Events

Kadri Toom's personal exhibition “Ways of Seeing the Periphery” will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, February 8, 2022. Exhibition will be open until March 5, 2022.  Empty landscapes exist in their non-existence, pulsating and undulating in yearning The idea of Ways of Seeing the Periphery has born out of a landscape experience. The artist has exhibited graphic prints that can be conceptually divided into three:

Narva Art Residency (NART) in cooperation with MTÜ Valgusklubi brings light installations to the Kreenholm district of Narva. The exhibition is located in the immediate vicinity of NART and contains five large-scale works. "Narva Väike Valgus'' changes the mood and landscape of the Kreenholm area and gives it a new look. The exhibition runs from the beginning of February to the end of March and is equipped with video surveillance. The open-air exhibition features works by Estonian artists and students of the Estonian Academy of Arts:  PEAL(T)KIRI (Elo Liiv, Alyona Movko, Taavi Suisalu), MIS ON SIIN, SEE ON SEAL (Elo Liiv), GALERII MAHT ON TÄIS (Anna-Maria Vaino, Aivar Vaino), LATERN (Janne Lias), KLAASPILV (Inessa Saarits, Raahel Rüütel, Sandra Ernits, Kadri Joala). 

Wednesday, 02.02. at 19:00 Vilen Künnapu will open an art exhibition “Nudes in Architecture” based on his latest work at the Sepikoja Gallery in the PÕHJALA Factory (Marati 5, Tallinn).   “Kopli's metaphysics continues to excite people of both new and older generations. I remember when we walked about 50 years ago with Andres Tolts, Ando Keskküla and Juhan Viiding between Kopli's tin garages, concrete towers, limestone semi-classicist house noises, an abandoned tram car or factory chimney in the background. The emotion that gripped us was indescribable. Today, when my brilliant friends are already on the other side, I take the same walk and feel the same. The spirit of the place, Genius Loci, is not old.

On Friday, 4 February at 6 pm, the group exhibition “Runner Along the Border, Rat Catcher and Bricklayer” will open at the Art Hall Gallery. The exhibition has been inspired by short stories by Peet Vallak, Mehis Heinsaar and Ilmar Külvet, whose main characters are forced to set both physical and mental boundaries for an array of reasons. The exhibition brings together artists Amie Nga Man Chan, Eike Eplik, Kristaps Epners, Hanna Samoson and Augustas Serapinas, who all deal with issues of identity in their work. Also exhibited are historical photos from the collections of the Estonian memory institutions. The curator of the exhibition is Gregor Taul. Multimedia installations by Kristaps Epners and Amie Nga Man Chan look at an individual’s ability to cope with challenging situations. Chan’s performance reveals the zero point of life on Narva River, while Epner’s story takes the protagonist to Siberia to join the bricklayers’ brigade in the Sayan Mountains.

On 19 January, at 17:00, “The Vernacular” art exhibition will open at the Tallinn Russian Museum (Pikk Street 29a).   “THE VERNACULAR”, Muravskaja's personal exhibition, is an atlas of Russian words of the Russian-speaking people of Estonia, and it reflects many processes that have taken place in the past and are ongoing in Estonian society. It is a unique imprint of time and culture that is inscribed in the native language of the ethnic Russian community in Estonia. The exhibition shows language and vocabulary as the most iconic expression of the identity of Estonia’s ethnic Russians. The collection of words has been assembled in close collaboration with the local community and the Tallinn Russian Museum.   Curator and artist Tanja Muravskaja says about the exhibition: “During the last year of collaborative work with the museum and its circle of friends, over 150 of the ‘most common’ words had been collected.

On Saturday, 22 January Britta Benno’s solo exhibition “Of Becoming a Land(Scape)” will open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.   This exhibition marks the third and last project in Benno’s artistic research in the doctoral school of the Estonian Academy of Arts. This time the focus is on landscapes that previously appeared in the background of her artworks. Image is becoming abstract and architecture is backing away from the stage. A layered landscape comes forth, the rocks in Earth’s crust reveal themselves underneath the soil. At the same time, the crystallization of posthumanist philosophy in Britta Benno’s artistic (self-)definition reveals itself through the agency of minerals.   Tectonic layers are alive, moving and breathing, forming mountains and flooding continents. The layers arise from above while shaking and cracking holes and fissures to the earth’s crust.

The co-exhibition “Present yet-to-be” by Lisann Lillevere, Johanna Ruukholm and Denisa Štefanigová will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Friday, December 17th. Curator of the exhibition is Lilian Hiob. When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. - Alejandro Jodorowsky

Martin Buschmann's personal exhibition Doc. Photo 2020 will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, December 14, 2021. Exhibition will be open until January 8, 2022.   Since the objective of documentary photography is to record events on the spot then in case of virtual events and environments we are bound to think about how to be present and how to reflect the events of virtual environment through photography? What are the common characteristics of the real and the virtual world? What are the possibilities and restrictions; how does contemporary photography theory function and survive in virtual environment?   The artist presents photographs of concerts that have taken place in various virtual (game) environments. Buschmann manipulates with contemporary concert photography in virtual environments while observing the ways of forwarding the dynamics of the visual (including mood, flow of events, characteristics).

The co-exhibition “The A. B. C. D. E. F. G of Love” by Marge Moko and Maruša Sagadin will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Thursday, January 13th. The exhibition will remain open until February 7 th. An exhibition is a point on a continuum.   The lives of objects—and artists—precede and follow individual events. That solid-state matter continuously self-chronicles with chemical technology preceding any digital blockchain. Their confluence and your coexistence distinguish this moment. We stand where a collective flow of mortal forms beget flickers of mechanical joys.   The personal and professional dialogue of Marge and Maruša before this moment may be invisible to you. But it’s tangible. What you see, comes from months.

Laura Cemin's personal exhibition “a slash is a dash is a splash” will be open in Draakon gallery from Wednesday, January 12, 2021. Exhibition will be open until February 5, 2022.  “a slash is a dash is a splash” is a scenography for a play, a training room, or perhaps a leaky text that escaped the 2 dimensions of the page. Playing with different degrees of abstraction, Laura Cemin literally translates puns and idiomatic expressions into material objects, while simultaneously creating a new abstract language. A sequence of bodily traces, exhaled sounds and physical impressions to allow slippages away from the straight, the vertical, the controlled.