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Category: Jewellery and Blacksmithing
06.12.2024 — 11.01.2025
A-Galerii Annual Exhibition “Dreams About Meanings”
Faculty of Design
On December 6th from 6 pm A-Galerii will open its annual exhibition of Estonian contemporary jewellery, abstract objects and applied art that leaves plenty of room for interpretation. The materials used in the pieces range from various metals, textiles, and glass to organic materials. The exhibition concept embeds people and social practices addressing what kind of role and meanings given to objects play in curating our own personal reality.
A piece of jewellery and an art object is a valuable and layered conveyor of culture. It has symbolised belonging to a social, religious or political group functioning as a bind in between and a force guiding people to behave in a certain way. Therefore, assigning meaning to a physical object can be very efficacious on a personal and group level. There is a possibility to give meanings to an object that it originally did not have without the viewer.
Through objects, one can propose a hypothesis about the creation of the future. This activity enables us to break away from habitual meanings in relation to items and to consciously play around with them. This is proof that the future has not been fixed even though it might seem this way sometimes. The exhibition encourages the viewer to think about realistic and fictional scenarios about the future through dreaming and interpretation. With this practice new ideas and important meanings are being created.
The exhibition is open from December 6, 2024, to January 11, 2025.
Artists
Agnes Veski, Ane Raunam, Anneli Oppar, Anneli Tammik, Anne Reinberg, Bruno Lillemets, Claudia Lepik, Darja Popolitova, Edgar Volkov, Elize Hiiop, Ene Valter, Erle Nemvalts, Eve Margus, Harry Tensing, Hans-Otto Ojaste, Hansel Tai, Henry Mardisalu, Ive-Maria Köögard, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Julia Maria Künnap, Kadi Kübarsepp, Kadi Veesaar, Kati Erme, Keiu Koppel, Keesi Kapsta, Kertu Vellerind, Krista Lehari, Kristiina Laurits, Liina Lelov, Liisbeth Kirss, Mari Pärtelpoeg, Maria Valdma-Härm, Mart Talvar, Nils Hint, Piret Hirv, Raili Vinn, Riin Somelar, Sille Luiga, Taavi Teevet, Tatiana Iakovleva, Tõnis Malkov, Ulvi Haagensen, Urmas Lüüs, Urve Küttner, Valdek Laur, Viktorija Lillemets, Ülle Mesikäpp, Ülle VoosaluTeam
Curator Liisi Kõuhkna
Design Anna Shkodenko
Graphic Design Cristopher Siniväli
Coordinator Sille Luiga
Support Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
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A-Galerii Annual Exhibition “Dreams About Meanings”
Friday 06 December, 2024 — Saturday 11 January, 2025
Faculty of Design
On December 6th from 6 pm A-Galerii will open its annual exhibition of Estonian contemporary jewellery, abstract objects and applied art that leaves plenty of room for interpretation. The materials used in the pieces range from various metals, textiles, and glass to organic materials. The exhibition concept embeds people and social practices addressing what kind of role and meanings given to objects play in curating our own personal reality.
A piece of jewellery and an art object is a valuable and layered conveyor of culture. It has symbolised belonging to a social, religious or political group functioning as a bind in between and a force guiding people to behave in a certain way. Therefore, assigning meaning to a physical object can be very efficacious on a personal and group level. There is a possibility to give meanings to an object that it originally did not have without the viewer.
Through objects, one can propose a hypothesis about the creation of the future. This activity enables us to break away from habitual meanings in relation to items and to consciously play around with them. This is proof that the future has not been fixed even though it might seem this way sometimes. The exhibition encourages the viewer to think about realistic and fictional scenarios about the future through dreaming and interpretation. With this practice new ideas and important meanings are being created.
The exhibition is open from December 6, 2024, to January 11, 2025.
