Exhibitions

Last summer the travelling gallery met more than 500 new art friends and found a home for 50 artworks. This Saturday at 2pm everyone is invited to the season opening event in the forecourt of gallery ISFAG (Põhja pst 35, right next to EKKM)

During the festivities Kirill Tulin will replace the gallery’s broken clutch, Camille Laurelli will open a one-day exhibition and music will be selected by this season’s resident artist Art Nõukas. As always, artworks by the gallery artists Art ja Helena, Rosa-Violetta Grötsch, Johnson&Johnson, Camille Laurelli, Anna Mari Liivrand and Hanna Piksarv will be sold. A new addition to the line-up is Liina Pääsuke, whose works will be available for purchase starting this Saturday.

After touring fairs and festivals in 2016, the gallery will now set its sights on Estonia’s neighbours. This summer the gallery will host Art Nõukas’ film project “Lost and found cinema” visiting different art centres across the Baltics, but none of the capital cities. “Whether travelling in Estonia with a foreign artist or taking a local artist abroad, the aim is still to offer an alternative platform for experiencing art in a field that is largely concentrated around capitals,” comments gallerist and project initiator Siim Preiman, “that’s why this year we’ll be tracking down other small initiatives like ourselves, share each other’s experiences and hopefully meet each other’s friends.”

The opening event this Saturday is the first chance this year to be a part of the gallery’s activities and to hear the latest whispers about the future. If all goes according to plan, the summer tour will take place in the second half of July.

Kirill Tulin (b 1989) is an artist living in Tallinn who has not graduated from the Academy of Arts or any other university. He constantly questions the role of traditional galleries and other art institutions. In February 2017, he initiated the performative action “We are about to come up with a title, please bear with us” in Tallinn Art Hall that gave visitors a chance to see how exhibitions are made.

Camille Laurelli (b 1981) is a French-born artist, currently living and working in Tallinn. He has studied in art schools in Annecy and Grenoble. Laurelli started his career as a photo artist but now merges different areas of art in his practice and questions the value of art in a world increasingly overtaken by technology. He has participated in the exhibitions “Side effects” and “& So On & So Forth”, both at EKKM in 2013. In 2016, he curated the show “Infinite Lives” with co-curator Nicolas Audureau at Tallinn City Gallery.

Art Nõukas (b 1992) is an artist living and working in Tallinn. He graduated from the sculpture and installation department at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2017. In his installations he largely relies on visuals and methods borrowed from films and often positions the silver screen at the centre of his dramatic scenographies. His latest solo show “Oh, why do we play this game?” with Helena Keskküla, took place at Hobusepea gallery in spring 2016.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/212457265938217

Thanks: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Tamara Luuk, Villem Säre

Image: Johanna Heikkilä “Nähdäkseni sinut”. Exhibition view. galerii galerii 2016.

Galerii galerii is a travelling contemporary art gallery built in the back of a ‘91 Transit van that started operating in 2016. The gallery hosts solo shows by young international artists, represents a growing number of more and less known contemporary artists and actively takes art to new publics. During its first season galerii galerii toured fairs and festivals all over Estonia, visiting the towns of Rakvere, Võru, Viljandi and Toila. In 2017 the gallery aims to visit art centres in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

More information:
Siim Preiman
gallerist
+372 53432526
galerist@galeriigalerii.ee
www.galeriigalerii.ee

June 1, 6:00pm
Puänt Book Store (Pärnu mnt 4)
Hedi Jaansoo, Kristel Raesaar, Pire Sova, Viktor Gurov
Neanderthal Cave School invites you to join us for a performative walking and mindfulness session on Thursday, June 1, at 6:00pm.
The upcoming session is the first public scetch for Neanderthal Cave School’s exhibition-residency at The Contemporary Art Museum Estonia, due to start in September.
If the artworld is a model of reality, then how do we, artists, participate in creating social and political reality? Now that criticality has become a set of tropes employed to signal belonging to a professional inner circle rather than a practice addressing social issues, does contemporary art still hold any potential as a prototype for a new reality? How to be together when our selves have broken down into various user profiles?
We’ll meet at 6:00pm in front of Puänt book store (Pärnu mnt 4). The session will begin with a brisk walk and will continue with a guided meditation. In the end of the session, a discussion over refreshments will take place.
Please dress comfortably. You may bring walking poles, dumbbells or sandbags. We recommend that you bring a small plaid, blanket, shawl or just a warm cardigan for meditation. Attention: the guided meditation will take place in Estonian, so for non-Estonian speakers, this will be a chance to experience an immersive language listening session.
Operating since 2015, Neanderthal Cave School is an art project, using artists, gallery spaces, visitors, control and togetherness amongst other things as materials.

