Estonia’s most successful commercial gallery of contemporary art starts its second season!

Last summer the travelling gallery met more than 500 new art friends and found a home for 50 artworks. This Saturday at 2pm everyone is invited to the season opening event in the forecourt of gallery ISFAG (Põhja pst 35, right next to EKKM)

During the festivities Kirill Tulin will replace the gallery’s broken clutch, Camille Laurelli will open a one-day exhibition and music will be selected by this season’s resident artist Art Nõukas. As always, artworks by the gallery artists Art ja Helena, Rosa-Violetta Grötsch, Johnson&Johnson, Camille Laurelli, Anna Mari Liivrand and Hanna Piksarv will be sold. A new addition to the line-up is Liina Pääsuke, whose works will be available for purchase starting this Saturday.

After touring fairs and festivals in 2016, the gallery will now set its sights on Estonia’s neighbours. This summer the gallery will host Art Nõukas’ film project “Lost and found cinema” visiting different art centres across the Baltics, but none of the capital cities. “Whether travelling in Estonia with a foreign artist or taking a local artist abroad, the aim is still to offer an alternative platform for experiencing art in a field that is largely concentrated around capitals,” comments gallerist and project initiator Siim Preiman, “that’s why this year we’ll be tracking down other small initiatives like ourselves, share each other’s experiences and hopefully meet each other’s friends.”

The opening event this Saturday is the first chance this year to be a part of the gallery’s activities and to hear the latest whispers about the future. If all goes according to plan, the summer tour will take place in the second half of July.

Kirill Tulin (b 1989) is an artist living in Tallinn who has not graduated from the Academy of Arts or any other university. He constantly questions the role of traditional galleries and other art institutions. In February 2017, he initiated the performative action “We are about to come up with a title, please bear with us” in Tallinn Art Hall that gave visitors a chance to see how exhibitions are made.

Camille Laurelli (b 1981) is a French-born artist, currently living and working in Tallinn. He has studied in art schools in Annecy and Grenoble. Laurelli started his career as a photo artist but now merges different areas of art in his practice and questions the value of art in a world increasingly overtaken by technology. He has participated in the exhibitions “Side effects” and “& So On & So Forth”, both at EKKM in 2013. In 2016, he curated the show “Infinite Lives” with co-curator Nicolas Audureau at Tallinn City Gallery.

Art Nõukas (b 1992) is an artist living and working in Tallinn. He graduated from the sculpture and installation department at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2017. In his installations he largely relies on visuals and methods borrowed from films and often positions the silver screen at the centre of his dramatic scenographies. His latest solo show “Oh, why do we play this game?” with Helena Keskküla, took place at Hobusepea gallery in spring 2016.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/212457265938217

Thanks: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Tamara Luuk, Villem Säre

Image: Johanna Heikkilä “Nähdäkseni sinut”. Exhibition view. galerii galerii 2016.

Galerii galerii is a travelling contemporary art gallery built in the back of a ‘91 Transit van that started operating in 2016. The gallery hosts solo shows by young international artists, represents a growing number of more and less known contemporary artists and actively takes art to new publics. During its first season galerii galerii toured fairs and festivals all over Estonia, visiting the towns of Rakvere, Võru, Viljandi and Toila. In 2017 the gallery aims to visit art centres in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

More information:
Siim Preiman
gallerist
+372 53432526
galerist@galeriigalerii.ee
www.galeriigalerii.ee

June 1, 6:00pm
Puänt Book Store (Pärnu mnt 4)
Hedi Jaansoo, Kristel Raesaar, Pire Sova, Viktor Gurov
Neanderthal Cave School invites you to join us for a performative walking and mindfulness session on Thursday, June 1, at 6:00pm.
The upcoming session is the first public scetch for Neanderthal Cave School’s exhibition-residency at The Contemporary Art Museum Estonia, due to start in September.
If the artworld is a model of reality, then how do we, artists, participate in creating social and political reality? Now that criticality has become a set of tropes employed to signal belonging to a professional inner circle rather than a practice addressing social issues, does contemporary art still hold any potential as a prototype for a new reality? How to be together when our selves have broken down into various user profiles?
We’ll meet at 6:00pm in front of Puänt book store (Pärnu mnt 4). The session will begin with a brisk walk and will continue with a guided meditation. In the end of the session, a discussion over refreshments will take place.
Please dress comfortably. You may bring walking poles, dumbbells or sandbags. We recommend that you bring a small plaid, blanket, shawl or just a warm cardigan for meditation. Attention: the guided meditation will take place in Estonian, so for non-Estonian speakers, this will be a chance to experience an immersive language listening session.
Operating since 2015, Neanderthal Cave School is an art project, using artists, gallery spaces, visitors, control and togetherness amongst other things as materials.

Further information: neandertalcaveschool@gmail.com
Fb event: http://bit.ly/2rfhuff

BA Scenography DEGREE SHOW will be opened at VABA LAVA small stage from the 3rd through 9th of May. All welcome to join the open defence of the work at 11 a.m. on the 9th of May!

Friday, May 26th from 8PM takes place the first year new media student’s semester project presentations. The Loaction: PADA: Kalasadama 6, Tallinn. More infomations from Facebook: https://et-ee.facebook.com/events/811016259054431/

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.

“Architecture and Materiality: From Vitruvius to the Digital Era”. Open Lecture by Antoine Picon

On May 11th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the faculty of architecture will be happy to present architect and historian researching the history of architecture and urban technologies, Antoine Picon, at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Open Lectures are open to all architecture and design students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial and design matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at the Harvard GSD and Director of Research at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. He has published extensively on this subject.

Four of his books are devoted to the transition from early-modern societies to the industrial era.
With La Ville territoire des cyborgs (1998), Picon began to investigate the changes brought to cities and architecture by the development of digital tools and digital culture.
His three most recent books are dealing extensively with this question. Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Profession (2010) offers a comprehensive overview of this important transition. Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (2013) focuses on the “return” of ornament in digital architecture to further the investigation. Finally, Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (2015) discusses its impact on cities.

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
Series is curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
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About Antoine Picon: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/antoine-picon/

More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

Book presentation by Yaron Abulafia is held at Tallinn City Theatre, Lai 23 on the 11th of May from 3 p.m. through 6 p.m. All welcome!

From the 9th through 11th of May, a masterclass on contemporary art of light is held at the Department of Scenography by Doctor Yaron Abulafia. THE ART OF LIGHT ON STAGE.

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