Strong presence of Estonian artists in Brussels

This April will see a series of events across Brussels introducing contemporary Estonian art, as approximately 20 representatives from a variety of art institutions in Estonia will be in town. The event programme coordinated by the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) will take place in conjunction with Art Brussels art fair and its side events during the upcoming week.

 

Art Brussels will open with a preview on Thursday, 21 April. The exhibiting galleries include Temnikova & Kasela, which is presenting works by Flo Kasearu and Visible Solutions LLC, and the Budapest-based Ani Molnár, which is presenting works by the Estonian artist Marge Monko. This year’s nonprofit sector of Art Brussels will include Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), which is presentating a site-specific installation by Anu Vahtra. Katerina Gregos, the Artistic Director of Art Brussels, has chosen one of the installations by Visible Solutions LLC to be exhibited alongside seven other installations in the Out of the Booth section of the fair. In addition to this, Marge Monko’s performance will be presented by the independent publishing initiative Lugemik at Poppositions art fair, while Paul Kuimet’s solo exhibition will be on view at Contretype, a Brussels-based exhibition venue dedicated to contemporary photography, from 13 April to 5 June.

 

In collaboration with Art Brussels, ECADC will host 30 international curators within the framework of a Curator’s Programme dedicated to introducing the art scene in Brussels. First successfully held in Milan last year, Eating the Forest – a dining experience introducing Kris Lemsalu’s artistic practice as well as the Nordic cuisine that relies on food from forests – will be held twice in the upcoming week, once for Belgian art collectors and a second time for a group of international curators.

 

A comprehensive programme of parallel and side events will take place in conjunction with the main fair. The inaugural edition of the highly regarded art fair Independent, established by New York-based galleries, will run concurrently with Art Brussels – a decision that has further solidified Brussels’s status as one of the most important art centres in Europe.

 

The full event and exhibition programme dedicated to Estonian art can be found here.

 

The events programme in Brussels has been generously supported by the Government Office of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Outset Estonia, European Regional Development Fund, and Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center.

 

Flo Kasearu, “International Fun”, 2016