Exhibitions

Evita Vasiljeva will open her exhibition “Unintentional and very particular” in the Showcase Gallery of the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja pst 35, Tallinn) at 6pm on Friday, October 19, 2018.

Evita Vasiljeva’s new exhibition is part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Different events including lectures are hosted by the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Põhja pst 35). This fall the programme of the Gallery is curated by Kaisa Maasik. The Showcase Gallery has previously presented the works of Vít Havránek and Anna Mari Liivrand. Students of the Estonian Academy of Arts are welcome to apply at the Showcase Gallery until October 20th, results will be announced on November 1st.

Evita’s distorted abstract sculptural forms were created during her stay at the EKWC ceramics residency in the Netherlands. These unfamiliar forms were the result of 3D printing clay – a long process where the fragile surface of the formations cracked repeatedly. The final outcome is an intriguing contradiction of the new and the old – a futuristic shape using ancient materials, a technical method using natural resources.

Current exhibition can be viewed at any time and it will remain open until December 2nd.

Evita will also open her solo show “Still Stands and Resilient Nows” at Tallinn City Gallery on Thursday, October 18th. The exhibition will remain open until November 25th.

Graphic design: Mai Bauvald and Ran-Re Reimann

Evita Vasiļjeva (1985) is a Latvian artist based in Riga and Amsterdam. In 2012 she has graduated from the Fine Arts program at the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academie and in 2016 Evita finished the two-year residency program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She is mainly a sculptor, who is not limited to a physical material. Her latest exhibitions include “HYBRIDS” Lustwarande, Tillburg (2018) and “Manhours in Headquarters” P/////AKT, Amsterdam (2017).

Kaisa Maasik (1994) is an artist and curator based in Tallinn. She is currently in the middle of her MA studies in the department of photography of the Estonian Academy of Arts where she also finished her BA studies. Her first curatorial projects took place in 2017 and were Umbrella Group’s “Not Really” and Keiu Maasik’s solo exhibition “Lost Friends”. Her first solo exhibition “Green Room” took place at her home in 2015 and dealt with the topic of urban space and the anonymous relationships within it, her last solo show “Your Love Hurts” dealt with domestic violence.

More information:

Kaisa Maasik kaisa.maasik@artun.ee
FB event https://www.facebook.com/events/1090463464458203
Evita Vasiljeva’s Webpage evitavasiljeva.com

Join us for the opening of the Young Sculptor Award 2018 exhibition “Prediction and Preservation” on October 3 at 6 pm. This is the first show at the gallery’s new location in the Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7.

The exhibition focuses on the present, or maybe even different quests for the present. The present should be a place where the decisions about the past and the future are born. Therefore, the present itself is the most uncharted and unstable space-time. The future may seem like it has been before—a conventional, predictable and unchanging product of imagination and fiction. The real world is the place where unforeseen events are happening. It presents ethical problems that are more vexing than reminisces of the past or projections for the future. Welcome to the present moment, where the instruments are real space and active time units!

Artists who work with space and object fix their minds on the time dimension and the temporary; they ask how and what we perceive in our current space, and how it will be seen as it changes into the past. How the environment designs the future? How can we design ourselves for being present in the present? How values are created by things that happened or were perceived to happen in this space? Can the space become outdated or postponed?

The 2018 Young Sculptor Award show is the seventh in this series. The main goal of the show and its award is to highlight young sculptors and installation artists, support their creative production and open it to a wider public. Works are accepted to the show through open call for the sculpture and installation students, works have to be produced during the ongoing academic year. The grand prix and the second and third prize are awarded by an international jury. The awards are travels to important art events around the world.

Participating artists: Darja Krasnopevtseva, Izabella Neff, Johannes Luik, Katrin Enni, LAURi, Nele Tiidelepp, Olesja Semenkova, Richard Engel, Valetto Alexandre

Exhibition is organised by installation and sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tutors: Taavi Talve, Taavi Piibemann, Kirke Kangro, Art Allmägi. Technical assistance: Sander Haugas. Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio.

Exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

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PROGRAMME 29.09:
3pm Preview and curator’s tour with Nico Anklam and Paul Kuimet
4pm Film programme Night – Is it Time or Space? Curated by Ingel Vaikla
6pm Exhibition opening of Five Volumes
Music by DJ Endamisi Salamisi and Siim Karro

Registration for Tallinn – Narva – Tallinn bus
Registration for Tartu – Narva – Tartu bus

Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Five Volumes uses the entire 250 m2 ground floor of the Narva Art Residency main building. Three 16 mm film projections, one slide show, objects and photographs with three newly produced works make it the most extensive show of his yet.

In collaboration with Berlin based curator Nico Anklam, Five Volumes wants to underscore and expand Kuimet’s long relationship with the moving image and discourses around architectural modernisms found in and around Pärnu KEK Construction Company’s Housing unit “Kuldne Kodu” (Golden Home).

As a spatial experience, Five Volumes not only tries to think about transformations of the photographic and cinematographic image. But Kuimet’s camera eye also gently pierces into architectural formations of modernism reflected through the context of a border city in industrial decay between Estonia and Russia. As such, Five Volumes is also about utopian promises and its aesthetic manifestations as artistic material.

Paul Kuimet (b. 1984) is an artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. His work has recently been exhibited and screened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; European Central Bank, Frankfurt; KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn; WNTRP, Berlin and BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels. In 2018 he participated in the residency programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels and will take part in the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City.

Night – Is it Time or Space? is a film programme curated by Ingel Vaikla that serves as a substantive extension to Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition Five Volumes. Programme will take place two times – first screening is on September 29th at 4pm at the cinema hall of Narva Art Residency. The main keywords among the artists’ films are: modernism, utopia, architecture and sculpturality. Chosen filmmakers’ focus is primarily on a close dialogue between form, space and camera. Five internationally recognized audiovisual works will be screened from the artists originally from Canada, Mexico, Estonia, Italy and The United Kingdom.

Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonia 100 art program, The Gambling Tax Council (HMN), Estonian Contemporary Art Development Centre (ECADC), Photography Department of Estonian Academy of Arts, Goethe Institute in Estonia, High Voltage, GoBus, Muddis Brewery

Organizer: Narva Art Residency
Contact: ann.vaikla@artun.ee

On Tuesday, September 11 5-7PM Department of Graphic Design of Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA GD) will open SUVA Type Foundry exhibition at the XIII Disainiöö at Telliskivi Loomelinnak’s Green Hall (Telliskivi 60a, Tallinn) on the occasion of a new web platform SUVA Type Foundry launch. SUVA Type Foundry Specimen No. 1 will be published during the same week.

SUVA Type Foundry web platform, specimen as well as the exhibition present fonts designed 2010–2018, typographical experiments and archival materials created by EKA GD students, alumni and faculty. Fonts, available to download, will be added to the Type Foundry continuously.

Exhibition is open to the public September 11 through 15 12-7PM and on September 16 12-6PM.

Project team: Kersti Heile, Ott Kagovere, Elis Kitt, Anneli Kripsaar, Laura Merendi, Sandra Nuut, Anselm Oja, Johanna Ruukholm, and Indrek Sirkel.

Fonts: Kenneth Allik, Mai Bauvald, Kersti Heile, Linda Mari Hüvato, Elisabeth Juusu, Roven Jõekäär, Karmo Järv, Karri Kaljend, Anneli Kripsaar, Syret Kärt, Else Lagerspetz, Sigrid Liira, Laura Merendi, Maria Muuk, Andree Paat, Paul-Hendrik Piho, Stenly Poks, Hans-Erik Põldoja, Eva Rank, Mirjam Reili, Jaan Rõõmus, Ivar Sakk, Katarina Sarap, Villem Sarapuu, Patrick Zavadskis, Aimur Takk, Joonas Timmi, Mathias Väärsi, Väino Õun.

On Wednesday, 5 September at 17.00 EKA Gallery and the Faculty of Fine arts invite you to a public lecture on radical digital art by visiting artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder (USA). The lecture is in English and takes place in room A302.

