Electric Dreams - 1st CMA International Symposium and Exhibition
Dates:
Online symposium: 25 - 26th Aug 2022
Virtual exhibition: runs online from August 25th 2022 to June 2023
Location: Due to travel restrictions in Asia, this Electric Dreams iteration will run entirely online.
Book your free tickets here: Eventbrite
Event website: electricDreams.ust.hk
This week, from August 25 to 28, Foku will represent Kristina Õllek at the art fair Art-o-rama in Marseille, France. From August 19, artist Laura Kuusk is represented in the selection of digital artworks at the Immaterial Salon online platform, an extension of the art fair.
By Kristina Õllek a selection of works from the series “Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Silicones” (2019- ...) will be presented in Marseille. Using the example of the North Sea as an example of the effects of human activity on the ecological balance of the world's oceans, the project enters into a dialogue with the coastal area of Marseille and raises burning questions from the point of view of nature conservation.
Kai Kaljo will open her personal exhibition Pile of Dirty Rags in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, August 24, 2022. Exhibition will be open until September 19, 2022.
“In February 2022, I created a folder Explosions and volcanoes in my computer. Actually, I had had it already for a year since I added there my first image.
Jüri Kass will open his personal exhibition Black-White in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Monday, August 22, 2022. Exhibition will be open until September 17, 2022.
With his current exhibition, Jüri Kass continues with the minimalistic means of expression that he has been presenting in various techniques at several personal exhibitions. The artist chooses the most simple way for creating a visual trace while translating this „elementary particle of a picture” in various ways – and at the present exhibition, this elementary particle will be served by the hole in paper.
Jüri Kass (b. 1956) has graduated from the department of industrial art at the Estonian State Art Institute in 1979. He has worked as a graphic designer, painter, graphic artist and lecturer. He has participated in exhibitions since 1974. Kass has held about ten personal exhibitions (posters, drawings, paintings, graphic art).
Opening of a new group show „On the other side of Võru“ on the 19th of August at 5 p.m in Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery.
Grop show „On the other side of Võru“ that will be opened during Võru city’s 238th birthday, is a combination of ten diferent Estonian artists, whose small world has been brought together through irony – this time in Võru. Again and again a good old question rises: „Is grass greener on the other side?“ and how much it matters, where we are from and where we’re going. Is there some place, where art feels better? Or is the mundane world even connected to the internal creation?
The unique approach of this colourful and opposing group can be seen through psychedelic punch needle rugs, digital paintings inspired by street art and utopia, vivid and masterful oil paintings, captivating audiovisual, surprising sculptures and are-you-kidding-me graphics.
Merike Estna’s solo exhibition “Soil will not contain our love” will be on view from August 19 to November 27, 2022. The exhibition has been conceived as a mini-retrospective of the artist’s work, showing a series of new works as well as several works that will be shown in Estonia for the first time. The latter include Estna’s large-scale painting “The Ocean of Endangered Ages”, created for the 2019 Moderna Museet Malmö exhibition, and the hand-woven, large-scale rug “The House of the Tragic Poet”, commissioned for a solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum Gallery in London in 2021 among several others.
Opens on August 12 at 15.00
Association of Estonian Printmakers’ exhibition at ARS Project Space August 12 – September 2, 2022.
The exhibition introduces the works of Mare Vint (1942-2020) through multiple decades.
The lithographs created by Mare Vint regard nature as architecture. Forming chaotic nature into abstract stylised shapes, her work draws a connection between nature and human-made architecture. It’s as if her work sanctified the mundane.
Mare Vint’s pictures are ruled by orderly structures. Everybody knows that all living things have been constructed by twenty amino acids. It is a building block with phenomenal creative prowess, allowing life to multiply itself into many diverse species – this is the astonishing work of nature. It is humans’ biggest and most remarkable creative acts that distinguish us from wild nature – we’ve made capsules out of stone, metal, glass, and concrete. Building blocks and modules multiply in factories faster than they do in nature.
12.08.-14.08.
Kastani 48f, Tartu
Supersonicum & Ajuokse Avangaar presents:
Mäo Rist
Two days long altenative music festival will gather artists from Tallinn and Tartu whom you can hardly meet in summer fancyfestivals.
Lineup:
Viru Realist
Murmer
Theodore Parker
Roomet Jakapi
Yumi Motoma
Renzo Van Steenbergen
Heksel
Kole Galbraith
Martiini
Poon
Koltan Grupp
Erik Alalooga
Tickets: One day - 5 eur/ two days 8 eur
Festival is supported by: Estonian Culture Endowment & Aparaaditehas
Event on Facebook
3.08.–29.09.2022.
From 3rd August the Harju County Library will host the Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding “Scripta manent VI”. The exhibition is organised by the Estonian Association of Designer Bookbinders. The exhibition is a continuation of the international exhibition competition held last year in the ARS Project room, which was attended by 130 artists from 15 countries.
“Scripta manent” (meaning ‘written words remain’ in Latin) is held in Tallinn every five years. Introducing the very best selection of Estonian culture to the world wide audience has been the focal idea of organisers right from the very first exhibition in 1995. Among texts that have been bound earlier, mention may be made of poetry by beloved Estonian authors Doris Kareva and Jaan Kaplinski, music lecture materials from one of Estonia’s most iconic composers Veljo Tormis, an anthology of poetry by young Estonian writers and fairytales created by Estonian children.
On Friday, 12th of August at 6pm opens Sten Saarits' solo exhibition ‘Petrified’ at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Eva Mustonen and remains open until 10th of September.