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On the 20th of September, artist Hana Miletić will hold a public talk about her practice at Estonian Academy of Arts. The talk takes place on the 20.09 at 18 o’clock at Estonia pst 7, room 440a. The talk is open for everyone.
Miletić comes to Tallinn at the invitation of the photography department of Estonian Academy of Arts. She will hold a workshop with the photography students on artist book making, drawing on the work of Mladen Stilinović, amongst other. For the production of the printed matter, the students are invited to use and appropriate the immediate surroundings of the school.
Hana Miletić was born in Zagreb (1982), she lives and works in Brussels and Zagreb. In her work she explores the residues and upheavals of political changes, whereby she focuses on the formation of subjectivity, on the level of both the individual and the community. She describes her artistic practice as street photography via which she documents objects and narratives in a continuous investigation into DIY cultures. Photography serves as a means of orientation in her ongoing exploration of social realities. She has a multiform practice that includes, among others, sculptures, textiles, performances, workshops, printed matter and writing.

Portrait photo by: Miles Fischler

Press release by:

Laura Kuusk
Associate professor and project manager
Department of Photography
Estonian Academy of Arts
+372 55 584 609
laura.kuusk@artun.ee

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

25.09 – 01.10 Exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/events/853305954845876/

29.09 15.00 Talk: https://www.facebook.com/events/123706798363506/

The ways that materials and garments are created, are in a constant change. There are continuous dialogues between the appearance and functionality of the clothing. Sustainable design examples emerge as alternatives next to the mass production, and technology integrates into garment production means in different levels. Exploring alternative futures for textile and garment production, the exhibition presents examples from diverse interpretations of connecting textiles with technology. Textile Futures talk offers the opportunity to meet with the designers, artists and technologists behind the exhibition work to understand more their vision for the textile futures.

Anja Hertenberger (Holland) explores how technology can help us connect to our bodies and maximize our senses. Tara St James (USA) introduces sustainability in fashion. Oscar Tomico (Holland/Spain) offers insights into bringing technology close to the body. Kristi Kuusk (Estonia) wonders about the exhibition “Textile Futures” and talks to the Fashion & Textile MA students of Estonian Academy of Arts about their work at the exhibition.
Q&A with designers.

Event is free of charge, but please register:

RSVP kristi@spell.ee

More info: http://www.disainioo.ee/2017-program/textile-futures-talks

From May 18th to 31st takes place New Media’s alumni exibition “The Artist´s room” at Supersonicum Sound Gallery in Viljandi (Estonia). For more informations read from Facebook.

The exhibition. My Body. My Face. I Sense, I Look, I Imagine.

Graphic designer, blogger and enterpreneur Helene Vetik:

Self presentation in internet.
10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

www.uustuus.ee

Open lecture series in the Faculty of Design

Fashion editor, stylist and blogger Aljona Eesmaa will talk about product in medias distorting mirror.

Cultural differences with Asian business partners.

See the programme of open lecture series in Faculty of Design: https://www.artun.ee/kalender/disainiteaduskonna-avatud-loengudopen-lectures-in-faculty-of-design/

You are cordially invited to a public lecture by Nora Sternfeld, Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University on Tuesday, February 21 at 18.30 at The institute of Art History and Visual Culture (Suur-Kloostri 11, Tallinn)

“Some Thoughts About Learning Together. Strategies of Art Education as Critical Practices of Knowledge Production”

How can we learn something that doesn’t exist yet? On the one hand this sounds paradoxical. But isn’t it on the other hand exactly what radical education is all about? Learning as a political and emancipatory practice has always been understood as a process towards another possibility: as a way to understand the social relations in order to change them; to understand them as they might only be understandable in another world. And maybe by doing so this one might change… As this process of self-transformation is a collective practice we can only learn it together. Following this thoughts the lecture will look at some examples of trafo.K – an office for art, education and critical knowledge production based in Vienna. We will discuss strategies for in-between spaces and contact zones that lay the ground for learning together.

Nora Sternfeld is Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University in Helsinki and co-director of /ecm — Master Program in Exhibition Theory and Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is co-founder of trafo. K, office for art education and critical knowledge production and part of freethought, platform for research, education, and production based in London. In this context she is was one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly 2016.

In cooperation with CuMMA – Studies in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art at Aalto University (https://cummastudies.wordpress.com).

Sofia Hallik “Born-Digitals”
26.01.-14.02.2017

HOP gallery
Tallinn
Hobusepea 2

You are kindly invited to Sofia Hallik’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” in HOP gallery.

Sofia Hallik (1991) is a jewellery artist and PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Arts (since 2015). In her doctoral thesis “Theomorphic Jewellery Essence by Means of Virtuality and Autonomy” (supervisors prof. Kadri Mälk and Dr. Jaak Tomberg) Sofia focuses on a search of divine form through innovative materials and technologies. What interests her the most is the way суberspace and digital technology influence jewellery.

Sofia’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” deals with the influence of cyberspace and the use of digital technology in the manipulation of work of art. There is a dematerialization and virtualization of an artwork in general happening in the aftermath of the Digital Revolution, which affects among other things, an art form that is highly physical form of art, namely jewellery. The aim of Sofia’s work is represented in the shameless and conscious adaptation of the conflicting concepts of handwork and machine work. Exactly at the junction of these two concepts there arises something truly attractive that is actually a taste of our reality.

In her new series of works, Sofia creates a dreamlike installation in both real and virtual rooms. Represented jewellery in particular serves as Sofia’s radical approach, allowing the artist to express the idea of Perfection of Virtual.

Sofia has graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with a Master’s degree with cum laude in 2015. Sofia has had three solo exhibitions, the last one took place at HOP gallery in summer 2015; In 2015 Sofia was awarded the Foundation Noor Ehe / Young Estonian Jewellery grant. Her work has been exhibited at international exhibitions, the latter and the most important are “European Prize for Applied Arts 2015” in Belgium, Mons; “Marzee International Graduate Show 2015” in the Netherlands; “ESTONISHING!” exhibition at Thomas Cohn gallery as a part of Munich Jewellery Week 2016 and in Brazil, São Paulo.

We would like to thank: Kadri Mälk, Jaak Tomberg, Maria Valdma, Raiko Suits, Viktorija Domarkaite, Andres Hallik, Margarita Teeääre, EAA Jewellery and Blacksmithing department.

The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

HOP gallery exhibitions are supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.