Exhibitions

6.11.2021–31.12.2021
University of Tartu Narva College gallery
Raekoja plats 2, Narva 20307
Mon-Sun 8.00-19.00

Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s annual exhibition, which travels between different exhibition spaces in Estonia, will make its debut this year in Narva. It is a sequel to Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s 20th annual exhibition ¨Colour – RED¨ held in ARS Project Space in 2020. With the follow-up exhibition new time- and site-specific layers and viewpoints are added to the topic of red and its variations that were the main focus in the previous exhibition.

The keywords for Estonian Glass Artists´ Union´s exhibition “Colour – red 2.0” are contrast, confrontation and transition. The exhibition showcases the works from eighteen glass artists, who have interpreted the topic freely by using personal semantics, metaphors and symbolism.

The curator enters the dialog of “Colour – red 2.0” by adding the colour green in the exhibition design.Through confrontation and contrasts a whole is born.

Participating artists:
Aleksandra Ehrensvärd
Anna-Maria Vaino
Birgit Pählapuu
Eili Soon
Eve Koha
Kairi Orgusaar
Kati Kerstna
Kersti Vaks
Malle Hallimäe
Maret Sarapu
Merle Kannus
Piret Ellamaa
Piret Uibotalu
Rait Lõhmus
Riho Hütt
Tiia Põldmets
Tiina Sarapu
Sofi Aršas

Curator and head of organising:
Maarja Mäemets

Organising team:
Aleksandra Ehrensvärd
Andra Jõgis
Birgit Pählapuu
Maria Tamm
Rait Lõhmus

Consultant:
Tiina Sarapu

Light:
Kati Kerstna

Sponsors and supporters:
The Estonian Artists’ Association
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Estonian Glass Artists’ Union
Moe OÜ (www.moe.ee)
Klaasissepa OÜ (www.klaasissepa.ee)
Punch Club OÜ (https://punch-drinks.com)

Glass artist, Kristiina Uslar, associate professor at EKA glass department, is participating in the National Glass Center Glass Prize. 

From 16 October 2021 to 13 March 2022, the Glass Prize, an exhibition organized by the International Glass Center (NGC), will take place in Sunderland, England.

The exhibition will feature 40 artists selected by a jury of Sandra Blach (Glasmuseet Ebeltoft), Reino Liefkes (Victoria and Albert Museum) ja Julia Stephenson (National Glass Center). 

NGC Glass Prize is a European glass prize delivered by the National Glass Centre which features the work of over 40 artists who work in Europe. The selected artworks on display were selected by a panel of judges including Sandra Blach, from Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Reino Liefkes, from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Julia Stephenson from National Glass Centre. Supported by the Weston Culture Fund, the exhibition includes work by artists from England, Scotland, Wales, France, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Romania, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Estonia and Belgium. It showcases techniques and approaches including using found and mixed media, casting, hot glass, kiln forming, engraving, neon, pâte de verre, and video. The exhibition includes artists working at all career stages from internationally acknowledged masters to relative newcomers.

NGC Glass Prize on the web

Chun Au Yeung (Contemporary Art, MA), opens the exhibition “Don’t Think That I Am Pushing You Away” on November 11, 6 pm, at Vent Space.

The exhibition is describing the dormitory situation and experiences during the 14 days quarantine. In the exhibition, the artist will explore a wide variety of mediums such as performances, video installation, drawings, sound and photographs.

Chun Au Yeung:
The theme of “Don’t Think that I am Pushing You Away” is about reading myself and my dormitory situation. Experiencing the quarantine in the dormitory, I was forced to stay inside for 14 days and it led me towards new perspectives of myself and my roommate who was a complete stranger to me. With this experience of distancing and suspension, it brought me a little closer to myself and to look at myself differently. In this exhibition, I will explore a wide variety of ways of negotiating closeness and distance in a dormitory, and try to find myself in relation between safe and dangerous space.

Exhibition will be open until November 19, 2021

You are invited to join the CITYA Tallinn Screening “City as a Medium” on Wednesday, 28 October at 18.00–20.00 at EKA, Põhja pst. 7, in the main auditorium next to the lobby.

CITYA is an international urban art event that takes place every three years as a platform for city-to-city art sharing and as a new form of collaboration. The first CITYA edition is themed “City as a Medium”. The event is organised in partnership with Hong Kong Baptist University (initiator), the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, the University of California Berkeley, the Belle Arti di Roma Academy and the University of Macao.

