2/2017

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FOCUS / ESTONIA’S PAVILION

Stacey Koosel reviews Katja Novitskova's solo show, which represents Estonia this year at the Venice Biennale.

THEORY AND PRACTICE / LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

Report by Jaan Elken on this year's Venice Biennale.

THEORY AND PRACTICE / HOMO DIGITALIS

Leading Estonian electronic art theorist, Raivo Kelomees, reviews the major international exhibition on digital culture "ARS17: Hello World!" at Helsinki’s contemporary art museum Kiasma.

THEORY AND PRACTICE / CONCEPTUALISM

Generations in dialogue: architect-artist Paco Ulman (b 1980 in Tallinn) writes about the retrospective of architect-artist Jüri Okas (b 1950 in Tallinn).

THEORY AND PRACTICE / POST-CONCEPTUALISM

Eik Hermann's essay on the largest solo show in Estonia to date by Dénes Farkas, who represented the country at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

THEORY AND PRACTICE / EKKM 10

Marika Agu and Siim Preiman noticed that this summer will be different: the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) will celebrate its 10th anniversary and the annual Köler Prize nominee show, that has been organised every year since 2011, will not take place at all.

Ten years of EKKM! Francisco Martínez interviews Marten Esko, the new director of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM).

THEORY AND PRACTICE / USA-EST

Andreas Trossek interviewed Krist Gruijthuijsen, both the director and chief curator at Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art, who flew to Tallinn for the opening of "Dissolution – Raivo Puusemp in dialogue with".

Peter Schjeldahl writes about the grand retrospective of Raymond Pettibon – an American artist who is half-Estonian on his mother's side – on the three main floors of New Museum, New York.

Heie Treier writes on the state of the research on the Saaremaa origins of Louis Kahn, a classic of 20th-century American architecture.

THEORY AND PRACTICE / COLLECTION

Jüri Hain takes a look at the exhibition of the EKE–Sadolin art collection, which is reputedly the oldest art collection belonging to a private company in Estonia.

REVIEWS

Kadri Karro visited Grisli Soppe-Kahar's and Danel Kahar's first joint exhibition.

Andreas Trossek visited Marko Mäetamm's solo exhibition "I'm Only Streaming".

Liina Soosaar writes on the Estonian debut exhibition of internationally renowned photographic artist, Alexander Gronsky.

Liisa Kaljula writes about Mart Vainre's solo exhibition "Bubbles".

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