Events

The opening of the exhibition is on the 13th of December at 18.00.   The exhibition The Old Man and the Musical Score is a little gem composed of the works of Kaarel Kurismaa that are relatively unknown or never seen before. Amongst his artwork, which as a rule does not distinguish between mainstreams, days, and centuries, his oil paintings are the ones that can be dated the most clearly; his fun side is depicted in his collages and his basic truths binding his multi-faceted creation become apparent in his drafts and sketches. The visitor is greeted by an eternal retrospective love column with majestic monumentality and soul-stirring symphony of detail.

On December 6th at 18.00 is the Opening of group exhibition “Soft narratives” in Kraam artist-run space.   Artists: Adriaan De Geest, Mark Kristian Hiir, Hanneleele Kaldmaa, Brit Kikas, Jelizaveta Kukoleva, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Riin Maide, Liis-Marleen Verilaskja. Supervisor: Lilli-Krõõt Repnau   The exhibition deals with personal and collective memory and site-specific works were created specifically for this room.

The exhibition "Metamorphosis" will open on the 6th of December at 17.00. ”Metamorphoses are changes, distortions, transitions. Something turns into something. Paintings depict trivial living environments and symbols of eternity. This exhibition is a retrospective and ironic illustration of time running its course. /---/  What gets left behind from us after our physical demise? A lifeless sculpture? A metaphysical reflection of things that we have touched? A bodyless being on Facebook? A play with a moment and with eternity, sad-ironic, meaningless-transient. 

Opening of "Check in, check out" on Wednesday, December 4th 2019 at 6 PM Three Estonian artists have collaborated specially for this artistic appearance in Great Britain. They are presenting an installation together with performance on special opening event finishing their 2-week residency in Working Man Gallery. Custom-built centerpiece of the exhibition will comment on global phenomenon of living and working abroad as well as adapting to new ways of communication, traditions, constant planning of logistics and it’s effects. Using objects, gallery space, movement, interaction with audience and multiple references artists have created an environment establishing impression of moving and standing still at the same time. Exhibition is open on Saturday 7, 14, 21 December 1 - 5 PM or by appointment

Johannes Luik and LAURi will open their co-exhibition Twilight Zone in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, November 27 th , 2019.   The title of the exhibition refers to a state existing between two values, without being neither of these. The way the status physically manifests itself in space is something that is being endlessly created and re-created through daily activities that relate to the space. Both artists are exhibiting one artwork through which they study the story of a personal space and related associations.   The Fly by LAURi:

Mari Roosvalt will open her personal exhibition Beyond the Sea in Draakon gallery at 5pm on Monday, November 25, 2019.   The artist presents newly completed paintings that are accompanied by the sound installation by Örnólfur Eldon Þórsson and Krõõt-Kärt Kaev.   Mari Roosvalt contemplates on her current exposition as follows: While living by the sea and observing its constantly changing force of nature day by day, I find myself asking: What does „beyond the sea” really mean? Is it about its depth or anything else? The climate change, a global or local catastrophe? My attempt as a painter is to discuss these issues through minimalistic yet extremely colourful and biomorphic images full of vitality. The picked photographs that resonate to the present day have become increasingly important in my artwork.

Tallinn Art Hall and Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava present the joint project “Body Space(d)” 27–30 November, bringing together pairs of artists from the Estonian visual arts and dance scenes to collaborate on unique one-night-only performances.     Curator Evelyn Raudsepp has invited the following pairs of artists to create performance pieces at the Art Hall: Edith Karlson and Sigrid Savi, Rene Köster and Mark Raidpere, and Flo Kasearu and Renate Keerd. On three consecutive nights the results of these collaborations will be presented and concluded on the fourth night with a diverse programme in a shared space featuring discussion and music.   The programme will be opened by the ruminations of sculptor Edith Karlson and performance artist Sigrid Savi on whether cowboy wisdom can survive in the wild west of one's mind.

Ulvi Haagensen’s solo show “Distracting the workers / Töölisi peibutades” in the EKA Trepigalerii will be open until 27 November and being a window exhibition it is viewable 24/7.    “I am working on the line between art and everyday life. With a particular emphasis on the practices of art-making and domestic cleaning, I focus on the places where art and life meet to try to find out what the dividing lines, overlaps and resulting ambiguities look and feel like. Helping me with my work I have three imaginary assistants – an artist-cleaner, an artist-researcher and an artist-bricoleuse. Together we make, clean, think and write.

On Thursday, 14 November at 5 p.m. Marco Laimre’s personal exhibition “A.S.T.A. 1.0 / Black Flag Shadow” will be opened in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.   Marco Laimre’s exhibition “A.S.T.A. 1.0 / Black Flag Shadow” uses installations, paintings and photos to explore post-apocalyptic FPS-RPG (first-person-shooter/role-playing-game) computer games. “A.S.T.A. 1.0 / Black Flag” is an actual episode from a potential computer game that is manifested via the methods of contemporary art. Screenshots, video loop, absurd statistics and a broken prototype of the robot cat Asta are the elements that are found in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition can be viewed in three levels of difficult: easy, hard or nightmare.   Marco Laimre is currently studying in the PhD programme of art and design at the Doctoral School of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

On Thursday, 14 November at 5.30 p.m. Kairo’s personal exhibition “Summer in the City” will be opened in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The exhibition offers an overview of the best acrylic paintings Kairo has made over a period of ten years. As befits the oeuvre of a true practitioner of Naïve art, her works contain a Gauguin-like devotion to plant motifs, multicoloured patterns, skimpily attired ladies and round nostrils. The Thumbelina-sized canvases of the earlier years start to grow audaciously larger to form a bright mosaic of all the beautiful and good but also of all the toil and hardships that Kairo has seen.   The artist adds: “Painting helps me to digest my own thoughts and to find out the direction of the winds. I imagine the person full of power who I would like to be. I touch the non-existent and feed my melancholy although I desire to accomplish only good. Even when I act like a vandal.