Station/Printed textiles by Lylian Meister

Station
Printed textiles by Lylian Meister
In cooperation with: Katarina Meister, Johan Pajupuu
Space: Arhitektuuri- ja Disainigalerii, Pärnu mnt 6, Tallinn Time: April 20 to May 7, 2016
Opening April 20 at 5 pm
Railway and its stations as stopping points are on one hand parts of the rational transport system and on the other completely metaphysical landscapes where it is at the same time possible to cultivate your land or to leave for indeterminable distances. Actually while living in the railway station you could every day leave several times. For me as a city person owning a country railway station this feeling matters: on the other side of rails begin (or end) primeval forests, twice every day however civilisation arrives in full lights, the train to whose honour the old railway station rejuvenates and becomes urban micro-landscape with street lighting, cars and strange people. So far I have not got tired of admiring the arrival of the train, it gives rhythm to the life at station. The trains themselves are rhythm and repetition; I really hope that it never ends in my station. Like that I wanted to fix them on my printed textiles.
The trains of my exhibition are a development of drawings from the 1954 Soviet textbook of railways technical exploitation regulations; I found the textbook in the station. The station however is not only movement but also a stop. Black soil, broken stone roofs and gravel pit are there together with bird-song and train beat. All baby plants growing on the exhibition, including nettles will move from here to Tori flowerbeds and fields.
Production team: Mall Tamberg, Kuido Heinsoo, Guido Aasmaa, Marko Nautras, Erkki Kadarik, Lauri Lenk
Thanks: Maile Grünberg, Katrin Lehtjõe, Kristel Laurits, Kert Viiart, Piret Valk, Melani Joonas, Ann Jürjo, Laur Kivistik, Saarineni Maja, Textile and Graphic Fine Art departments of Estonian Academy of Arts
Extra thanks: Tori station has a 100 years layer of railway people activities. I feel connected to them and I am grateful to all previous station inhabitants for work done and on-going support.
Exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia present
public lecture on April 20, 18.00 at Arhitektuurikeskus (Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn)
Dorothea von Hantelmann „Why exhibitions became a modern ritual (and what they tell us about the society in which they take place) “
Hantelmann will hold a seminar on April 21, 10.00 at Institute of Art History and Visual Culture (Suur-Kloostri 11). Registration and reading materials: karin.nugis@artun.ee
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall tells us as much about the state of Western society in 2015 as the Crystal Palace reflected mid-19th century productivism, or as early modern curiosity cabinets connect to the rise of consumer culture. Art institutions are mirrors of the socio-economic order of their time, whose basic parameters they practice and enact. We can retrace the entire history of individualisation by following the increase of wall space between paintings in 19th and 20th century galleries. We can comprehend the transition of early market societies into consumer societies alongside the transformation of 19th century museums into white cubes. And we can analyse the contemporary experience society on the basis of the way it transforms the white cube into time-based experiential spaces. Art institutions are deeply linked to the values and categories that constitute a given time, which is why they have to keep transforming in order to adjust and to remain what they always have been: a contemporary ritual. Looking at art spaces from the 16th century to the present day as a series of decisive moments of transformation, we may find that the transformations of our epoch are asking for a new kind of ritual, after that of the exhibition.
Dorothea von Hantelmann was documenta Professor at the Art Academy/University of Kassel where she lectured on the history and meaning of documenta and established the constitution of a documenta research institute. Her main fields of research are contemporary art and theory as well as the history and theory of exhibitions. She is currently working on a book that explores art exhibitions as ritual spaces in which fundamental values and categories of modern, liberal and market based societies historically have been, and continue to be practised and reflected. She is author of How to Do Things with Art, a book on performativity within contemporary art.

This year during the “Melting point” fair in Valencia on April 22-24 th Estonian Academy of Arts is presenting its curated exhibition “CATHEXIS”,which will take place in the entrance of Escuela superior de Arte y Diseño de Valencia.

The exhibition is presenting jewellery and blacksmithing department students’ works created during recent years of studies and projects carried out in academy. The exhibited pieces are conceptual side of jewelry reflecting the spirit and character of the department. Works vary in their size and material – aluminium, charcoal, mammoth bone, intestine. Exhibition curators: Maria Garcia Castillejo, Federica Cogliandro, Viktorija Domarkaite, Katrin Kosenkranius, Hannes Tõnuri.

Exhibition participants : Maria Garcia Castillejo, Federica Cogliandro, Miikael Danieljants, Viktorija Domarkaite, Sofia Hallik, Elis Ilves, Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav, Annika Kedelauk, Kairin Koovit, Katrin Kosenkranius, Triin Kukk, Helen Kristi Loo, Liina Lõõbas, Eilve Manglus, Merlin Meremaa, Indrek Mesi, Erle Nemvalts, Hans-Otto Ojaste, Anneli Oppar, Darja Popolitova, Hannes Tõnuri, Hanna-Maria Vanaküla, Agnes Veski, Edgar Volkov.

