OPEN LECTURE SERIES: TRISTAN BONIVER 14.04 AT 6 PM

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

14.04 Tristan Boniver (Brussels, Belgium)

Title of the open lecture:

“Critical positions on design, material resources and waste”

Tristan Boniver is a member of the Brussels-based collective Rotor. He studied architecture in Brussels at the Saint-Luc Institute, the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, and La Cambre School of Architecture (ISACF). Throughout his studies, he worked as a graphic designer, consultant, and developer, both for private clients and associations and on projects in the underground electronic music scene in Brussels. A member of the Brussels collective Boups since 1999, he then worked with Maarten Gielen to set up Rotor, which he has been a member of since 2005. He qualified as an architect in January 2010, after presenting a dissertation on rounded corners.

http://rotordb.org/

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment.

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The lectures are held in English, free of charge.

The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

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Anni Kagovere
IN GOOD TIME
April 1 – April 25, 2016
New exhibition will be open in the Vault Room of A-Gallery since April 1st, 2016
At her exhibition “In Good Time” the author presents jewellery and utensils created in Japanese metalworking procedure called mokumegane. The works made in this technique greatly differ from the usual high-gloss polished metal objects – the multicoloured surfaces of the mokumegane objects have an organic effect.
Multilayered patterns draw our full attention while inviting us to follow the lines and tracks seen in the material.
Anni Kagovere has graduated from the department of jewellery art at the Estonian Academy of Arts and obtained a MA degree in Tokyo University of the Arts. In her work, Kagovere focuses on mokumegane technique. She has held mokumegane courses at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Viljandi Culture Academy.
Exhibition will be open until April 25, 2016.

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For the finissage of the “Place Oddity” exhibition, the curators Francisco Martínez and Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, and their guests, Liina Siib, Patrick Laviolette, Marika Agu, Flo Kasearu and Mihkel Kleis, will reflect about the communicating vessels between contemporary art, urban ethnography and material culture.
The event will take place in the EAA Gallery, the 1st of April at 17:00.

Spring semester’s graduation work defences are shown in the attached file (in Estonian).

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

31.03 Onur Sönmez / München

Onur Sönmez is a designer, who has a wide range of interest in interaction design / interface design research. He has exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale, Saatchi Gallery London, Contemporary Istanbul, Ars Electronica, Transmediale ’15 Berlin, Media Facades Festival Europe, Connecting Cities, Linz 09 European Capital of Culture etc.

After receiving his BA degree (with Honours) in Visual Communication Design at the Istanbul Bilgi University with full scholarship he moved to Linz – Austria, completed his Masters degree of Interface Cultures at the Kunstuniversitat Linz and worked for Ars Electronica Futurelab, Bosch Design Studio Münich and currently working for Kontrastmoment as an Interface Designer on the development and design of interactive interfaces and control concepts for BMW Group (including BMWi, Mini and Rolls-Royce) and other interesting projects.

www.onursonmez.com

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The lectures are held in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

A joint exhibition by Tiit Pääsuke and Kris Lemsalu, the stars of two different art generations, at the Tallinn Art Hall.
A large-scale, as well as playful and colourful, dialogue between two top artists from different generations will open at the Tallinn Art Hall. The exhibition will provide the viewers with a survey of the works produced by Tiit Pääsuke, and by Kris Lemsalu, who is well known for being active on the international art arena. Inspired by each other, both authors have also produced new works for exhibition, which will be open until May 1st.
You are invited to the exhibition opening on 18 March at 6 p.m.!
Curator Tamara Luuk has created a surprising cross-generational dialogue in the exhibition with the participation of Tiit Pääsuke, the grand old man of Estonian painting, and Kris Lemsalu, a rising star in the international contemporary art scene.
“Two artists – Tiit Pääsuke (b. 1941) who established himself forcefully and firmly among Estonia’s top painters in the 70s and Kris Lemsalu, born in 1985, who was educated as a ceramicist, developed into a nomad and is now marking the art landscape as a powerful crustacean, have much in common visually: an intensity and synchronicity of colours and subject matter, which includes a substantial number of animals and women. And they are connected by the taxidermic quality, dramatic theatricality and significance of their work,” says the curator.
The independence and originality of these two artistic characters form the basis for the exhibition. Beauty and the Beast does not aspire to set the work of one artist in opposition to the other, or to make them dependent on each other.
The exhibition exudes a delight in old and new myths, as well as being as ritual. Tamara Luuk: “Lemsalu fills a gap in Estonian art history, with its dearth of “primitive energy” that works with real, wild and authentic images. Pääsuke is a sensitive master and professional, who has recognised the power of this immediate and raw cross-cultural power and who, without betraying his erudition and resources, is moving towards this primeval power and towards Kris.”
Jean Cocteau’s film Beauty and the Beast from 1946 will be screened at the Sõprus Cinema on March 23rd at 8 p.m. The film will be introduced by curator Tamara Luuk. The film is in French with English subtitles.
The exhibition was designed by Neeme Külm, installed by Valge Kuup, and the educational programme was developed in collaboration with Sally Stuudio.
Thank you: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Outset Eesti, Estonian Artists Association, Surfhouse, UBC Eesti, Sõprus Cinema, NO99, Tallinn Art Ceramic Factory, Vaike Pääsuke, Riho and Margit Lemsalu, Katharina Aus, Ingrid and Andres Allik, Railey Harmond, Kerli Praks, Olga Temnikova, Kadri Karro, Risto Kalmre, Martin Kuum, Kristopher Luigend, Jan Moszumanski, Mart Norman
Art Museum of Estonia, Tartmus, Tõnis Arro, Lilja Blumenfeld, Jüri Hain, Epp-Maria Kokamägi, Rene Kuulmann, Marje Lohuaru, Janek Mäggi, Maria Mägi-Rohtmets, Indrek Orro, Epp Rebane, Ain Tähiste
Tiit Pääsuke and Kris Lemsalu. Beauty and the Beast
Curator Tamara Luuk
Tallinn Art Hall
19 March – 1 May 2016
Vabaduse väljak 8
Wed-Sun, Noon – 6 p.m., € 3.50/€ 2.50
www.kunstihoone.ee
More information:
Tamara Luuk, curator
tamara@kunstihoone.ee
Press release by:
Anneli Porri
anneli@kunstihoone.ee