Merike Estna’s solo exhibition “Soil will not contain our love” will be on view from August 19 to November 27, 2022. The exhibition has been conceived as a mini-retrospective of the artist’s work, showing a series of new works as well as several works that will be shown in Estonia for the first time. The latter include Estna’s large-scale painting “The Ocean of Endangered Ages”, created for the 2019 Moderna Museet Malmö exhibition, and the hand-woven, large-scale rug “The House of the Tragic Poet”, commissioned for a solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum Gallery in London in 2021 among several others.
Merike Estna is one of the most important contemporary artists in Estonia, whose ongoing exploration of painting as a creative work and mode of expression is based on a critical and conceptual approach and a deep respect for her craft. Over the last 7 years, the artist’s focus has been on international projects, as evidenced by solo exhibitions at Bosse & Baum Gallery (London), Karen Huber Gallery (Mexico City), Art in General satellite program for the Performa Biennial (New York), Kunstraum (London), kim? Art Centre (Riga), Kiasma (Helsinki) and Moderna Museet Malmö (Malmö).
This large-scale solo exhibition at the Kai Art Center is the artist’s first major institutional solo project in Estonia since her solo exhibition at Kumu in 2014. The audience is invited to experience a total environment across paintings, textile, wood and ceramic installation and sound work.
Sponsors: DHL Express Estonia, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn Department of Culture and Sports, AS Vestman Energia.
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