Artists
Agnes Veski, Ane Raunam, Anneli Oppar, Anneli Tammik, Anne Reinberg, Bruno Lillemets, Claudia Lepik, Darja Popolitova, Edgar Volkov, Elize Hiiop, Ene Valter, Erle Nemvalts, Eve Margus, Harry Tensing, Hans-Otto Ojaste, Hansel Tai, Henry Mardisalu, Ive-Maria Köögard, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Julia Maria Künnap, Kadi Kübarsepp, Kadi Veesaar, Kati Erme, Keiu Koppel, Keesi Kapsta, Kertu Vellerind, Krista Lehari, Kristiina Laurits, Liina Lelov, Liisbeth Kirss, Mari Pärtelpoeg, Maria Valdma-Härm, Mart Talvar, Nils Hint, Piret Hirv, Raili Vinn, Riin Somelar, Sille Luiga, Taavi Teevet, Tatiana Iakovleva, Tõnis Malkov, Ulvi Haagensen, Urmas Lüüs, Urve Küttner, Valdek Laur, Viktorija Lillemets, Ülle Mesikäpp, Ülle VoosaluTeam
Curator Liisi Kõuhkna
Design Anna Shkodenko
Graphic Design Cristopher Siniväli
Coordinator Sille Luiga
Support Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
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25.10.2024 — 01.12.2024
BLACKOUT – Jewellery and Blacksmithing 100
Faculty of Design
We are pleased to invite you to participate in BLACKOUT, an event organised by the Jewellery and Blacksmithing Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the beginning of professional metal art education in Estonia.
Although the name of the university and the department has changed several times over the last hundred years, the fact remains that we have been teaching metalwork at a high level for a hundred years in a row. This is a good enough reason to call together friends from here and abroad to discuss where we have come from and where we are going.
Alongside the exhibition at the Narva Art Residency, a symposium, excursions, and sauna will encourage and initiate the discussions. All these activities are brought under the common title of BLACKOUT.
We do not imply mind-blindness or a serious hangover by this, but rather posing the question of how to arrive somewhere without knowing exactly where you’re going, as the essence of artistic quality lies in capturing the invisible. In discovering something surprising for yourself and others. The fear of being lost vanishes because even without knowing what you seek, you’ll recognize it when you find it.
At the symposium on October 25–26, we will approach the above-mentioned question from three different perspectives: PRACTITIONER, THEORIST, and EDUCATOR. The speakers will explore questions such as:
How do you create a relationship with students that would help them open up and inspire the courage to explore the world? How do I ask the right questions to discover something new and recognize the right things for myself? How do I deal with suspense? How do I maintain the courage to continue searching and working in a situation, where setting too clear goals could be an obstacle?
Speakers: Jorge Manilla (KHIO/NO), Olaf Hodne (KHIO/NO), Erinn M. Erinn (KHIO/NO). Cox (US), Daniel Strandow (HDK Valand/SWE), Siri Tolander (HDK Valand/SWE), Tarja Tuupanen (FI), Jenni Sokura (LAB/FI), Flora Vagi (MOME/HU), Taavi Hallimäe (EKA), Urmas Lüüs (EKA), Sander Haugas (EKA), Taavi Teevet (EKA), Hansel Tai (EE), Liisbeth Kirss (EE), Erle Nemvalts (EE).
Participation in the symposium is free.
The event will be held in English.
Pre-registration is required at the following link: https://forms.gle/6djfdmw41XYnLtXd6
Timetable:
Friday, 25 October
10-12 Narva sightseeing for guests
14-18 presentations
19 Exhibition opening, party
Saturday, 26 October
11 – 14 presentations
16 Narva sightseeing
Sauna and socialising in the evening
Information about the event will be updated as it becomes available.
Location:
Narva Art Residency (NART)
Joala 18, 20103, Narva
Contact: metall@artun.ee
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BLACKOUT – Jewellery and Blacksmithing 100
Friday 25 October, 2024 — Sunday 01 December, 2024
Faculty of Design
We are pleased to invite you to participate in BLACKOUT, an event organised by the Jewellery and Blacksmithing Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the beginning of professional metal art education in Estonia.
Although the name of the university and the department has changed several times over the last hundred years, the fact remains that we have been teaching metalwork at a high level for a hundred years in a row. This is a good enough reason to call together friends from here and abroad to discuss where we have come from and where we are going.
Alongside the exhibition at the Narva Art Residency, a symposium, excursions, and sauna will encourage and initiate the discussions. All these activities are brought under the common title of BLACKOUT.
We do not imply mind-blindness or a serious hangover by this, but rather posing the question of how to arrive somewhere without knowing exactly where you’re going, as the essence of artistic quality lies in capturing the invisible. In discovering something surprising for yourself and others. The fear of being lost vanishes because even without knowing what you seek, you’ll recognize it when you find it.