Lecture “Radical Digital Painting” groups and presents several ideas and artifacts related to contemporary painting and contextualizes its connection to historical processes and digital technology. It is inspired by and is a continuation of Radical Computer Music. Through demonstrative, interactive performance lectures, American artist and educator Jeffrey Alan Scudder presents homegrown software inventions and new theories about painting and picture making. A Google search for “digital painting” today mostly brings up Photoshop tutorials related to translating age old representational painting techniques to computational media, but the topic of digital painting has much more to offer fine arts in terms of poetry and theory. Jeffrey has created several programs that highlight abstract expressivity, play, and improvisation over production quality and technical control.

In addition to software demos, new theoretical models of image resolution, computer literacy, and picture making are presented and described, and connected to the history of abstraction in drawing and painting. He presently spends all his time traveling, performing, and continuing to develop his software and media performances.

As of summer and fall 2018 he is traveling and lecturing with the Danish composer Goodiepal and his band throughout Europe. Jeffrey’s work Ten Minute Painting is now a part of the permanent Goodiepal collection at the SMK Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Interview with Jeffrey on Rhizome: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2017/dec/05/Artist-Profile-Jeffrey-Alan-Scudder/

Anna Mari Liivrand will open her exhibition “Monument valley (may contain artefacts)” in the new Showcase Gallery of the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja pst 35, Tallinn) at 6pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2018.

Anna Mari Liivrand’s new exhibition is part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Different events including lectures are hosted by the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Põhja pst 35). An exhibition by the Czech art theoretician and curator Vít Havránek was held in the new Showcase Gallery in the summer of 2018. This fall the programme of the Gallery is curated by Kaisa Maasik. In the future this Gallery will become an artspace based on open call.

Anna Mari Liivrand’s current exhibition depicts an unproportional, distorted view into a room similar to a garden that has been caught inside of a glass chamber. The stained glass is composed out of memory shards through which a valley of frozen curiosities reveal themselves. It is an ephemeral walk in the form of glass pillars, residue, lucky charms and vessels.

The current exhibition can be viewed at any time and it will remain open until October 14th.

Graphic Design: Grete-Mai Bauvald ja Ran-Re Reimann

Anna Mari Liivrand (1993) lives and works in Tallinn. Anna Mari Liivrand’s work carries elements of installation, sculpture and drawings with the urge to capture and preserve fragility, trying to open up the nature of objects and moments from our everyday life.

Kaisa Maasik (1994) is an artist and curator based in Tallinn. She is currently in the middle of her MA studies in the department of photography of the Estonian Academy of Arts where she also finished her BA studies. Her first solo exhibition “Green Room” took place at her home in 2015 and dealt with the topic of urban space and the anonymous relationships within it. Her first curatorial projects were Umbrella Group’s “Not Really” and Keiu Maasik’s solo exhibition “Lost Friends”. Maasik’s last solo show “Your Love Hurts” dealt with domestic violence.

Vít Havránek’s “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror” is the opening exhibition of the Showcase Gallery of the EKA Department of Photography. The gallery is connected to the Lembitu 10 building and the exhibition will open with a performance on 4 June at 14:00.

The exhibition “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror” reflects on the usage of latin verb reflexio (reflection) that from early middle ages as description of a body that is repulsed by a mechanical obstacle. In this sense Descartes develops the reflections as a process of thinking when the thought is returned as a subject of thought about itself and its conditions. In this connection mirror image in absence of thinking is a bare image.

Vít Havránek is an art theoretician and curator living in Prague. He has been working since 2002 as director of the contemporary art initiative Tranzit.org. He has previously worked as a curator at Prague City Gallery and National Gallery in Prague. Havránek is a lecturer of contemporary art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and he co-curated Manifesta 8 and the 15th Jakarta Biennale. In 1999, Vít Havránek was one of the founders of the PAS collective. The group was created as a unit for organizing and producing events that promote new models of mediation between the public and art. In 2000, as one of the first projects, PAS set up showcase galleries in various Czech cities.  The showcase galleries were based on the example of the Communist showcase galleries that were used in the 1980s by the Communist regime and local authorities for disseminating political propaganda.

