2023 exhibition programme

Tallinn Art Hall is pleased to announce its 2023 exhibition programme across the recently launched Lasnamae Pavilion and the existing Tallinn City Gallery. 

Lasnamäe Pavilion:

Beyond Matter: Immerse!
February 18–April 30, 2023
Curators: Corina L. Apostol (Tallinn Art Hall) and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás (ZKM | Karlsruhe)

Immerse! is the final exhibition realised within the framework of Beyond Matter, an international collaborative practice-based research project that brings developing contemporary culture and its heritage to the verge of virtual reality. 

Comprising 20 international, multidisciplinary artists whose practice and research exists at the intersection of art and technology, the exhibition is a culmination of critique, exploration, and celebration of the huge shifts in the production and mediation of visual art within institutional frameworks. Shifts that are largely attributable to the rapid development, ubiquitous presence, and use of computation and information technology.

The practice-based research on the virtual condition that the Beyond Matter partner institutions have signed up for manifests in various actions. Throughout the three-year collaboration, curators Corina L. Apostol (Tallinn Art Hall) and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás (ZKM | Karlsruhe) and have gathered prominent insights with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and on the inclusion of the artistic projects conceived and realised for the Beyond Matter residency program that have emerged at this international thematic exhibition. It showcases various works of emerging and established contemporary artists engaging with the socio-political or environmental connotations of digital immersion.

Participating artists: Kristaps Ancāns (Latvia/UK), Zach Blas (US/Canada), Guim Camps (Spain/Colombia), Ami Clarke (UK), Dennis Dizon (Philippines/Spain), Laureta Hajrullahu (Kosovo), Hanna Hildebrand (Italy/Switzerland), Laura Kuusk (Estonia) & Camille Laurelli (France/Estonia), Olson Lamaj (Albania), Andrii Linik (Ukraine), Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany), Alyona Movko-Mägi (Estonia), Bahar Noorzadeh (Canada/Iran/UK), Shelley Odradek/ Katie Zazenski (US/Poland), Kirill Savchenkov, Tomo Savić-Gecan (Croatia/Netherlands), Jonas Staal (Netherlands/Greece), Ivar Veermäe (Estonia/Germany) and Ksenia Yurkova (Russia/Austria).

The Spring Exhibition
May 12–June 25, 2023

Tallinn Art Hall will host its much anticipated annual Spring Exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association at its recently opened Lasnamäe Pavilion. All artists working in Estonia are invited to submit work completed in 2022 and 2023, and a jury then selects approximately 70 artists to participate. The new exhibition venue offers a courtyard in which outdoor sculpture can also be exhibited. Each year, the public can vote for their favourite artist. This year the winner will receive 6,000 EUR from art sponsors.

Hold Me Tender
July 7–September 24, 2023 
Curator: Siim Preiman

This third chapter in The Art of Being Good exhibition series addresses care, close relationships, health and social roles, driven by the realisation that in order to be good, one needs to feel good first. 

Participating artists: Agnė Jokšė, Keiu Maasik, Maija Mustonen, Sarah Nõmm, and others.

The aim of The Art of Being Good residency programme is to spur artistic research and discourse on the topics of ecological awareness, environmental sustainability, and the ethics of making art. Although tackling the ecological, social, and economic components of the crisis is normal, artworks, and exhibitions rarely direct attention toward their own role in the ruinous sequence of events.

Tallinn Photomonth:

Main exhibition: Trance
October 6–November 26, 2023
Curator: Ilari Laamanen

For 2023, Tallinn Photomonth’s main exhibition will take place at Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion. The curator of the 2023 biennial’s central programme is New York-based Ilari Laamanen. Titled Trance, Laamanen's group exhibition will explore how artworks can complicate and aid in examining the sensory experience in a technologically mediated world. It will aim to disorient and reorient the viewer and the viewing situation. The closer one gets to the real, the more imaginary it will become. 

Tallinn Photomonth is an international biennial of contemporary art, which features work that spans all disciplines, and looks at developments in art and society in a world increasingly mediated by cameras, screens and images. While it was initiated by the Estonian Union of Photography Artists (Foku) in 2011, which coordinates and supports collaboration between art institutions, galleries and artists, Photomonth seeks to broaden its focus beyond the means of photography.

Hanna Samoson: Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all
December 9–February 25, 2023
Curator: Siim Preiman

From surrender to reconciliation, this exhibition follows Samoson’s yearlong search for ascetic abundance—a state where nothing is too much and nothing is missing.

Hanna Samoson (1987) studied photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and film at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Tallinn City Gallery:

Jenny Grönholm: Future Memories
Until March 24, 2023
Curator: Tamara Luuk

Going through her memories when searching for material for her paintings, the artist interweaves the associations from her inner world with imaginary time-spaces, presenting them to the viewer with evocative power. Her slightly melancholic works are characterised by muted earth tones that blend her depicted subjects with the background.

Born in Finland where she also started her education, Grönholm arrived in Tallinn as an Erasmus exchange student and obtained her MA in Art in Estonia where she has now found a home and place of creation. Alongside experimenting with different media, she arrived at painting, following her own path as a determined self-taught artist. Characteristic of the artist, Future Memories is a suggestive exhibition that looks both into the past and the future, standing firmly on the ground while also having its head in the clouds.

Diāna Tamane: Sea – That Is You
March 31–June 4, 2023
Curator: Siim Preiman

Chasing the Devil to the Moon
June 9–August 20, 2023
Curator: Corina L. Apostol

Erki Kasemets and Camille Laurelli: Bricollage
August 25–October 22, 2023
Curator: Siim Preiman

Anna Škodenko: At Arm's Reach
October 27, 2023–January 7, 2024
Curator: Tamara Luuk

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