Events

On Friday, 30 July at 5 p.m. Triin Kerge and Aksel Haagensen will open their exhibition “Off We Go!” in the large gallery of Tartu Art House.   The exhibition is based on the stories of people who fled as children from Estonia in 1944 or were deported as children to Siberia in 1949. The artists place these two narratives from Estonian history into a dialogue and question the cultural understandings that exist around the deportations and the exodus of refugees.   Triin Kerge presents to the viewer six women who were deported as children to Siberia in 1949, focusing on the personal aspects of collective memory.

Just as the giant lizard in Robin Nõgisto’s painting and the tiny green dinosaur on the screen of a computer disconnected from Internet know that they belong together, Robin himself is convinced that “the world I paint does indeed exist somewhere.” The exhibition Picture People will be opened at Tallinn City Gallery on Thursday, 29 July at 6 pm.   The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.   Robin Nõgisto’s exhibition Picture People features three large two-part paintings, four film and music videos, as well as a few other artworks. The artist features visionary worlds full of vibrant characters, connected by an absence of hierarchies, a strange reality and a passion for life. Canvas after canvas, cats, dogs, lizards, hipsters, skeletons, and aliens appear in various, always striking constellations.

  Dark Finitude is an interactive sound based and nonvisual web-exhibition by the Estonia-based artist Sten Saarits hosted by post-gallery.online. The exhibition is essentially a dark screen that welcomes viewers on an auditory journey taking place in a nighttime forest setting, accompanied by a voice addressing the boundless, curved and unknown landscape.   Dark Finitude has no true ending or a beginning. The set up is much like a sandbox game where the visitor has an option to construct their own route by clicking on different areas of the screen on their handheld or desktop devices. Every click takes the participant further on a chosen path and a sound clip accompanies every advancement.

Excess and Refusal

You are welcome to XXI Kohila Symposium artist talk on Wednesday 21.07 at 14:00 at the Tohisoo manor. All presentations will be in English.

There’s Time There’s No Time Aet Ollisaar and Madis Liplap at Gallery Pallas 15.–31. 07.2021 Exhibition opening 14.07 at 17.00–19.00   How to find balance between excess and shortage? Aet Ollisaar and Madis Liplap play with ideas and time at Gallery Pallas.   Time can be difficult – sometimes there’s so much of it that there’s left over and yet there’s always too little of it. It is almost impossible to find balance between the two extremes. Thus, it often seems that these two extremes exist simultaneously, eliminating yet complementing each other. There‘s always more ideas than time, but it's the lack of time that can lead to new discoveries. There’s time.

On 9th July at 7 PM a drawing performance (with heartbeat, breathing) “Shadow Catcher” by Ülle Marks will take place in the courtyard of ARS, producing a large-format weather-proof artwork (ca 300x800 cm).   The shadow: Ireen Peegel Sound engineer:  Hans-Gunter Lock IT, camera: Robert Luig Sound mixer: Riho Rausma 18.30 Sound installation   19.00 Drawing is started.

Hedi Jaansoo will open her personal exhibition “Sweet Peas, Snapdragons and Forget Me Not” in Hobusepea gallery at 5pm on Thursday, July 8th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until August 2nd, 2021.   Hedi Jaansoo: “I have photographed half-dried cut flowers. I have depicted these with myself, with the wall, with my granny. I have glued the pieces of pictures together and photographed these with more or less fresh flowers, notes, walls and vases. I have pressed wrinkles into the clay. I have braided scarves. I’d like to be like a snapdragon, symbolizing the strength of women. I’d like to polish my nails again, but afterwards I have to take it off, and I have no time, and then these remain longer in a half-polished state. Like flowers in a vase, lasting much longer when half-dried than fresh. I’d like to say there’s no need to press yourself together, because it won’t help.   The beautiful nymph Paeonia once caught the eye of Apollo.

Margit Säde will open her personal exhibition “Zone d'attente” in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, June 9th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until July 5th, 2021.   Margit Säde: “Due to my work, I have commuted between Tallinn and Zürich for the last ten years. During the past three years, I have been flying on 65 days, taken off and landed 138 times in total. My flights have been delayed, cancelled, changed, overbooked. I have been flying in an almost empty airplane, with bad weather, with good weather, during the pandemic.   Flying is more sterile and more effective than daily life – and all services are within a short walk or a touch away. And yet, flying is always accompanied by a controversial feeling – there is a desire to both ignore and celebrate the control. I am flying into the sky while being safely chained to my seat.

Nele Tiidelepp will open her personal exhibition “words can't describe but are good enough” in Draakon gallery at 6pm on Tuesday, July 6th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until July 31st, 2021.   Nele Tiidelepp: “Current exhibition will show (corporeal) forms, movements and actions fading to the abstraction. I’ll concentrate on the body released from its corporeality and rules. The body is abstracted and lies or is stretched out. It is hanging, leaning, reclining, protruding, freezing, flowing. It has freed itself from its initial finiteness, but taken a new direction into an unnatural position, denying preliminary movement, bodily essence. A living physical object strangled by desires, fears, horror. It has forsaken its corporeality which is limited in parallel by furniture, garments and space.   Installation represents drawings, round objects (bodies), textile surfaces/covers and positions.