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Eike Eplik. Biomass – Ghost in the Corner
Tartu, Kogo Gallery, 14.03.2020 – 30.05.2020
Where is the biomass? It’s hard to detect it in the...
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Typical of all major pioneering concepts, the Anthropocene is just as influential as it is open-ended and debated. There are many ways of pi...
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The artist Sandra Kosorotova participated in the artist-in-residency programme at NART during the summer, where she worked on a community ga...
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Humans are used to believing that they are the pinnacle of nature. Like a bunch of isolated chosen creatures whom god itself has ordered and...
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Conversation between Inga Lāce and Heidi Ballet
Heidi Ballet:
Thank you for being willing to talk about ecology in the Baltic...
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Digitisation describes the process of taking an analogue object and creating a reproduction, copy or backup copy1 of it that can be read on ...
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In February 2020, a permanent exhibition The Future is in One Hour: Estonian Art in the 1990s, focusing on Estonian art from the last decade...
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The Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) accommodates an archive and library of cultural and art historical significance, providing a ...
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In the exhibition Wunderkammer, curator Šelda Puķīte explores the curiosity of contemporary artists, looking into their collections and pr...
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A Collection of Repairs
When was the last time you repaired something? And what do you repair when you fix something?
Over the las...
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In early September, Tallinn will become overrun with exhibitions and art events revolving around the theme of photography, visuality, and it...
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This interview took place during the record-breaking heat in Tallinn this June. In the context of these brain-numbing temperatures, I sat do...
Architecture
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The archive collection of the Estonian Museum of Architecture, which consists mostly of designs, city plans and documents, increases largely...
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Archives can be more or less complete, reach us anonymously or with detailed descriptions, consist of dispersed fragments from which everyon...
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Estonia’s first appearance at a World’s Fair came in Paris in 1937, in the form of a joint pavilion with Latvia and Lithuania. Both at the a...
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Looking at Environments and Environmentalists
The aim of this essay is to argue for the enhanced perception of environments as a poin...
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Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla interviews Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa and Tadeáš Říha
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects, Dubli...
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Estonians tend to think of themselves as “nature people”. This concept is pretty vague and describes a way of seeing the world. But nature i...
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There is a tradition of well-skilled taxidermists in Eastern Europe, yet the phenomenon of architectural taxidermy is an interesting anomaly...
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Julia Hinderink talks to Siim Tuksam and Sille Pihlak
I met Sille Pihlak at the end of last year when she came to Garmisch Partenkirchen ...
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‘Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing and strength is nothing. When a man is just born he is weak and flexi...
Design
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Conversation between Taavi Hallimäe and Kärt Ojavee
Taavi Hallimäe: As a textile designer, do you relate in any way to the people who on...
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Evelin Kangur Talks with Textile Designer Mare Kelpman
Mare Kelpman has had a sensational year of celebrations, to say the least: win...
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Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Design Exhibitions from the Early 1960s to the Late 1980s
During the Soviet years, joint Baltic exhibition...
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How can knitting be made into contemporary, socially inclined art? Kristel Kuslapuu, the freshest – not as in a newbie, but as in a breath o...
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Of all the ways to approach art, lately I feel that only personal ways matter. For me, when I try to understand other artists, one of those ...
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The state of the Estonian design market, from both the creative and consumer perspectives, has never been more abundant in terms of inventiv...
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In his book “B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World”, Deyan Sudjic, the director of The Design Museum in London, under “C” states: “It...
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Art and technology in the twenty-first century are no longer segregated, as they were in the past. The increase in artistic activities using...
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In recent years, Tartu has received a lot of attention for its museums. The newly opened Estonian National Museum and new additions to the T...
Books
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Sigrid Nunez
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
As a young emerging writer Sigrid Nunez was dating Susan Sontag’s son and ...
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Marge Monko is an Estonian artist and the Head of the Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She uses mainly photog...
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Paul Paper has worked with books since 2006 and has published 12 titles, including “Untaken Photographs” (Booklet Press), “Contemporary Phot...
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Elisa-Johanna Liiv’s Book Recommendations
When two book lovers (Elisa-Johanna Liiv and Triinu Kööba) started working together on a dream,...
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“And yet we do not want to create empty hype or package a 'hot young scene.'”[1]
– Massimiliano Gioni
"Artists' Spaces. 16 studio visits"...
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There has to be a way to imagine a suitable, necessary and household sci-fi future, in which the today is already tomorrow. If we do not kn...
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The publication Between the Archive and Architecture accompanies and integrates the exhibition bearing the same name, on view at Kumu Art Mu...
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Editor Krista Kodres
Texts by Anu Allas, Sirje Helme, Jaak Kangilaski, Anu Kannike, Juta Kivimäe, Krista Kodres, Andres Kurg, Peeter Linnap...
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Texts by Kadri Mälk, Tamara Luuk and Tanel Veenre
Designed by Asko Künnap and Andres Rõhu
Photos by Tiit Rammul
Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda...