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MELANCHOLY OF THE FUTURE
Dancing on the ruins of the future
Annika Toots focuses on the dystopian landscapes in the works of Mari-Leen Kiipli and Britta Benno.
RECENT HISTORY
“Free drinks all summer long!” or how the nineties will never come back
Johannes Saar analyses Kumu’s permanent exhibition “The Future is in One Hour: Estonian Art in the 1990s”.
Eha Komissarov: “The Estonian Art Museum has one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of 1990s art in the Baltics.”
Archive document: transcript of the radio show “Kunstiministeerium” in relation to Kumu’s permanent exhibition “The Future is in One Hour: Estonian Art in the 1990s”. The programme was presented by Maarin Mürk, with visitors Eha Komissarov, Annika Räim and Tiiu Parbus, the programme was broadcast on 29. II 2020.
AESTHETICS
Good company
Hedi Rosma was in good company at a retrospective of Tiit Pääsuke, “Tiit Pääsuke. Nostalgialess”.
A glass bead game of repeating patterns
Elnara Taidre analyses the joint exhibition “Repeating Patterns” by Sirja-Liisa Eelma and Mari Kurismaa.
POSTSOCIALISM
Siima – 100
Johannes Saar visited the exhibition “Siima Škop 100”.
BODIES ON STAGE
Silver Vahtre”™s theatrum mundi
Harry Liivrand looks at Silver Vahtre’s collage exhibition “Room of Living”.
A gently pressed imprint
Mari-Liis Vanem visited Olesya Katchanovskaya-Münd’s solo exhibition “Traces of Existence in a Moment”.
GEOGRAPHY
Games with a utopian/dystopian constructor
Elnara Taidre visited Kadri Toom’s solo exhibition “Packaged Cities”.
On the border – Valga included in Estonian art exhibition statistics
Indrek Grigor discusses regional policy on the basis of the art scene in the Estonian-Latvian border town of Valga-Valka.