On Friday, 4 February at 6 pm, the group exhibition “Runner Along the Border, Rat Catcher and Bricklayer” will open at the Art Hall Gallery. The exhibition has been inspired by short stories by Peet Vallak, Mehis Heinsaar and Ilmar Külvet, whose main characters are forced to set both physical and mental boundaries for an array of reasons.
The exhibition brings together artists Amie Nga Man Chan, Eike Eplik, Kristaps Epners, Hanna Samoson and Augustas Serapinas, who all deal with issues of identity in their work. Also exhibited are historical photos from the collections of the Estonian memory institutions. The curator of the exhibition is Gregor Taul.
Multimedia installations by Kristaps Epners and Amie Nga Man Chan look at an individual’s ability to cope with challenging situations. Chan’s performance reveals the zero point of life on Narva River, while Epner’s story takes the protagonist to Siberia to join the bricklayers’ brigade in the Sayan Mountains.
The co-exhibition “Present yet-to-be” by Lisann Lillevere, Johanna Ruukholm and Denisa Štefanigová will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Friday, December 17th. Curator of the exhibition is Lilian Hiob.
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Laura Cemin's personal exhibition “a slash is a dash is a splash” will be open in Draakon gallery from Wednesday, January 12, 2021. Exhibition will be open until February 5, 2022.
“a slash is a dash is a splash” is a scenography for a play, a training room, or perhaps a leaky text that escaped the 2 dimensions of the page.
Playing with different degrees of abstraction, Laura Cemin literally translates puns and idiomatic expressions into material objects, while simultaneously creating a new abstract language. A sequence of bodily traces, exhaled sounds and physical impressions to allow slippages away from the straight, the vertical, the controlled.
Ulvi Haagensen
Kodunäitus / Home Exhibition
Lembitu 6-6, Tallinn
8.–10.01.2022
Please register HERE
There are many ways to make an exhibition at home. You could paint the walls white, clear away all traces of everyday life and set up the artwork as you might in a white cube gallery. Or you could set up your work in and around existing everyday objects. Or you could not really do anything and simply invite people to your place and call it an exhibition. Art can after all, be whatever we decide it will be.