Art Museum of Estonia (Kumu), exhibition “Thinking Pictures”.
An exhibition in cooperation with: Art Museum of Estonia Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA).
The focus of the research exhibition Thinking Pictures, which has been prepared in cooperation with the Zimmerli Art Museum in the United States since 2016, was supposed to be a dialogue between Baltic and Moscow artists in the 1970s and 1980s. A few weeks before the opening of the exhibition, Russia started a war against Ukraine, and the dialogue on recent history has acquired an entirely new context…
WHERE: Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
WHEN: 18.03.-14.08.2022
Curators: Anu Allas (Estonian Academy of Arts), Liisa Kaljula (Art Museum of Estonia) and Jane Sharp (Zimmerli Art Museum and Rutgers University)
Having a child means dedicating a large part of your life to them. And, if you happen to be an artist, the inner child sneaks into your creation in every possible way: as a co-creator, entrusting their fantasies to you or sublimating your own tenderness and care. But not only that. Although Estonian art usually tends to be rather serious, you can indeed find joyful play in it – not only in the subject matter of the works of art, but also in their structure and development, their lines, colours and volumes. It is also found in the artist’s idea, to which the viewer adds their own experience, because it is very important for an art lover to be willing to play along! Only then can we join Raul Meel, the most venerable and one of the oldest artists in this exhibition, in saying that “the precondition for eternal life is noticing the beauty in playing” Interview with the curator Tamara Luuk.
WHERE: Vabaduse väljak 8, Tallinn
WHEN: 19.03.-29.05.09.2022
Curator: Tamara Luuk
WHERE: Vabaduse väljak 6, Tallinn
WHEN: 13.08.-08.09.2021
Curator: Reet Varblane
WHERE: Vabaduse väljak 1, Tallinn
WHEN: 13.08.-08.09.2021
Curator: Erkki Juhandi
(info@vernissage.ee , tel: +372 6544940)
WHERE: Auction takes place at Hilton Tallinn hotel and online (the exhibition is opened in Vernissage gallery, Uus-Tatari 23, Tallinn)
WHEN: Auction 21. november, 2020 (exhibition in Vernissage starting from 27. october, 2020)
