Events

On Saturday, December 4th at 19:00.   Estonian Writers' Union Harju 1, Tallinn 10146   Please join us for book launch of Jaanika Peerna's monograph “Glacier Elegies”.   Külliki Tõnisson is moderating a discussion with the artist and Helo Laatspera. 

NEONAIVISM 26.11.2021 - 4.01.2022 Opening of the exhibition: 25.11.2021 kell 17.00

Uno Roosvalt's anniversary exhibition “My Studio” will be opened in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021. Exhibition will be open until November 22, 2021.    Uno Roosvalt turned 80 in August this year. Current exhibition comprising Roosvalt's drawings is one way to celebrate this important landmark in the artist's life. Uno tends to lead his life with a modest flow – and his loving gaze accompanies the various subjects of his artwork, whether it be Nordic nature, coastal landscapes, evergreen bushes or cats and dogs. And there have always been cats and dogs in the Roosvalt family's home.    Artist's studio is an artist's home. It is the birthplace of the artist's artwork. Even when the works leave the studio, there will be a memory of the space in the artworks as the space in the artist's head where the creative ideas were born. Yearning for one's studio is a part of every artwork's charm.

5–28 November 2021 Opening 4 Nov 2021, 6–8 pm Laura Põld

The exhibition is a combination of different setting with a predetermined spatial order. There is light, there is shadow. There are sources, there is spectacle. Does there have to be a logical link between these entities? Is everything that looks the same, actually the same?   The Moon also reflects light as if it was its own…   The staged space allows visitors to experience states of relief from the causes and consequences and to sense the moments where the overestimation of understanding has passed. Something that initially seemed logical and intellectually not demanding, becomes increasingly unfounded on closer inspection.   How to display black light; how to measure love; how to move in a way that the shadow stays in place?

On Saturday, 13 November Kristen Rästas will open his solo exhibition “Somewhere Over the Rainbow II” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The exhibition is a continuation of a solo project with the same title. Their unifying theme is the “breaking of the fourth wall” through the amplification of the technical structures of the artworks and by demystifying art as an exhibit. Sculptural and painterly artworks and ready-made objects mimic natural elements and artificially created environments. They call into question how precisely can we perceive the world itself, when in reality we are merely exposed to unambiguous conventions and visual language that only describe the characteristics of the world.   The video included in the exhibition functions as a visual letter to the artist’s future self.  It was created amidst the ongoing climate crisis during the first months of the global pandemic.

27.10 - 21.11.2021 Vernissage 26.10.2021 18:00-20:00   "Form is henceforth divorced from matter. Matter as a visible object is of no great use any longer, except as the mould on which form is shaped. Give us a few negatives of a thing worth seeing, taken from different points of view, and that is all we want of it."   Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tallinn Print Triennial is pleased to announce its 18th edition entitled “Warm. Checking Temperature in Three Acts”, which opens on 22 January 2022. The triennial, curated by Róna Kopeczky, primarily gives thought to the radical political, cultural political and social turns that affect Central and Eastern Europe, and  it also inscribes these changes in a global perspective through the lens of universal absurdity.

On Friday, 29 October at 6pm Edith Karlson opens her new solo exhibition “Return to Innocence” at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM).   Exhibiting on all three floors of the museum, Karlson turns her gaze towards the darker, filthier, funnier and gentler side of existence. The exhibition rooms at EKKM are transformed into spaces, where we come across all sorts of unexpected objects – terracotta eternity and Virgin Mary, an orchid and a bell jar, a tiny Christ and never-ending Enya. In addition to Karlson's original pieces, the show also includes artworks from the Art Museum of Estonia, the Estonian History Museum, the Tartu City Museum and the archaeological research collection of the Tallinn University.    Edith Karlson is a sculptor, working with animalistic and brutal characters, untouched by the anguish of civilisation.

”EVERY DEPARTURE AN ARRIVAL” Paintings 1991(1987)-2021 Exhibition on four floors