Category: Installation and Sculpture

On this Wednesday, 16th October at 4 PM in room A501 takes place the 7th Open Seminar of the Faculty of Fine Arts. This time we are visited by Canadian multimedia artist Tyler Tekatch. The seminar will be held in English.

Hamilton-based artist Tyler Tekatch creates work in film, video and installation that explores perception and the religious imagination. Influenced by Canadian filmmaker/artists such as Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Jack Chambers and Bruce Elder, Tekatch takes an experimental approach to media. He has expanded his practice to combine film and video with emerging technologies, such as projection mapping and interactivity. He has held two solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Ottawa Art Gallery, and has screened films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Canadian National Film Board, and internationally.

https://tytekatch.com

We invite you to the public viewing of the installation SEWN LAND by Laura De Jaeger on the 4th of December from 2-6pm.

For SEWN LAND (2018) De Jaeger divides the gallery space in 2 by placing a replica of the Belgian language border diagonally through it. The installation is an investigation of a line, an object connecting two points, creating two spaces, breaking them or overlapping. When that line is a border, one only visible on a map, and stolen out of its context, it becomes an almost romantic object. However, it is man made and artificial, it is a carrier of history and movement. It creates it’s own nature and flows organically. You could almost see it as a crack in the earth, or the mountains touching the sky.

The shape is covered with yellow sewing thread: an act of healing of a 16 century wounded line. In space you find 3 Brussels sprouts sewn with the same thread – apart, yet bound – different, yet the same. Yellow, as the basic foundation of the two flags, a colour that according to Kandinsky reaches out rather than pulls back into itself. As in real life, we can not visually sense the border, the artist translated the line in another sense: a sound in the space vibrates, and by that covers every movement and corner it takes.

Laura De Jaeger (1995) is a Belgian visual artist who explores organic matter through space. Humanity, their natural habitat, but also impermanence often touches her work. By translating universal themes to visual poetry, she asks questions about the forgotten corners of our surroundings.
De Jaeger (LUCA School of Arts in Brussels) is currently an exchange student in the 3rd year BA Sculpture and Installation Department in The Estonian Academy of Arts.

Vent Space is supported by the Student Council of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The Hall of Fame of the SIIL Prize 2019 will be opened in Showcase gallery (at EKKM) at 5pm on April 4th, 2019.

Artist group SIIL launches the contemporary art award – SIIL Prize. First nominees for the prize are Johannes Luik and Nele Tiidelepp. Both artist are working in the field of installation and their artwork was exhibited in the new project space called Vent Space. The winner will be found out as a result of popular vote: every visitor had the opportunity to leave the name of their favourite artist in the ballot box.

The winner will be awarded the golden SIIL and crowned with the eternal glory and fame, also, his/her name will be carved into stone. The stone with the winner’s name will always commemorate the remarkable event on the wall of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia.

Johannes Luik (b. 1988) focuses on the subjective describing of impressions and spaces in his artist’s practice. His artwork acquires form in various media, however always relating to space while creating a clean whole. Luik studies the subjective experiencing of materials, places, time and memories.

Nele Tiidelepp (b. 1998) artist’s practice expresses essential nudity, self-reflection, self-irony, opposition of darkness and light both in the direct and metaphorical sense, and poetry (of space). The recurrent characteristic of her work lies in the analysis of herself as a young woman and young artist.

SIIL Prize nominee exhibition will be opened at Vent Space project space on Saturday, 23 March 2019 at 6 pm.

SIIL Group will award the inaugural new contemporary art award, the SIIL Prize! The first nominees are Johannes Luik and Nele Tiidelepp. The artists, who work in the medium of installation, will present their work at the new Vent Space project space. The winner will be determined based on a public vote: every visitor will have the opportunity to place the name of their favourite in a ballot box at the exhibition.

The winner will be awarded a golden hedgehog (SIIL), they will receive eternal glory and fame and their name will be carved in stone. The stone bearing the name of the winner will remain on the wall of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia to commemorate this significant event.

The exhibition will be open 24-29 March, every day 4pm-10pm. The exhibition will be ceremonially concluded with opening of stone at the Showcase Gallery (on the facade of EKKM, Põhja pst 35) on 4 April at 6 pm.

Johannes Luik (1988)describes impressions and spaces subjectively in his artistic practice. His artworks take form in different mediums and merge organically with the space. Luik tries to bring together the space and the meaning behind different topics. Recently he has been studying the subjective perception of time and memories.

Nele Tiidelepp’s(1998) artistic practice relies on notions like bareness of being, self-reflection, self-irony, the juxtaposition of darkness and light in a literal and symbolic sense, poetics (of space). Also, she analyses her identity as a young artist and a young woman.

Graphic design: Kristjan Hinno
Thanks to: Eliis Laul, EKA installation and sculpture departement, EKKM, Kristjan Hinno

On 27th of November at 5pm artist Johann Arens will give a public talk about his art practice at EKA Sculpture department’s monumental studio.

