Exhibitions

Join us for the opening on Friday, March 29, at 6 PM, with a special performance by the EKA Choir at 6:15 PM.

We are all born with a knowing pain in our soul, and this innate understanding is loneliness: a deep ache for another to fill the cavity we cannot otherwise fill, sincere desperation that seamlessly moves from the emotional and psychological to the physical.  It is an agonizing progression: painful in the utter dissection of the self with each invitation and rejection, each a beautiful and grounded humiliation where we no longer even recognize ourselves as we wholly long for someone to alleviate the paralyzing fear of dying alone.

When the other, it seems, is and has always been absent, the suffocation of loneliness becomes far more than a feeling – it becomes an insanity of our own making.  We are driven mad by an endless and relentless pursuit for a chosen other with a bittersweet and intoxicating need that is simultaneously exciting and devastating, loving and heartbreaking.  And it is this longing, this intense and unforgiving emotion, that will slowly and decidedly kill us.

Erinn M. Cox is a jewellery artist from the United States, currently residing in Tallinn, Estonia.   She holds a BFA in sculpture and photography from Florida State University, an MFA in sculpture and installation from the Memphis College of Art and is currently pursuing an MA degree in Jewellery at the Estonian Academy of Arts.  Erinn is a published writer on contemporary art and design, an adjunct professor of Fine Arts and Art History, and is the founder and writer for the online journal Louise & Maurice (www.louiseandmaurice.com) 

For more about the artist, visit www.erinnmcox.com

Erinn will give a personal tour of the exhibition on Tuesday, April 16 at 5:30 pm.

On Friday, February 15 at 6 pm, Liina Siib’s exhibition “Politics of Paradise” curated by Taru Elfving will be opened in Tallinn Art Hall.

Liina Siib excavates the multiple dreams and ideals that haunt the present. Her work pays acute attention to the minor narratives, which usually persist in the shadows of the attention economy or crevices of accelerated lived experience. Bringing together new productions and a selection of older works by Siib, the exhibition Politics of Paradise mediates intergenerational conversations between individual lives and complex gendered histories of privilege and power.

Recently Siib has looked at the ongoing regional economic migration through the eyes of Estonian women working in Finland. This contemporary polyphony of personal stories, desires and realities is reflected against new installations focused on the tragic yet deviant historical local female characters. They continue Siib’s long-term artistic investigations into the entangled political and habitual claims to space, voice and meaning.

Tallinn Art Hall (Vabaduse väljak 8, Tallinn) is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12 noon to 7 pm, admission € 3 / € 6 / € 9.

The Art Hall Foundation is a contemporary art establishment that presents exhibitions in three galleries on the central square of Tallinn – at Tallinn Art Hall and nearby at Tallinn City Gallery and the Art Hall Gallery. Tallinn Art Hall exhibitions are installed by Valge Kuup.

Carol Katkoff will open her solo exhibition “Using a Metamorphotic Photo Story as a Medium for the Analysis of the Viewer” at Vent Space project space on Wednesday,
February 6, 2019 at 6pm. 

Carol Katkoff is interested in the psychological process of perceiving
the world and how it makes everyone experience the surroundings through
their own unique distorting mirrors. The world we are experiencing is only the imagination of reality. The image
dictates the ways we perceive.

The key of the exhibition is a meta-morphotic photo story bound into an accordion book, which is accompanied by videos of the interviews with the viewers. The author created the book with an idea, that it’s story is formed depending on the viewer and one’s individual experiences and imagination. In a chaotic, but narrative photo story, the aimlessly drifting camera creates a metamorphotic plot, where the characters might or might not be linked together through only a chance. The actions of the characters might seem to have a purpose, but before we reach it, the camera might have already found a new subject of interest or brought us into an absurd situation.

The photo story is like a little replicate of the chaos we experience in real life, in which we try to find a meaning already because we have an instinctive need for it. The instinctive need is the reason why also the viewer is trying to reach an order in the chaos and find meanings in the story. The viewer is an active participant in the creative process, so that the story behind is formed by the individual experience and imagination. The complete form comes into being in a moment the viewer meets the story. The process the viewer goes through is a reflection of how the analyze should take place with the perceived information in general. The meanings the author might have actually had creating the story don’t own an importance.

The exhibition will be open daily from 12pm to 6pm until February 9, 2019.

Carol Katkoff is studying in MA Programme of Contemporary Art at Estonian Academy of Arts. The current exhibition was created as a thesis work
in Photography at Pallas University of Applied Sciences in 2018.

