Tiit Pääsuke and Kris Lemsalu, photo: Karel Koplimets
This years’ Tallinn Music Week (TMW) Arts Programme is coordinated by ECADC, and centres around Tallinn Tuesdays, a series of joint opening events among a group of Tallinn galleries. On Tuesday, 29 March, all galleries will be open for extended hours from 5 to 9 pm, with exhibitions specially commissioned for TMW Arts.
Centrally located on Vabaduse väljak, EKA gallery, affiliated to the Estonian Academy of Arts, will be opening an exhibition curated by artist Lili-Krõõt Repnau and theoretician Francisco Martinez. On view in the Old Town, at Hobusepea gallery, is the exhibition of the Estonian Academy of Arts graduates Helena Keskküla and Art Nõukas. Also on view in the Old Town, at Okapi gallery, is a collaborative project M_M_M_M by photographer Temuri Hvingija, jewellery designers Rait Siska and Risto Tali, and performance artist Erik Alalooga.
The internationally known Temnikova & Kasela gallery will be opening Import Export, an exhibition by the photographer Sigrid Viir, and an Estonian Canadian artist Jimmy Limit, who similarly works mainly in photography.
Tallinn Tuesdays concludes with Memory and Movement, an exhibition curated by the discursive and critical urban platform Urbiquity for Rundum artist-run space.
Programmed specially for TMW Arts, a series of educational and public programmes will coincide with Beauty and the Best, an exhibition by Kris Lemsalu and Tiit Pääsuke on view at Tallinn Art Hall.
All the above-mentioned exhibitions will remain open throughout Tallinn Music Week on the galleries’ usual opening hours from Wednesdays to Sundays.
Tallinn Tuesdays Programme on 29 March 2016
17:00
EKA gallery (Vabaduse väljak 6/8, entrance from the backyard of Tallinn Art Hall)
group exhibition, curated by Francisco Martínez and Lilli-Krõõt Repnau
Place Oddity
The exhibition invites the visitor to a journey through spatiality, temporality, and subjectivity. More precisely, the show draws attention to those places that produce a limbo or liminal condition when occupying them, like a passage into a heightened consciousness. Odd places are compellingly attractive, yet also intimidating and uncanny (strangely familiar). The artworks included in the show explore radically different senses of place, rendering fundamental notions such as identity, agency and normality. Participating artists are: Inmates of Tallinn Prison, Flo Kasearu, Mihkel Kleis, Triin Pitsi, Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, Paco Ulman, Ingel Vaikla, Vello Vinn and Kristina Õllek
17:30
Okapi gallery (Niguliste 2)
Temuri Hvingija, Rait Siska, Risto Tali, Erik Alalooga
M_M_M_M
18:00
Hobusepea gallery (Hobusepea 2)
Art Nõukas and Helena Keskküla
O’ why do we play this game?
19:00
Temnikova & Kasela (Lastekodu 1)
Sigrid Viir (EE) and Jimmy Limit (CA)
Import Export
The Estonian artist Sigrid Viir works in a variety of media, including photography, installation, sculpture, and performance, as does the Estonian Canadian artist Jimmy Limit. The exhibition addresses the notions of import and export in the most general sense of art transport from one continent to another, customs procedures, and the artists’ nationality, although, the notions of import and export could also come to mean in relation to the medium of photography. Jimmy Limit is interested in the immaterial consumption and circulation of images, and in how this affects us. Photographed, objects are liberated from their original use, and given new, absurd forms, which are purposefully made, but lack purpose. Specially commissioned for the exhibition, Sigrid Viir will be exhibiting a large-scale installation of concrete, metal, and images found from the Internet.
20:00
Rundum (Pärnu mnt 154)
Urbiquity (Stefano Carnelli (UK), Pablo Conejo (ES), Mattias Malk (EE))
Memory and Movement
Urbiquity is a critical and discursive platform that employs both urban theory and creative practice in creating new, interdisciplinary research. Memory and Movement consists of three projects that each deal with global political and/or economic migration, on a personal level and also more widely. Pablo Conejo and Silvia Andredemarin’s IS*PIAN focuses on the dichotomy between Ecuador and Spain through the presentation Ecuadorian immigrants’ beliefs about life in Spain. Mattias Malk’s Hiraeth gives a very personal take on the Bosnian War by contrasting family photographs of those who fled during the war to photographs taken today. Stefano Carnelli’s Transhumance looks into the pastoral tradition of shepherding in Italy today. Without answering the questions it raises, the exhibition considers possibilities for further discussions.
TMW Talks Programme
A series of artist talks will be held at TMW Tastes restaurants, where participants of the Young Artist contest, co-organised by NOAR and Estonian Academy of Arts, will talk about their practice and future aspirations. A selection of artworks will be on view at TMW Tastes restaurants, and favourites could also be chosen through the online platform for Estonian art NOAR.
On Thursday, 31 March, 5 pm, the artist duo Art Nõukas and Helena Keskküla, whose practice is closely connected to music, will give a talk at Reval Cafe (Müürivahe 14).
On Saturday, 2 April, the artist collective Neandertaali koobaskool (Neanderthal Cave School) will be leading a walk around Tallinn followed by a panel talk with the members of the collective Viktor Gurov, Hedi Jaansoo, Kristel Raesaar, and Pire Sova.