The CITYA Tallinn Screening brings together films — from Tallinn, Hong Kong, Macao, Rome and San Francisco — that have been created during the last year. The participating artists from the different cities are:

Tallinn

Martinus Daane Klemet – Face Recognition (6:45)
Iti Oja – Partial Victory (4:04)
Stina Isabel Gavrilin – My Body is a Cage (5:20)
Katariin Mudist – The Hesitator (4:32)
Mark Hiir – Fade out (6:50)
Piibe Kolka – Forte Fortissimo (1:35)

Hong Kong

Lee Wing Ki Kalen – A City, Two Worlds, Four Views (1:12)

Peter Nelson – A Book of Trees (1:00)

Leung Mei Ping – Out of Place (5:00)

Macao

Li Lin – Shape of Water (1:00)

Lampo Leong – Blossom (5:22)

San Francisco

Robin Lopez – #Richmondsspeak: Urban Murals of Richmond (0:50)

Kevin Tracy – Fever Dream (7:59)

Jenny Balisle – Air (3:38)

Rome

Chiara Passa – Null Void 0 (1:41)

Maria Giovanna Sodero – Accordatura (Tuning) (6:40)

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/756550422400612

More information about CITYA and the films: www.citya.space 

Contact information: Reds Cheung, king.cheung@artun.ee 

Within the framework of the teachers’ seminar of the KUNO network, a large-scale international student program will take place at EKA: art exhibition KUNO EXPO, It Must Be My Dream and brainstorming sessions “General Art Sharing: Good Biennial”, accompanied by Norwegian artist Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto.

KUNO EXPO (THIS MUST BE MY DREAM / brings together a selection of recent works by students of Nordic and Baltic art universities. The works were created for art education in a difficult period, when the use of academy studios was difficult and the cooperation between students and lecturers was difficult. Assessing the contribution of all parties, the network’s faculty were challenged to recommend the students’ work that affected them and seemed important in the past. The works, often created in chamber conditions, bring to the viewer a new kind of new reality, where global self-irony, loneliness and sadness are perceived – as well as clarity of thought and a poetic imagination independent of the future horizon.

Official opening of KUNO EXPO on October 20 at 5 pm in the lobby of EKA. The exhibition runs through the intermediate floors of the EKA building on the first, second, third and fifth floors. KUNO EXPO will be open until November 19.

Participating artists: Barbora Matonyte (VAA), Jesper Dolgov (TUA), Vilde Rudjord (KiT), Anna Malicka (LMA), Helena Bratt (HDK Valand), Ali Ardalan (HDK Valand), Jonathan Lystbæk (HDK Valand), Anna Mari Liivrand (EKA), Chun Au Yeung (EKA), Muhammad Sufyan Baig (EKA), Marie Saure (UiT), Elise Nohr Nystad (KHiO), Joakim Svendsgård-Mathisen (KHiO), Jere Vainio (KHiO), Jonas Erboe Rasmussen Bergen, FFA), Frej Volander (FAA), Signe Maria Friis (FAA), Simon Ganshorn (FAA), María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir (FAA), Pernille Pedersen (FAA), Jeppe Østergaard Munk (FAA), Emmarosa Liebgen (FAA) ), Ferdinand Evaldsson (Konstfack), Nada Ali (Kungl.The Academy of Fine Arts), Renate Feizaka (LHI)

A new KUNO biennial concept will be developed using the think-tank method as part of the KUNO express course “General Art Sharing: A Good (d)) Biennale” on October 18-21, which will then be launched under the leadership of students.

ANE HJORT GUTTU “Manifest / Manifesto” 18.10–23.10 Design and Architecture Gallery

During the week, there is a rare opportunity to see Ane Hjort Guttu’s film “Manifest / Manifesto”. The author’s art film tells the story of the creation of a secret art academy operating autonomously within a prestigious university. The film also cunningly touches on the theme of the KUNO faculty seminar program, which is art education and its architecture.

DOKKING Station exhibition opening at Vent Space on Thursday, 21.10.21 at 6 pm

DOKKING Station functions as a hub for the exchange of ideas and inputs from a variety of sources; it is a conduit for transference. Taking inspiration from how a docking station [dokkimisjaam] acts as an all in one technological solution; this exhibition explores how an intermediary consisting of a series of antiquated ports that allow for multiple forms of communication and information relay, can be understood as a rhizome. As the docking station is permanently in an in-between state, it becomes rhizomatic in nature, with its cables acting like roots. 

