A TEN-DAY CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL ARTISHOK BIENNALE TAKES PLACE ON 6.-15. OCTOBER IN THEATRE NO99, TALLINN. THE BIENNALE DISPLAYS NEW WORKS OF TEN ESTONIAN ARTISTS DURING TEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS.
The Artishok Biennale is an exhibition format established in 2008, combining ten artists with new works created for the biennale and ten critics writing about each of the works on display. Critics’ accomplishments will be presented in the exhibition alongside the newly made artworks.
The 5th Artishok Biennale will take place from 6-15 October in Theatre NO99 in Tallinn. During the biennale, paintings, photography, sculpture, video and performances will be displayed. Ten artists working mainly in the visual art field are invited to present a new artwork for the theatre space. The accompanying texts by ten art, theatre and cultural critics will open up the context for this interdisciplinary meeting of different art fields and spaces.
”At times of ”experience economy”, art museums have shown profound interest in live bodies between the white walls. 5th Artishok Biennale takes the opposite direction and invites visual artists on the theatre stage. It creates a symbolic interaction of white cube and black box, which puts in stake three main characteristics of an artwork in it’s corresponding ‘neutral’ space: time/duration, space and audience,” says Evelyn Raudsepp, curator of the 5th Artishok Biennale.
Participating artists: EIKE EPLIK, ANDRES LÕO, FLO KASEARU, SVEN PARKER, ELIS SAAREVÄLI, KRISTEL SAAN, STEN SAARITS, SKATKA, TAAVI SUISALU, SIGRID VIIR.
Participating writers: LIISI AIBEL, MARIKA AGU, EERO EPNER, EIK HERMANN, ALVAR LOOG, JAN KAUS, LIISA KALJULA, KAARIN KIVIRÄHK, EHA KOMISSAROV, HANNO SOANS.