At the symposium on October 25–26, we will approach the above-mentioned question from three different perspectives: PRACTITIONER, THEORIST, and EDUCATOR. The speakers will explore questions such as:
How do you create a relationship with students that would help them open up and inspire the courage to explore the world? How do I ask the right questions to discover something new and recognize the right things for myself? How do I deal with suspense? How do I maintain the courage to continue searching and working in a situation, where setting too clear goals could be an obstacle?
Speakers: Jorge Manilla (KHIO/NO), Olaf Hodne (KHIO/NO), Erinn M. Erinn (KHIO/NO). Cox (US), Daniel Strandow (HDK Valand/SWE), Siri Tolander (HDK Valand/SWE), Tarja Tuupanen (FI), Jenni Sokura (LAB/FI), Flora Vagi (MOME/HU), Taavi Hallimäe (EKA), Urmas Lüüs (EKA), Sander Haugas (EKA), Taavi Teevet (EKA), Hansel Tai (EE), Liisbeth Kirss (EE), Erle Nemvalts (EE).
Participation in the symposium is free.
The event will be held in English.
Pre-registration is required at the following link: https://forms.gle/6djfdmw41XYnLtXd6
Timetable:
Friday, 25 October
10-12 Narva sightseeing for guests
14-18 presentations
19 Exhibition opening, party
Saturday, 26 October
11 – 14 presentations
16 Narva sightseeing
Sauna and socialising in the evening
Information about the event will be updated as it becomes available.
Location:
Narva Art Residency (NART)
Joala 18, 20103, Narva
Contact: metall@artun.ee
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04.10.2024 — 09.11.2024
Madlen Hirtentreu at Çanakkale Biennial
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
EKA Jewelry and Blacksmithing student Madlen Hirtentreu represents Estonia at a Eurasian art festival.
9. Çanakkale Biennial, ‘Let Time Run Its Course’
04.10.2024-09.11.2024
The new work is a site-specific sculpture consisting of a ceramic head, the body structure is created from a combination of steel and used car parts found on site.
“It is about a ghostly figure appearing in the future who is looking for the fate of the city of Troy buried under the desert”, says the artist.
For decades, the Turkish government has banned the excavation of the city of Troy and has created fields over the city where any act of digging or probing with a metal detector is prohibited. If a citizen is looking for something, he can be punished, and if found, the place is buried under an ever deeper layer. The city of Troy is located in the middle of Çanakkale.
The 9th edition of the Çanakkale Biennial, which will be organized by CABININ in autumn 2024, aims to position Çanakkale as a unique space in the Euro-Asian and Mediterranean-Black Sea contemporary art and culture ecosystem. The conceptual frameworks created combine the cultural, historical and social values specific to the city of Çanakkale with the intersection of current issues on a global scale. By inviting artists and art experts from different parts of the world to this context, conditions are created for new productions and collaborations.
As part of the 9th Çanakkale Biennial, which will open its doors on 4 October, Deniz Erbaş, co-director of the biennial, will develop a curatorial collaboration with Ulrika Flink (Sweden) with the support of Space’s of Culture International Co-Production Fund. Flink will realize a public art project with international artists for the Korfmann Library.
https://www.canakkalebienali.com/?l=en
The artist thanks:
Jaan-August Viirand, EKA Ceramics Department, Villu Mustkivi
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Madlen Hirtentreu at Çanakkale Biennial
Friday 04 October, 2024 — Saturday 09 November, 2024
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
EKA Jewelry and Blacksmithing student Madlen Hirtentreu represents Estonia at a Eurasian art festival.
9. Çanakkale Biennial, ‘Let Time Run Its Course’
04.10.2024-09.11.2024
The new work is a site-specific sculpture consisting of a ceramic head, the body structure is created from a combination of steel and used car parts found on site.
“It is about a ghostly figure appearing in the future who is looking for the fate of the city of Troy buried under the desert”, says the artist.
For decades, the Turkish government has banned the excavation of the city of Troy and has created fields over the city where any act of digging or probing with a metal detector is prohibited. If a citizen is looking for something, he can be punished, and if found, the place is buried under an ever deeper layer. The city of Troy is located in the middle of Çanakkale.
The 9th edition of the Çanakkale Biennial, which will be organized by CABININ in autumn 2024, aims to position Çanakkale as a unique space in the Euro-Asian and Mediterranean-Black Sea contemporary art and culture ecosystem. The conceptual frameworks created combine the cultural, historical and social values specific to the city of Çanakkale with the intersection of current issues on a global scale. By inviting artists and art experts from different parts of the world to this context, conditions are created for new productions and collaborations.
As part of the 9th Çanakkale Biennial, which will open its doors on 4 October, Deniz Erbaş, co-director of the biennial, will develop a curatorial collaboration with Ulrika Flink (Sweden) with the support of Space’s of Culture International Co-Production Fund. Flink will realize a public art project with international artists for the Korfmann Library.
https://www.canakkalebienali.com/?l=en
The artist thanks:
Jaan-August Viirand, EKA Ceramics Department, Villu Mustkivi
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22.03.2024 — 16.04.2024
Mart Talvar “Out of center” at HOP Gallery
Faculty of Design
“When flying off-center, a new centerpoint shall be found to regain the balance”
The opening of Mart Talvar’s first solo exhibition Out of Center is taking place at 22 nd of March at HOP gallery from 6 PM and is talking about finding balance within the process of transformation.
The theme of the exhibition began to unfold during his studies in the jewellery and blacksmithing department at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2022 and is still an ongoing process. During the metal spinning process, a copper object unexpectedly
jumped off-center, resulting in a unique object. The artist became interested in what lies behind an experience that we could perceive as failure. From that moment, a thorough practice of metal spinning began with the outcome to be shared with a wider audience.
At the gallery, the techniques of metal spinning and porcelain slip casting meet each othernas opposites in nature. The copper work refers to the occurrence of flying off-center as a possibility to redefine the concepts of being centered and off-center, failure, and balance. The porcelain objects demonstrate the transformation of traces, that have transferred on
from the copper material and have significantly reduced in size after the firing process.
The design method of material empathy offers symbolic meaning to the “dialogue” between the materials. This blurs boundaries between the public space and social context, and leaves the viewer plenty of room for personal interpretations.
Location HOP gallery
The opening 22.03.2024 kell 18:00
Opening times N-T 22.03-16.04 11:00-18:00
Curator Liisi Kõuhkna
Graphic design Cristopher Siniväli
Technical aid HOP gallery; Valge Kuup Studio
Support Estonian Academy of Arts, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Shroomwell OÜ,
Põhjala Brewing AS, Tuulmet Holding OÜ
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Mart Talvar “Out of center” at HOP Gallery
Friday 22 March, 2024 — Tuesday 16 April, 2024
Faculty of Design
“When flying off-center, a new centerpoint shall be found to regain the balance”
The opening of Mart Talvar’s first solo exhibition Out of Center is taking place at 22 nd of March at HOP gallery from 6 PM and is talking about finding balance within the process of transformation.
The theme of the exhibition began to unfold during his studies in the jewellery and blacksmithing department at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2022 and is still an ongoing process. During the metal spinning process, a copper object unexpectedly
jumped off-center, resulting in a unique object. The artist became interested in what lies behind an experience that we could perceive as failure. From that moment, a thorough practice of metal spinning began with the outcome to be shared with a wider audience.
At the gallery, the techniques of metal spinning and porcelain slip casting meet each othernas opposites in nature. The copper work refers to the occurrence of flying off-center as a possibility to redefine the concepts of being centered and off-center, failure, and balance. The porcelain objects demonstrate the transformation of traces, that have transferred on
from the copper material and have significantly reduced in size after the firing process.
The design method of material empathy offers symbolic meaning to the “dialogue” between the materials. This blurs boundaries between the public space and social context, and leaves the viewer plenty of room for personal interpretations.
Location HOP gallery
The opening 22.03.2024 kell 18:00
Opening times N-T 22.03-16.04 11:00-18:00
Curator Liisi Kõuhkna
Graphic design Cristopher Siniväli
Technical aid HOP gallery; Valge Kuup Studio
Support Estonian Academy of Arts, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Shroomwell OÜ,
Põhjala Brewing AS, Tuulmet Holding OÜ
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30.11.2023 — 15.12.2023
LET’S GET PHYGITAL
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
You are invited to the opening of the exhibition LET’S GET PHYGITAL and a guest talk, where the organisers Anneleen Swillen, Mala Siamptani and Darja Popolitova will discuss contemporary jewellery practices through the prism of digital technologies.
The exhibition opening and a guest talk is on the 30th of November, 17:00–18:30.
The exhibition is open from 30.11 to 18.12.2023.
