The glass and painting artist Katrin Tukmann and the textile artist Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins have presented a selection of their designs for the exhibition. The artists’ creative dialogue moves between the visible and the perceptible, between the material and imagination, and between the conventional and personal experience. Their different materials and working methods do not merge but remain sensitive to one another: at times side by side, at times facing each other, and at times reaching into one another.
“A sketch is, in itself, something in between: it is not yet a finished work, but neither is it merely an idea. It is an attempt to give something form, to preserve something and to shape it into something in future work. Placing the two artists’ sketches side by side makes this in-between state visible. Here, the viewer is presented not only with finished results, but also with a space for thinking, searching, making mistakes and exploring possibilities,” explain the artists.
Katrin Tukmann (b. 1969) is a glass and painting artist whose work in painting has moved towards the creation of abstract wholes, which could be described as the mapping of thoughts onto landscapes of the soul. She studied painting (BA) and glass art (MA) at the Estonian Academy of Arts. A key milestone in her development as a painter was her time studying at Konrad Mägi’s studio in its early years. Tukmann is a member of the Estonian Glass Artists’ Unionand the Pallas Art Association. She has exhibited her works primarily at the Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s annual exhibitions, but has also presented her works in solo exhibitions at the pART Art Gallery in Central Estonia, the Design and Architecture Gallery, the Draakon Gallery, the Agape Centre and the Kalamaja Gallery. Katrin Tukmann works as a teacher of painting and composition at the Tallinn Art School.
Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins (b. 1993) is an artist and researcher. Her creative work focuses on the connections between memory, landscape and language, with a particular emphasis on the parishes of Kadrina and Ambla. She studied textile art at the Pallas University of Applied Sciences and the Latvian Academy of Art, and obtained a master’s degree in contemporary art from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Teinfeldt-Grins is a member of the Estonian Textile Artists’ Association and the Estonian Artists’ Association. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Suuremjault mälëstustes” at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (2024) and “Who Remembers Last? Who Remembers Best?” at the Tütar Gallery (2024). The artist has taken part in international residencies, including at the Baltic Museum of Contemporary Art, the Villa Sarkia, the Icelandic Textile Centre, the Ventspils International Writers’ and Translators’ House, and NART. Teinfeldt-Grins has been awarded both the Eduard Wiiralt and Adamson-Eric scholarships, and her works are held in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia and the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design.
The artists would like to thank: Andreas Tukmann and the Tallinn Art School
