Exhibitions

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]

Estonian Academy of Arts Arts Leather Art department’s exhibitions in cooperation with partners from Hungary and Finland, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) ja Hämeen University of Applied Siences (HAMK).

Exhibition takes place simultaneously in two galleries

“PINSOL” Hop gallery, 7th-26th May 2015

“SÄRFITUD” Design and Architecture Gallery 12th-23rd May 2015 

Shoes made by students are being exhibited at „PINSOL“ in Hop Gallery. On display are boots and shoes produced with innovative industrial methods while keeping in mind traditional craft practisies. The unifying element is the pinsol-detail, that keeps the shoe together. Pinsol is the spine of a shoe.

Design and Architecture Gallery’s exhibition “SÄRFITUD” exhibits accessories from recent years: sandals, bags, hats and gloves. This exhibition brings together works from three universities, setting works that have been created far from each other into dialogue. The name of the exhibition is a specialist term that binds and unites students’ work.

Workshops that show different aspects of leather work will take place as part of these exhibitions in Design and Architecture Gallery. Participants of the workshop can make a handstitched leather accessory – PINAL

Exhibition was assembled by: Marta Moorats, Mari Masso, Kaire Olt, Jaana Päeva, Anneli Filipov, Lennart Mänd.

Exhibition is designed in cooperation with Estonian Academy of Arts Interior Architecture & Furniture Design  students Kadri Ruusna, Mari-Liis Sõber, Maria Liiva, Kaarin Kokk , Alina Nurmist, Kadri Tonto, Albert Buchkov and Graphic Design MA students Maarja Jullinen ja Mart Varik

Special thanks to:

Móni Segesdi, Reet Klettenberg, Hannes Praks,

Kultuurkapital, Ungari Instituut, Eesti Instituut, Skinnova OÜ, Brunner OÜ, Räpina Paberivabrik AS 

Opening April 10, 4 pm at Löwenschede tower, Kooli 7, Tallinn

First year students of the Department of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design created birdhouses, using unusal materials. The exhibition is open from April 9-May 21 at the State Forest Management Centre at Toompuiestee 24, Tallinn

On Wednesday, the 4th of March at 6 p.m. Solveig Lønseth (NO) will be
opening her exhibition at the Rundum Rehearsal Space series at Rundum
artist-run space (Väike-Karja 5, Tallinn). Presentation and discussion with
the artist will follow at 7pm.

Throughout the last years I have been dealing with a relatively nomadic
studio situation. Moving between studios on a regular basis has led me to
an interest in spatial structures and the impact those structures have for
my artistic practice. Architectural challenges in both the studio and
exhibition spaces have constructively influenced my work. In every room I
enter, I either settle or sense a form for dissatisfaction. From that point
I have to collaborate with the space. By incorporating spatial elements or
by approaching the space in another way, I want to clarify the
peculiarities and expand the restraining aspects in each specific space.

I find it very relevant and as a further development for my practice to do
a show under the conditions of Rundum’s Rehearsal Space. The location
(Väike-Karja tn 5, Vanalinn) we got for this show, and where previously a
bag shop called Trendy Bags & Accessories was located, is as new to Rundum
as for me. I have decided to keep the window logo and have used this as a
starting point for the show; approaching the location by its name and a
story since I haven’t seen the space for real yet. I really look forward to
experience – and collaborate with the space

Solveig Lønseth (born 1986, NO) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. During the
last couple of years, she has been exhibited in Germany, Sweden, Denmark
amongst several shows and projects in Norway. The show TRENDY BAGS is her
first exhibition in Tallinn. In the nearest future she is represented in a
group show in Helsinki and takes part in a bigger show at Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin. She will be graduating with a MA degree from Oslo National
Academy of Fine art in May 2015. She will present her graduation project
during her artist talk at the opening of TRENDY BAGS.

For more information www.solveiglonseth.com
The exhibition will remain open only for 4 days: until 7 March, Th-Sun
3pm-7pm at Väike-Karja 5, Tallinn.

Rundum is supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Nationa Agency for Youth in Action Programme.

