Events

18.09–23.10.2021   Garages, where walls, caked with oil and dust, were covered with cut-outs of naked women from porn magazines, and it was completely normal to ask how many women they had fucked. Guy stuff.   As the feeling of not fitting in with a proper hunk's criteria, was haunting, it intuitively rather shaped a critical attitude towards the surrounding macho world. Growing up with a grandmother, mother and sister, it was hard to understand a stereotypical man's being and characteristics, which had never been a part of my own character.   Earning money at a car repair shop and as a truck driver, gave a chance to infiltrate into this kind of environment. The kind where the men were "the real men". Strong, broad, handy.

The personal exhibition of the artist Huupi “Day Palace II” will be opened at the SOLARIS Gallery in Tallinn on Thursday, September 9 at 7 pm, which depicts the author’s attempt to decode something that is not dependent on people - the changing of colours in time and something descriptive and imaginary - time itself in which we measure ourselves. The exhibition is a follow-up to the artist's exhibition held at the Pallas Gallery in Tartu in August this year.   Day Palace is a series of paintings that combines colour and architecture, light and shadow. The titles of the works are timestamps that mark the movement of light in time and space.

Well-kept gardens and flowers visibly unify the majority of Käsmu’s community. My flowers have “come to me on their own” – they’ve been gifted by neighbours and friends, so over time, some of the plants have gotten names of their own – when admiring a plant, the person will come to mind as well. Both humans and plants are finite, but it seems like the people that have passed away will continue to live on in the flowers. The time the flowers were gifted, as well as their flowering periods in accordance to 2020 observations have been added.   Thank you: Urve Sinijärv, Heli Russak, Delija Thakur, Avo Tragel, Priit Kõiv, Anna Kaarma, Anni Kõrvemaa, Linda Zupping, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, Tallinna Botaanikaaed, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia   Additional information: Tallinn Bothanic Garden / Palm House

3.09.–30.09.2021.   From 3rd September the Pärnu Central Library will host the Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding “Scripta manent VI”. The exhibition is organised by the Estonian Association of Designer Bookbinders. The exhibition is a continuation of the international exhibition competition held last year in the ARS Project room, which was attended by 130 artists from 15 countries.   “Scripta manent“ (meaning ‘written words remain’ in Latin) is held in Tallinn every five years. Introducing the very best selection of Estonian culture to the world wide audience has been the focal idea of organisers right from the very first exhibition in 1995.

Laivi's personal exhibition “Collecting and Preserving” will be opened in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021. Exhibition will be open until September 20th, 2021.   Collecting and Preserving is a fashion exhibition about business and art, posing the question whether the only solution for helping the society suffering from crises would be a political one?   The basis for the coping mechanism in our society is petroleum that has emerged from the organic substance deposited either in the seabed or underground 300 million years ago. What kind of material for the future we are creating with today's sediments?   Laivi (Laivi Suurväli) is a freelance artist who in her creative practice searches alternatives in order to analyse fashion as a phenomenon.

Triin Kerge and Aksel Haagensen “Hopscotch” exhibition opening on September 7, at 5 PM!

Tiiu Pallo-Vaik will open her personal exhibition “VIRG. RIDGES” in Draakon gallery at 6pm on Monday, August 30th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until September 18th. The artist is exhibiting her paintings completed in 2016–2021.   Mai Levin: “RIDGES-it's difficult to find the right equivalent to the Estonian word VIRG, which refers to a dense, regular and varying pattern drawn either by the wind to the sand or by the water to the seabed. VIRG can be also described as a grid consisting of fine lines, applied orderly by Tiiu Pallo-Vaik on canvases covered with various red shades. Underneath the grids there are vague shadows reminding of various images according to every viewer's fantasy.   One of the earlier paintings following the similar pattern was titled “Vibrations” by the artist. This and also other titles of Pallo-Vaik's artwork – such as “Ebb and Flood”, “Movement” – emphasize the kinetic effect of the pattern of lines.

Kaarel Kütas, Mikk Jäger, Cartier, Kersti Vallikivi-Ramos, Ahti Sepsivart, Villem Jahu, Triinu Jürves September 4-26, 2021   The title of the exhibition is inspired by Cartier’s peculiar true story, where an unexperienced couple had to start making difficult business decisions every day and they always chose a longer way to go to the office. Just to see the bushes, hear the birds and be together.   The whole gallery space amounts a flowing installation that figuratively emphasizes the variability of any situation or context. Moving itself - between different states of mind and values - becomes important instead of the final solution. Like a dandelion that grows through asphalt.

Tartu Art School celebrates its 70th jubilee this year. The importance of Tartu Art School on the Estonian artscape has been somewhat shrouded. Yet throughout its 70 years the school has preserved an important role as a starting point – an origin point – for professional artists.   On the occasion of the jubilee year, Tartu Art School will open the exhibition “Origin Point” on September 2 at 16.00 in Gallery Pallas (Tartu, Riia street 11). The exhibition will be open until the 18th of September.   The exhibition represents artists from different generations who have their own experience and relationship with the school – there are those who reminisce the then parties with great nostalgia. The aim of the exhibition is not to give a thorough overview of the student of Tartu Art School.

On Friday, 3 September at 5 p.m. the sculptor and painter Per William Petersen will open his solo exhibition “Woman in Fur. Selected Works 1995–2020” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is curated and designed by Madis Liplap. At the opening, a substantial publication about the artist’s oeuvre will be presented.   The art historian Peeter Talvistu has written: “Although Per William Petersen is originally from Denmark, over the last fifteen years he has become an established and valued member of the art life in Tartu and in Estonia in general. His contributions are no longer seen as coming from a guest from abroad but as works made by a sculptor and painter who is a known and treasured member of the local community.