TMW’s art programme presents exhibitions by artists from Estonia and beyond, including the festival’s signature gallery tour curated by the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC).
ECADC Gallery Tour Sat, 6. April 12.30–16.00 Various galleries
As part of TMW, The Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) hosts a special gallery tour. The participating galleries are Poco Art Museum, Okapi gallery, Kai Art Center, Tütar Gallery, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Gallery Positiiv gallery, Juhan Kuus Documentary Photography Centre and Telliskivi Creative City. The programme includes exhibitions introducing new works by both Estonian and foreign artists as well as meetups with the gallerists and artists.
A dedicated bus makes moving from gallery to gallery easier during the gallery tour. Entry to the bus at every stop is based on a first-come-first-served policy. Free entrance.
Schedule:
12:30 PoCo – Pop and Contemporary Art Museum
Rotermanni 2
The exhibition brings together artists and themes from different eras, places and histories to illuminate the different approaches to Pop art and the web of references and icons that it generates. Pieces range from the height of the Pop art movement in New York to the underground art in the USSR; from the streets of Bristol to the global digital community of today. The exposition guides the viewer to read and decrypt the symbolic code of the everyday. Both from the everyday of decades past to the here and now of the visual overload that we call normality.
Max capacity: 30 people
Püsiväljapanek
Väljapanek koondab kunstnikud ja teemad erinevatest ajastustest ja paikadest, et valgustada erinevaid lähenemisi popkunstile ning selles sisalduvate viidete ja ikoonide võrgustikku. Väljapanek hõlmab teoseid New Yorgi popkunsti kõrgajast kuni NSV Liidu aegse põrandaaluse kunstini ning Bristoli tänavatelt kuni tänapäeva globaalsete digikommuunideni. Ekspositsioon suunab vaatajat igapäevaelu sümboolset koodi lugema ja seda enda jaoks lahti mõtestama. Seda nii möödunud aastakümnete taguse, kui ka siin ja praegu toimuva visuaalse ülekoormuse puhul, mida me nimetame normaalsuseks.
**13.00 Okapi galerii **
Niguliste 2
Erki Kannus “Glass Bodies”
The exhibition presents 9 glass interactive sound objects “Evening milking” and 9 female nude sketches drawn with glass “Nameless – time after”. When drawing with flowing liquid glass the artist tries to quickly capture the ductile movement of the body – before everything sets. The burning mark on the paper marks that moment. The exhibition deals with changing the intimate body to a sterile glass object.
13:30 Kai Art Center
Peetri 12
Tuomas A. Laitinen and Kristina Õllek “Cyanoceans”
A duo exhibition is an exploration into the realms of marine ecology, climate change, and species adaptation. The artists have created a synergistic installation supported by steam and ultrasonic sound which serves as a metaphorical underwater journey. This thought-provoking narrative that invites us to reflect on our responsibility for the planet which is part of us, undivided from our bodies, and to question whether humans as a species are ready to adapt to the challenges of climate conditions in the near future.
13.50 Temnikova & Kasela
Peetri 12
Alice Kask “Five Views”
Alice Kask’s exhibition “Five views” is a continuation of her previous exhibition together with Neeme Külm “Something Righter in This” in Tartu Art House last year.
The unmistakable Alice Kask, dares only to speak about herself, transforms her paintings into the attributes of femininity, concentrating on a lone figure, on a single item, but full of tension and on a grandiose scale. Ruthlessly precise in what she is trying to show, straightforward in concealing what deserves to be hidden. Only nature is left outside Alice’s penetrating gaze: she looks at it from a distance and sees it as something bigger than herself. The dark and dreary elements can only be captured vaguely, recorded only from a distance. So complicated and, at the same time, also so simple. As sincere as possible.
14.10 Tütar gallery Vesilennuki 24
Kärt Hammer’s personal exhibition “Dirty White”
The exhibition project deals with the intimate encounter between the divine and the secular in heaven on earth. Hammer analyses the longing of human nature to be moral and pure and gives her thoughts an expressive dirty white shape. Kärt Hammer’s works lead to a poetic journey of thought from the ideas of demigods, discarding the excessive explanation and definition of art.
14.40 Postiiv gallery Roo 21a
Matias Costa's “Alien skin”
Matias Costa’s personal exhibition Alien Skin in Positiiv gallery has been completed in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain in Estonia. The series completed at the Narva Art Residency is an important chapter of the photographer’s larger project, mapping the changes that have taken place in recent European history.
Matias Costa, who lives and works in Madrid, is a documentary photographer whose photo series are studies of the functioning of communities that are on the margins of society or have been forgotten. Costa is not a neutral observer. The questions he is interested in have developed and been felt through the twists and turns of his own life story as recorded in his memory.
15:10 Telliskivi Creative City’s outdoor galleries Telliskivi 60a/8
Small outdoor exhibitions in the centre of the Telliskivi Creative City’s part of the tour are
Telliskivi Creative City Gallery
Santa Zukker “The Game”
Martin Siplane “Fassaadid”
Three Tree Gallery
“A Cry for Change – the Life of Caged Hens in Estonia”
Outdoor Gallery
Ave Palm “Drunken Time Under the Floorboards.”
Dome Gallery
Origami creatures by Vivita creativity accelerator
Street Gallery
Nika Kutsia “Gomi mägi”
15:30 Juhan Kuusi Documentary Photo Centre Telliskivi 60a/5
“Juhan Kuus — Portraits. Up Close & Personal”
“Juhan Kuus — Portraits. Up Close & Personal” exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of one of Estonia’s most renowned photographers. Although classical portrait photography was not Juhan’s primary focus, his skill, sensitive eye, and courage to get up close and personal tell universal stories of humanity, history and human dignity as reflected through close-ups and intimate camera contact.
Schedule
- ECADC Gallery Tour