„To dussem dantse rope ik al gemene Pawes keiser vñ alle creatu… Arm ryke groet vñ kleine…“ * / „I call everyone together to this dance: Pope, Emperor and all creatures, poor, rich, big and small…“
* Middle Low German language on the tape of the painting by Bernt Notke (Dance of Death, Reval Fragment)
The exhibition entitled “Danse Macabre/Eartheater” – with references to both Tallinn’s and Lübeck’s Death Dances, Camille Saint-Saens’s symphonic poem and Francisco de Goya’s “King Charles IV’s Family” portrays the contemporary and man as an active actor in ongoing dancerounds. *
Oleg Wiebe (b.1960) Graduated from the Estonian Art Academy in Tallinn, 1991 (painting, class of Prof. Ando Keskküla). Freelance painter and portrait artist in Cologn http://www.oleg-wiebe.eu/
Multipart composition. in the current exhibition: 35 (+7) parts, 110 x 100 cm each, oil, egg tempera on cardboard, 2020-21
+ 7 parts – 7 fragments- quotations from the painting by Bernt Notke from Lübeck (1435-1509) „Tallinna Surmatants / Tallinner Totentanz“ from the Niguliste Church in Tallinn. 110 x 100 cm each, oil on cardboard, 2022
Karl-Kristjan Nagel (b. 1977) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1999 (painting, class of Kaido Ole). Freelance artist, living and working in Tallinn. https://nagelid.ee/karl-kristjan-nagel-en/
Exhibition: 40 (+) works from 1996-2022.
* No judgment in the selection, design, or positioning of the depicted specific public persons.
Idea: Jana Wiebe
Curator: Tiiu Rebane
Supported by: Nordrhein-Westfaleni kultuuriministeerium
Thanks to: Eesti Kunstimuuseum
