky creations we appreciate and therefore we want a wider audience to get to know them. And we believe that a small festival is a perfect concentrated environment where the visitor can get to know artists’ creative language.

April 4 – April 21, 2023 Jakobi gallery, Tartu You are invited to the closing of the exhibition on Friday, April 21 at 4 p.m. --> Arrowgroup (-→ Noolegrupp in estonian) is an artist group active since 2004. It has appeared in front of the public with exhibitions in white cubes, installations and actions in public space, as well as in all kinds of alternative art spaces. An important part of the group's work is the play with exhibition formats and places, bending and placing them into boundaries that offer new challenges and opportunities, and then slipping over them. Interactivity and audience involvement have played an important role in the artistic practice of --> Arrowgroup. It is based on the belief that every idea must be so explainable, that others can contribute either by acting or by thinking along and the process is more valuable than the end result.

On Thursday, April 6th, the exhibition EX POST by Tanel Veenre, will be opened simultaneously in Draakon gallery and the VAULT of A-Galerii.⁠ The exhibition will be open in Draakon gallery until April 29 and in the VAULT of A-Galerii until May 6. ⁠⁠ What comes after? I’m in the moment between then and now, confined in space and time. But what comes after? Tanel Veenre

Kadri Liis Rääk will open her solo exhibition Exopoiesis in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023. Exhibition will be open until April 30th, 2023. With her current exhibition Exopoiesis, Kadri Liis Rääk reacts to social, ecological and existential crises that we are facing today while looking towards a possible future. The artist seeks answers to questions what an alternative world could be, how would it emerge and disappear and what our role in experiencing this time-space during these processes.

On Thursday, 30 March at 6 pm, Diāna Tamane’s solo exhibition The Sea is You will be opened at Tallinn City Gallery. The artist’s series of watercolours is based on meditation and breathwork, drawing attention to the uncertainty of artistic work and the need to take time out. The curator of the exhibition is Siim Preiman.  At the exhibition, Diāna Tamane will display a series of watercolours completed over the past two years. These works are a step towards a body-based practice, where art grows out from life and vice versa – gently and naturally. Synchronised breathing and painting results in intuitive and flowing works that do not drain energy, but rather give it.

OPENING: WEDNESDAY, 12 APRIL AT 6–8PM 13.04.–22.06.2023 For some reason they thought this exhibition should be titled Amber. Amber could be a natural resource, a souvenir, a wall colour, or a way to accidentally preserve mosquitos full of dinosaur blood, making Jurassic Park possible. They are imagining this curator. Her name is Amber. She is on a Baltic-Nordic tour, taking the long trip from LA to Vilnius, making her way through Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki to look for inspiration. Afterwards – Ibiza, for fun and romance. Maybe Amber is from a tiny spa town with an air of mystery. Shallow Springs, Wyoming. Shallow Springs, Arizona. She has left town, she has made it in the art world, but what happened in Shallow Springs is haunting her dreams.

Galleries Metropol Cabinet and Metropol Staircase (Vana-Kalmaja 46) March 11 – April 2, 2023 During Performative Arts Festival of March 9 titled “Body Culture” an exhibition which brings to light some undercurrents of the theme of percentage art was opened in the Metropol gallery. How is it that an industry like sports has risen to play an ever-increasing role in the cultural landscape? Music and flm makers have been competng or a long tmee Now it's tme or visual arts - partcipaton in percentage art compettons is taking on the dimensions o a natonal sporte But whenever there is competton, there are downsidese The competence o the judges, the bias o the competton conditons and the shortcomings in the quality o the executon are new topics in art circlese What could be done beter and what are the possible botlenecks? ou have to compete and adapte

25.02.2023–04.06.2023   The exhibition Look at Me! Listen to Me! introduces vibrant, powerful and touching artworks of Russian-speaking female artists who live in Estonia. Even though the ten artists included in this exhibition have very different upbringings, artistic approaches and career paths, they all have three things in common: they are women, have careers in Estonia and speak Russian as one of their main languages. The artists’ own experiences and research studies of the last twenty years prove that ethnic segregation in the Estonian labour market is still strongly evident. Combined with gender stereotypes that still permeate our society and the economic instability of creative careers, this situation pushes Russian-speaking female artists at least a few, and sometimes quite many, steps backwards compared to other authors.

Valeri Vinogradov will open his solo exhibition Selected in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. The exhibition will remain open until April 3rd, 2023. Additional information: Hobusepea Gallery Tel: +372 56 451 591       +372 52 85 324       +372 6 276 777 E-mail: galerii@eaa.ee Hobusepea 2, Tallinn 10133 http://galerii.eaa.ee/hobusepea Wed‒Mon 12.00‒18.00