Leho Rubis solo exhibition Poetic Inner Landscapes

The exhibition follows the author’s creative path examining the relationships between consciousness, text and perceptual fields, based on Aldous Huxley’s essay The Doors of Perception (1954). The nature of consciousness, its emergence and relationship with perceptual fields are among the last questions science hasn’t been able to resolve. But a poetical answer can be found. And this is what the current exhibition sets out to do by using the works of various Estonian poets, artists, musicians and a few other undercurrents as source material… Static figures melting into landscape and text, dissolving the boundaries between consciousness and perceptual fields.

Leho Rubis (1975) is a visual artist, musician and orientalist. He studied painting (BA 2001) and art history (MA 2010) at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Since 2003, he has been studying North-Indian classical music and been part of various musical collectives. In the oriental field of subject his main focus has been the history of Buddhist iconic art, with main interest in the possibilities of depicting deeper states of consciousness.

His personal exhibitions have taken place in Estonia, India and Egypt. In 2010, he  curated the Estonian artists’ exhibition Gift to Arvo Pärt to celebrate the composer’s birthday. From 2021 to 2023, Rubis was the organiser of the Oriental cultures festival paIDA that united the local culture with visual art, music and literature of Asian countries. Since 2021, he is the author of the music programme The time of Raga that concentrates on Indian classical music at Klassikaraadio (Estonian Public Broadcasting).