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FOCUS / THE FUTURE (IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE)
…proper chaos and gentle aftercare
Marten Esko on Jeremy Shaw’s large-scale video, sound and light work at Kumu.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / ENGAGEMENT (IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE)
On art and engagement
Ahto Lobjakas analyses the project “What Makes Another World Possible?” curated by Corina L. Apostol.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / ИДÐ-ВИРУМÐÐ (IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE)
Subjective mapping of post-Soviet patterns in Ida-Viru County
Elnara Taidre provides an analysis of the curated exhibitions “Life in Decline”, “Portrait of an Emotion”, and “Keep ___ Close to Your Chest”.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / (NOT) BELONGING
An Australian grandmother is also a Siberian child
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa gives an analysis of the exhibition “Off We Go!” by Triin Kerge and Aksel Haagensen.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / 3+1 TENORS
The life of old men after an Indian summer
Johannes Saar remembers with affection the artists’ collective Estonian Energies (Jüri Ojaver, Jaan Paavle, Paul Rodgers and Jaan Toomik).
THEORY AND PRACTICE / IF 9 WERE 6
We need to talk about DeStudio
Andreas Trossek wrote down his theses on DeStudio’s (Herkki-Erich Merila and Peeter Laurits) retrospective “Hangover”.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / ADVERTISING (INDUSTRY)
Each at their own level of depravity
Indrek Grigor’s thoughts on the joint exhibition “The Great Pretender” by Gabriele Beveridge and Marge Monko.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / VITA D’ARTISTA
Story of a video
Sandra Jõgeva writes about her and Teet Raudsepp’s video work “My adventures in the Estonian social system”.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / CONTINUUM
Continuity: an attempt to map the development of Jüri Arrak’s artistic language
Aleksander Metsamärt delves into the work of one of his favourite artists, Jüri Arrak.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / META
On process and change
Henri Hütt writes about Mihkel Maripuu’s project “*(meta)morphosis”.
THEORY AND PRACTICE / VIVA COLOR
Without light, there would be no colours
Mary-Ann Talvistu looks at the paintings of Huupi (Evelin Zolotko).
THEORY AND PRACTICE / VARNJA–VENEZIA?
Eight years under the flag of the crow
Johannes Saar visited Voronja Gallery – a boat shed in a typical Old Believers’ house in the village of Varnja in Peipsiääre municipality, adapted as a seasonal art gallery.
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NEW PUBLICATION
SPECIAL PAGES
Graphic design appendices to kunst.ee #1–#20
Ulla Väljaste looks back on the graphic design appendices (2001–2008) from the perspective of 2021.