If you can’t join IRL, sign up for a Zoom guest talk via this link
Meeting ID: 912 0263 6427
Passcode: 202810
Topic: Let’s Get Phygital vestlusõhtu
Time: Nov 30, 2023 05:00 PM Helsinki
Exhibition Information:
LET’S GET PHYGITAL is a students’ exhibition celebrating the 3rd edition of a collaborative project between the jewellery departments of the London College of Fashion (LCF), the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and the PXL-MAD School Of Arts.
The exhibition acknowledges how digital experiences advance artistic thinking and practice by creating an IRL space for digital adornment. By using Augmented Reality filters as tools, the students investigated how contemporary adornment can exist in non-physical forms, be wearable and interact with their audience.
Information About Speakers:
- Anneleen Swillen is a postdoctoral researcher and tutor at PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt and Hasselt University, located in Belgium. She explores jewellery in a phygital culture through research in the arts, education, curation, and writing. In 2020, she co-founded Artificial Intelligems in collaboration with composer Greg Scheirlinckx. As a fluid and interdisciplinary collective, currently working on the intersection of jewellery, graphic design, music, XR-performance, dance, and data science, they aim to explore more-than-human co-creation.
- Mala Siamptani is a design practitioner with substantial experience in the research, development and delivery of creative projects in Fashion, Design and Art sector. After obtaining two Masters degrees and currently conducting a PhD research, Mala runs her studio in east London specializing in the design and manufacture of products and sculptural objects. Mala has designed and manufactured jewellery and object collections which have been exhibited in Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy, Australia, Germany and the UK. Following extensive material research, Mala’s work attempts to connect traditional craft with digital technology. She has recently presented her research projects at the Global fashion Conference (Leon), the Creativity Researchers Conference (UK) and the 1st World Symposium for Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories (Shanghai). Through her design work and research, Mala demonstrates both the use and need for material research and its acknowledgment of experiential knowledge to advance craft thinking and practice.
- Darja Popolitova is a contemporary jewellery artist, curator, lecturer and PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Arts; born in 1989 in Sillamäe and based in Tallinn. An ironical view of nowadays drives her process, which fuels her to blend digital craft and video performances with fiction. She finds jewellery’s haptic and symbolic nature a generous medium that allows her to conceptualise ideas. For her artistic practice, she was honoured with numerous awards and scholarships such as Annual Award of Estonian Cultural Endowment (2020), the EAA Research Publication Award (2020), Adamson-Eric Scholarship (2018) and the Artist Laureate Salary (2022). She took part in the shows at the Smack Mellon Gallery in New York (2022), the Arnhem Museum in the Netherlands (2020) and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2019).
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LET’S GET PHYGITAL
Thursday 30 November, 2023 — Friday 15 December, 2023
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
You are invited to the opening of the exhibition LET’S GET PHYGITAL and a guest talk, where the organisers Anneleen Swillen, Mala Siamptani and Darja Popolitova will discuss contemporary jewellery practices through the prism of digital technologies.
The exhibition opening and a guest talk is on the 30th of November, 17:00–18:30.
The exhibition is open from 30.11 to 18.12.2023.
If you can’t join IRL, sign up for a Zoom guest talk via this link
Meeting ID: 912 0263 6427
Passcode: 202810
Topic: Let’s Get Phygital vestlusõhtu
Time: Nov 30, 2023 05:00 PM Helsinki
Exhibition Information:
LET’S GET PHYGITAL is a students’ exhibition celebrating the 3rd edition of a collaborative project between the jewellery departments of the London College of Fashion (LCF), the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and the PXL-MAD School Of Arts.
The exhibition acknowledges how digital experiences advance artistic thinking and practice by creating an IRL space for digital adornment. By using Augmented Reality filters as tools, the students investigated how contemporary adornment can exist in non-physical forms, be wearable and interact with their audience.
Information About Speakers:
- Anneleen Swillen is a postdoctoral researcher and tutor at PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt and Hasselt University, located in Belgium. She explores jewellery in a phygital culture through research in the arts, education, curation, and writing. In 2020, she co-founded Artificial Intelligems in collaboration with composer Greg Scheirlinckx. As a fluid and interdisciplinary collective, currently working on the intersection of jewellery, graphic design, music, XR-performance, dance, and data science, they aim to explore more-than-human co-creation.
