EKA Students on Viljandi Koidu Culture house stage

From the 4th to the 6th of June,  Contemporary Art master students of Estonian Academy of Arts will have an exhibition titled “Second Act” in Viljandi, together with dance students from Viljandi Culture Academy.  

“Second Act” is an art event, where young artists from Estonia and Europe, as well as from Asia, will fill one old stage with artworks. The exhibition will tell us a story of an empty theatre stage and of home as a fortress, where we have hidden ourselves behind the curtains.

During the second corona virus wave, Alev started to make fast sketches instead of finely finished oil paintings. The motivation behind the paintings is from a human perspective and regards his positioning in the room, with sometimes an insistent absence of a subject, but also a loneliness, and the question of how to adapt to it.

The pieces will visually describe an artist’s internal call, where a pandemic has thrown us. Works are created during the second corona wave in Estonia, therefore they speak topics of the common experience: longing, alienation, overloading of information, and internet communication. In the exhibition one can see painting, stained glass, video art, performance and dance.

Artists:  Eero Alev (EST), Jamie Dean Avis (UK), Muhhammad Suyfan Baig (PK),  Aino Garland (EST), Liisbeth Horn (EST), Georg Kaasik (EST),  Gregor Pankert (BE), Brenda Purtsak (EST), Maryn-Liis Rüütelmaa (EST), Inga Salurand (EST), Jonathan Stavleu (NL), Elle Viies (EST), Junni Yeung (HKG) 

“Second Act ” is Estonian Academy of Arts curatorial studies and contemprorary art studies common project, lectured by Anders Härm and Margit Säde.

Support:  Estonian Academy of Arts, Teatrihoov,  TU Viljandi Culture Academy, Viljandi Kunstikool