Johann Arens (b.1981) is an artist based in London. He received his MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since then he was awarded the Fellowship in Contemporary Art by the British School at Rome and has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Space London and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Last year he received the Prize for Young Art by the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Recent exhibitions include ‘These Rotten Words’, Chapter Arts, Cardiff (2017); Anxiety Impress, Neuer Aacherer Kunstverein, Germany (2016); ‘Somatic Matter’, Le Foyer, Zürich; ’New Acquisitions’, Fondazione Fotografia Modena; ‘Pillar Huggers’, Or Gallery, Berlin (2015); ‘TTTT’, Jerwood Space, London; ‘Emotional Resources’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2014) and ‘Internet Centre & Habesha Grocery’, Paradise Row, London (2013).

Johann Arens is invited to Tallinn to give a workshop “Sculpting the Moving Image” on November 26-28th at the EKA Installation and Sculpture department. Arens’s public artist talk will also be part of the event program of student-run International Sculpture and Installation Month called SkulpaKuu.

Fibrous, the 1st exhibition held in the international Skulpakuu event. From November 6th until the 14th, seven international sculpture and installation artists will take over the Old EKA Gallery. The exhibition will explore the topics of power and authority. There will also be a curator tour on 08.11 and a panel-discussion about the current notion of sculpture in contemporary thought on 13.11.

You resonate with this. To take over this basement room, seven artists come together in a symbiotic relationship. Though being aware of the rules in the cooperation, they seek to grow laterally.
Fibrous, an exhibition about power, control, choice, force… themes that are suggested in the individual artworks, as well as where the works meet each other in space. The artists seek to expose the connecting fibres, the strategies of taking over and persisting within a defined room. This might show an internal struggle occuring as they give and take to find balance.

The form is fragile, it dissolves, when you touch it, it is not the same as before. It is mutable. I look around and it permeates all. It throbs in our veins, and with it, we are able to change anything.

The exhibition is curated by Laura De Jaeger with artistic director Stacey Koosel. Itwill open on November 6th at 18.00, featuring works by Barbara Kocsis, Ben Caro, Darja Krasnopevtseva, Johannes Luik, Laura De Jaeger, LAURi and Martina Buck.

Fibrousis a part of Skulpakuu, theinternational sculpture- and installation month, andis made possible by the Estonian Academy of Arts, EKA Student Union, Õllenaut, Kalamaja pruulikoda, Peninuki craftery, with Marko Mrkobrad and Arne Nuyts for the graphic design.

Thursday, 8 November will start bright & early at 9 am with our Morning Coffee where students and graduates from the interior architecture department will come and share their experiences from studying, working or doing an apprenticeship somewhere else in the wide and wild world – through the spectrum of space and spatial design, naturally. We’ll meet at C406, EKA new building.

On stage this time: Siim Karro talking about his time at the Danish Royal Art Academy, Hotel Pro Forma and life in Copenhagen in general. Everyone’s welcome to listen & ask questions — it’s in Estonian though, so best for those of you who have some Estonian skills already.

This event is perfect for students and those wanting to become a student, but also tutors; the door is always open to anyone from other EKA departments or other schools. The interior architecture department Morning Coffee events take place about once a month and there will most definitely also be coffee – and upon occasion, there has been also delicious cake (for the cake, you might want to bring a tiny bit of cash).

Set your alarm clocks, join us!

Find room A200, and come explore the results of the chair design studio that our interior architecture and architecture students take during their first year at EKA.

These are the same chairs that we exhibited at the Helsinki Design Week a few weeks back, and the pop-up exhibition is going to be open only until Friday, so hurry!

Tutors: Ilkka Suppanen and Martin Relander

Join us for the opening of the Young Sculptor Award 2018 exhibition “Prediction and Preservation” on October 3 at 6 pm. This is the first show at the gallery’s new location in the Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7.

The exhibition focuses on the present, or maybe even different quests for the present. The present should be a place where the decisions about the past and the future are born. Therefore, the present itself is the most uncharted and unstable space-time. The future may seem like it has been before—a conventional, predictable and unchanging product of imagination and fiction. The real world is the place where unforeseen events are happening. It presents ethical problems that are more vexing than reminisces of the past or projections for the future. Welcome to the present moment, where the instruments are real space and active time units!

Artists who work with space and object fix their minds on the time dimension and the temporary; they ask how and what we perceive in our current space, and how it will be seen as it changes into the past. How the environment designs the future? How can we design ourselves for being present in the present? How values are created by things that happened or were perceived to happen in this space? Can the space become outdated or postponed?

The 2018 Young Sculptor Award show is the seventh in this series. The main goal of the show and its award is to highlight young sculptors and installation artists, support their creative production and open it to a wider public. Works are accepted to the show through open call for the sculpture and installation students, works have to be produced during the ongoing academic year. The grand prix and the second and third prize are awarded by an international jury. The awards are travels to important art events around the world.

Participating artists: Darja Krasnopevtseva, Izabella Neff, Johannes Luik, Katrin Enni, LAURi, Nele Tiidelepp, Olesja Semenkova, Richard Engel, Valetto Alexandre

Exhibition is organised by installation and sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tutors: Taavi Talve, Taavi Piibemann, Kirke Kangro, Art Allmägi. Technical assistance: Sander Haugas. Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio.

Exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.