Exhibitions

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)

“Brilliant Estonian item” is a collaboration project between product-, textile- and leather design specialisations in the faculty of design at Estonian Academy of Arts. The project focuses on searching elements and narratives to characterize Estonia to combine those into widely recognisable and thoughtful small objects – Estonian items.

The aim of this project is to gather inspiration from local cultural surrounding and assemble it into product prototypes with (applied) art value – outcome will be products, accessories, small installations etc. Articles which by telling a story about our past, present and future, are suitable gift for ourselves and to our foreign guests.

Read more about the projects: https://www.facebook.com/projektHeaEestiAsi/

It is possible to learn more about the products on XII Tallinn Design Festival, 25.09.–01.10. in Noblessneri Valukoda (Tööstuse 48)
Official opening of the exhibition is on Thursday 28.09. at 17.00-18.00. You are welcome!

Project “Brilliant Estonian Object” is supported by EV100 and it is part of EV100 official art program „Sada kunstimaastikku“
-> https://www.ev100.ee/et/ev100-kunstiprogramm-sada-kunstimaastikku
-> http://www.cca.ee/ev100.

“Brilliant Estonian item” is a collaboration project between product-, textile- and leather design specialisations in the faculty of design at Estonian Academy of Arts. The project focuses on searching elements and narratives to characterize Estonia to combine those into widely recognisable and thoughtful small objects – Estonian items.

The aim of this project is to gather inspiration from local cultural surrounding and assemble it into product prototypes with (applied) art value – outcome will be products, accessories, small installations etc. Articles which by telling a story about our past, present and future, are suitable gift for ourselves and to our foreign guests.

Read more about the projects: https://www.facebook.com/projektHeaEestiAsi/

It is possible to learn more about the products on XII Tallinn Design Festival, 25.09.–01.10. in Noblessneri Valukoda (Tööstuse 48)
Official opening of the exhibition is on Thursday 28.09. at 17.00-18.00. You are welcome!

Project “Brilliant Estonian Object” is supported by EV100 and it is part of EV100 official art program „Sada kunstimaastikku“
-> https://www.ev100.ee/et/ev100-kunstiprogramm-sada-kunstimaastikku
-> http://www.cca.ee/ev100.

On Wednesday (20.09), 7PM, Mihhail gallery will open the exhibition “Sewage observation tower in baroque purple”. What is going to be seen is everyday poetry and exuberance through fragments, stains, removals and half-finished interior decoration. The works are connected by the living environment of Pirita, magical realism and everyday aesthetics, in-progress repairs, wiring from the walls and ceilings hanging out. Quality parquet where there should be a kitchen. This kind of contemporary art is a non-space, it is a homogeneous dimension of a person, and just like at home, art acquires architectural typologies.

What’s under the floor is another floor made of cashew. Later that day I was sitting in the garden drinking energy drinks, looking up stuff. This had been a dinner party, but I fucked it up. Another one. I really hoped for this home to stay gleaming, but now it has stains on it. I see traces of living, some parts of me are sad, buyer’s remorse, I guess. My home is your home. Mundane magic or domesticated aesthetics, however you want to take it. The belief in privacy, carried around everywhere. There’s always something a little extra. We are just visiting.

Artists participating Kadi Adrikorn, Spencer M. A., Vilen Künnapu, Anna Mari Liivrand, Joosep Maripuu, Eva Mustonen, Ann Paljuväli, Tomáš Roček, AW stuff, Anni Kivisto & Kirke Talu, Roman-Sten Tõnissoo.

The exhibition is part of the gallery programme of Tallinn Photomonth ’17 contemporary art biennial.
Graphic design: Tarmo Kübard
Installation views: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Coordinators: Madli Ehasalu, Sven Parker
Thank you Rand ja Tuulberg, Ober-Haus Kinnisvara, Merilin Paart, Hannus Luure, Eda Tuulberg, Lauri Tuulberg, Salto Architects

When: 20.09.2017 kell 19:00
Open: 21. Sept – 24. Sept from 3 pm to 8 pm and
28. Sept – 1. Oct from 3 pm to 8 pm
Where: Kosemetsa 11 Tallinn, http://www.vallikraavi.ee/projects/kosemetsa-91113/
Bus number 5, stop at Haljas tee
Contact: +372 5621 8422

