TMW 2016 Arts Programme
This years’ Tallinn Music Week (TMW) Arts is coordinated by ECADC, and centres around Tallinn Tuesdays, a series of joint opening events among a group of Tallinn galleries. On Tuesday, 29 March, all galleries will be open for extended hours from 5 to 9 pm, with exhibitions specially commissioned for TMW Arts.
Centrally located on Vabaduse väljak, EKA gallery, affiliated to the Estonian Academy of Arts, will be opening an exhibition curated by artist Lili-Krõõt Repnau and theoretician Francisco Martinez. On view in the Old Town, at Hobusepea gallery, is an exhibition of the Estonian Academy of Arts graduates Helena Keskküla and Art Nõukas. Also on view in the Old Town, at Okapi gallery, is a collaborative project M_M_M_M by photographer Temuri Hvingija, artisan blacksmiths Rait Siska and Risto Tali, and performance artist Erik Alalooga.
The internationally known Temnikova & Kasela gallery will be opening Import Export, an exhibition by photographer Sigrid Viir, and an Estonian Canadian artist Jimmy Limit, who similarly works mainly in photography.
Tallinn Tuesdays concludes with Memory and Movement, an exhibition curated by the discursive and critical urban platform Urbiquity for Rundum artist-run space.
Programmed specially for TMW Arts, a series of educational and public programmes will coincide with Beauty and the Best, an exhibition by Kris Lemsalu and Tiit Pääsuke on view at Tallinn Art Hall.
All exhibitions will remain open throughout Tallinn Music Week on the galleries’ usual opening hours from Wednesdays to Sundays.
Tallinn Tuesdays Programme on 29 March 2016
17:00
EKA gallery (Vabaduse väljak 6/8, entrance from the backyard of Tallinn Art Hall)
group exhibition, curated by Francisco Martínez and Lilli-Krõõt Repnau
Place Oddity
The exhibition questions space through the underlying notions of identity, agency, and normality. Odd places are compellingly attractive, while also being intimidating and uncanny or strangely familiar. The exhibition draws our attention to places that lead to a limbo or a liminal condition, a passage into a heightened consciousness. The exhibiting artists include Inmates of Tallinn Prison, Flo Kasearu, Mihkel Kleis, Triin Pitsi, Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, Paco Ulman, Ingel Vaikla, Vello Vinn, and Kristina Õllek.
17:30
Okapi gallery (Niguliste 2)
Temuri Hvingija, Rait Siska, Risto Tali, Erik Alalooga
M_M_M_M
Photographer Temuri Hvingia, artisan blacksmiths Rait Siska and Risto Tali, and performance artist Erik Alalooga collaborate on a project inspired by their respective perceptions of eternity and a variety of archaic techniques practiced today. The exhibition introduces a range of techniques and technologies derived from photography, blacksmithing and metalworking, and music. The Russian electronic musician Fjordwalker and DJ Kashel will play a live set at the exhibition opening.
18:00
Hobusepea gallery (Hobusepea 2)
Art Nõukas and Helena Keskküla
O’ why do we play this game?
Both graduates of the installation and sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Art Nõukas and Helena Keskküla’s exhibition focuses on the purpose of playing games. “On our own, we are both the fastest and the most versatile, but lack competition. It is much more interesting to compete with each other, these are the moments when there is much more movement, much more emotion, sweat and tears.” The artists’ collaboratively created installations and videos have been on view at The Logical Song, an exhibition that coincided with TMW the previous year.
19:00
Temnikova & Kasela (Lastekodu 1)
Sigrid Viir (EE) and Jimmy Limit (CA)
Import Export
Bringing together the work of the photographer Sigrid Viir and Jimmy Limit, an Estonian Canadian artist, who similarly works mainly in photography, the exhibition addresses the notions of import and export in the most general sense of art transport from one continent to another, customs procedures, and the artists’ nationality, although, the notions of import and export could also come to mean in relation to the medium of photography, and the widespread use and distribution of photographs, including digital file transfers.
The exhibition at Temnikova & Kasela gallery has been generously supported by Artproof Grant Estonia 2016.
20:00
Rundum (Pärnu mnt 154)
Urbiquity (Stefano Carnelli (UK), Pablo Conejo (ES), Mattias Malk (EE))
Memory and Movement
Urbiquity is a critical and discursive platform that employs both urban theory and creative practice in creating new, interdisciplinary research. Memory and Movement consists of three projects that each deal with global political and/or economic migration, on a personal level and also more widely. Pablo Conejo and Silvia Andredemarin’s IS*PIAN focuses on the dichotomy between Ecuador and Spain through the presentation Ecuadorian immigrants’ beliefs about life in Spain. Mattias Malk’s Hiraeth gives a very personal take on the Bosnian War by contrasting family photographs of those who fled during the war to photographs taken today. Stefano Carnelli’s Transhumance looks into the pastoral tradition of shepherding in Italy today. The exhibition is not to give answers to the questions it raises, but rather, consider possibilities for further discussions.
TMW Talks and Tours
A series of artist talks will be held at TMW Tastes restaurants, where selected participants of the Young Artist contest, organised by NOAR in collaboration with Estonian Academy of Arts, will talk about their practice and future aspirations. A selection of artworks submitted to the contest will be on view at TMW Tastes restaurants, and favourites could also be chosen through NOAR, an online platform for Estonian art.
On Thursday, 31 March, 4 pm, the artist duo Art Nõukas and Helena Keskküla, whose practice is closely connected to music, will give a talk at Hobusepea gallery (Hobusepea 2). Both also participants of the Young Artist contest, Art and Helena will talk about their practice, installation art, collaboration, of what it means to be a young artist, and also of their future aspirations. The talk is moderated by curator and art critic Rebeka Põldsam, and meant for all interested in art, in particular, to the future students of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
As part of the experiential and durational practices of the Neanderthal Cave School (Neandertaali koobaskool), the artist collective will organise a walk tracing old railway tracks in Tallinn on Saturday, 2 April. The walk begins 3 pm and takes approximately 2.5 to 3 hours. A panel discussion on walking as an intentional practice as well as on the artist collective’s other activities follows (meeting point and TMW Talks location tbc). Founded by artists Viktor Gurov, Hedi Jaansoo, Kristel Raesaar, and Pire Sova, the Neanderthal Cave School is an open platform for questioning, testing, and expanding the notions of academic art education, artistic collaboration, and creative production in a world dominated by neo-liberalist ideas and web2.0.
Programmed specially for TMW Arts, educational and public programmes will run parallel to Kris Lemsalu and Tiit Pääsuke’s exhibition Beauty and the Beast on view at Tallinn Art Hall. Kris Lemsalu is a young Estonian artist, whose performance of her lying under a porcelain turtle shell at Frieze New York the previous year received considerable media attention. Tiit Pääsuke is a living art legend, who has exhibited at over 20 solo shows from 1973 onwards, and is considered to be one of the leading figures of Estonian painting of the 1980s. Tallinn Art Hall (Vabaduse väljak 8) is open to the public from 12 to 6 pm Wednesdays through Sundays.
Tiit Pääsuke and Kris Lemsalu, photo: Karel Koplimets