Translucency
Curator: Stine Bidstrup
Organisers: Merle Kasonen, Anu Almik, Katre Ratassepp, Keiu Krikmann, Maret Sarapu
Design: Kärt Maran
Graphic design: Marje Eelma, Martin Eelma (Tuumik Stuudio)
Installation: Tõnu Narro, Mihkel Lember
Artists: Linda Aasaru (Estonia), Andrew Bearnot (USA), Erin Dickson (UK), Ditte Hammerstrøm (Denmark), Heidi Bach Hentze (Denmark), Sandra Kosorotova (Estonia), Eeva Käsper (Estonia), Julia Maria Künnap (Estonia), Helen Lee (USA), Jiyong Lee (USA), Eve Margus-Villems (Estonia), Reinoud Oudshoorn (Netherlands), Julija Pociute (Lithuania), Helena Tuudelepp (Estonia), Sandra Vaka (Norway), Hanna-Maria Vanaküla (Estonia), Sissi Westerberg (Sweden), Karlyn Sutherland (UK), Grethe Sørensen (Denmark) and Wang & Söderström (Sweden/Denmark).
The 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial “Translucency” took place at Kai Art Center, 29.05–15.08.2021. The international contemporary craft exhibition was curated by Danish glass artist and art historian Stine Bidstrup. The exhibition included various fields of applied art and focused on the critical potential of translucency in contemporary craft. The exhibition included around twenty artists, a quarter of them from Estonia. In addition to the main exhibition the triennial’s programme featured a number of satellite events: tours with the curator and exhibition guides as well as other thematic exhibitions. The catalogue covering the Triennal’s main exhibition was published.
Stine Bidstrup: “The 2021 Tallinn Applied Art Triennial highlights the creative and critical potential of translucency. Depending on the context, translucency can reveal what is hidden or conceal what is seemingly visible. It is neither one nor the other, but can be approached as a metastable state, full of potential energy from which a structured process can arise. It is not dichotomous; it is a chiastic movement through pluralities and nuances of visibility and lack thereof. It is becoming rather than being.”
Curator
Stine Bidstrup is a Danish glass artist, educator and art historian whose work and research explores optical phenomena, and interprets and brings ideas about utopian, architectural visions to life through glass sculptures, installation and video.
Her curiosity revolves around the power of perception and power of context and point of view in constructing our understanding through vision and how the human eye and mind are always engaged in myriad determinations and negotiations. By initiating active ways of looking, and fusing this with spatial and tactile experiences, she creates works that do not only envelop the eye and touch of the viewer, but also interject into cultural layers of memories and events.
Satellite programme
The satellite programme consisted of 24 exhibitions that took place all over Tallinn.
Room of Secrets
Passerby + A Handful of Prayers and Vaccine Be
Looking / Seeing
Imaginary Landscapes
Treehugger
Lost and Found
Holy Vessel
Organ
Augmented reality
Fire
Phantasmagoria
In-tangible
Local
Ax with one diamond
Mimikri
A real architecture exhibition. An Introduction to building castles in the air
From the jauntiness of absence
Edge
To wear or not to wear
Item
Precious parts
Experiments with Microcosm
Tactilite: stone that tickles the gaze
Garage
Catalogue
Publisher: NGO Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society
Compiled and edited by: Keiu Krikmann
Translation and language editing: Keiu Krikmann, Michael Haagensen, Katre Ratassepp
Design: Marje Eelma, Martin Eelma (Tuumik Stuudio)
Colour correction of photos: Marje Eelma (Tuumik Stuudio)
Printing house: Printon AS
ISBN: 978-9949-9906-1-0
Measures: 215 x 280 mm
Print run: 400 copies
