Events

Gallery Metropol presents: Monika Aan THE MAGIC OF MUSHROOMS in gallery Metropol 6m2 & Metropol spring exhibition MUSHROOM EXCHANGE in Metropol Cabinet gallery Opening on Saturday, April 9 2022 at 6 pm Vana-Kalamaja 46, Tallinn According to biologist Tõnu Ploompuu, this is the most mushroom-poor month of the year. In order to soften the resulting sorrows, we invite you to see the new exhibitions in gallery Metropol and prepare for the new mushroom season. Mushrooms and everything related to them is a beloved theme in art and you can see a number of different responses to the mysterious and addictive call of the mushroom world in our galleries. Monika Aan's first solo exhibition "The Magic of Mushrooms" is dedicated to her father, who always gets lost in the forest, but during that always obtaines the mystical power to move forward and pass dozens and dozens of kilometers. Fear and sense of time disappear. About her exhibition Monika says:

Taavi Talve's personal exhibition “(re)constructed points of view” will be open in Draakon gallery since Wednesday, April 6th, 2022. Finissage of the exhibition will take place at 8pm on April 29th. There is no evidence in the structural logic of the filmstrip that distinguishes footage from a finished work. Thus, any piece of work may be regarded as footage that can be used in any form to construct or reconstruct a new work. Hollis Frampton, filmmaker (Re)constructed points of view by Taavi Talve places film as a found material in the middle of the installations. Based on the fact, current exhibition refers both to the materiality of (the illusion of) film and the irreconcilable contradiction in the center of moving image – its immobility.

The exhibition 'ars viva 2022 – Agents of Perception' will be on view from April 9 to August 7, 2022, presenting six artists – the ars viva prize* winners Lewis Hammond, Tamina Amadyar, and Mooni Perry, as well as three remarkable emerging artists from the Baltic region: Laura Põld, Anastasia Sosunova, and Jānis Dzirnieks. Metaphorically, the exhibition approaches artists as agents in the field of perception – creators with a special cognition and presence who bring across critical knowledge and poignant emotional states. Their courage is limitless in either critically opposing something or in remaining deliberately ambivalent.

Tallinn Art Hall will host a memorial exhibition at the Art Hall Gallery, Leo, dedicated to Leonhard Lapin, an important figure in Estonian art. The exhibition was compiled by Sirje Helme, director of the Art Museum of Estonia, and Tamara Luuk, curator of the Tallinn Art Hall.   This is a tribute to recently passed Leonhard Lapin, whose work and activities were closely connected with Tallinn Art Hall.   The exhibition will be open from 8 April until the beginning of the renovation works of the Art Hall building on 5 June. The exhibits include Lapin’s well-known series Processes (1980-1995, Art Museum of Estonia) and Rhythms on the Sphere (1992, private collection). A selection of texts and poems by Leonhard Lapin also forms an integral part of the exhibition.  

Tanel Rander's personal exhibition Angelus Novus will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Exhibition will stay open until May 2, 2022. Tanel Rander: “Angelus Novus means that storm is blowing and the angel of history cannot close her wings. We are all watching her fading into the unknown future, with her eyes still nailed to the past. This exhibition is an insight to my creative sources that I used to suppress and neglect, while being focused on the outside world and its conventions. In the same time these sources were always supporting me, carrying me. We have built a pump house on our sources. And seen from that house every source is a resource. An instrument for something. Last year I wrote an article about this: “When Turbines Rotate, while Water Stands Still”.

08.-10.04 ARS Factory 19-29.04 Kämp Garden, Helsinki “Goods and Services” is a work-in-progress performance by Kasia Zofia Gorniak and Laivi, taking place at the Project Space at ARS Arts Factory in Tallinn from 8-10.4. Open daily from 11am-7pm. The exhibition continues at Garden Room, Kämp Galleria in Helsinki from 19-29.4. “Goods and Services” is an on-going collaborative project exploring ways of bridging the gap between clothing production and consumption, through practice. Each new iteration reflects on different aspects of the fashion industry supply chain, putting equal weight on process and product and how the value correlates. Carrying out the work in the gallery space, open to public, the artists blur the line between a production space, an exhibition and a retail space. https://www.instagram.com/goodsandservices____/

Exhibition “Self-Portrait as a Dancer and a Revolutionary” by Brit Pavelson and Cloe Jancis in Grenoble On 21 March, the duo show entitled Self-Portrait as a Dancer and a Revolutionary by Brit Pavelson and Cloe Jancis will open at the Galerie Showcase, Grenoble. The exhibition playfully addresses topics such as women’s everyday roles and the spaces in which these roles are expressed. Together they offer metaphors, self-portraits and subtle jokes that are rooted in a woman’s point of view, using the outdated clichés to their advantage. What are the roles that permeate through the definition of a parent, a partner and an artist? How can we best cope with the emotional states that different roles make us feel? Which domestic practices are considered “feminine” and what is their social or artistic value?

On Saturday, 2 April Maarja Nurk will open her solo exhibition “Temporary Constructions” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. This exhibition is about temporary, slippery structures, sunken constructions, and escape and rescue plans. Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan,Flucht- und Rettungsdplan, Flchut- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht-und Rettungsplan, gFlucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flcht- und Rettungsplan, Fllucht-  und Rettungsplan, Flucht, und Rettungsolan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettngsplan, Flucht- und Rettungdplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan, Fulcht- und Rettungsplan, Flucht- und Rettungsplan.

On Saturday, 2 April Tõnis Saadoja will open his solo exhibition “September, October, March, April” in the large gallery of Tartu Art House. The painting series is based on architectural motifs, a minimalistic approach to painting and the idea of visibility. Use of architecture photos supports the internal logic of the painting and helps to amplify the feeling of unattainability that can be felt in familiar settings – something that has always haunted Saadoja. Probing the visibility of the image and the names of colours, these paintings straddle the transition between surface and space. Saadoja has tried to minimise as much as possible in terms of painting technique and optimise his approach to the little that is left. The colours on which the paintings are based upon have no logical connection to the place or fragment depicted; every main tone is different from the ones that precede and follow.

Tartu Art Auction takes place on 25 March at 5 p.m. in the Tartu Art House and will be conducted by Reigo Kuivjõgi (Art & Tonic). Tartu Artists’ Union will use its profit from the auction to assist Ukraine. Participation is possible on location, via zoom, over the phone or by placing a preliminary bid. To participate in the bidding, you have to register at oksjon@kunstimaja.ee by 24 March. Letter of registration must include information about your preferred method of participation. 50 works were selected for the exhibition. Participating artists are: