Exhibitions

June 18 – July 7, 2015
HOP gallery
Working hours: 11 – 18
Closed on Wednesday

You are invited!
The art jewellery exhibition of Sofja Markarova HOMEOSIS: TOWARDS PERFECTION will be opened on Thursday, June 18 at 18pm in HOP gallery.

Sofja Markarova solo exhibition HOMEOSIS: TOWARDS PERFECTION presents the attempt to capture beauty that is beyond our grasp and understanding, to which the concept of “death” merely adds an element of ungraspableness and emphasises the impossibility of such an undertaking.
Through the dialogue between author and death the perfection of the Celestial hierarchy opens up to the viewer. The intended jewellery represents a manifesto of latent divinity on the basis of shape, chromaticity and substance. The perfect symmetry of the forms, the synthetic nature of the material, latest contemporary techniques and the use of a visually monochrome palette form the code of Sofja’s aesthetic preferences. It is a metaphor of godlikeness, which transforms jewellery into virtuality, into the prototype of perfection.
In Sofja’s work the necklace, as the most independent type of jewellery, holds sole position through such materials as polyurethane plastic, urethane caoutchouc, rubber, marble, necuron, silver and gold.

Sofja Markarova graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts, MA jewellery and blacksmithing and exhibited at Denmark, UK, Belgium and Estonia.

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Artist: Carla Castiajo
Sound: Paul Beaudoin
Where: Bathroom, Lembitu 3, Tallinn
Preliminary review: 3 June at 4 pm
Exhibition: 4 and 5 June, 4–7 pm
The bathroom is an intimate space where we execute contrasting actions and behaviors. We use this private space daily for cleaning ourselves of the impurity that accumulates by washing our bodies, hands and hair. In this space, we face the mirror where our hair can be combed and plaited or remove our unwanted hair. This intimate space is also the place where we expel our filth – our repugnant fluids and excrement.
In my recent works, my attention has focused on exploring the use and significance of human hair as a material in jewellery and art. The work’s purpose is to apply of the often ambiguous features present in hair and its potential to produce different and often opposing/contradictory meanings and reactions.
After washing your hands, you are welcome to touch the objects.
Carla Castiajo has studied and taught jewellery as a medium of expression. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden and is currently a doctoral student at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The subject of her research is Hair: Purity or Promiscuity? Exploring Hair as a Material and its Meaning in Jewellery and Art.
She has taught at the BNU in Pakistan, the Oakham School in Britain, the ESAD in Portugal and the EKA in Estonia. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Paul Beaudoin is an internationally recognized multimedia artist.
Many thanks to Ester Kruuse / Riigi Kinnisvara AS, Prof. Mart Kalm, Tiit Rammul, Virko Kuusk, Risto Tali, Andreas Kivisild, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and with special thank to Prof. Kadri Mälk.

13 young jewelry and blacksmithing students: Timmo Lember, Merlin Meremaa, Erle Nemvalts, Stig Paju, Johann Põldra, Helina Risti, Mari Saarepera, Jaan Škerin, Hanna-Maria Vanaküla, Agnes Veski, Krista Tiiu Koger, Hans Kristian Mänd, Kaur Virkebau

Telliskivi water tower, Telliskivi 59A, Tallinn

Read about the project here: 

http://chairmanstale.com

In her current exhibition, Tanja Muravskaja analyses to what extent Ukrainian war that began a year ago has influenced and changed relationships between relavtives and families. The artist contemplates her own family — some of the family members live in Ukraine, some of them have moved to Russia during the Soviet era, and some relatives live in Estonia. Muravskaja shows us the ways Maidan Conflict revealed different political views within a family, turned family relationships political and caused inner conflicts in a family. The artist is intrigued by the general human question: What are the reasons why hostility emerges within families and between relatives?

Tanja Muravskaja is an Estonian artist with Ukrainian roots. She graduated from the department of photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2005 and obtained a MA degree at the same academy in 2010. Muravskaja has exhaustively studied the identities of contemporary Estonia and Estonian people — the subject was summed up by the exhibition held in Tartu Art Museum in 2010. In her personal exhibition Lost Utopia held in Tallinn Art Hall gallery in 2012, Muravskaja designated the vanishing of her cultural and historical contacts while presenting photographs depicting Ukrainian villages as disappearing images of her memories.

Exhibition will be open until May 11, 2015.

Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

TANJA MURAVSKAJA

EDUCATION
1996 – 2001 BA Media and Journalism, Tallinn Pedagogical University
2002 – 2005 BA Photography, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2004 BA Photography, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
2005 – 2010 MA Fine Arts, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn (cum laude)

SOLO SHOWS (selection)
2012 Lost Utopia (with Marina Naprushkina), Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 They, who sang together, Estonian Parliament, Tallinn
2010 Split Mind, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2010 Tanja Muravskaja, M’Ars Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2009 Lucky Losers, City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 They, who sang together, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2015 Metamorphoses of the Black Square. Interpretations of Malevich’s Work in Estonian
Art, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Kelias / CEĻŠ / KETT, Lithuanian Artists Association Gallery “Arka“ in Vilnius, gallery
of the Latvian Artists’ Union, Pärnu Museum, National Library of Estonia.
2014 Feminist (art) criticism, Tsehh, Minsk, Belarus
2014 Shifting Identities, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy
2011-2013 United States of Europe (2011-2013), Lodz, Helsinki, Vilnius, Sofia, Dresden,
Paris, Cork, Brussels, various cities in Europe.
2013 Loosers, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2013 LadyFest Tallinn, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2012 M’artian Field, Centre of contemporary art M’ARS, Moscow, Russia
2012 Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 Life in the Forest, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2011 A Complicated Relation, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
2011 Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Londonprintstudio gallery, London, United Kingdom

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:
Kumu Art Museum, Tartu Art Museum (both Estonia)

AWARDS, GRANTS
2014 Cultural grant of the Republic of Estonia
2008 Annual stipend of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2007 Vaal Gallery, annual art award

Lilli-Krõõt Repnau has graduated from the department of graphic art at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2005. In 2010 Repnau entered the Master’s programme in the department of graphic art and in 2012 in the department of animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Repnau has taken additional courses in the department of video art at Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. In 2010, Lilli-Krõõt Repnau’s artwork in printmaking technique was awarded with Edmund Valtman Grant. Repnau is a member of Estonian Artists’ Association and the Association of Estonian Printmakers.

Lilli-Krõõt Repnau:
The city is a constant experience for me. We experience the things we see, but the personal memories from the past have also strong impact on our present. My hometown is Tallinn, where during my lifetime everything has changed tremendously. It’s a common saying that buildings live longer than people, but many buildings that have been important to me, have vanished. They live on only in my mind and memories. I revisit those buildings often in my dreams and I miss their presence here and now. But then again sometimes I feel that other places in the city have become too filled up and it feels uncomfortable or even claustrophobic to be there.
Sometimes while walking in some city you can still see the marks of the past. It seems like these places are in a kind of limbo between the past and the present, time and space. I have visited many other places now and I enjoy having long walks in different cities. I like noticing those marks and different layers of time and I often create stories about them in my head. I am often surprised that some images have so strong impact on me. I like to capture those images and explore them further through printmaking, animation and drawings. Dedicating myself to the process of personifying this image I try to understand and relive those moments and spaces long gone. Again and again I come back to my personal stories and layer by layer they become fixtures of my dreams and reality.

The themes of redefining urban space and tranforming its perspectives into something utopian and dreamlike were also present in Repnau’s personal exhibition “Utopian T-town” held in Draakon gallery in 2011. Whereas the visual side of her work back then was born out of the dialogue with Estonian art classics then this time Repnau seems to focus more on contemplating on her personal images of memory.

Exhibition will be open until May 16, 2015.

Thanks to: Ülle Repnau, Jaan Pehk, Francisco Martinez, Robert Jürjendal, Tarvo-Kaspar Toome, Minna Hint, Karoliina Kagovere, Ott Kagovere, Ott Pilipenko, Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn, Ave Taavet, Liis Viira, Sven-Tõnis Puskar, Teemu Hotti, Department of animation of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of graphic art of the Estonaian Academy of Arts,

Exhibitions in Draakon gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Estonian Ministry of Culture.
LILLI-KRÕÕT REPNAU

Born on 19.06.1982 in Tallinn
Member of The Estonian Artists Association

Education
2012 – …. Estonian Academy of Arts, MA Animation
2010 – …. Estonian Academy of Arts, MA Printmaking
2000 – 2005 Estonian Academy of Arts, BA Printmaking
2003 Lucerne School of Art and Design (Switzerland), video department, Erasmus

Selected exhibitions
2015 “The Capital of Summer”, solo exhibition, Pärnu Art House
2014 “Destruction and flowering”, solo exhibition in Tallinn
2014 “Kevadnäitus”, Tallinn Art Hall
2014 solo exhibition with Maja Pučl & Marie-Alice Boshoff, CIEC Foundation Betanzos, Spain
2013 “Joonistatud Laulud”, Solaris center, Tallinn
2013 “While in Estonia”, solo exhibition, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn
2012 “Family”, Võru City Gallery, Võru
2012 “Tartu international Printmaking festival” Tampere House gallery, Tartu
2011 “Utopian T-town”, solo exhibition, Draakon gallery,Tallinn
2011 “In Graafika”, Port Artur 2, Pärnu
2010 “FinEst”, cartoon festival in Solaris center, Tallinn
2010 “Year of the Rabbit”, solo exhibition & street-art project, Luha street 17, Tallinn
2010 “Cartoon Biennial”. Culturefactory Polymer, Tallinn
2009 “Folk-artNow”, Am Güterbahnhof Tor 53 – 49, Bremen, Germany
2009 “Oh, Happy Days”, solo exhibition, Hobuspea Gallery, Tallinn
2009 “Life is too easy!”, solo exhibition, Uus Maailma Community House, Tallinn
2009 “Good Luck!” Tartu Art House, Tartu
2009 “Look at text!”, roominstallation (curator), Uus Maailm Community House, Tallinn
2007 “You too Narcissos!”, solo exhibition, Y-gallery, Tartu
2006 “Gone by the Wind”, solo exhibition, Tampere House, Tartu
2006 “Narrtive in pictures. Estonian graphic poems in 00”, Rael Artel Gallery, Tartu
2005 VIII Biennial Of Graphics Of The Baltic Countries, Kaliningrad, Russia
2005 “GRAPHIC NON STOP”, solo exhibition, Gallery of Estonian Art Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2004 “You ain`t Seen Me, Right?!”, Tallinn 13th Youth Graphic Triennial
2003 “North 2001, West 2002, East 2003” Kohtla-Järve City Gallery, Estonia
2003 “Big Art Posse versus CAPO Gallery of Estonian Art Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2003 “Video 2003”, student’s exhibition, Luzern, Switzerland
2003 “Ullallika”, Viinistu Art Museum
2002 “Freeplay. Young Estonian Photo”, Hansapank gallery, Tallinn

Residences and workshops
2014 Project “Password Printmaking“, CIEC Foundation Betanzos, Spain
2008 Workshop „Art & Text / Art & Practice“, Karlotta Blöndal, HIAP, Helsinki
2004 audiovisual live, T-Shroom Bergen – Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway
2003 – 2000 “Be Bonded By“, International EU land-art project

Awards and mentions
2011 25 Most Beautiful Estonian Books 2010, diplom
2010 Edmund Valtman scholarship (for student for the best graphic work series)

At Jaani Seegi Museum, Väike-Pääsukese 5, Tallinn
Open May 16-28, 2015
Participating students:
Edgar Volkov, Eveli Ait, Kadi Veesaar, Moonika Kase, Olav Surva, Triin Kukk, Viktorija Domarkaite, Kelly Toode, Elis Ilves, Getter Ziugand, Helen Kristi Loo, Triin Kukk, Miikael Danieljants, Mihkel Kaarma, Andreas Lichfeld

Opening Reception, May 7, 18:00 – 19:00
Raja Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2015/05/07 – 2015/05/24
“Object and Space” is a media specific group at Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, focusing on issues of subject-object relations, the politics of viewer activation and the spatio-temporal aspects of cognition. Through dialog the group works socio-cognitively to destabilize inherited understandings of sculpture and installation in order to construct meaning collectively.
A suitcase full of works by artists in “Object and Space” has now travelled to Tallinn for an exhibition at the Estonian Academy of Art in Tallinn.
This exhibition represents a cross-section of representative works by 14 artists from “Object and Space,” which can fit in a suitcase. The broad set of works contained interrogate the malleability of perception and cognition, using various strategies of de and refamiliarization.
The suitcase is hard shell, black plastic, with metal latticework and wheels. It’s volume measures 45cm x 67cm x 50cm. When full its mass weighs approximately 23 kilograms.
Participating artists:
Sara Andreasson
Andreas Braun
Emil Carlsiö
Alina Chaiderov
Antonio Fryk
Fanny Hellgren
Kim Jansson
Erik Lagerwall
Josef Mellergård
Louis Nitze
Livia Prawitz
Johan Rikenberg Jakobsson
Jacob Schill
Aldo Zetterman
Organized by Gabo Camnitzer (Valand Academy) and Kirke Kangro (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia)
“The jug’s [suitcase’s] thingness resides in its being qua vessel [suitcase]. We become aware of the vessel’s [suitcase’s] holding nature when we fill the jug [suitcase]. The jug’s [suitcase’s] bottom and sides obviously take on the task of holding. But not so fast! When we fill the jug [suitcase] with wine, do we pour the wine into the sides and bottom? At most, we pour the wine between the sides and over the bottom. Sides and bottom are, to be sure, what is impermeable in the vessel [suitcase]. But what is impermeable is not yet what does the holding. …The vessel’s [suitcase’s] thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.”
-Martin Heidegger, The Thing [Suitcase]