- Mala Siamptani is a design practitioner with substantial experience in the research, development and delivery of creative projects in Fashion, Design and Art sector. After obtaining two Masters degrees and currently conducting a PhD research, Mala runs her studio in east London specializing in the design and manufacture of products and sculptural objects. Mala has designed and manufactured jewellery and object collections which have been exhibited in Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy, Australia, Germany and the UK. Following extensive material research, Mala’s work attempts to connect traditional craft with digital technology. She has recently presented her research projects at the Global fashion Conference (Leon), the Creativity Researchers Conference (UK) and the 1st World Symposium for Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories (Shanghai). Through her design work and research, Mala demonstrates both the use and need for material research and its acknowledgment of experiential knowledge to advance craft thinking and practice.
- Darja Popolitova is a contemporary jewellery artist, curator, lecturer and PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Arts; born in 1989 in Sillamäe and based in Tallinn. An ironical view of nowadays drives her process, which fuels her to blend digital craft and video performances with fiction. She finds jewellery’s haptic and symbolic nature a generous medium that allows her to conceptualise ideas. For her artistic practice, she was honoured with numerous awards and scholarships such as Annual Award of Estonian Cultural Endowment (2020), the EAA Research Publication Award (2020), Adamson-Eric Scholarship (2018) and the Artist Laureate Salary (2022). She took part in the shows at the Smack Mellon Gallery in New York (2022), the Arnhem Museum in the Netherlands (2020) and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2019).
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12.10.2023 — 15.10.2023
Randomain exhibition at ARS
Ceramics
On Thursday, 12th of October at 18:00, EKA Glass, Ceramics, Jewellery and Blacksmithing second year students open their collective art exhibition ‘Randomain’ at ARS Art Factory Studio 53/98.
The exhibition features artwork created in a contemporary art workshop, united by the common theme of “randomness.” The artists view random occurrences as a creative tool for questioning established patterns and identifying idea fixations.
By employing an exceptionally diverse range of artistic media, from video installations to ceramic sculptures, the exhibition invites viewers to wander through an uncurated creative environment and discover the appeal of the unpredictable. ‘Randomain’ is partially a continuation of the student exhibition ‘Randomness, where?’ that took place on the same premises in the spring of 2023.
The exhibition is open for only three days: 13th until 15th of October, from 12.00-18.00.
Artists: Kaja Knowers, Johanna Hint, Merilyn Kasemets, Keily Kerem, Liisu Saar, Õnne Paulus, Anna-Liisa Villmann, Alice Kupri, Jekaterina Šehovtsova, Elisabet Kiverik, Elisabeth Tõnne, Lilian Maasik, Ronja-Marjam Vene, Karl Markus Gauk
Graphic Design: Kaja Knowers
Mentor: Sten Saarits
Supported by Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Artists’ Association
Follow events at ARS Art Factory: www.arsfactory.ee (ARS Art Factory is located at Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn)
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Randomain exhibition at ARS
Thursday 12 October, 2023 — Sunday 15 October, 2023
Ceramics
On Thursday, 12th of October at 18:00, EKA Glass, Ceramics, Jewellery and Blacksmithing second year students open their collective art exhibition ‘Randomain’ at ARS Art Factory Studio 53/98.
The exhibition features artwork created in a contemporary art workshop, united by the common theme of “randomness.” The artists view random occurrences as a creative tool for questioning established patterns and identifying idea fixations.
By employing an exceptionally diverse range of artistic media, from video installations to ceramic sculptures, the exhibition invites viewers to wander through an uncurated creative environment and discover the appeal of the unpredictable. ‘Randomain’ is partially a continuation of the student exhibition ‘Randomness, where?’ that took place on the same premises in the spring of 2023.
The exhibition is open for only three days: 13th until 15th of October, from 12.00-18.00.
Artists: Kaja Knowers, Johanna Hint, Merilyn Kasemets, Keily Kerem, Liisu Saar, Õnne Paulus, Anna-Liisa Villmann, Alice Kupri, Jekaterina Šehovtsova, Elisabet Kiverik, Elisabeth Tõnne, Lilian Maasik, Ronja-Marjam Vene, Karl Markus Gauk
Graphic Design: Kaja Knowers
Mentor: Sten Saarits
Supported by Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Artists’ Association
Follow events at ARS Art Factory: www.arsfactory.ee (ARS Art Factory is located at Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn)
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18.05.2023 — 04.06.2023
“Fragment_21:12″
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
The exhibition “Fregment_21:12” by second-year jewelry and blacksmithing students of the Estonian Academy of Arts, will be held in the Long Leg Gate Tower of Old Town, Pikk Jalg 2, between May 19 and June 4.