From 29th of January, Misa Asanuma’s new exhibition “enkei” will be visible in photography department vitrine gallery. Misa Asanuma’s new exhibition “enkei ” throw doubt on our desire to take photography in this image-saturated era; Why we want to archive some scenery as images, and how we treat captured images after that? Why, time to time, we automatically do so, even we might not cherish them that much afterward?

The unique mismatch of materials framed in the showcase is her imagined landscape, which emerged from her personal experience.

Misa Asanuma (b.1994) is an artist from Japan. She studied literature at Meiji University, Tokyo. She is currently in the middle of her MA studies in the department of Contemporary Art of the Estonian Academy of Arts and mainly working on photography.

The exhibition will stay open until 24th of March at the address Põhja pst 35, in front of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia. The exhibition is open 24h/7 days.

From 1 February the exhibition “Ocean Botlights” by Taavi Suisalu will be open at the Tallinn City Gallery. Suisalu, who tackles the relationship between people and technology, here explores light – simultaneously a giver of life and a conveyer of information, spreading out in a web of rays the breadth of a hair at the bottom of the oceans, where no other light can reach. The exhibition is curated by Siim Preiman.

The exhibition will open on Thursday, 31 January at 6pm and will remain open until 31 March.

Taavi Suisalu (b. 1982) is an artist, who seems to be constantly flickering between different times, simultaneously looking into the ancient past and the future just out of reach. It seems that this tension between eras is an activating force in his work. At the exhibition “Ocean Botlights”, light is what brings together the ancient and the modern, simultaneously one of the prerequisites for life on Earth as well as the conveyer of information along the super-fast fibre optic cables that cover the world like a spider’s web.

“Light is not just a condition necessary for life, but the infrastructure of our information society also relies on it – the internet relies in large part on the relay of information in the form of light along fibre optic cables. Along with productivity, cheapness and user-friendliness, the internet has helped the mass growth of information and communication technology (ICT) in society. As a result, almost all important products and services in first-world countries depend on ICTs,” Oliver Laas writes in the accompanying booklet.

The installations on show at the exhibition bring together the characteristics of light both ancient and new. Suisalu seems to be trying to capture continuity in his work and is searching for something with a longer perspective. “Although how people behave and think acclimatises to new technologies quickly, the changes in sensations, physiology and mentality are more long-term,” he writes in the accompanying text. It seems that Suisalu is striving towards such a level of standardisation that would allow us to overcome the seemingly accelerating and unstoppable fervour for technological development.

Taavi Suisalu activates peripheral areas using technology, sound and performance based art as tools for an intriguing coming together. His work is inspired by the way contemporary society relates to technology and its influence on how a social being behaves, senses and thinks. In his work, he also connects cultural phenomena with contemporary cultural practices and approaches that are more traditional. His recent solo-exhibitions include “Landscapes and Portraits” (Hobusepea Gallery, 2017) and “I Am NOT Sitting in a Room” (Draakoni Gallery, 2015).

We would like to thank: Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Artists’ Association, Veinisõber, AkzoNobel, WRO Art Center, EMAP / EMARE, Creative Europe, Tartu Valgus, KOOR Wood, Kadri Toom, Indrek Tali, Mihkel Säre, Tõnu Narro, John Grzinich

Tallinn City Gallery (Harju 13) is open Wednesday till Sunday 12–7pm. Entrance is free.

Janne Lias will open her first
solo exhibition titled “Dog Show”
on Wednesday, January 16 at 6–8pm
at Vent Space project space.

“To get over some fears, you need to actively deal with them. Some others you may simply grow out of and realise at some point that you just aren’t afraid anymore. That said, terrifying past events leave their mark and leave you with unpleasant memories.

One active method for overcoming phobias is to confront them i.e. through exposure, in which you get used to the frightening situation or object through careful yet consistent contact with them. Another method is to poke fun at the fear and convince yourself you aren’t afraid anymore. But does this work?”

The exhibition will be open from January 17 to 19 at 12–6pm and
on January 20 at 12–4pm.

Janne Lias (b. 1981, Tallinn) studies
at the painting department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Having previously acquired a master’s in computer science from Tallinn University of Technology,
Lias often uses IT knowledge in her work. Working in the field of art, she likes to experiment with different materials and techniques. Emotions and a sense of humour are important tools for her in creating her work.

Katrin Enni will open her solo exhibition “Almost Parallel” at Vent Space project space on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 6pm.

“Almost Parallel” is an audiovisual installation. The inspiration for creating
the installation came from a romantic
sci-fi fantasy about lonely robots drifting around in space and looking for companions. During the process, while investigating the physicality of sound and how materials resonate, the robots were born with bodies looking like large metal cones. At the same time they also function as large vibrating speakers. The final result is a cosmic sound installation, involving sound, noise, light, movement, algorithms and also randomness.