Further information: neandertalcaveschool@gmail.com
Fb event: http://bit.ly/2rfhuff

The exhibition. My Body. My Face. I Sense, I Look, I Imagine.

Estonian Academy of Arts TASE ’17 Graduation Show sites and dates announced!
The Estonian Academy of Arts Graduation Show TASE ’17 and its satellite festivities will take place from 27 May – 12 June, 2017 at the historic Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11 and other venues in Tallinn.

Sat 27 May ERKI Fashion Show 30
The most scandalous fashion show of Estonia will present its 30th show in a last-chance-top-secret-site! Not to be missed!
Follow the lead

Tue 30 May 4pm TASE ’17 Opening Ceremony
Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11, Tallinn

TASE ’17 Graduation Show
Wed 31 May – Sat 12 June
Noblessner valukoda

TASE ’17 Portfolio Café
Fri 2 June and Sat 3 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

TASE ‘ 17 Graduation Works Lift Talks
Wed 2 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

SISU Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use 2017 “Naked Space”
7. – 8. 06. Luzern, Neubad, Switzerland and Mobile Classroom of the EAA Dept of Interior Architecture, in Tallinn

The SISU 2017 symposium will focus on re-use of interior space and community-driven redesign processes. The symposium will shed light on the question, how interior architecture is able to create an identity for naked space while ‘re-dressing’ it, and how this can contribute new value to the whole neighbourhood. What are our needs today and how does it influence the re-purposing process? How can we investigate the space inside the buildings of the past?

SISU will approach these questions across different disciplines including interior architects/designers, architects, filmmakers, academics and students from different cultures for the first time in parallel in Switzerland and in Estonia.

The Estonian Association of Interior Architects, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art / School of Engineering and Architecture, the Estonian Academy of Arts / Department of Interior Architecture and the Association of Swiss Interior Architects have the honour of inviting You to the 4th International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU
Read on and sign up at sisu.esl.ee

TASE FILM ’17
9. 06.
Sõpruse Cinema
Vana-Posti 8, Tallinn

The programme is developing, more info soon! Please save the dates and visit us!

Keiu Krikmann
TASE Head Coordinator
keiu.krikmann@artun.ee
Solveig Jahnke
Head of Communications
solveig.jahnke@artun.ee
Tel +372 6267 111
Mob +372 5626 4949
www.artun.ee

Saaremaa Kunstistuudio, Lossi 5, Kuressaare, 93819, E-R 12:00 – 18:00, L 11:00 – 16:00, P Suletud
+372 453 3748, +372 511 6740, info@kunstistuudio.ee
March 17 – April 17, 2017 Saaremaa Kunstistuudio, Saaremaa, Estonia
“They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. . .when they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.” Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Eleven international artists from the Jewelry and Blacksmithing department at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn present Tsirkus: a spectacle of contemporary jewellery and modern metal objects that simultaneously celebrate, contradict, and conjure reality and our experiences within it.
The quiet intensity and curious desires that have drawn these artists together creates an inviting milieu to seek the magic, to find the connections, to create beyond the expected. The compelling results, both collectively and individually, are radically diverse, materially deceptive, and conceptually provocative. Surprising opportunities are manifested where the corporeal becomes fantasy, the imagined becomes possible, and questions are raised though left unanswered – perhaps best left until the circus meets again.
This unique collective brought together by chance includes: Erinn M. Cox (US), Sou Inoue (JP), Alexander Kamelhair (US), Moonika Kase (EE), Triin Kukk (EE), Timmo Lember (EE), Merlin Meremaa (EE), Anneli Oppar (EE), Hansel Tai (CN), Hannes Tōnuri (EE), and Hanna-Maria Vanaküla (EE).
Tsirkus opens Friday, March 17 at 17:00 and runs through April 17, 2017.
Saaremaa Kunstistuudio | Lossi 5, Kuressaare, 93819 | E-R 12:00 – 18:00, L 11:00 – 16:00, P Suletud
+372 453 3748, +372 511 6740, info@kunstistuudio.ee

Exhibition of glass students and tutors from three Baltic Art Academies – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ”SAKAUSĒJOT ROBEŽAS / MELTING LIMITS“ and conference of Baltic Glass Artists and Art Historians GLASS ART IN BALTIC CONTEXT: PAST, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS is held in Riga, the main exhibition hall of the Art Academy of Latvia. Organized by the Department of Glass Art of the Art Academy of Latvia, the exhibition will be on view from February 2 to 25, 2017.
The conference, held on February 3, informed the audience about the most current topics in the glass art field in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

“In a world full of conflicts and jolts, in which humanism is being seriously jeopardized, art is the most precious part of the human being. It is the ideal place for reflection, individual expression, freedom and fundamental questions. It is a ‘yes’ to life, although sometimes a ‘but’ lies behind. More than ever, the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are crucial in the framework of contemporary debates.
Viva Arte Viva is also an exclamation, an expression of the passion for art and for the state of the artist. Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists and for the artists. It deals with the forms they propose, the questions they pose, the practices they develop and the forms of life they choose.
The Exhibition also aims to be an experience, representing an extroversion movement towards the other, towards a common place and towards the most indefinable dimensions, opening the pathways to a neo-humanism.”
Christine Macel,
Curator of 57th Venice Biennale
We welcome you to a group exhibition of masters degree first year painting students of Estonian Academy of Arts. Exhibition consists of two different workshops that took place during the semester.
The title Viva Arte Viva is a reference to Venice biennale of the following year. Every artist took the phrase out of context and found an individual meaning to it.

Participating artists: Leelo-Mai Aunbaum, Tilly Davies, Nieves Felipo, Kelli Gedvil, Martyna Kosiarz, Kristen Rästas, Heidy Tiits, Inga Tsernova, Alo Valge and Katrin Valgemäe.

Tutors: Jaan Toomik and Vladimir Dubossarsky.

Opening on the 21st of December at 6pm in ARS project room (Pärnu mnt 154). Entry through the court.
Performance schedule:
18:00 Tilly Davies (“Withdraw”)
19:00 Alo Valge and guest artist Fideelia-Signe Roots (“VANN. BATHTUB. 浴缸”)
21:30 Inga Tsernova and Tilly Davies (“Painting Project 1”)
Exhibition remains open until 30th of December at 12-18.
Exhibition is closed on 24th and 25th of December.

Supported by Estonian Artists’ Association.

Kaarel Kurismaa, prof Raul Keller, Mari-Liis Rebane and Karl Saks TIMER

Art Hall Gallery
16 December 2016 – 15 January 2017

You are invited to the exhibition opening on Thursday, 15 December at 6 p.m!

At this exhibition, there are quite a few timers that tick, hum, sing or otherwise sound the time, along with four artists of various ages that measure different temporal and spatial experiences. Not that any of them are demented by youth, or infirmed by age but none of them plays their role in society in a dignified or safe way, or by dismissing challenges.

It could be said that the precondition for the existence of all four is a maximum state of openness, self-consciously keeping themselves in the developmental stage of a student rather than a professional artist. The intensity of their feelers, the purity of emotion and thought are much greater values for them than certified knowledge. In summary the four of them, despite their age differences, have achieved quite a bit: word, sound, film, dance, installation and fine art. And they have considered and held many occupations, such as caregiver, volunteer, producer, designer, instructor and musician. This all despite the belief “… that art as we know it, is over, finished. … But why worry if you can continue and go on from here. Simply take a step out into the unknown.”… (Andres Lõo, Fantoomplatvorm. Paranoia Publishing Ltd pp 35).

Raul Keller (1973) focuses primarily on site-specific sound installations, sound performance, musical improvisation, and radiophonic experiments (Andreas Trossek). He passionately indicates the limitations of physical space compared to acoustical space (Ragne Nukk) and seems somehow large and benevolent when moving toward the light making and world-creating sound, while actually hiding in the shadows.

Mari-Liis Rebane (1988) is adept at many means of self-expression, she strives to transcend genre, style and medium, by creating post-internet art counterparts to sound. Using the third person, she says the following about her video-sound installation, which is based on the rhythm of fingering prayer beads: “The author uses the motif of counting beads as a means of concentration based initially on religious cognition, which creates a hypnotic space around itself and plays with time mythology.” She seems to be somewhat complicated; she exudes restlessness and talent.

Karl Saks (1984) is an artist who does not draw a line between the crazy world and the gestures that precisely define it. He is one of the performers on the contemporary dance stage that has the most interesting bodily expression, although he himself says that “movement doesn’t engender anything in me — no good feelings at any emotional level. The only emotional bonus of movement is that it initiates thinking, and one’s thought activity and process change when one discovers oneself moving.” He is extremely sensitive; someone that accepts responsibility and resounds only as much as the situation requires.

