On Thursday, February 29, at 5:00 p.m., Mari Frühling and Hedi Kuhi’s joint exhibition, “Girls of Pallas,” will open in the Kunstiruum gallery in the T1 center. The exhibition will run until April 28, 2024.
“We are budding artists, Pallas students, vegans, and we ‘rattle’!” the authors introduce themselves. Hedi Kuhi’s chosen acrylic paintings and Mari Frühling’s oil paintings express human efforts to come to terms with the changes in the fast-moving world.
Hedi Kuhi’s painting series with the subtitle “In Change” examines the course of life. The selected moments in the paintings are fleeting. There are rhythms in nature that repeat year after year, but every year is unique, notes the gallery in the introduction to the exhibition. Mari Frühling’s set of oil paintings is entitled “Being in the Moment.” The state we can reach by concentrating on observing nature, creating with our hands, dancing, or simply taking conscious breaks is introduced.
Born in Viljandi in 1984, Mari Frühling is an Estonian artist and animal rights activist currently living in Tartu. From 2012 to 2021, she lived and worked in Canada. After returning to her homeland, Frühling devoted herself to painting studies at the Tartu High School of Art in Pallas from the fall of 2021, where she will obtain a bachelor’s degree. Her mission when creating art is to find the most ethical alternatives to art supplies containing animal components. Thus, the works in the exhibition are painted mainly with vegan-labeled oil paints, and synthetic brushes are used. Frühling’s work has been displayed in exhibition venues such as Pallas Gallery, the Estonian Embassy in Brussels, the Estonian Literature Museum, Tartu University Library, Betti Alver Museum, Omicum Gallery, and elsewhere.
Hedi Kuhi, born in Valga in 1998, graduated from the Tartu Art School with a degree in decorator-stylist and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in painting at the Pallas Art School in Tartu. Kuhi has had a personal exhibition at the Tartu Art Museum, and his works can be seen in the Paide Music and Theater House, the Betti Alveri Museum, the Valga Culture and Hobby Center, the green hall of Telliskivi Creative Town, and elsewhere.
The Art Space is a sales gallery located on the second floor of the T1 center, where, in addition to the permanent exhibition, you can see personal exhibitions. The gallery exhibits more than 300 works by nearly 50 Baltic artists. Estonian artists represented include Heiki Ernits, Toomas Kuusing, Vilen Künnapu, Jüri Mildeberg, Naima Neidre, Vive Tolli, Marju Üksine, Anne Daniela Rodgers, Erki Kasemets, Alo Valge, Santa Zukker, and many others.
Exhibition opening on February 29, 2024, at 5 pm, T1 Center, 2nd floor, Art Gallery “Kunstiruum”. We are open every Fri. to Sun. from 12 pm to 6 pm. Free admission.
