Exhibitions

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

The second-years students of the interior architecture department are pleased and proud to announce that TREPP, the new viewing tower in Tuhu bog, built in co-operation with RMK, has now been completed! The opening ceremony will take place in Tuhu bog on Saturday, 9th December from 2 pm to 4 pm.

You are welcome to arrange your own travel or join us on the Estonian Academy of Arts bus (THE BUS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED)

We’d love for you to join us!

Got a question?

Please write to Kirke from the TREPP team: kirke.kalamats@artun.ee

On Thursday, 26th October at 6pm Evelin Saul and Madlen Hirtentreu will open their first joint exhibition ‘Transmission’ at HOP gallery.

The exhibition stays open till 14th November.

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In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his ‘Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems’. Some pages of the aforementioned book are dedicated to a discussion of a ship that leaves Venice for Aleppo. One speaker, Sagredo, imagines a pen that would leave a visible mark of the entire voyage from Italy towards Syria.
Noble Venetians ponder how it could be that everything on board remains immobile, while at the same time leaving a thousand-yard-long trace. They discover that a true and real motion can be seen from different perspectives, including those from which this very movement would be as if nonexistent.

Exhibition involves inner and outer space, movement between instinctive, controllable and uncontrollable.

One is left with resonance.

Attention: Access to mechanical inventory is physically restricted

From idea to realization: Evelin Saul, Madlen HIrtentreu

Technical team: Bruno and Rünno Mander, Harri Liis, Ahto Härm

Exhibition is supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Konesko Ltd.

Thanks: EKKM, Mihkel Masso, Revo Koplus, Lilian Vellerand, Aksel Tamm, Eneli Järs, Jarmo Reha

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Evelin Saul graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in 2016 with Master’s degree in Installation and Sculpture, having previously completed the field of Ceramics in BA in the same university. She has studied in exchange in Spain (UGR, 2009) and France (ÉSAD, 2010) and has been taking part of exhibitions since 2010, including in Estonia, Denmark, Russia, France, Spain, the USA and Canada. Reoccurring themes in her works and research include relations between inner and outer spaces, perception, site specificity. Evelin is currently based in Denmark.

Madlen Hirtentreu studied Visual arts and Economics in Italy, IED(BA) and graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts at the Sculpture and Installation department (MA, 2017).
She has been active in projects and exhibitions since 2014, including Estonia, Denmark, Italy, France, Russia and Canada.
In choice of medium tries to maintain freedom, using often collaboration between different means/materials.
Reoccurring themes in her work and research lies in psychological and physical aspects and codes in the matter and space, playing with subjects individual ability to perceive time and space.

The large two-piece banner represents a photo of stocking advertisement produced in US in the 1930s found in the book Photography in the Modern Advertisement printed in 1937. The photograph depicts a woman’s hands demonstrating the transparency of the stocking. Transparency is one of the keywords of the installation – first, that of the stockings in the photograph, and second, the transparency of the mesh banner that allows the oversized hands to communicate with the architectural environment that forms its backdrop.

In recent years, Monko has been interested in the representation of femininity in advertising images and window displays. She has appropriated ads of tights, wrist watches and jewellery for her work.

Marge Monko is an artist and a professor of the Department of Photography at Estonian Academy of Arts. She is working with photography, video and installation. Since 2007, she has been exhibiting her work in Estonia and abroad.

Thank you: Neeme Külm, Jaana Jüris, Marje Eelma (Tuumik Studio)