The exhibition reflects eight young artists’ curiosity about preserving something – what they think is worth keeping and passing on, and in what way. The desire to keep what is important to oneself has always existed. What is preserved gives us a sense of security, that even though the world around us is changing at breakneck speed, there is something that remains the same. But when trying to store something, its nature also changes. Isn’t keeping something unchanged a failed endeavor from the very beginning?
Over the years, both our values and what is held sacred change, but the original information about something important always remains. Wisdom for life is passed on through knowledge and skills, and we hope to continue to be better than before with that. All previous experiences are somehow embedded into our DNA and manifest under certain conditions when it is necessary to save us from destruction. Despite our own contradictions and self-destructiveness, we also have a survival mechanism coded into us. To trigger it, we just need to know the right code or the right time – let it be 21:12 for example.
Artists: Aleš Rezler, Elis Liivo, Lara Herrmann, Maarja Hallika, Madlen Hirtentreu, Madli Pajos, Helen Tiits and Paul Aadam Mikson will perform at the exhibition.
Supervisors: Eve Margus and Nils Hint
Thanks: Bruno Lillemets, Jens Andreas Clausen, Kristo Pachel, Taavi Teevet, Sander Haugas, Villu Mustkivi
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“Fragment_21:12″
Thursday 18 May, 2023 — Sunday 04 June, 2023
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
The exhibition “Fregment_21:12” by second-year jewelry and blacksmithing students of the Estonian Academy of Arts, will be held in the Long Leg Gate Tower of Old Town, Pikk Jalg 2, between May 19 and June 4.
The exhibition reflects eight young artists’ curiosity about preserving something – what they think is worth keeping and passing on, and in what way. The desire to keep what is important to oneself has always existed. What is preserved gives us a sense of security, that even though the world around us is changing at breakneck speed, there is something that remains the same. But when trying to store something, its nature also changes. Isn’t keeping something unchanged a failed endeavor from the very beginning?
Over the years, both our values and what is held sacred change, but the original information about something important always remains. Wisdom for life is passed on through knowledge and skills, and we hope to continue to be better than before with that. All previous experiences are somehow embedded into our DNA and manifest under certain conditions when it is necessary to save us from destruction. Despite our own contradictions and self-destructiveness, we also have a survival mechanism coded into us. To trigger it, we just need to know the right code or the right time – let it be 21:12 for example.
Artists: Aleš Rezler, Elis Liivo, Lara Herrmann, Maarja Hallika, Madlen Hirtentreu, Madli Pajos, Helen Tiits and Paul Aadam Mikson will perform at the exhibition.
Supervisors: Eve Margus and Nils Hint
Thanks: Bruno Lillemets, Jens Andreas Clausen, Kristo Pachel, Taavi Teevet, Sander Haugas, Villu Mustkivi
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11.05.2023 — 30.05.2023
Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste at HOP Gallery
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
An Owl Screamed and the Samovar Hummed Without Stopping – a performative installation by Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste at HOP Gallery from 11th May to 30th May 2023
EXHIBITION OPENING 17th MAY at 18:00
The performative installation An Owl Screamed and the Samovar Hummed Without Stopping sounds morelike an existential-dystopian comedy by genre. Artists have begun from where Anton Chekhov put an end to his last play, The Cherry Orchard, and imagine a hypothetical fifth act for the play.
SECOND ACT (excerpt)
[A pause.]
FIERS. Before the misfortune the same thing happened. An owl screamed and the samovar hummed without stopping.
GAEV. Before what misfortune?
FIERS. Before the Emancipation.
[A pause.]
GAEV. Before what misfortune?
FIERS. Before the Emancipation.
[A pause.]
Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste have been working in tandem since 2010. They both graduated from the blacksmithing speciality at the Estonian Academy of Arts and have jointly created exhibitions, performances and experimental music. Since 2014, they have been running the Süvariik (Deep State) studio on Hobusepea Street in Tallinn.
