Events

Thursday 19th of May at 6pm opens solo exhibition by Peeter Laurits titled 'Sacred Baths' at Vaal Gallery, Tallinn. The exhibition will remain open until 2nd of July, Tue–Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16. In Estonian culture, Peeter Laurits’ work fits in with a theoretical grouping of different creative professionals who are interested in Estonians’ and other Finno-Ugrians’ mythological relationship with nature. To this day, many Estonians see themselves as a nation who has a special relationship with their natural environment and landscape. In the works of Peeter Laurits uber-technologization merges with old-growth forests, marshes, and ancient legends. Laurits see nothing contradictory in this, ‘Human consciousness is based on archetypal structures which are probably not that dissimilar from those of pine trees, squirrels, or martens.’

14.05–11.06.2022 Exhibition opening will take place on the 14th of May at 16:00. Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s annual exhibition, which travels between different exhibition spaces in Estonia, will make its debut this year in Ida-Viru county. It is a sequel to Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s 20th annual exhibition Colour – RED held in ARS Project Space in 2020. With the follow-up exhibition new time- and site-specific layers and viewpoints are added to the topic of red and its variations that were the main focus in the previous exhibition.  The keywords for Estonian Glass Artists´ Union´s exhibition Colour – red 2.0 are  c o n t r a s t , c o n f r o n t a t i o n  and  t r a n s i t i o n . The exhibition showcases the works from eighteen glass artists, who have interpreted the topic freely by using personal semantics, metaphors and symbolism.

Pine-fulness group exhibition will open from 7 May in the gallery of Vana-Võromaa Cultural Centre. The exhibition deals with the relationship between Estonians and their natural environment. Using bitter humour and sustainable gestures, it attempts to raise awareness of the impact of today’s actions on our dream future. The participating artists are Eike Eplik, Olimar Kallas, Reet Kasesalu, Jan Lütjohann, Georgi Markelov, Mall Nukke, Hanna Samoson and Johannes Säre. The curator of the exhibition is Siim Preiman. You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on 6 May at 6 pm in the gallery of Vana-Võromaa Cultural Centre!

From Friday, 6 May, Tallinn City Gallery will host the exhibition Happiness and Everything Else, which brings together artists Evi Tihemets and August Künnapu, professionals and dreamers who are both picturesque and graphic at the same time. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.

Kunsthalle Recklinghausen 1 May – 7 August 2022 With Flo’s Retrospective, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen presents the Estonian artist Flo Kasearu’s first solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition is part of the Ruhrfestspiele 2022 official program. Working across various media and genres, the artist is able to condense socially urgent and politically relevant topics in a remarkable way.

Riga Photography Biennial, "Screen Age III: Still Life", Riga Art Space, 22.04 -12.06.2022 The exhibition Screen Age III: Still Life continues a series from 2018 that poses existentially pressing questions through observing the way technology is slowly changing people today. How deeply has human consciousness become inseparable from the technological solutions that grow increasingly useful and convenient with each day? Are we the same individuals that we were when we didn’t have smartphones and smart watches that serve us so well in monitoring the world? What are the ways in which our attitudes have shifted in respect to seemingly eternal things and ethical values centuries in the making? What testimony will there remain after our time is past? We invite you to pursue this line of thought by employing the coordinate system used throughout art history – that is, the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. These have changed beyond recognition in the new epoch, the screen era.

Tim Høibjerg, Siiri Jüris and Triin Marts will open their exhibition Then the Edge Asserts Itself in Hobusepea gallery on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 18.00. Exhibition will stay open until May 30, 2022. Then the Edge Asserts Itself, which takes its title from Anne Carson’s book Eros the Bittersweet (1986), is a group exhibition that looks towards the complexities of human desire and emotional interaction. The exhibited artists share a common interest in corporal experiences – in the body as archive, material, landscape, haven. Through painting, sculpture, video, and installation, they explore what it means to be alone and together in a distressed and desolate world, with a particular attention towards the powers of touch, memory, and intimacy. In dialogue with each other and the materials and traditions that govern their work, they address how desire forms selfhood, how it makes and breaks us, and the abiding struggle to soften the edges of doubt.

David Attwood / Enrico Freitag / Vika Kirchenbauer / Sigrid Viir March 25 - June 4, 2022 This group exhibition scratches lightly at the complexities of labour and their representation, revealing a curious self-reflection on contemporary and historical depictions of work, our relationship with leisure, laziness, and art-making as a form of labour. These strange New Beasts of Burden are bound by their seemingly inherent need for modes of production, and, perhaps equally, a voracious desire to purchase, acquire and fulfil what they apparently lack. Additional information: Low Gallery Lāčplēša iela 78A  Rīga, Latvija LV-1011 E-mail: galerijalow@gmail.com Wed–Fri 15.00–18.00 Sat 14.00–17.00

On Friday, 6 May at 5 p.m. the painter Edgar Tedresaar will open his solo exhibition “Anthropocene” in the large gallery of Tartu Art House. The exhibition talks about the epoch when humankind dominates the biosphere and our actions directly influence the living environment of the planet. Tedresaar mainly focuses on landscapes that people have reshaped and reformed. These are the places where the minerals and natural resources that are important for the everyday life in our techno-centric world come from. We don’t think about all of this often, but as a result of obtaining them, the natural species and environments of these areas perish and the pursuit of financial gains leads to the suffering of innumerable masses.

Hanno Soans and Silvia Sosaar open their co-exhibition Reformation in Draakon gallery at 6PM on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022. Exhibition will be open until May 28, 2022. But where is the final destination of the roots of an event? Where are the last cells of an event-organism? These are nowhere. These exist only if agreed upon. This is especially obvious when observing the retroactivity of the specific event comparatively, let’s say in the context of Criminal Code and the possible feeling of guilt. Jaan Kross, „Kajalood“, 1980