DOKKING Station exhibition at VENT Space aims to demonstrate the potential of a creative and physical manifestation of a docking station, bringing together a variety of ideas and inputs which reflect the metaphorical use of docking station as a mode of critique for the contemporary art gallery, with a focus on the sensitive relationships between our surroundings, natural environment and new materialism. 

DOKKING Station is an open space for collaboration and co-learning, it invites people to both plug-in and unplug, whether to receive information and learning or contribute to the creative transference themselves. It acts as a keystone, as without it, inputs on either side fail to communicate entirely. At DOKKING station, you are invited to choose your port and plug into either side — as artist and/or audience through joining free workshops and talks. Welcome. 

Programme:
21.10, 6 pm – Exhibition opening
23.10, 1 pm–3 pm – Large format dichotomy: Photography Workshop by Will Britten (to participate write dokkartscentre@gmail.com)
22.10/24.10, 1 pm–6 pm – Performative workshop: Beginnings of weaving by Ingrid Helena Pajo
26.10, 4 pm–6 pm – Bioplastics workshop by Katarina Kruus (to participate write dokkartscentre@gmail.com) 

Participating artists: Will Britten (UK), Katarina Kruus (EST), Liina Leo (EST), Eugenio Marini (IT), Kristian Stapleton (UK), Ingrid Helena Pajo (EST) 

Facebook event

Graphic design: Liina Leo 

Exhibition is organized by DOKK Arts Centre. DOKK Arts Centre was founded in 2021 by Will Britten and Liina Leo as a temporary artist space in Baltic boatyard and metal workshop in Hiiumaa, Suuresadama. 

Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia 

Thanks to: Morris Eigi, Tanel Eigi, Maris Lukk, Jonathan Chatterton, Vent Space, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia. 

As a part of Tallinn Photomonth The Institute of Art History and Visual Culture’s Research Secretary and lecturer, Annika Toots, is curating the exhibition “Tierras malas”, which examines the representation of landscape in photography, emphasizing two aspects related to the landscape.

Artists: Bleda y Rosa (ES), Aap Tepper (EE), Paco Ulman (EE), Dovilė Dagienė (LT)

First of all, the exhibition focuses on landscape as a way of seeing, examining how landscapes are constructed through the gaze and looking. The exhibited works point out how some parts of the surrounding environment are seen in aesthetic terms, while others are seen as useless. Second, the exhibition looks into the traces of cultural memory hidden in the landscape, focusing on what is not visible or what is left out of the frame.

Tierras malas refers to a type of landscape characterized by a lack of vegetation and the erosion caused by water and wind; it is considered poor, useless or dull. The exhibition takes a look at how such “useless landscapes” are defined in different contexts and how they are represented in photography. The title also refers to invisible traces of gloomy past events that the landscape might conceal.

Opening times: Tue–Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16
Vaal Gallery (Tartu maantee 82, Tallinn)
Accessible by wheelchair

Flows into Being. Eighth Estonian Small-Scale Sculpture Exhibition and the Annual Exhibition of the Estonian Sculptors’ Union in Gallery Pallas.

22.09.2021 – 23.10.2021

On Wednesday, 22 September at 5 p.m. the Eighth Estonian Small-Scale Sculpture Exhibition will be opened in the Gallery Pallas alongside the Annual Exhibition of the Estonian Sculptors’ Union. 

Among participating artists there are many of EKA’s alumni, current tutors and artists. 

Participating artists: Luisa Harjak, Reelika Harlatšov, Elize Hiiop, Kadri Jäätma, Kristiina Jakimenko, Juhan Jõers, Elle Kannike, Kersti Karu, Kati Kerstna, Tiiu Kirsipuu, Ellen Kolk, Georg Kotter, Heiti Kulmar, Leena Kuutma, Ingrid Allik, Olger Lehtsaar, Elo Liiv, Karmen Machachor, Maarit Mälgi, Paul Mänd, Mari Männa, Eneken Maripuu, Piret Meos (Uibotalu), Mare Mikoff, Meiu Münt, Iris Müntel, Ann Nurga, Jüri Ojaver, Terje Ojaver, Tamar Paal, Tõnis Paberit, Hille Palm, Per William Petersen, Rait Prääts, Kaie Pungas, Silver Rannak, Hristina Rinasci, Elise Rohtaas, Ingmar Roomets, Anne Rudanovski, Kärt Seppel, Ahti Seppet, Uku Sepsivart, Gea Sibola Hansen, Kerttu Siplane, Tõnu Smidt, Hannes Starkopf, Mari-Liis Tammi, Nele Tiidelepp, Silja Truus, Andras Tukmann, Ines Villido, Ivan Zubaka.

