Category: Vent Space

VENT SPACE Art fair +  Summer Market 6-10 July, Tallinn. Register now!

The event is open for everyone, who wishes to participate. International applicants are also very welcome (works for the Art Fair can be received by post)!

Opportunity to participate in one or both events. Participation possible by registration and filling a form in Drive until June, 20, 2022.

Photos and works should be submitted by mail until July, 1st (details explained in the rules). No comission applied. All sales revert to the artists.

SCHEDULE

Art Fair 6-10 JULY – submit 2-10 works. All works with the price of 15 EUR per piece.

Summer market 9-10 JULY – Bring and sell your art/craft/design/creation.

Location: 
Vabaduse väljak 6-8, 10146 Tallinn.

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See you at the ART FAIR SUMMER MARKET!

Team Vent Space 

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

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) 

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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. 

VENT Space is proud to present Absence an exhibition of new sculptures by Hannah Hoebeke. 

In the creation of each of her sculptures in the Absence series Hannah searches for the presence in absence. The human body is defined by its roundness. When you sculpt the human figure nothing is concave, there is always this roundness. In observation of sculptures people may focus on the surface, thinking that the surface has prominence however in Hannah’s works it is the internal structure that enables the form that is viewed for roundness to emerge. Through a process of hand production these objects are evoked into being. Hannah’s sculptures are physical, there is intensity to them and we see that they hold life. 

Hannah Hoebeke, (Ghent, Belgium) is currently completing her Masters of Fine Art (Sculpture) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. This Spring Semester she has been a visiting scholar to the Estonian Academy of Arts as part of the Erasmus Program. Exhibited works were all produced during Hannah’s time in Tallinn. 

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Instagram: @hannah.hoebeke

The exhibition will be open to the public from Tuesday 11th May till 19th May 2021.
Opening hours: Tues-Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm, Saturday – Sunday 11 am  – 8 pm 

Vabaduse väljak 6/8, 10146 Tallinn

Additional information:
+372 53 661 474
ventspace@artun.ee

On December 17th at 5-7PM “Storytelling as a Survival Kit” will be opened at Vent Space. The project is a common ground for narratives derived from the Maria Kapajeva led course “Storytelling in Visual language” at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Stories are passed on from generation to generation and have been so since the existence of humankind through various narrative methods. As a survival kit, ‘storytelling’ takes a different shape and is varied according to the situation it needs to struggle in. From a lichen’s or fox’s folktale, from a life of shadows to an inclusive conversation, one story leads to another. Any way, for any story to survive, it needs to be told. This exhibition presents the young artists’ attempts to find new approaches for seeking, developing, and narrating through their practice.

Exhibiting artists: Áron Tihanyi, Birna Sísí Jóhannsdóttir, Camilla Kulmala, Gregor Pankert, Janosh Heydorn, Jonas Morgenthaler, Julia Tyszka, Kamilé Vasiliauskaitė, Keawalee Warutkomain, Robin Isenmann, Stuti Bansal.

My limbs are gods,

I am entirely a god,

no part of me is without

a god.

My limbs guide me,

My flesh forges the paths for me,

The gods have been transformed into my body

Lill Volmer’s exhibition “My Limbs” will open on the 1st of March at 7pm in Vent Space. The exhibition will stay open until the 9th of March.
Volmer’s “My limbs” is part of a continuing making that was initiated in the autumn of 2019 in Lista, Southern Norway. Installations exhibited are a result of the obsessive act of twisting and binding. They emit a compulsiveness that creates tension in the material while relieving tension in the body. The book that comes with the exhibition serves as both an epilogue to the works, but perhaps also as a synopsis of the exhibition.

Opening times:

01.03 – 19:00 opening
02.03 – 14.00 – 20.00
03.03 – 13.00 – 19.00
04.03 – 14.00 – 19.00
05.03 – 14.00 – 19.00
06.03 – 14.00 – 19.00
07.03 – 12.00 – 19.00
08.03 – 14.00 – 19.00
09.03 – 14.00 – 19.00

Join us for the opening of the exhibition “Maintenance Is a Drag (It Takes All the Fucking Time)” on Tuesday, 28 January at 6 pm. The exhibition will remain open until 8 February, Tue-Sat 12-6 pm.

The opening of Vent Space’s new season was the party to bring about the fall of autumn. Two artworks displayed were a room installation consisting of dried up leaves filling the whole floor of the gallery and a printed work „Leftovers“ by Misa Asunama. The installation of autumn leaves collected by the Vent Space team really was a show stopping piece. It truly came into its own during the party. As people were crushing up the leaves underneath their boot heels and the DJ was playing, the situation grew into  something of a spontaneous happening or a ritualistic destruction of the fall.
„Leftovers“ by Misa Asunama was a more quiet piece. The four graphic prints gave a good counterbalance to the naturalistic glamour of the leaf covered floor. Depicting the seasons changing through the aesthetics of fragmentarity, momentarity and movement, the overall feeling walking away from the work was overwhelmingly refreshing. Here credit has to be given to both the artist and the curator Angela Ramirez. The artwork not losing its effect is truly a feat considering that, without clever placement of the different prints composing the piece, the artwork had to contend with both the party happening right besides it and the massive installation of leaves.
The party itself was wonderful. Speeches were given, dances were danced, good conversations were had and many drinks drunk. Overall the opening of the new season in Vent Space was a total success!

Vent Space, student-run project space, announces its new team and Open Call for the Second Season, running from January to October 2020.
The focus of the new season is on the potentiality of unexpected encounters, seeking to expand conventional practices by encouraging experimentation and open-mindedness through cross-disciplinary collaborations.

You can apply here!
Deadline for applications is on the
30th of December 2019.