Kaarel Kurismaa (1939) works with immobile and mobile, silent and vocal sculptural objects. He is rightly considered to be the pioneer of Estonian kinetic and sound art. In addition, he writes short stories with dislocated evolvement that excite reader´s fantasy.. His enjoyment of the quiet ticking of small machines, which somewhat shyly but persistently confirms to the world “I love you!”, unexpectedly radiate warmth and trust.

We thank: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Ministry of Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn Department of Culture, Veinisõber, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Hello Upan, Revo Koplus, Mari Kurismaa, Taavet Jansen, Madlen Hirtentreu.

Tallinn Art Hall gallery
16 December 2016 – 15 January 2017
Freedom Square 8
Wednesday–Sunday, 12pm–6pm, free admission
kunstihoone.ee

Press release by:
Tamara Luuk
tamara@kunstihoone.ee

You are cordially invited to a series of Urban Studies final semester presentations and events.

THE LAST CRASH
Urban Studies, 1st year studio final presentation (outdoors)
Tutors: Andra Aaloe, Keiti Kljavin
In-front of barbie-pink garage at Maakri 30a
7 December 2016, 10:00-17:30

More info and programme: www.facebook.com/events/592232500984744

Dear Tallinn. After this crash course, this intensive ABC of one strange little-big town in the edge of nowhere but in the centre of everything, something has changed in us. We have learned to admire every wrinkle and fold, every crook and cranny your in times turbulent past has drawn on you, the vacancies left behind by the changes of systems, and also these somewhat violent fillings of your urban fabric. We think… we may have a crush on you.
And thus we made this festival. We took one holey and haunted slice of you – Maakri and Keldrimäe subdistricts – and worked with it, dug deeper in, just to learn to read the fractures in you, learn to accept them, and… love. We hope everyone will come to see our display of affection, the festival called Last crash, where we’ll perform, install, present, exhibit, lecture and walk through physical and idea spaces of Maakri and Keldrimäe.
Because it is you, Tallinn, dark and bleak Northern capital we’ve lost our hearts to.

THE AWKWARD AGENCY
Art & City, final exhibition
Tutor: Mattias Malk
Rävala puiestee 8, follow the signs
7 December 2016, 19:00 (doors open at 18:30)

More info: www.facebook.com/events/747270955425827

The birth of intimacy is often awkward. In search for a more intimate awareness of and a better sensibility to what Tallinn has to offer as a city, urbanists and creatives of all walks of life embarked on a two-day journey. It led them out of the city, out of the county and for brief glimpses out of the respective comfort zones of the participants. In the search to act on their right to the city they now seek your attention. The exhibition will showcase the results of the walk as well as expand on the idea of awkwardness and sociability in and around urban environments.

THE NEW POWER GRID
Urban Studies, 2nd year studio final presentation (indoors)
Tutor: Kaie Kuldkepp / Co-tutor: Han Dijk
Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Architecture, Pikk tn 20, 3rd floor
8 December 2016, 10:00-14:00

An electric grid network occupies a linear strip of land, cross-secting a city. What will happen to this strip once the grid is put underground? This is a future challenge in Tallinn. What are the opportunities for developing public spaces and enhancing urban fringes?

STRATEGIES FOR A HEALTHY CITY
Lecture by Han Dijk (Posad, NL)
Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Architecture, Pikk tn 20, 3rd floor, main lecture hall
8 December 2016, 18:00

More info: www.facebook.com/events/582952211900027

Han Dijk is a teacher in urban design at the Academie of Bouwkunst in Rotterdam and is guest lecturer in different universities in the Netherlands and abroad. Han worked as spatial designer on large city planning assignments with an international context in Antwerp (Belgium) Sao Paulo (Brasil), Warsaw (Poland) and for UN Habitat in Yangon (Myanmar)

The EAA Department of Animation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and we are happy to invite you to join our birthday party on November 18th at 6 pm at the BFM Nova building, Narva mnt 27, 4th floor at the animation department.
6 pm
– Croquis by Kristjan Holm, the legendary animation student and current lecturer at the Department of Interior Architecture
– GIF workshop by Sander Joon, a recent graduate and awarded animation director.
6 pm
– Presentation of the new DVD and screening of the best student films from the 10 legendary years of the animation department. Free entry.
7 pm
– Cake and Turkish coffee, brewed by the animation fan and Artistic Director of ЭТО experimental lab, Aleksey Savinsky aka Mr Vuu from St. Petersburg.
Magusaid unenägusid ja tere tulemast animatsiooni osakonda!!!
PS. There will be several open lectures and presentations in celebration of the same event at BFM, check out at www.anima.ee