Events

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.

Please join us for an open residency showcase with Laura Kuusk and Camille Laurelli, the winners of the second Beyond Matter Residency Programme at Tallinn Art Hall.   The showcase of the residency will take place on 30th of June from 14:00-21:30, in the guest studio of Estonian Artists' Association (Vabaduse väljak 8, 6th floor, apartment no 17). We invite you to join us for the following activities:   14:00-16:00: Open studio 16:00- 17:00: Artist talk moderated by curator Corina L. Apostol 18:00-19:20 Screening of Donna Haraway’s “Story Telling for Earthly Survival” (2016)

“Ice Memory”  by Jaanika Peerna July 2 - August 29, 2021  Opening July 2 5.30-7PM  GALLERY 222, Hurleyville NY   sculptural drawing, ice, prints, soundscape, video, wall sculpture   Ice Memory offers an opportunity to witness an evolution of the work, not unlike the changes we witness in our natural landscapes, encouraging us to meditate on the way human actions alter the environment that surrounds us. The title refers to an ongoing climate research project where core samples of the world’s vanishing glaciers are being archived in long preserved frozen cylinders to retain a tangible record of past climate changes.

From Friday, 25 June Silver Vahtre’s solo exhibition “Collages of Tartu” is open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The renowned designer, urban artist, printmaker, theatre and film artist Vahtre calls his last year’s large-format series “Collages of Tartu” but what else can the creation of an artist be called other than “collage”. Be it a portrait or a landscape and even if the outcome is purely realist, the artist has compiled it from his own visions.   However, Vahtre’s present imagery is something unique and dream-like. As a sovereign artist who knows his subject matter, he approaches his ideas without restraints, false modesty or hidden political/cultural/religious correctness. This results in compositions of urban environments, the people who inhabit them and full of historic references.