Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
Kursi 5, www.ekkm.ee
Wed – Sun 12pm to 7pm
Ene-Liis Semper
Ene-Liis Semper’s personal exhibition
October 4 – December 15, 2024
The current exhibition is the first solo exhibition of the theatre director, performance and video artist Ene-Liis Semper in over 13 years.
Ene-Liis Semper’s solo exhibition brings together a collection of layers and imageries in different rooms and floors of Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia taking into focus the current moment in time. The objects, sculptures, video works, sound and light design staged in various spaces of the museum form a whole that oscillates in the liminal space between the critical consciousness and the subconsciousness filled with rich allusions. According to the artist, the ambiguous fragments of memory that have found their way to the exhibition, are marked by tension and anticipation rather than by stillness. Semper wishes to mirror the end of one process, or rather its transition, the breaking point. “There is a deep feeling that we have reached a moment where the skills and information acquired so far are no longer valid. Figuratively speaking, one can feel the cracking of the surface layer as if it were an eggshell. But what or who will come out of it, is not yet clear,” says Semper. The current exhibition is the first solo exhibition of the theatre director, performance and video artist Ene-Liis Semper in over 13 years. Semper, who has worked for years as a theatre artist in both Estonian and European theatres, has based her body of work on the borderlands between theatrical and real, physical and emotional, cry and laughter. In the recent years, Semper has also worked as a professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Light design of the exhibition by Aku Lahti, sound design by Jakob Juhkam. The exhibition will be open to visitors from Friday, 4 October from 7 p.m. Opening will take place on the same evening at 7.30 p.m. Ene-Liis Semper’s solo exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia remains open from Mon–Fri (12.00–19.00) until 15 December 2024. Light design: Aku Lahti and Rommi Ruttas Sound design: Jakob Juhkam Assistant of the artist: Anita Kremm Technical team: Johannes Luik, Ats Kruusing, Erik Hõim, Erik Liiv, Mattias Veller, Tanel Asmer, Hans-Otto Ojaste, Karmo Migur, Eke Ao Nettan, Jaan Joosep Luik, Katariina Kesküla, Leopold Varik, Siim Hiis Graphic design: Laura Merendi Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, City of Tallinn, Tallinn Creative Hub, Akzo Nobel, LED House, OÜ Linda Kaks and Allan Kaldoja, Floorin OÜ, Punch Club, Moe OÜ, Vorstiabi.
