A Place Between Night and Day
Curated by Brigit Arop
The exhibition fosters connections among artists, driven by their creative expressions. Exploring various facets, they delve into matters concerning urban space, architecture and personal space. At times, modernist, poetic or queer-feminist perspectives intersect, while in other instances, they seamlessly blend, unraveling cultural and social values associated with the landscape and (urban) space. Visions oscillate between the past and the future, enabling artists to abstract everyday life to the boundary between the known and unknown.
Brigit Arop is an art professional whose primary activities involve curating, writing, assisting and teaching. She is drawn to artworks that employ autotheory, poetry, material-sensitive approach and humour to challenge ingrained values. Arop graduated from the University of Tartu with a bachelor’s degree in semiotics and cultural theory (2019) and from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a master’s degree in curation (2023). Her latest curatorial projects is the group exhibition Greetings, and Whatever Customarily Restores a Bond About to Break at Kogo Gallery (2023).
Sirje Runge is a painter and teacher, recognised for her geometric abstract and minimalist paintings. In addition to painting, she has also contributed to contemporary art with her philosophy and original teaching method. Since 2008 she has worked as a lecturer at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University. In 2021, at the Estonian Open Air Museum, she presented a project she considers one of her most significant works – Great Love / Beautiful Rotting – where she surrendered her ten-meter oil painting, Great Love (2003), to nature.
Ann Pajuväli is an artist and illustrator with a background in printmaking. She mainly works with drawing and installation, often highlighting everyday objects and situations that are so mundane we no longer notice them. Pajuväli is fascinated with how forms are universally recognisable – she creates abstractions of objects from the real world, balancing on a narrow line of identifiability. Her last exhibitions include beginners at EKA Billboard Gallery (with Cloe Jancis, 2024) and Night Sky Setting the Scene (2022) at Haapsalu City Gallery.
Saskia Fischer is an interdisciplinary artist working with images, objects, texts, and environments. Fischer’s research is concerned with the paradigms that form and inform landscape as a reflection of cultural and social values. She examines the ways Western understanding separates anthropological urbanity from a colonial concept of nature, reinforcing problematic notions of femininity and what is ‘natural’. Fischer studied postgraduate fine art at Goldsmiths College in London (2018) and photography at Folkwang University in Essen (2015).