Events

On Wednesday, 23 October at 17:30 a new exhibition of oil paintings and miniature drawings Time Traveller by Johanna Mudist will open in the cellar rooms of Galerii Noorus.   The visitor will be involved in a short time travel and will get an overview of topics that the artist has been working in recent years.   The display includes pieces, which are a part of the master thesis project that the artist defended in 2017, discussing time, place and body. The paintings are characterised by large format and infinite perspective. Colours used by the artist mediate the deformation and blending of perceptions, which she has experienced on a long hike.

POSTEDEN is a poetic spectacle, an emotional reflection of mundane situations. Clothing is seen as the material embodiment of post-Edenic spirit: illustrating dystopia and abstracting the body. The destiny of clothed bodies is to accept the unnatural situation as the new norm. The order that relieves the fear of the unknown is artificial. Clothing both conceals and uncovers the body and mind. Disdain and love express the longing for unity. The stable state of satisfaction is unachievable, feeding the yearning for change. The cycle of life is repeating, yet on the individual level, every recurrence is a new experience. POSTEDEN is 4th episode in the series of performative fashion installations by Laivi, following “Mystifying Mundane” (27.10.18), “Long Live Trashed Bodies” (16.3.18) and “When I Was a Girl & Life Was Yet Ahead” (20.10.17). The series experiments with presenting materials as body- coverings both on and off the body. The atmosphere is created together with movement, light and sound.

Tõnis Saadoja will open his personal exhibition "Paper Town. Enveloped Sky" in Draakon gallery at 6pm on Monday, October 14, 2019. Exhibition will be open until November 2, 2019.   With his present exhibition, Tõnis Saadoja continues studying the space between the painting and the photographic image within a specific pictorial territory. Saadoja has been inspired by hyperrealism in his work while using classical painting techniques; with his recent exhibitions, he has moved towards increasing generalization and abstractness. Saadoja's effortless elegance shows his artistry in the medium of painting.   According to the artist the exhibition follows on from "Arrival in a Paper Town", displayed in Hobusepea gallery last year. Driven by the same motif, it represents the continuation of pictorial explorations seeking to discover in an image something that wasn’t there prior to painting it.

Silvia Sosaar & Hanno Soans will open their exhibition "Academy Sport Club" in Hobusepea gallery at 5.30pm on Thursday, October 17, 2019.   During the participatory art exhibition the gallery will be transformed into a training environment where everyone has the opportunity to become a living sculpture. Gallery environment will offer workouts inspired by gym circuit training (Silvia) and kick-boxing (Hanno) every evening at 5.30pm–6.30pm. A games hour with elastics and a climbing frame (Silvia) on Sundays 12.30pm–1.30pm. Let’s overcome our embarrassment together! See you at the Academy Sport Club, where everyone will become a living sculpture! The workouts are free! Bring a change of suitable shoes.   Pre-conditioning: The disciplined body plays the game, the mechanical body in rhythmic movement plays the game. Stretch-strain, push-pull. And the circle is complete. Again. And repeat. We are moving, but only on the spot.

On Thursday, 17 October at 6 p.m. Jass Kaselaan’s personal exhibition “Sheep” will be opened in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.   The exhibition „Sheep” consists of sculptures resembling human heads on shelves and a photo depicting sheep. Jesus has said: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me and I give unto them eternal life. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”   The artist thinks that the first sentence of the previous paragraph would have sufficed to describe the exhibition but in that case the press release would have probably been too short. Jass Kaselaan (b 1981) has studied sculpture in the Tartu Art School and in the Estonian Art Academy. He has been awarded the Anton Starkopf and Kristjan Raud art awards and won the 2014 Köler Prize.

On Thursday, 17 October at 5 p.m. Helle Vahersalu’s anniversary exhibition “Snow, Rust, Colour” will be opened in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is curated by Tiiu Talvistu and Kadri Asmer.   Colours have dominated the works of Helle Vahersalu for most of her life. Her pictorial world is based on them and this is expressed through her portraits, still lifes and abstract compositions. Although Vahersalu doesn’t paint to convey messages or to make the world a better place, she still manages to transform our surroundings. She paints to bring more colour to the world of viewers, and to thereby offer them aesthetic experiences and soothe their senses. She paints because she cannot live without it.   Vahersalu’s paintings allow us to enter her world of colours and sensibilities. It is difficult to find anything comparable to her portraits in Estonian art.

As of 17 October, 5 pm, the Art Hall Gallery opens an overview exhibition of the graphic art of Vello Vinn. Titled "∞ & ○" (read: infinity and circle), the show gives an outline of the artist’s more than a half-century long career.   The thematic core of the exhibition is the developmental trajectory of one of the most innovative post-war Estonian graphic artists, starting from the 1960s up to this day. This also explains the cryptic, symbol-based title of the exhibition which, naturally, hints at the systematic symmetry principle governing much of Vello Vinn’s oeuvre.   Vello Vinn was born on 4 October 1939 in Saaremaa. He lives and works in Tallinn. After graduating from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR, i.e. today’s Estonian Academy of Arts, in 1968, he quickly gained recognition at graphic art exhibitions in Estonia as well as abroad.

The exhibition’s title, "Once I Had..." refers to the transience of possession, convenience of over-consumption and other self-destructive implications of human behavior on the future of Earth.   Once I Had.. is a conceptual continuation of Britta Benno recent solo exhibition „Dystopic Tallinn“. In this project the apocalyptic landscape scenery is site-specifically depicted with the Mustamäe district’s panel houses, as they are located in the vicinity of the artist-run space Kraam.   Benno invited American artist Heather Beardsley to this project, as they met while during an artist residency in Vienna, where they were coincidentally both depicting dystopian landscapes. The works relate not only through imagery, but also materially and technically. There are many common links between the two artists: Benno and Beardsley both use nostalgic found objects, collage-like layering, printmaking and transfer methods, and inconvenient materials combinations.