Estonian Art

21/05/2021

Now open at Narva Art Residency (NART): "Taganemisteeta | Point of No Return | Точка невозврата", an exhibition that addresses the issues of presence and interconnectedness in the times of ecological uncertainty. You can find two interviews by one of the curators, Ann Mirjam Vaikla, from the 2/2020 issue (The Anthropocene Issue) of the Estonian Art magazine. One of them with the artist Sandra Kosorotova on the community garden of NART.

The artist Sandra Kosorotova participated in the artist-in-residency programme at NART during the summer, where she worked on a community garden project. She started with a single, elevated 1.4 × 1.4 metre vegetable bed, where she was growing mostly edible cultured plants: radish, kale and courgett...

08/12/2020

Congratulations to Eike Eplik who has been awarded the artist laureate salary! Hasso Krull wrote a review of her exhibition "Biomass – Ghost in the Corner" at Kogo Gallery for the Anthropocene Issue of the Estonian Art magazine. You can read it here:

Eike Eplik. Biomass – Ghost in the Corner Tartu, Kogo Gallery, 14.03.2020 – 30.05.2020 Where is the biomass? It’s hard to detect it in the streets, so I should go into the park. There are many hazy figures, some of them human, some not, but still I cannot find biomass among them. No sign of bi...

12/11/2020

The Anthropocene Issue with a visual essay "The Exquisite Co**se" by Laura Põld and Lou Sheppard attached to it. Thank you, Laura Põld!

07/11/2020

Last days to visit Shezad Dawood's project "Leviathan: the Paljassaare Chapter" at Kai kunstikeskus / Kai Art Center. Echo Gone Wrong has published an interview with Kärt Ojavee, who also contributed to this exhibition project, from the latest issue of the Estonian Art magazine.
Have a look and go see the exhibition!

Taavi Hallimäe: As a textile designer, do you relate in any way to the people who once worked at the Narva Kreenholm textile factory? Kärt Ojavee: We visited Kreenholm when I was in school, while the factory was still operating, and I saw hundreds of women leaving the buildings at the end of the...

16/10/2020

Thank you for joining us for yesterday's brief talk with Laura Kuusk, Saskia Lillepuu, Eike Eplik and Peeter Laurits on ecological awareness in the arts, the role of art education and the ways of dealing with the ecological grief. 🌿

Estonian Art 2/2020 is out now!

14/08/2020

"Leisure Spaces. Holidays and Architecture in 20th Century Estonia" at the Estonian Museum of Architecture/Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum is open now. The exhibition gives an overview of Estonia's rich Soviet-era holiday and summer cottage architecture heritage. For the spring issue of Estonian Art, curator Triin Ojari wrote about the multi-layered collection of architectural and leisure photographs by architect and amateur photographer Enno Raag (1926–2006). Read more about it here:

Archives can be more or less complete, reach us anonymously or with detailed descriptions, consist of dispersed fragments from which everyone can put together their own new world. This random aspect of the specific material composition of archives, and the resulting infinite possibilities for interp...

23/07/2020

Today is the opening of the exhibition Wunderkammer in Riga, curated by Šelda Puķīte for the Riga Photography Biennial 2020. The exhibition features works by Andrés Galeano, Flo Kasearu, Margit Lõhmus, Visvaldas Morkevičius, Jaanus Samma, Joachim Schmid, Iiu Susiraja, Diāna Tamane and Rvīns Varde.
In the spring issue of Estonian Art, Zane Zajančkauska and Šelda Puķīte discussed collecting, being playful and the tradition of the cabinet of curiosities, among other things. Read the interview here:

In the exhibition Wunderkammer, curator Šelda Puķīte explores the curiosity of contemporary artists, looking into their collections and proposing new affinities between them. We met and talked about the role of the image and collections in shaping and capturing the world for us. The exhibition ...

02/07/2020

Summer is for reading. However, books tend to be heavy, so all of the 2020 spring issue articles are now also available online. You can start with an article by Francisco Martínez on Bita Razavi's exhibition "Museum of Baltic Remont", which will open at the Liivi Museum tomorrow at 5 pm. Enjoy summer, reading and the possibility of going to exhibitions again!

A Collection of Repairs When was the last time you repaired something? And what do you repair when you fix something? Over the last four years, Bita Razavi (Tehran, 1983) has been renovating an abandoned house in the Estonian countryside and an apartment in Tartu, documenting the mundane tasks done....

14/06/2020

Museums, galleries and bookshops are open again and you can find the latest issue of Estonian Art here:

Puänt Bookshop
Lugemik Bookshop & Cafe Hulda
Kumu Art Museum Shop
Kai Art Center
Estonian Museum of Architecture
Kogo Gallery

Stay safe and get your copy!

08/05/2020

You can now subscribe and enjoy effortless international delivery twice a year: http://ajakirjandus.ke.ee/eng/

Did you already know that you can now subscribe for Estonian Institute´s magazines Estonian Literary Magazine and Estonian Art via KE Ajakirjandus platform, and enjoy effortless international delivery of new issues twice a year?

If not, go ahead, and find out more here: http://ajakirjandus.ke.ee/eng/
And if you have any questions, we are always here to answer them.
Stay beautiful!

29/04/2020

✨The Archive Issue ✨

“All human beings suffer from mal d’archive, from archive fever or an archive sickness, which is the compulsion towards archiving.”
—Ernst van Alphen

The spring issue of the Estonian Art magazine is out now and it examines the intricate relationship between archives, art, architecture and art institutions. The Archive Issue is dedicated to discussing the matters of collecting, preserving and digitising in the digital era.

Thank you Maria Kapajeva, Linda Kaljundi, Francisco Martínez, Bita Razavi, Zane Zajanckauska, Šelda Puķīte, Sandra Mälk, Triin Ojari, Marika Agu, Annika Räim, Ivar-Kristjan Hein and Maarin Mürk.

Editor Annika T***s, designed by Jaan Evart.

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Supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.