A live performance by Katrin Enni
will take place on Thursday, January 10
at 7pm. Various soundscapes that are created specially for this sound installation will be presented. Entrance is free.

The exhibition is open daily from
1pm to 7pm and will remain open
until January 11, 2019.

Katrin Enni is currently studying at the Master programme of Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts (where she also obtained her BA in 2018 in the department of Sculpture and Installation). She has created sound installations from electronic components, micro motors, found objects, ready-mades and industrial materials. “Almost Parallel” is her first solo exhibition.

21 Grams, 2018 Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial

Under the title 21 grams Ruudt Peters has organized a jewelry exhibition where a large number of artists where asked to make a jewel with the weight and content of the soul 21 grams, to develop specifically for this exhibition. There will be an equal number of western and eastern artists invited to take part at the exhibition.The installation of the art works is an important part of the concept. The works of the 21 grams jewelry will be present on scales to verify whether an artist has succeeded to the weight of the soul 21 grams to meet.

Artist list
Paul Adie, Manami Aoki, Peter Bauhuis, David Bielander, Rudolf Bott, Helen Britton, Beatrice Brovia, Bifei Cao, Carla Castiajo, Guozhen Chen, Shuming Chen, Nicolas Cheng, Xiang Cheng, Florian Chumeng, Shachar Cohen, Erinn Cox, Aaron Patrick Decker, Peter Deckers, Patrícia Domingues, Yanli Duan, Iris Eichenberg, Nedda El Asmar, Benedikt Fischer, Shaoxiong Fu, Sara Gackowska, Jie Gao, Maya Gao, Shan Gao, Wei Gao, Yun Ge, Zhiwei Gong, Niki Grandics, Adam Grinovich, Xin Guo, Rupai Han, Sophie Hangarth, Ann-Kathrin Hartel, Jing He, Nils Hint, Simone Hompel ten, Meiing Hsu, Jun Hu, Shifa Hu, David Huycke, Meiri Ishida, Koen Jacobs, Xuezhi Ji, Chengyu Jiang, Xueling Jin, Junwon Jung, Lauren Kalman, Jiro Kamata, Yeonmi Kang, Heejoo Kim, Young-I Kim, Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Seulgi Kwon, Heng Lee, Seulki Lee, Helena Lehtinen, Linlin Lei, Danqing Li, Shanshan Li, Tianqing Li, Yinliang Li, Yiping Li, Yunxuan Li, Zifeng Li, Xiao Liang, Enying Lin, Xiao Liu, Urmas Lüüs, Suska Mackert, Lilian Mattuschka, Jasmin Matzakow, Mei Meng, Carla Movia, Eija Mustonen, Kadri Mälk, Chequita Nahar, Xianou Ni, Evert Nijland, Zijun Ning, Ted Noten, Lumy Nouguez, Pavel Opocensky, Seth Papac, Liling Peng, Yiwen Peng, Ruudt Peters, Annika Pettersson, Karen Pontoppidan, Suzanne Pugh, Haiming Ren, Estela Saez, Nina Sajet, Juliane Schölß, Sondra Sherman, Jun Shi, Robert Smit, Nadja Soloviev, Deganit Stern Schocken, Zhongge Sui, Jie Sun, Jieyi Sun, Xiangxiang Sun, Yiping Sun, Tore Svensson, Anneleen Swillen, Fumiki Taguchi, Edu Tarin, Terhi Tolvanen, Vivi Touloumidi, Fabrizio Tridenti, Yiumsiri Vantanapindu, Frank Verkade, Kezhen Wang, Qi Wang, Qiong Wang, Taidi Wang, Xiaojia Wang, Xiaoxin Wang, Zhenghong Wang, Chumeng Weng, Mian Wu, Renjie Wu, Jun Xie, Binglei Xu, Chenqian Xu, Jiaying Xu, Jing Xu, Congcong Yan, Zhao Yang, Xiaoyou Ying, Tala Yuan, Shuang Yue, Christoph Zellweger, Xihan Zhai, Chenzhi Zhang, Fan Zhang, Kun Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Zaozao Zhang, Zhaodan Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Yanmin Zhao, Yi Zhao, Hanqi Zheng, Hengfeng Zhou, Mingming Zhou, Ruoxue Zhou, Zhuohan Zhou, Aiyu Zhu, Yijie Zhu, Weiyang Zhuo

This year’s Hangzhou International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial invited 155 exhibitors who are famous educators, artists and scholars from 25 countries and regions to participate in the One Belt, One Road guidelines and policy, focusing on the China Academy of Art. About 50 well-known institutions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas form a high-level jewelry and metalworking academic feast worldwide. This exhibition has attracted the enthusiastic participation of many domestic and foreign contemporary jewelry and metal artists. It also pays special attention to the incubation of young artists and has become a mature communication platform for the contemporary jewelry art circle. This exhibition also conducts academic discussions with experts from around the world to expand the academic, artistic, technical and aesthetic aspects to promote the development of jewelry and metal art.

