The exhibition contains portraits, figural and abstract compositions and landscape paintings from the last 35 years of the artist’s oeuvre. Their visual language brings together different artistic styles but Kurlenkov’s works clearly strive for generlisation, stylisation and abstraction. He depicts people, their troubles and emotions, talking about the eternal values…
The exhibition “Cultural Codes” by the OSA art collective (Olga Makaronskaja, Sonya Isupova & Anastassia Šarõmova) is open in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.
Each spring, when the snow starts to thaw and the weather turns grey, I know, that soon the sun will come. In March and April, it is especially bright and scorching. The molten snow and burning sun in unison create a time when the whole world appears to be buried…
Handmade ceramics are pleasant and intimate, transforming the everyday domestic routine into an enchanting ritual. Eating and drinking are everyday activities and dishes used each and every day must be convenient and enjoyable. Deliberate, relevant to us and shaped likes us. The process of creating ceramics also contains both routine…
The exhibition of the two painters and one ceramicist focuses mainly on the human body. It is a collection of shapes that is the most expressive to other people. It can also be endlessly and without exhaustion used in artworks. 70–93% of communication is arguably based on body language but…
Mainly large-format works are exhibited: five tapestries and five textile installations. The works have mostly been made by the artist herself in the 2000s. However, the place of honour belongs to “Tailwind” that was created forty years ago and was presented for the first time during the Tallinn Regatta of…
On Thursday, 30 July at 5 pm Ulvi Haagensen will open her solo exhibition “From the Archive: a Collection of Funny Things” in the small gallery at Tartu Art House.This exhibition is by imaginary artist, Olive Puuvill, who creates work in the manner of a bricoleuse, cobbling, tinkering and using …
On Friday, 5 June at 5 p.m. the community exhibition “It’s Incredibly Cool to See All of You Here!” will be opened in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is compiled and designed by the artist and art writer Kaire Nurk.
The exhibition assembles a selection of sculptures by the stone cutter Volk. It is therefore an homage to the oldest member of the Tartu Artists’ Union and a sincere tribute to a fellow artworker by the curator Indrek Grigor.
Together, the glass designers Pavlenkova, Oppi and Jõgis form the artist group “We Fit Together”. Their collaboration began in 2014 in the Department of Glass Art of the Estonian Academy of Arts where they were making a set of a pitcher and drinking glasses to participate in the Stockholm Furniture…
Kachanovskaya’s affectionate approach to painterly traditions stems from her diverse art education in Estonia and St Petersburg. But the content of the works is connected to the negative emotions that she has developed through the actual life of an artist and the role of artists in contemporary society. In her …
The language of Gulk’s mostly black and white drawings is one of the most recognisable in Estonian art. His pictures are full of bizarre beings from other planets, animals acting like people and chance encounters from the artist’s everyday life. At the same time, the depicted situations and environments are …