The tradition of these open call group exhibitions was founded by the long-time sculpture collection registrar at the Tartu Art Museum Ahti Seppet in 1986. Therefore, the present edition also marks the 35th anniversary of the series.

Small-scale works from 53 authors with the longest side being no longer than 60 centimetres were selected through the application process. In addition to numerous works in classical materials like ceramics and bronze, the exhibition also includes various installations. Participants include both art students and professional authors at the height of their careers.

The theme of the exhibition invited the artists to seek for the “flow” in their creative process. This allowed the authors to explore ideas and motifs that they found individually most intriguing, joining them to theme through their creative process.

The “flow” as a phenomenon was defined by the Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is a playful and enjoyable process that is free of criticism and can be accompanied by a loss of sense of time and a complete captivation by the joy of creation. Since most people encounter this to different extents in their everyday lives, this state is not limited to artists and musicians, but it is something shared by all humans. Therefore, instead of having a single motif as a theme, the aim of the exhibition is to consciously achieve “flow” during creation and to explore which tendencies and phenomena arise. The focus is on the process and the best result is determined by individual characteristics of the creator. 

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication about the history of the exhibition series containing an article by Ahti Seppet. The audience programme consists of a curatorial tour, a workshop and a discussion about the creative process.

Audience programme:
29.09.2021, 4pm–6pm Workshop “Creative assemblage from mass produced toys” (register at heiti.kulmar@gmail.com, 58581678)

6.10.2021, 5pm Curatorial tour

13.10.2021, 5pm–5.30pm Discussion group “Flow in creation”

We thank the Sculpture Department of the Pallas University of Applied Sciences and its head, Anne Rudanovski, sculptor Ahti Seppet, Estonian Sculptors’ Union, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Pallas University of Applied Sciences
Curator: Heiti Kulmar

Graphic design: Tnxalatte Design Collective

Exhibition team: Richard Adang, Anne Rudanovski, Ahti Seppet, Peeter Talvistu, Anti Saar, Reet-Pulk Piatkowska, Sculpture Department of the Pallas University of Applied Sciences.

For more info:
Heiti Kulmar
+372  58581678
heiti.kulmar@gmail.com

Galerii Pallas
Tue-Sat 11am–6pm
Riia 11, Tartu

Join us for the opening of “Glass Struggle”, a solo exhibition by Sten Eltermaa on September 28, at 5.30 PM at EKA Gallery! 

Glass Struggle is an ongoing artistic research project based on glass as material, paradoxically fragile and extremely resilient at the same time. Glass is used in high-security buildings, and even the Pope drives around in a vehicle protected by bulletproof glass. The semantic field of glass plays an increasingly pervasive role: these days, we are all transparent, constantly looking at our own reflections on our screens, while having virtually no access to our own delicate data, which in many ways is used to control and even enslave us.

In the context of institutions and corporations we can also talk about glass as a symbol of democracy – a reference to open and equal dialogue between the people and those in power. Likewise, it refers to corporate totalitarianism and divergence of social strata. Glass Struggle is based on the semiosis of the viewer and the seen. 

The exhibition is accompanied by the online publication www.struggle.glass, which is also seen as part of one of the sculptures (“A Satellite Deviated from the Orbit”, in collaboration with Maria Lee).

Texts: Maria Lee, Sten Eltermaa

Exhibition design: Arvi Anderson, Sten Eltermaa

Graphic design: Maria Muuk

Website: Maria Muuk, Patrick Zavadskis

Translation: Madis Kuuse (ENG), Olesja Semenkova (RUS)

Thanks: Maria Lee, Arvi Anderson, Krista Loorits, Lauri Eltermaa, Sten-Erik Toos, Tõnis Vassar, Urmo Mets, Madli Ehasalu, Roman-Sten Tõnissoo, Pire Sova & EKA gallery, b210 architects, Kauss Architecture, KUU architects, Kolm Koma Architects, Ilmamaa Publishing House

Special thanks: Karmo Migur, Maria Muuk, Kadi Meriluht, Mary Magdalene

Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, MEISTRI, Salibar, Klaasissepa, joogipood.ee, nanoPruul, ÕIE, 3DLaser

The exhibition is part of the satellite programme of the Tallinn Photomonth contemporary art biennial.