KÖLER PRIZE 2016
Exhibition of Nominees at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
16 April – 5 June 2016
Vernissage: 15 April at 6PM
Köler Prize is an art award established in 2011 by the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM). Its main objective is to popularise contemporary art and to give recognition to important artists and art collectives that are active in Estonia.
Five artists or art collectives of Estonian origin or who reside permanently in Estonia are nominated annually for the Köler Prize on the basis of their creative work over the past three years. The Board of the EKKM selects the nominees for the Köler Prize.
The nominees for the Köler Prize 2016 are ART ALLMÄGI, KRISTA MÖLDER, KRISTI KONGI, LAURA PÕLD and RAUL KELLER.
The artists submit two works of their own choice for the exhibition: one that has already been exhibited, preferably from among the artist’s creative work of the last three years, that can also in a certain sense be considered definitive or representative of the artist’s previous work, and the other, a new work produced especially for the Köler Prize.
An international jury consisting of the following members will select the winner of the Köler Prize 2016 grand prix based on the works submitted for the exhibition and the artist’s previous creative work: Anu Vahtra (Winner of 2015 Köler Prize grand prix), Julija Fomina (Curator at the Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius), Jussi Koitela (Finnish curator and visual artist), Jörg Heiser (Co-editor of Frieze magazine) and Katja Mater (Dutch visual artist and editor).
The public also has the chance to have a say in the exhibition because in addition to the main prize, the People’s Choice Award will also be decided on the basis of voting that will take place until 26 May. The laureates of both awards will be announced at the Köler Prize 2016 Gala, which will be held on 27 May of this year.
Köler Prize awards rely entirely on art-friendly private capital. For the sixth year already, in other words from the very beginning, SMARTEN LOGISTICS AS is supporting the awarding of the main prize, and for the fourth time, SALTO AB will be funding the People’s Choice Award.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue introducing the previous creative work of the artists (the author of the texts is Eero Epner) and the documentary film Screen Tests for Köler Prize 2016, in which the nominees make sense of and comment on one another’s work.
Köler Prize will be awarded for the sixth time in 2016. The previous winners of the Köler Prize grand prix are JEVGENI ZOLOTKO, FLO KASEARU, JAANUS SAMMA, JASS KASELAAN and ANU VAHTRA.
One of the founders of the Köler Prize, member of the Board of the EKKM Anders Härm, has expanded upon the background of the award as follows: “There are several art awards in Estonia that have been named after one or another art classic. Aside from the fact that Köler simply rhymes with Turner (see Turner Prize), we were motivated to name this award after Johann Köler in particular by the chance to chronologically get ahead of other awards, so to speak, and to virtually place the Köler Prize ahead of the Kristjan Raud Award, the Konrad Mägi Medal, and the Eduard Wiiralt Prize. This circumstance is perhaps the only connection between the prize and the 19th century Estonian painter Johann Köler.”
Further information:
www.ekkm.ee
info@ekkm.ee
+372 5143778
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, AS Smarten Logistics, Salto AB, Draka Keila Cabels AS, Lugemik, Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center

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On Wednesday, 13. April at 18:00 Ann Mirjam Vaikla will open the installation “BEAUTY ON”, balancing between the formats of an exhibition and performing arts in the Rehearsal Space series at Rundum artist-run space (Pärnu mnt. 154 courtyard).
Exhibition is open: 14. – 24. April 2016 Thu to Sun 12.00-18.00.
BEAUTY ON
From the flak tower the air raids were and unforgettable sight, and I had constantly to remind myself of the cruel reality in order not to be completely entranced by the scene: the illumination of the parachute flares […], followed by flashes of explosions which were caught by the clouds of smoke, the innumerable probing searchlights, the excitement when a plane was caught and tried to escape the cone of light, the brief flaming torch when it was hit. No doubt about it, this apocalypse provided a magnificent spectacle.
[…]
There was a sinister atmosphere full of biting smoke, soot, and flames. Sometimes the people displayed that curious hysterical merriment that is often observed in the midst of disasters. Above the city hung a cloud of smoke that probably reached twenty thousand feet in height. Even by day it made the macabre scene as dark as night.
– Albert Speer “Memoirs”
BEAUTY ON is the second part of the work, which was first realized in 2012 for the group exhibition BEAUTY OFF held at the Norwegian Theatre Academy. The spatial installation, focusing in the nature of grotesque touches on the border lines of the familiar and unfamiliar, disturbing and enjoyable, human and inhuman, the real and the fantastic, comical and fierce, the sublime and the low.
Ann Mirjam Vaikla (b. 1990) has graduated from the Norwegian Theatre Academy (Østfold University College) in 2015 where she studied scenography. Her former studies began at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and in addition she has studied in Vilnius and at the Art Academy of Latvia. In 2013 she underwent a professional internship with contemporary artist Ragnar Kjartansson at the Reykjavik City Theatre. After her studies she has participated in group exhibitions at the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the 13th Prague Quadrennial, and the Watermill Center in New York. The present exhibition “BEAUTY ON” is the artist’s first solo exhibition.
Performer: Sandra Veermets
Construction: Silver Roostik
Sound: Tarvi Kull ja Kaspar Kalluste
Light: Siim Porila
The exhibition is supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Rundum is supported by Ministry of Culture of Estonia
Special thanks: Kulla Laas, Urmo Vaikla, Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla, Sandra Veermets, Silver Roostik, Siim Porila, Tarvi Kull, Kaspar Kalluste
Additional information:
www.vaiklastudio.ee/annmirjam
www.rundumspace.com
www.facebook.com/rundumspace/

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.

www.avatudloengud.ee

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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