The exhibition features a series of parallel stories from two artists: Jenny Grönholm’s flower paintings and Jass Kaselaan’s concrete sculpture groups, which create a contrasting yet harmonious interplay.
Grönholm’s paintings explore the themes of transience, destruction, and rebirth, using flowers as symbols of life cycles, human relationships, and renewal. Her delicate flowers capture both the fragility of life and the hope for new beginnings, offering a balance between destruction and beauty.
At the heart of the composition of the sculpture group “They and I” from Kaselaan is a vision of how a person relates to others and how individuality merges into the larger narrative of a group or society. For Kaselaan himself, the second sculpture group “Seven Mice” embodies sadness – because according to the author, it depicts the same mouse, which was caught over and over, even seven times with a trap, yet always returning to the room bravely again.
Jenny Grönholm (b 1988) was born in Finland but lives and works in Tallinn. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in the field of printmaking and a master’s degree in sculpture and installation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Grönholm has had solo exhibitions in Tallinn and Helsinki and participated in group exhibitions in both Estonia and Finland. Yet paintings have a fairly prominent place in her creative activity where, in their melancholic style, the hierarchy of figures, animals and nature are equal to humans, or even more important.
Jass Kaselaan (b 1981) graduated from the Tartu University of Applied Sciences and later earned an MA in Sculpture (2008) and an MA in Animation (2022) from the Estonian Academy of Arts. His primary forms of expression are sculpture, site-specific, and sound installations, with a focus on immersive solo exhibitions. Kaselaan has received several awards, including the main prize of Köler Prize (2014), Kristjan Raud Art Award (2014), and The Anton Starkopf Fellowship (2011), he has also won several public commission art contests.
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Punch Club.
Jenny Grönholm and Jass Kaselaan
“Autumn 2024”
18/10 — 16/11/2024
Vaal Gallery
Tuesday–Friday 12pm–6pm, Saturday 12pm–4pm
Telliskivi 60A/5, Tallinn
Photography: Vaal Gallery
