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Sculptor and installation artist Elo Liiv will be opening her first personal exhibition in Tartu on Tuesday, November 3rd. “Useful (AB)use” is a collection of artworks that discuss serious and painful subjects of living in the form of visual short stories as installations. The exhibition showcases both new as well as remixed older works.
The exhibition focuses on being violent and malicious manipulation, #use – or rather #abuse – of loved ones and the world around us. We are living in a world where everything comes with a multilingual user and maintenance manual but where everyone has to build from scratch to live with their loved ones and find a way to a happy relationship sometimes through painful challenges. The world is a dangerous place where violent people always find justifications and reasons, and where victims acquire a heavenly gift to transform everything into goodness.
ARS Project Space 5.11.20-28.11-20
Printed matter endlessly repeats the image we find in its matrix.
The human psyche tends to amplify the mechanisms which spread certain knowledge necessary to certain people.
The ideologies move the masses; it is easy to generate biases and hysteria as demonstrated in this contemporary age.
From Friday, October 23 Karel Koplimets’s solo exhibition “Case No. 16. Elements of Fear (5 Ways to End the World)” can be visited in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The new exhibition will deal with different doomsday scenarios and their depiction in films. The curator is Kaisa Maasik.
In his new project, Koplimets continues examining fears and paranoias, focusing on sci-fi films that end with the extinction of humankind. These plots are combined with the effects of climate change, which are surprisingly under-represented in films. Even if the end in blockbusters isn’t the outcome of our ecological ignorance, it presumably won’t be as improbable and explosion-driven as the film industry leads us to believe.
Karel Koplimets (b 1986) is an artist working mainly with narrative installations through camera-based mediums.
The autumn issue of the Estonian Art magazine focuses on art in the Anthropocene. Writers and artists discuss different subjects such as biomass, the future of textiles, the Anthropocene in Estonian visual culture, eco-activism in the Baltics, the possibility of alternative narratives for the future and community gardens as part of an artistic practice. Artists Laura Põld and Lou Sheppard have created a special visual essay The Exquisite Corpse for this issue, which deals with the abandoned and toxic “zombie mines”.
Visual and written contributions by Hasso Krull, Eike Eplik, Peeter Laurits, Linda Kaljundi, Merilin Talumaa, Laura Põld, Lou Sheppard, Laura Toots, Paul Kuimet, Kärt Ojavee, Taavi Hallimäe, Ann Mirjam Vaikla, Saskia Lillepuu, Sandra Kosorotova, Laura Kuusk, Jaagup Irve, Ott Scheler, Inga Lāce and Heidi Ballet.
“The Anthropocene Issue” will be launched on October 15 at 6pm at Kai Art Center.
From 24 October, Tartu Art Museum will host the extensive and definitely colourful retrospective exhibition “Nostalgialess”. The two floors of the exhibition introduce the works of one of the best Estonian colourists from the 1960s to the present day. Pääsuke’s oeuvre conveys classic painting traditions through a contemporary prism, transcending times and trends.
The exhibition is made even more exceptional by the fact that for the artist this marks a return to the location where in 1957 his professional journey began as a student of the Tartu Art School, since back then the classicist mansion from the end of the 18th century was the boys’ dormitory of the music school and the art school. This period of his life has a special place in the exhibition: visitors can experience the historic atmosphere and, as a rare gesture, works from the time of his studies are shown.
Lauri Koppel's personal exhibition “Demiurge's Tupperware” will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, September 13th, 2020. Exhibition will stay open until October 31st, 2020.
The idea of the world being an abnormal state is emphasized by Gnosticism, a collection of religious ideas and systems originating from early Christian and Jewish sects. Demiurge, a fallen divine but evil being has created a world of negative matter. A global direct seller company Tupperware produces plastic containers for food storage and preparation - the hermetic and waterproof containers of various shapes have become a part of today's household culture.
Sergei Inkatov's solo exhibition “Helios” invites you to the world of abstract painting and gives a unique insight into a world order that is full of feelings, colour and energy of life.
The main direction of Sergei's art practice is expressive and abstract compositions. As a mature professional artist, Sergei's original painting style is able to blend different cultures with the use of lush and strong colours.
Sergei Inkatov was born in Baku and has been living in Estonia since 1994. Sergei has had various solo exhibitions in the Baltic and Nordic countries as well as the Netherlands, Germany, UK and Russia. He has participated in famous international art expos such as Beijing Art Expo and Artexpo New York, and has been the laureate of many international and domestic art competitions.
The exhibition “May You Be Loved and Protected” will open at Tallinn Art Hall on 16 October at 6 pm, bringing to audiences the works of Dénes Farkas, Tõnis Saadoja and Jevgeni Zolotko as well as a selection of works from the Prinzhorn Collection, displayed in light boxes. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.
“The story of every exhibition begins with the artists that resonate with you. If there happens to be more than one, they indeed have to be excellent artists, so that their simultaneous speech does not become a hammering cacophony in your head. The experience of viewing the works by Dénes Farkas, Tõnis Saadoja and Jevgeni Zolotko has been more powerful than speech. Rather, it resembles a flood where you have to keep your mouth shut to stay afloat. ‘Our own’ Hungarian Dénes Farkas, ‘our own’ Russian Jevgeni Zolotko and ‘our own’ Estonian Tõnis Saadoja present a powerful cross-section of the modest potential of the diversity of Estonian society.
Monumental art by students at the Painting Department of the EKA 1962–1995