Events

From Saturday, 27 February the exhibition of this year’s Tartu Art Auction will be open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The auction is organised by the Tartu Artists’ Union in co-operation with the gallery Art & Tonic. Auction takes place on 26 March!   50 works were selected for the exhibition.

From Saturday, 27 February a joint exhibition of ceramic artists from South-Eastern Estonia “Routine or Ritual?” will be opened in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.   Handmade ceramics are pleasant and intimate, transforming the everyday domestic routine into an enchanting ritual. Eating and drinking are everyday activities and dishes used each and every day must be convenient and enjoyable. Deliberate, relevant to us and shaped likes us. The process of creating ceramics also contains both routine and ritual. The joy of creation is an integral part of the design.   Equally important is the cultural space that has given rise to the ceramics and that is conveyed to us by the utensils and dishes.

Joint exhibition “Spring Express” by Ann Pajuväli and Misa Asanuma will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Thursday, February 25, 2021. Exhibition will stay open until March 15, 2021.             By weaving together drawing, ceramic, concrete products and found objects, the exposition constructs a wandering narrative about the longing to be elsewhere and creating fictional worlds into your everyday.

From February 26, in Gallery Pallas of Pallas University of Applied Sciences is open the exhibition “As She Sees It” of Latvian photographers Vika Eksta, Evita Goze, Kristine Madjare and Diana Tamane.   The exhibition brings together the work of four Latvian artists of the same generation – Vika Eksta, Evita Goze, Kristine Madjare and Diana Tamane – imagining, questioning and representing masculinities through the medium of photography and film. For most of the history of art and photography, one sex most often had the privilege of looking at and depicting the other. This exhibition turns the lens around, giving voice to four female artists. “As She Sees It” considers how masculinity is socially constructed, taught, coded and performed nowadays, viewing it as a fluid idea which changes through times and cultures, rather than a fixed set of attributes.

Raul Keller's personal exhibition “Perfect Wordls” will be open in Draakon gallery since Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021. Exhibition will be open until March 13, 2021.   Keller's installation in Draakon gallery presents a travelling exhibition consisting of three related expositions toured in people's homes during four months from October 2020 to January 2021. The exhibition set has been produced with the method of contact printing  (as it is known in analogue photography) using the medium and large format negatives. These have been glued to magnet mountings and the results serve as fridge magnets. People participating in the travelling exhibition project could exhibit a selected compilation of pictures in their homes and listen to the soundtrack, specially composed for the exhibition, from the small portable speaker. The participants had also the opportunity to take one photo relating to the exhibition while using the disposable photo camera loaded with black and white film.

On February 19, at 19:00, the exhibition “Dreamers” by painter Liisa Kruusmägi (33) will be opened at the Solaris Gallery. The exhibition is based on the author's latest work. While in the past Liisa has mainly painted people in different moments and environments, the theme of the new exhibition is deeply related to nature - in a very positive sense. Recently, more and more time has been spent in nature, hiking there and observing its life processes. Central to the pictures in the exhibition is a dreamer who, while in nature, enjoys it, it is like a world of good dreams.

Apocalyptic Landscapes exhibition deals with subcultures and human communities operating in and alongside the mainstream of our society, whose goals and patterns of behavior create the basis for the birth of a whole new society - a changed world order, the reincarnation of mythological creatures in apocalyptic fields. By exhibiting a living being as a mini-form of society and nature, through outer masks and protective layers. Bringing out the inner desires and passions of the human soul, as well as the hidden gray areas of the collective body.   Anonymous Boh (Al Paldrok) and Taje Paldrok (Devil Girl) have been active on a frameless territory where an art object has seized to exist as a physical piece.

Welcome to the exhibition “Goods and Services” by Kasia Gorniak and Laivi, opening on the 3rd of February from 4 pm @1märtsigalerii   Kasia Gorniak and Laivi collaborate to create the installation 'Goods and Services', which reflects on fashion industry practice, putting equal weight on products and their processes. It was developed through a series of daily digital diary entries, remote conversations and garment-making sessions between Helsinki and Tallinn. The work plays with the moments between a fashion product’s construction, storage and display modes, deconstructing themes of production, labelling, packaging, sale and ultimately consumption.

Some years ago, Holger Loodus travelled north of the Arctic Circle, where he witnessed Syrian refugees’ journey across northern Russia down into Europe. This experience inspired his exhibition “Journey to the End of the World” (Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, 09.09.-08.10.2017). By now, the experience of that time has acquired solid contours, and a high, man-made mountain with steep slopes has emerged, which resembles a purgatory.   “Reimagining Those Old Slopes” depicts a process in which the vision of the universe known from history demystifies and becomes a product aimed for the masses. Through his own eyes, the artist modernises the hill of purgatory created by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri at the beginning of the 14th century. Holger Loodus aims to look at how a mystical object loses its moralizing content to become an easily acceptable attractive design object.

From 13 February, Eike Eplik’s solo exhibition “Shared Territory” will be open in the Tartu Art Museum.   Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no opening ceremony. The exhibition is open to the general public from the morning of 13 February.   The ground floor of the museum will be filled with Eplik’s sculptures and installations, which can be viewed as the natural or psychological landscapes that surround people and that we all sometimes visit. What is the environment that we live in like and do we think about those we share space with? Or do we even know how to share?