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UKRAINE: SPECIAL PAGES
Ukrainian avant-garde. Gesamtkunstwerk in a multinuclear family
“We”™re always joking that our families support us and, in this way, they support the Ukrainian art scene.”
Lizaveta Herman and Olha Balashova
Interviewed by Andreas Trossek
CORE PAGES / PAINTING
Why does Alexei Gordin paint? Why does Alexei Gordin laugh? Why does Alexei Gordin believe?
Aleksander Metsamärt visited Alexei Gordin’s solo exhibition “Dreams Come True in This Gallery”.
The search and the idyll
Regina Mets interviews Katrin Piile about her solo exhibition “In Search of Idyll” at Tütar Gallery.
Swimming lessons (according to the survival artist)
Brigit Arop reflects on Angela Maasalu’s solo exhibition “A Fool with a Heart of Glass”.
World renunciation, monasticism
Johannes Saar reflects on Sirja-Liisa Eelma’s paintings in the exhibition “In a Room with Pink Wallpaper”.
CORE PAGES / SCULPTURE
Ghostly associations
Kaire Nurk writes about the collaborative exhibition “Ghost-Ting” by James Prevett, Berit Talpsepp-Jaanisoo and Luis Sagasti.
CORE PAGES / PHOTOGRAPHY
A photographer who looks for beauty in Sovietera buildings
Konstantin Kuningas visited Antti Sinitsyn’s photography exhibition “Façade”.
CORE PAGES / MIXED MEDIA
Marian Grau: “Life would be a lot easier if we didn”™t always have gender on our minds.”
Sandra Jõgeva interviews Marian and Jan Leo Grau, who have for the last five years been organising the exhibition series “Woman&Woman” and “Man&Man”.
FINAL PAGES
I slept well and I lived well
Hedi Rosma visited the exhibition “If You Could Understand Something from the Sleep You Had? Works From the Collections of Prinzhorn and the Kondas Centre”.
With respect
Kaido Ole’s letter to Kaljo Simson.