19th Tallinn Print Triennial invites you to the presentation of the main exhibition’s catalog, which will take place on August 21 at 7 p.m. at the Lasnamäe Pavilion of the Tallinn Art Hall.
The event will feature a discussion between Britta Benno, director of the Tallinn Print Triennial, Marika Agu, curator of the main exhibition, and artists Tõnis Jürgens and Alessandro Ludovico (IT). The discussion will be moderated by Brigita Reinert.
In the catalog, Alessandro Ludovico discusses the ecology of publishing in the digital age, where information flows endlessly and rapidly, but there is little room for memory. He calls for a restoration of attention and an appreciation of print media as a slow, archival, and intimate carrier of information.
Tõnis Jürgens’ associative textual composition brings together references, fragments of thought, and leaps of perception. Jürgens’ poetic fragmentarium invites the reader to notice what is left out—the gaps, silences, and traces of thought.
Anyone interested can purchase a catalog on site. Price: €25.
Alessandro Ludovico is a researcher, artist and chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He received his PhD degree in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Lecturer at Parsons Paris – The New School. He has published and edited several books, and has lectured worldwide. He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. He is one of the authors of the award-winning Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook).
Tõnis Jürgens is a Tallinn-based artist and writer, who works mainly in the mediums of film and installation. His video works combine essayism, poetic fragmentation and the re-use of archive materials – and they are often expanded by scenographic spatial installations. He is interested in the connections between sleep and death and the measuring of something undefined. Jürgens is currently a PhD candidate and guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Marika Agu is a curator and archive project manager at the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art. Drawing on her background in semiotics, art theory and librarianship, her curatorial practice explores generative archival methods, with a strong emphasis on site- and time-specificity, interdisciplinarity, and shifts – both symbolic and material – in how contemporary art is created and experienced. In addition to her curatorial work, Agu publishes articles in both Estonian and international media and holds the position of guest lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Britta Benno is an artist and the Director of the Tallinn Print Triennial. She serves as a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2023, Benno completed her doctoral thesis, Thinking in Layers, in Worlding in Layers: Posthumanist Landscapes in the Expanded Field of Printmaking and Drawing. In addition to exhibiting her work in both solo and group exhibitions, Benno has curated contemporary art exhibitions and events, delivered presentations and workshops, and authored professional reviews and articles.
