Biennale of Young Artists
dal 27/9/2007 al 10/11/2007
Segnalato da
27/9/2007
Biennale of Young Artists
Ruutelkonna building, Tallinn
Consequences and Proposals consists of two separate shows in one space. The first investigates silent moments in the recent history of the Baltic Sea region, addressing, often hushed up, relatively underground and invisible processes in a transforming society. This part of the exhibition questions the current state of society in the light of subjective memory. The second part proposes different approaches to imagining the immediate future, while hesitating between optimistic and pessamistic scenarios.
Consequences and Proposals
Curated by Rael Artel, Anneli Porri
Participating artists: Akvile Anglickaite (Vilnius), Coolturistes (Vilnius), Nanna Debois Buhl (Copenhagen/New York), Evelina Deicmane and Theo Mercier (Berlin), Gintaras Didziapetris (Vilnius), Nathalie Djurberg (Berlin), Merike Estna (Tallinn/London), Elin Hansdottir (Reykjavík/Berlin), Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (Helsinki), Emma Kihl (Stockholm), Karl Larsson (Stockholm), Juozas Laivys (Vilnius), Johanna Lecklin (Helsinki), Rudolfas Levulis (Vilnius), Barthol Lo Mejor (Tartu), Andreas Mangione and Hanna Dagerskog (Stockholm), Marge Monko (Tallinn), John Phillip Mäkinen (Helsinki), Tanja Muravskaja (Tallinn), Kristina Norman (Tallinn), Stas Polnarev (Moscow), Karol Radziszewski (Warsaw), Alexander Raevski (Chisinau), R.E.P. – Ksenia Gnilitskaya, Nikita Kadan, Janna Kadyrova, Lesia Khomenko, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Lada Nakonechnaya (Kyev), Hans Rosenström (Helsinki), Pilvi Takala (Amsterdam/Helsinki), Sigrid Viir (Tallinn), Julia Wolff (Berlin).
Consequences and Proposals, the Biennale of Young Artists, Tallinn 2007, deals with the results of decisions made in the past and envisages possible future directions. The artists are involved as an active creative force whose role is to analyse and imagine, while standing between the fragments of dispersed histories – personal and collective, past and future.
Consequences and Proposals consists of two separate shows in one space. The first, curated by Anneli Porri, investigates silent moments in the recent history of the Baltic Sea region, addressing, often hushed up, relatively underground and invisible processes in a transforming society. This part of the exhibition questions the current state of society in the light of subjective memory. The second part of the show, curated by Rael Artel, proposes different approaches to imagining the immediate future, while hesitating between optimistic and pessamistic scenarios. Originating from the idea that all art making is political, a variety of perspectives are envisioned through a more or less political prism. The exhibition is an open structure filled with various positions, points of view, propositions and opinions, rather than a clearly defined and closed show dealing with a defined set of themes. There are no easy take-away solutions here – the viewer is invited to think along with us.
The show takes place in the Rüütelkonna building – an architectural piece from the 19th century, which has served as the House of the Knighthood, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, the National Library of Estonia, and the exhibition hall of the Art Museum of Estonia. The venue is located in the historic precinct of Tallinn's Old Town.
Ruutelkonna building
Kiriku plats, 1 - Tallinn