Through the 21g exhibition, we will present the most avant-garde metal art creations at home and abroad from a professional perspective, and promote the development of the overall discipline of jewelry and metal art. Through exhibitions, to understand the different areas of jewelry and metal art in the international and domestic, to explore the development of jewelry and metal art in the era of new technology, to reflect on how artists should face and eliminate the boundaries between art and crafts. At the same time, through the academic research of international art creation, combined with art history, modern and post-modern art theory, sociology and anthropology, the interdisciplinary discussion on the rhythm of art jewelry and other related issues.

Exhibition Theme: “21 grams”
With the intention to prove the existence of the human soul scientifically MacDougall introduced in 1907 a medical experiment by six patients roads during their dying process. The beds were positioned on an industrial scale so that the weight of the patient before, during, and could be held in the holes after death. The patients lost directly or minutes to hours after death 21 grams weight. This minimal research shows that the soul has a substantial weight. The concept of 21 grams has a mysterious imagination that is attractive to artists. The weight of 21 grams is both imaginative and literally for jewellery makers a challenge.

This triennial is scheduled to travel to European countries in 2019.
– 2018.11.07-2018.12.10 (China)
– 2019.03.11-2019.04.20 (Germany)
– 2019.05-2019.06 (Poland)
– 2019.07-2019.08 (Belgium)
– 2019.10-2019.11 (Netherlands)

/https://klimt02.net/events/exhibitions/21-grams-china-academy-art/

More:

https://klimt02.net/forum/articles/why-do-you-wear-jewelry-triennial-ping-zou

Erinn M. Cox_John Carl Cox 1919-1992_forty-one cast sterling silver baby teeth of artist`s late grandfather, sterling silver, rhodium plating, 21 grams_2018

Nils Hint_brooch_Elephant_leather, blood, sweat, oil, dirt, stainless steel_2018

Urmas Lüüs_Filled Emptiness_bone, iron chloride, sodium silicate, water, video documentation_ 2018_Photo by Valdek Laur and Urmas Lüüs

On Wednesday, the 12th of December at 19 o’clock, we will open the exhibition “Dissemble” at Vent Space (Vabaduse väljak 6/8). The exhibition is open from 13 to 19 of December from 14-20 o’clock.

It is the first group show of the students of the 2nd year of photography department.

The participating artists: Kristiina Aarna, Ben Caro, Gerda Nurk, Diana Olesjuk, Anna Pazucha, Pille-Riin Vihtre & Lisann Lillevere.

Through their individual visions they propose unique viewpoints of their surroundings. By looking closer they have re-constructed reality within the photographic frame to ask us to question hierarchies both inside and outside the image. Furthermore they have de-constructed reality and built a meditative space into which they invite us into. De-constructing familiar places through a rather personal view. Using a historical viewpoint to highlight overlooked traces visible under close looking.

Fibrous, the 1st exhibition held in the international Skulpakuu event. From November 6th until the 14th, seven international sculpture and installation artists will take over the Old EKA Gallery. The exhibition will explore the topics of power and authority. There will also be a curator tour on 08.11 and a panel-discussion about the current notion of sculpture in contemporary thought on 13.11.

You resonate with this. To take over this basement room, seven artists come together in a symbiotic relationship. Though being aware of the rules in the cooperation, they seek to grow laterally.
Fibrous, an exhibition about power, control, choice, force… themes that are suggested in the individual artworks, as well as where the works meet each other in space. The artists seek to expose the connecting fibres, the strategies of taking over and persisting within a defined room. This might show an internal struggle occuring as they give and take to find balance.

The form is fragile, it dissolves, when you touch it, it is not the same as before. It is mutable. I look around and it permeates all. It throbs in our veins, and with it, we are able to change anything.

The exhibition is curated by Laura De Jaeger with artistic director Stacey Koosel. Itwill open on November 6th at 18.00, featuring works by Barbara Kocsis, Ben Caro, Darja Krasnopevtseva, Johannes Luik, Laura De Jaeger, LAURi and Martina Buck.

Fibrousis a part of Skulpakuu, theinternational sculpture- and installation month, andis made possible by the Estonian Academy of Arts, EKA Student Union, Õllenaut, Kalamaja pruulikoda, Peninuki craftery, with Marko Mrkobrad and Arne Nuyts for the graphic design.