Events

Katrin Piile's personal exhibition "The Rabbit Who Fell into the Pool Full of Balloons" will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, November 24, 2020. Exhibition will be open until December 12, 2020.

On Friday, 20.11.20, the living legend of Estonian abstract art Lola Liivat will open the exhibition “The Color Oration of Abstract Painting” based on her latest work at the SOLARIS Gallery. In cooperation with the Viinistu Art Museum, in addition to a fresh conceptual exhibition, works from the author's various creative periods have been exhibited.   As a curator, I have a very small role in creating this exhibition. All this was already done by the author before - we delivered the works, Lola looked around the room a bit and then, as a conductor, waved the puzzle pieces to their right places. A unity opened to the eyes, which includes everything - birth and death; in one repetitive sequence. The color spurges scattering like a purple bruise and the enlightenment flickering like lightning - a person's journey through the stars of difficulty and the millions of stars themselves, whole star systems.

From Saturday, November 21 Taavi Talve’s solo exhibition “Documented Points of View” can be visited in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The exhibition focuses on various points of view that frame landscapes, travelogues from different eras and journal entries. These are all observations that stem from a subjective author position. The narrative is presented as entries in the first person that join different eras, events and people into one story. “Documented Points of View” is a film about imagination that takes place when a description or a remembered photo starts off a chain of connections that in turn erase the border between actual experiences and imagination. It is as if “you had seen everything with your own eyes”.   The artist adds: „The word ‘landscape’ (Dutch ‘lanskip’) entered the English language from Dutch and initially denoted a piece of canvas that depicted a view of nature.

The duo exhibition of Benjamin Badock and Kaido Ole, “A Sparrow in the Hand” will be open at the Art Hall Gallery from 19 November. Amplifying common stereotypes, the works of the two artists depict life in an idyllic ideal world. The curator of the exhibition is Siim Preiman.   The exhibition will open on Wednesday, 18 November at 5 pm and will remain open until 10 January.   The accelerating segregation among people in Estonia creates an increasingly fertile ground for the emergence of envy and a sense of exclusion as well as delusions. Besides all this, there are innumerable superficial and insignificant reasons for envy.

From Saturday, November 21 Erika Tammpere’s solo exhibition “Even Blind Understand” can be visited in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.   Mainly large-format works are exhibited: five tapestries and five textile installations. The works have mostly been made by the artist herself in the 2000s. However, the place of honour belongs to “Tailwind” that was created forty years ago and was presented for the first time during the Tallinn Regatta of the Moscow Olympics and was then on display in the Sports Museum in Tartu.   The works of Erika Tammpere are very colourful and they often approach the theme from an unexpected viewpoint and through humour. In the last decade when she was completely blind, the artist has made numerous unusual works with the support of a digital colorimeter and the eyes of her husband Taso.

From Friday, 20 November the large gallery of the Tartu Art House will host the group exhibition “Returns” with the artists Damien Beyrouthy (France/Lebanon), Dénes Farkas (Estonia/Hungary), Anna Guilló (France/Catalonia) and Pascal Navarro (France) participating. The exhibition is curated by Sara Bédard-Goulet (University of Tartu) and Peeter Talvistu (Tartu Artists’ Union).   For this exhibition, the artists were invited to reflect on the idea of reception and to question it through their respective practice, including drawing (Navarro & Guilló), sound installation (Farkas) and media art (Beyrouthy). “Returns” looks at the idea of a reciprocal gaze between the artworks and the people who experience them since both sides are equally affected by the encounter.

From Saturday 14 November, the Vault of A-gallery hosts the solo exhibition of Kätrin Beljajev which invites visitors to look closely at the ways we use energy during the times of vast societal change.   Epidemies have always plagued human society. When the previous one is forgotten, the next one knocks on the door. The land is then bedecked with an atmosphere of fear. Institutions are operating as they consider most useful for the society and people must follow with duty, disperse, keep distance and stay under.   The philosopher George Bataille writes in his 1949 book “The Accursed share: An Essay on General Economy” about energy as a resource that is always in excess and raises a choice of either using it beautifully and enjoyably or turning it into a destructive force [1]. During the times of an epidemic, the over-boosting energy of restrained people begins transforming into new forms.

TASE’19 and EAA (Estonian Academy of Arts) Young Artist’s Award winner Keiu Maasik and Madis Kurss in Draakon Gallery!     Co-exhibition by Keiu Maasik and Madis Kurss 100 Ghz to Midnight will be open in Draakon gallery from Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Exhibition will be open until November 21st, 2020. The authors of current exhibition 100 GHz to Midnight study the simulation of post-apocalyptic world through contemporary computer games. In standard online shooting games the player contests in a team against other teams. During the past ten years, first-person shooting games have increasingly gained popularity - in these gaming platforms, everyone stands for himself and the playground is much more expanded.     Battle Royal is a term used to describe a battle with multiple participants until the last man standing.

Exhibition “His Dreams were Nothing Remarkable” by Art Allmägi and Keiu Virro will be open in Hobusepea gallery since Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Exhibition will be open until November 23rd, 2020.   Early this year, Art Allmägi made an inventory of his artwork. Different exhibitions have included numerous sculptures and installations which have no extra function, unlike the artwork produced for public space. Among them are the sculptures exhibied in his personal exhibition “I Had a Dream Last Night” in Hobusepea gallery in 2012. Actually, these scupltures should have been stayed in a storage. Not because of damage by mice nor the battered beds but because of the controversial content of the dreams that Art has described beside the sculptures.   Hence, if there is something under question that perhaps it should not exist, Art’s artistic vision is mainly as follows: it should!

On Tuesday, November 10 at 5 PM we open the solo show "AL₂SI₂O₅(OH)₄" by Juss Heinsalu and workshop-exhibition “Ceramic Dimension” by Lauri Kilusk, Martin Melioranski and Urmas Puhkan at EKA Gallery. Exhibitions will remain open until November 28. The entrance to the opening is from Kotzebue street. Please wear a mask!     Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