This futuristic exhibition at Tallinn TV Tower tells a story of the planet Shift, through which the Estonian Academy of Arts students have moved the traditional boundaries of fashion. The exhibition will highlight 12 unique shifts that lack all practical connections with the world and are bound for the future instead.

Participating artists: Sandra Luks, Mari-Ly Kapp, Pamela Põld, Marleen Afanasjev, Elsbeth Tiisler, Kaia Kuusmann, Katrin Aasmaa, Kerttu Reinmaa and Aleksandra Tsusovljanova, Kirke Talu

Artists’ supervisors: Liisi Eesmaa, Anu Samarüütel-Long and Piret Puppart

Shift project manager: Sirli Pohlak

Graphic designer: Vahur Vogt

Photo material: Cärol Ott

Exhibition organisers: Hannes Rüütel, Külli-Triin Laanet and Edvard Hiietam

Course supervisor: Maiu Rõõmus

TASE is the annual spring graduation show of the Estonian Academy of Arts, with this year’s main exhibition taking place at the Faculty of Fine Arts building at Lembitu 10. The exhibition will open on 30 May at 17:00 and the final projects will remain on view until 13 June.

The exhibition can be considered a farewell ceremony to the temporary spaces EKA has been working on since its main academic building at Tartu mnt. 1 was demolished eight years ago. The Lembitu 10 building has hosted EKA’s academic and creative activities over the past four years and, with the TASE ’18 exhibition, students will have a chance, as a symbolic gesture, to show their final projects in a space that EKA will leave behind when it moves to the new building this summer.

The exhibition will feature the final projects of fine arts, architecture, design and art and culture master’s students with the additional final works of fine arts bachelor’s students.

Main organiser: Keiu Krikmann

Co-organisers: Fidelia Regina Randmäe, Solveig Jahnke, Mart Vainre, Maarja Pabut, Laura Kuusk, Kelli Turman and Ingela Heinaste

Exhibition design: Ulla Alla, Madli Kaljuste and Margus Tammik

Graphic design: Martina Gofman, Johanna Ruukholm, Nathan Tulve; supervisor: Indrek Sirkel

More info www.artun.ee/tase

System & Error

Exhibition: 23rd February / 4th March

Off-season Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM),

Opening Party: 18:00 / Friday 23rd

Ordinary life is made of eventful junctures, constant surprises and adjustments that go beyond all attempts to rigorously plan and design things. Infrastructures crack, smart phones make errors, printers print funny stuff, states fail and the financial market fall into cyclical crises; Also our body can react strangely. All these failures have an aura though: they do not occur twice in the same way and produce the adrenaline of edges. Paraphrasing Tolstoy, all the families are successful alike, but failed in their own unique way.

The artworks of this exhibition have been produced honouring the meaning of collaboration, since the groups of artists are composed with MA students from Aalto University and from the Estonian Academy of Arts, which adds to the exhibition a reflection about the risks, potentials and failures of cooperation between artists and between institutions. For the exhibition, students have engaged with how misbehaviours and things out of place constitute a terrain of experimentation, addressing different meanings of systems, randomness and dead ends, and facing questions such as:

• Do failures need an excuse?
• What does an error look like?
• What is the benefit of being part of a system?
• How much tolerance for the non-perfect do our societies have?
• Is a list of failures more revealing than a list of successes?
• Are gaps, holes, tricksters and hackers part of the system or the error?
• In which ways systems are organised by defining some practices as normal and some others as deviant (noise, dirt, queer…)?
• And does anything right might come from pursuing wrong practices?

Curator: Francisco Martínez

Graphic designer Heleliis Hõim

Artists:

• Madis Kurss & Martha Jessen
• Mirka Sulander & Elina Saat
• Hanna Perälä & Heleliis Hõim
• Sandra Schneider, Anu Jalas & Kadi Reintamm
• Uzair Amjad, Aman Askarizad & Aap Jaapan
• Ana Fernandes & Mark Antonious Puhkan
• Solveig Lill & Tuomas Lehtomaa
• Elham Rahmati, Danai Anagnostou & Heidi Paju