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Flo Kasearu solo exhibition: Endangered Species

A small shop in the suburbs of Pärnu. A barbershop in Puhja. An accounting office in Maardu. Estonia advertises itself to the world as a place where founding a company only takes a moment. Great. What about ending business activities? In the 1990s, many were glad to exploit the newly…
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Grisli Soppe-Kahar “Mute Scream”

Grisli Soppe-Kahar is currently one of the most powerful Expressionists in Estonian art. The brush strokes of her large format works are always forceful but their tonality has lately become increasingly muted. This, however, does not seem to point to negative undertones. The grotesque beings seem to be participating in…
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Laura Põld, Katrin Väli / “Denial”

The installation consists of Põld’s ceramic objects and sculptures, display cases containing supporting literature and Väli’s poems. Unlike the previous projects, the fragments from poems have a more organic appearance and therefore relate more closely with the rest of the exhibition.
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Exhibition of Tartu art

According to the decision by the members of the Tartu Artists’ Union, this year’s exhibition is curated and designed by the artist Martti Ruus who plans to create a dignified exhibition atmosphere that is both architectural and compositionally consistent and allows the art to shine in its beauty. 109 artists…
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Taavi Suisalu “Waiting for the Light”

The work “Waiting for the Light” focuses on light that extends as a network of fine strands in the bottom of the oceans, on mountaintops and in the soil. For societies that are interlaced with technology, this light, that carries most of the contemporary flow of information, is as essential…
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Marco Laimre „A.S.T.A. 1.0 / Black Flag Shadow”

Marco Laimre’s exhibition “A.S.T.A. 1.0 / Black Flag Shadow” uses installations, paintings and photos to explore post-apocalyptic FPS-RPG (first-person-shooter/role-playing-game) computer games.
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JASS KASELAAN “SHEEP”

The exhibition „Sheep” consists of sculptures resembling human heads on shelves and a photo depicting sheep.
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Mari-Leen Kiipli’s personal exhibition “no path goes through Asparaag”

The artist explain her installative exhibition: “I looked around stunned. Dust balls and lint were sticking to my skin, I tried to wipe them off. Looking outside, I was passing through different environments like courtyard, birthday, plastic greenhouse, the impact of grass, argument of the gardeners, moisture rose, leaning stalks,…
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Helle Vahersalu’s anniversary exhibition “Snow, Rust, Colour”

The exhibition is accompanied by a 232 page book “Helle Vahersalu. Snow, Rust, Colour” in Estonian and English. The texts are written by Tiiu Talvistu, Kadri Asmer and Reet Pulk-Piatkowska. The book also contains a lengthy interview with the artist and almost a hundred reproductions of her art works.
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Pille Johanson. Despite everything

Johanson has mostly made semi-abstract paintings with muted colours where the location and characters seem to hide in some foggy dream realm. This time, however, she surprises us with bright landscapes bursting with sunny energy where the thick brush strokes convey the playfulness found in nature in summer. The world…
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Side Effects

The joint exhibition of the printmaker Peegel and the ceramicist Kriisa is a clear example that “doing nothing” in the summer can actually lead to something. For example, a series of pictures and a lot of magnificent ceramics. This is also the reason why the selection is mottled like a…
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Dark Matter

The present exhibition is somewhat fantastic, focuses more on the environment, the urban space and the utopian present. Just like the presence of the cosmic dark matter is revealed through gravity, the project looks at dark powers that interfere in our everyday lives and expose themselves only through their crude…
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