resAs part of the Tallinn Photomonth programme, London-based Estonian artist Maria
Kapajeva returns to Narva Art Residency with a solo exhibition studying the social
legacy of Krenholm. For 150 years, Krenholm – the textile manufacture that was
declared bankrupt in 2010 – was the most important enterprise in Narva, shaping the
social and cultural as well as architectural atmosphere of the city. The exhibition
focuses on the mill in the late socialist period, when its workshops employed a
collective of 12,000 mainly female workers.
Inspiration for the exhibition was drawn from interviews conducted with former
workers of the mill and from the digitised family albums, diaries, and memorabilia
gathered by the artist during these interviews. By placing this material into the context
of a multimedia contemporary art exhibition, Kapajeva makes the history of the local
working class visible and enhances it with all of the artistic means at her disposal. The
viewer is presented a mill that is filled with lively female collectives and the deafening
rhythm of the looms, but which still seems like a bright and distant dream in today’s
competitive world, where the collective spirit and sense of togetherness between
women is challenged by the individualist and competition-based aims of global
capitalism.
Maria Kapajeva is a London-based Estonian artist who was born in Narva and has
exhibited her work internationally for the last 10 years. As the daughter of a designer
at Krenholm, she spent her childhood at the mill, drawing fabric patterns and
dreaming about the profession of a textile artist. The current exhibition thus takes a
distinctly personal approach, although the main topics of Kapajeva’s art are also
present: appropriation of found objects and highlighting of peripheral histories, use of
textile techniques and focusing on the representation of women, heightened sensitivity
towards social and political matters, and specifically East European feminism.
The exhibition takes its name from March of Enthusiasts, the signature song from the
soundtrack of the Soviet film The Bright Way (1940). This musical film, which starred
the Soviet cinema icon Ljubov Orlova in the role of a female weaver, inspired one of
the Krenholm’s weavers to seek employment at the mill after World War II. The
opening work of the exhibition, which bears the same name and performs reenactments
of the famous film, compares a woman’s loneliness then and now and
presents to the public for the first time the collaboration of Maria Kapajeva and dance
artist Maarja Tõnisson in the abandoned interior spaces of the former textile mill.
The exhibition is curated by Tallinn-based Liisa Kaljula, whose interests include
socialist-era art and post-socialist contemporary art dealing with the recent history of
its own region.
The exhibition is accompanied by a diverse trilingual public programme, including
Maria Kapajeva’s master class, artist talks, and curator’s tour, as well as an
educational programme for the schools of Narva and a lecture by Reverse Resources
on contemporary global textile production.
The opening of the exhibition will take place 8 September at 6 pm on the ground floor
of the Narva Art Residency at Joala 18.
On 8 September a special coach will be organized from Tallinn to Narva for the
opening of the exhibition. The coach leaves at 2 pm from the Russian Cultural Centre
at Mere pst 5. For further information and registration: koordinaator@fotokuu.ee.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy
of Arts, and Narva Gate OÜ. The entire public programme is supported by The British
Council in Estonia.
Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition, The Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, will be open at
the Narva Art Residency until 8 October 2017 (T–S 12–6 pm).
Further information:
Liisa Kaljula
Exhibition curator
5162688
Maria Kapajeva
www.mariakapajeva.com
Tallinn Photomonth
www.fotokuu.ee

As part of the Tallinn Photomonth programme, London-based Estonian artist Maria
Kapajeva returns to Narva Art Residency with a solo exhibition studying the social
legacy of Krenholm. For 150 years, Krenholm – the textile manufacture that was
declared bankrupt in 2010 – was the most important enterprise in Narva, shaping the
social and cultural as well as architectural atmosphere of the city. The exhibition
focuses on the mill in the late socialist period, when its workshops employed a
collective of 12,000 mainly female workers.
Inspiration for the exhibition was drawn from interviews conducted with former
workers of the mill and from the digitised family albums, diaries, and memorabilia
gathered by the artist during these interviews. By placing this material into the context
of a multimedia contemporary art exhibition, Kapajeva makes the history of the local
working class visible and enhances it with all of the artistic means at her disposal. The
viewer is presented a mill that is filled with lively female collectives and the deafening
rhythm of the looms, but which still seems like a bright and distant dream in today’s
competitive world, where the collective spirit and sense of togetherness between
women is challenged by the individualist and competition-based aims of global
capitalism.
Maria Kapajeva is a London-based Estonian artist who was born in Narva and has
exhibited her work internationally for the last 10 years. As the daughter of a designer
at Krenholm, she spent her childhood at the mill, drawing fabric patterns and
dreaming about the profession of a textile artist. The current exhibition thus takes a
distinctly personal approach, although the main topics of Kapajeva’s art are also
present: appropriation of found objects and highlighting of peripheral histories, use of
textile techniques and focusing on the representation of women, heightened sensitivity
towards social and political matters, and specifically East European feminism.
The exhibition takes its name from March of Enthusiasts, the signature song from the
soundtrack of the Soviet film The Bright Way (1940). This musical film, which starred
the Soviet cinema icon Ljubov Orlova in the role of a female weaver, inspired one of
the Krenholm’s weavers to seek employment at the mill after World War II. The
opening work of the exhibition, which bears the same name and performs reenactments
of the famous film, compares a woman’s loneliness then and now and
presents to the public for the first time the collaboration of Maria Kapajeva and dance
artist Maarja Tõnisson in the abandoned interior spaces of the former textile mill.
The exhibition is curated by Tallinn-based Liisa Kaljula, whose interests include
socialist-era art and post-socialist contemporary art dealing with the recent history of
its own region.
The exhibition is accompanied by a diverse trilingual public programme, including
Maria Kapajeva’s master class, artist talks, and curator’s tour, as well as an
educational programme for the schools of Narva and a lecture by Reverse Resources
on contemporary global textile production.
The opening of the exhibition will take place 8 September at 6 pm on the ground floor
of the Narva Art Residency at Joala 18.
On 8 September a special coach will be organized from Tallinn to Narva for the
opening of the exhibition. The coach leaves at 2 pm from the Russian Cultural Centre
at Mere pst 5. For further information and registration: koordinaator@fotokuu.ee.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy
of Arts, and Narva Gate OÜ. The entire public programme is supported by The British
Council in Estonia.
Maria Kapajeva’s solo exhibition, The Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, will be open at
the Narva Art Residency until 8 October 2017 (T–S 12–6 pm).
Further information:
Liisa Kaljula
Exhibition curator
5162688
Maria Kapajeva
www.mariakapajeva.com
Tallinn Photomonth
www.fotokuu.ee