April 11th, 2012 Estonian artist Neeme Külm (b. 1974) has opened his personal exhibition Shimmer on the Surface in Hobusepea gallery.

Neeme Külm has graduated from the department of sculpture at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1998. Since his personal exhibition if, held in Hobusepea gallery in 2004, Külm's work can be characterized as visually and substantially minimalistic large-scale room installations, all of them being strenuous and complicated pieces of art. Among such art projects can be also mentioned the following examples: personal exhibition if, in Hobusepea gallery in 2004; personal exhibition Fountain in Draakon gallery in 2006; exhibition ideal.total. in Tallinn City Gallery in 2007 together with Dénes Farkas; personal exhibition Tomorrow Comes Today in Draakon gallery in 2010; exhibition 3 Seas in Labor gallery, in Budapest, 2011, together with Dénes Farkas; several monumental installations in group exhibitions both in Estonia and abroad; and his contribution to the Estonian exposition Gas Pipe at the 11th International Biennale of Architecture in Venize together with Maarja Kask, Ralf Lõoke and curator Ingrid Ruudi (the project also being awarded with the annual prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the endowment of visual and applied arts).

According to Külm, his current art project Shimmer on the Surface refers to the privacy of art audience in a normal gallery setting, to the individuality of empiricalness, and to the freedom of interpretation. The artist is neither provoking nor expecting his audience to identify, oppose, or evaluate – he simply provides no opportunities for that. There is no randomness in his installation and art audience has no chance to perceive the exhibition space in traditional ways. Instead, Külm is directing the gallery guests through his exposition according to his own rules in a dislocated environment. Present art exhibition has been most effectively summed up by the accompanying catalogue / artists's book that, according to Külm (and one can only agree with him), has not a single excessive word in it.

Exhibition will be open until April 23rd, 2012.

Photographs by Lilian Hiob