Events

Opening of the group exhibition “Compost of Joy” on July 13 at 4:00 PM at the Narva Art Residency. Often, depicting happiness or joy in art can come across as crude, tasteless, overly decorative, superficial… or KITSCH. Kitsch is an imitation of art aimed at mass-market appeal. But is that really the case? Should it be? Could we instead embrace kitsch, drawing inspiration from its aesthetics without shame, embracing clichés? Or should we strive to convey our joy subtly and with nuance, tastefully and elegantly? Is it even sensible to dismiss clichés? Can the aesthetics of kitsch be used as a serious art form capable of conveying the complexity of human nature? Each participating artist has their own answers to these questions, creating a large, colourful mixture—or perhaps compost—where we’ve tossed all our relevant thoughts for decomposition. Karolina Peterson's experimental film takes us on a journey through an ironically guided meditation, prompting us to reflect on our own lives.

Join us for the opening of Marleen Suvi’s solo exhibition “We’ve Never Lived in a House” at EKA Gallery on Friday, July 5, at 6 pm!  The exhibition will remain open until August 4. Curated by Aleksander Metsamärt Marleen Suvi's personal exhibition "We’ve Never Lived in a House" brings together 16 large-scale canvases to form a major installation, which concerns itself with the topics of memory and family.

You are welcome to the opening of “Souvenir of Haapsalu” by Liivia Leškin on July 3 at 5 pm. The exhibition will remain open until August 4. This exhibition is entirely and completely dedicated to Haapsalu - my hometown. To the light here and to people by my side. Liivia Leškin Lisainfo: Haapsalu City Gallery Posti 3, 90502 Haapsalu www.galerii.kultuurimaja.ee Wed–Sun 12.00–18.00

Estonian artist with Ukrainian roots Tanja Muravskaja works at KORDON as this year's invited artist. The Artist Talk with Tanja will take place on Wednesday, June 26 at 16:00 at the KORDON Art Residency Ranna 1, Kärdla. All interested are very welcome!

Exhibition opening on June 29.06 at 3pm. Jaan Elken: As an artist, I create worlds that make certain claims of visual comprehensiveness, that have intellectually oriented coordinates that have guided me in one way or another. The contrasts of metropolitan airports, where the human made futuristic emptiness of the terminals is followed by a different emptiness when you hit the runway, where the rush if speeding is replaced by transcendental ascension, when you no longer can feel the speed/space/time in an ordinary manner – emerging above the clouds.

On Thursday, June 20 at 6 p.m. painter Anne Parmasto opens her solo exhibition "Green Forms" at Vabaduse Gallery. Parmasto, who mainly works in abstract panel painting, brings to Vabaduse Gallery an expressive and colourful selection of paintings, one of the central and recurring motifs of which is the greenery of plants striving to grow and flourish.  Accompanying the exhibition of her most recent work, the artist describes painting as a journey towards the horizon – each step towards it taking it the same much further.

Today the SISU exhibition opens at 3 p.m. At 4 p.m there will be a guided tour in the Film Archives building led by its director Eva Näripea. The symposium will take place from 5 p.m to 7 p.m.  SISU is a major event in the field of Estonian interior architecture and spatial design, which deals with topics related to interior architecture. Participants were asked to open up the current state of their profession through one artefact taking into account the fact that after the end of the exhibition they wouldn’t get back their works. The objects will be put in the boxes and will remain in the archive building as a unified time capsule.

State of Concept is proud to announce the opening of the group exhibition Ghosts of Impossible Present, on Friday the 31st of May at 18:30, curated by Solvita Krese, organised by Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.  In the exhibition Ghosts of Impossible Present, artists from the Baltic states address the ghosts of our shared ecosystems – the traces left by ecological disasters and wars in the environment, plants and creatures. For a long time, ecological concerns in the Baltic region have been overshadowed by geopolitical problems, imperialist aggression, the polarization of society, and social inequality, among other issues. Yet the undeniable impact of human activity on the environment and the climate have shifted perceptions. Ecological problems are now recognized as pressing political issues, closely tied to our survival and the future of our ecosystems. 

‘Do I Know What It Is, From Which None Can Escape’ brings together a series of photographs depicting lost gloves on the streets of Tallinn, and the found photos of human hands. The so-called ‘gloves’ season’ in Estonia lasts relatively long, from October to April. Especially towards spring, one can notice many lost gloves on, which lie on the ground, or are placed in a visible position by passersby. Gloves are immediately connected to hands, protecting them from cold or dirt, and there’s a trace of human touch in the gloves. A single glove on the street signifies loss but also care, especially when observing the creative and sometimes humorous ways that passersby have displayed them so the owners can find them again. The photos of gloves and vintage images of hands are a kind of interplay of the notions of lost and found, and of precarity and care.

𝐑𝐞_𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦_𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞 – cycles of repetitions, recycling, sustainability 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦 – shape, layer, format 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 – an initiated, active event; an activity that brings consequences Re_form_action is an insight by a group of young artists and fashion designers into the fashion system undergoing rapid changes – a zeitgeist full of critical reflections, the final acts of old narratives and the arrival of new values. The starting point of this exhibition is the garment as a piece of clothing that conveys a feeling or a condition; that is, recording emotions, carrying and commuting narratives. Fashion as an item of clothing, a storyteller and a work of art.