We thank G&T Aarma Maja for having temporarily provided us with the Väike-Karja 5 exhibition space!

For further information:
RUNDUM
www.rundumspace.com
rundumspace@gmail.com
Kristina Õllek
+372 56 631 727

The centennial anniversary exhibition “From the School of Arts and Crafts to the Academy of Arts. 100 Years of Art Education in Tallinn” will remain open till February 22, 2015. Don’t miss it in Kumu Art Museum!

The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) is pleased to announce the 7th ELIA NEU/NOW Festival 2015 and is inviting proposals for projects.
Nominations of projects can be submitted via the NEU/NOW Nomination Tool at www.elia-artschools.org/neunow.
The deadline for nominations is 15 March 2015.
The ELIA NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative international platform and showcase for talented graduating students and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) – of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wide international audience.
From the nominated projects, a maximum of 150 projects across all categories will be presented online at www.neunow.com, which is widely accessible to arts professionals and the public.

A selection of projects will be presented in the ELIA NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2015 that will take place 09-13 September 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The ELIA NEU/NOW online Festival is open to arts students in their final year of study and recent graduates (within one year of graduation) of Higher Arts Education Institutions across Europe and beyond, which are ELIA members, ELIA associate members or ELIA non-European members.

The call for entry to this competition is also open to members of the following partner networks:
+ AEC-European Association of Conservatories
+ CILECT-International Association of Film and Television Schools
+ Cumulus

For more information, please visit the NEU/NOW Activity Pageon the ELIA Website

Want to know more about NEU/NOW?
Watch the trailer of the 2013 LIVE edition in Amsterdam:

Maria Ader opens her exhibition „In The Echo Zone“ at Draakoni gallery on February 3. The exhibition remains open till February 21st.

The interdisciplinary art group LAIK invites you to the opening of their first retrospective exhibition in Haapsalu Linnagalerii [City Gallery]! For the audience from Tallinn we offer bus transportation.

Aim of the exhibition is to show our work process so far. In addition to video as well as sound and room installations we conduct in the course of the exhibition time also improvisational sound and performance art workshops.

At the opening 07.02.2015 at 15:00 a concert-workshop takes place conducted by Gerhard Lock and Juhan Vihterpal.

BUS-INFO:

For audience from Tallinn a 23-seated bus (EstBus OÜ) is organized, starting 07.02.2015 at 13.30 in Georg Ots street next to Estonia Theatre building. Transportation back to Tallinn starts approximately 17:30.

To register to the bus we kindly ask you to write an email to Kaspar: aus.kaspar@gmail.com. Please add your name and your telephone number.

ABOUT LAIK:

LAIK as a group started in November 2012 and its members are active in several different art practices. The collaboration of the artists was triggered by trying out different dialogue forms, aiming to support comprehending conscious and subconscious memory chain-processes both in the group and for the audience in a manner that the processes themselves become the outcome. If consciousnesses meet they just not only share knowledge. They change it, reshape, re-narrate – create new memory chains, being recorded (documented) in the socially constructed collective body, which has ben called by LAIK “Objekt MU [Object MY]”.

“Valgustung [Light appetence]” represents the next phase of the above described process, where several different spiritual as well as vision, tactile and auditory perception related concepts like awakening, opening, emancipation, setting free, appetence towards light are mirrored.

Group members: Anu Vask, Gerhard Lock, Jekaterina Kultajeva, Juhan Vihterpal, Kaspar Aus, Kristino Rav

We are thankful to the following supporters of the exhibition: Eesti Kultuurkapital [Estonian Cultural Endowment], EKA Uusmeedia õppetool [Estonian Arts Academy New Media Department] , OÜ Aare autod [Aare Cars], Loomeheli [Creativesound] OÜ, LaborArtory. Special thanks goes to the curator Agur Kruusing from Haapsalu Linnagalerii [City Gallery] and Hans-Gunter Lock (Loomeheli & EKA) for technical support.

The audience bus transportation is offered by EstBus OÜ.

LAIK homepage:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/LAIK/495481393884046

See you there!