This exhibition is part of a satellite program of the Biotoopia festival.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, EKKM Estonian Contemporary Art Museum and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, EKKM Estonian Contemporary Art Museum and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Exhibition is open from 11th May to 30th May
HOP Gallery, Hobusepea street 2, Tallinn
Every day 11:00-18:00
Info:
Urmas Lüüs
urmas.lyys@artun.ee
+372 53843139
Urmas Lüüs
urmas.lyys@artun.ee
+372 53843139
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Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste at HOP Gallery
Thursday 11 May, 2023 — Tuesday 30 May, 2023
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
An Owl Screamed and the Samovar Hummed Without Stopping – a performative installation by Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste at HOP Gallery from 11th May to 30th May 2023
EXHIBITION OPENING 17th MAY at 18:00
The performative installation An Owl Screamed and the Samovar Hummed Without Stopping sounds morelike an existential-dystopian comedy by genre. Artists have begun from where Anton Chekhov put an end to his last play, The Cherry Orchard, and imagine a hypothetical fifth act for the play.
SECOND ACT (excerpt)
[A pause.]
FIERS. Before the misfortune the same thing happened. An owl screamed and the samovar hummed without stopping.
GAEV. Before what misfortune?
FIERS. Before the Emancipation.
[A pause.]
GAEV. Before what misfortune?
FIERS. Before the Emancipation.
[A pause.]
Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste have been working in tandem since 2010. They both graduated from the blacksmithing speciality at the Estonian Academy of Arts and have jointly created exhibitions, performances and experimental music. Since 2014, they have been running the Süvariik (Deep State) studio on Hobusepea Street in Tallinn.
This exhibition is part of a satellite program of the Biotoopia festival.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, EKKM Estonian Contemporary Art Museum and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, EKKM Estonian Contemporary Art Museum and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Exhibition is open from 11th May to 30th May
HOP Gallery, Hobusepea street 2, Tallinn
Every day 11:00-18:00
Info:
Urmas Lüüs
urmas.lyys@artun.ee
+372 53843139
Urmas Lüüs
urmas.lyys@artun.ee
+372 53843139
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22.10.2022 — 18.11.2022
Kaia Ansip in Reverso galeria
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
“Broken Forests” tells a story about the before and after of a deadly wildfire in Pedrogão Grande. It analyses the relation to land which seems to have started acting dangerously and unpredictably. The work is an answer to a trauma that comes from living on the Anthropocene post-apocalyptic landscape. It expresses worry, love and fear for a place which has been changed by eucalyptus plantations.
The works are casted into the first harvest of cork from Quercus Suber aka cork oak. Quercus Suber, unlike the introduced eucalyptus is native to Portugal and is one of the most resilient trees to the fire thanks to its bark. The hot melted metal puts the cork to yet another test.
The works presented here are the continuation of a graduation project in the Estonian Academy of Arts.
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Kaia Ansip in Reverso galeria
Saturday 22 October, 2022 — Friday 18 November, 2022
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
“Broken Forests” tells a story about the before and after of a deadly wildfire in Pedrogão Grande. It analyses the relation to land which seems to have started acting dangerously and unpredictably. The work is an answer to a trauma that comes from living on the Anthropocene post-apocalyptic landscape. It expresses worry, love and fear for a place which has been changed by eucalyptus plantations.
The works are casted into the first harvest of cork from Quercus Suber aka cork oak. Quercus Suber, unlike the introduced eucalyptus is native to Portugal and is one of the most resilient trees to the fire thanks to its bark. The hot melted metal puts the cork to yet another test.
The works presented here are the continuation of a graduation project in the Estonian Academy of Arts.
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21.10.2022 — 27.10.2022
“B106” – Exhibition of Jewellery and Blacksmithing Students
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
B106 represents the jointed innate structure spawning the next generation of metal artists at EKA. Everyone is different, but connected by their curiosity to learn the riddles of the material.
The works in the exhibition showcase our students’ interpretations of different forms of inner structures and representations of going bare to the bone.
The exhibition pieces have been produced during a two week workshop with Tobias Birgersson.
The opening will take place on 21. October, at 6PM by the Staircase gallery (Trepigalerii).
The exhibition will be open from 21/10 to 27/10.
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“B106” – Exhibition of Jewellery and Blacksmithing Students
Friday 21 October, 2022 — Thursday 27 October, 2022
Jewellery and Blacksmithing
B106 represents the jointed innate structure spawning the next generation of metal artists at EKA. Everyone is different, but connected by their curiosity to learn the riddles of the material.
The works in the exhibition showcase our students’ interpretations of different forms of inner structures and representations of going bare to the bone.
The exhibition pieces have been produced during a two week workshop with Tobias Birgersson.
The opening will take place on 21. October, at 6PM by the Staircase gallery (Trepigalerii).
The exhibition will be open from 21/10 to 27/10.
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