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1. Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
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April 3 – October 31, 2010
Tension
Kadriorg Art Museum's Mikkel Museum
The exhibition Tension gives an overview of the works of the best-known German Expressionists and their contemporaries, which have arrived in the Art Museum of Estonia thanks to former private collectors.
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April 8 – September 26, 2010
The Soviet Woman in Estonian Art
Kumu Art Museum (4th floor B-wing)
The exhibition introduces forgotten or little known works from early Soviet Estonian art, concentrating on the image of "new Soviet femininity", that played important role in Soviet ideology and culture. Our collective memory tends to identify this with representations that carry clear political and ideological messages of Soviet power and gender politics: e.g. women workers and tractor drivers, party functionaries and also peace demonstrators carrying the red flag.
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April 30 – August 8, 2010
Čiurlionis and His Time in Lithuanian Art
Kumu Art Museum (Great Hall)
The exhibition in the Kumu Great Hall gives an overview of the oeuvre of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911), the great master of Lithuanian art. The works of art come from the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas. This is the first extensive overview exhibition of Čiurlionis's work in Estonia. A few of his original works were displayed in the Art Museum of Estonia as part of the 1983 exhibition of Lithuanian classic paintings; however, this time the exposition includes 55 of his works. The unique artist-symbolist is distinguished by the fact that he was also an outstanding composer, whose musical ideas are reflected in his imaginative visual art.
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May 14 – October 10, 2010
Painting in Process
Kumu Art Museum (5th floor)
Participating artists include: Antonio Claudio Carvalho, Kaido Ole, Kristi Kongi, Marta Stratskas, Holger Loodus, Lauri Eltermaa, Merike Estna, Flo Kasearu, Jaan Toomik, Mart Vainre, Sven Parker, Tõnis Saadoja, Gints Gabrans, Mall Paris, Carmen Landsberg, Katrin Piile, Jasper Zoova, Neeme Külm and Alice Kask. Eclecticism: Art Security, Mihkel Ilus, Martiini, Barthol Lo Mejor, Frindo Kveiks, Mihkel Kleis, Marko Kompus, Novekta.Avi, Anon Porx, Erkki Luuk and Kiwa. The exhibition has grown out of the fact that painting continues to be the most popular art medium in Estonia: professionals, outsiders and art lovers are all involved.
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May 21 – September 5, 2010
The Dialogue of Earth and Water
Kumu Art Museum (courtyard)
The Kumu building, designed by the Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori, and Eero Hiironen's sculptural work are based on similar creative ideals. They are connected to each other through the modernist tradition of the 20th century and through the particularly authentic sense of natural materials which characterises the architecture, applied arts and fine arts of Estonia's northern neighbour, Finland
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June 11 – September 12, 2010
Tracing Neo-Impressionism: Mägi and Finch
Kumu Art Museum (3rd floor)
Beginning on 11 June, the exhibition Tracing Neo-Impressionism: Mägi and Finch will be open on the third floor in the B-wing of the Kumu Art Museum. The colourful display offers both surprises and material for comparison: the exhibited works of art are from internationally renowned painters (Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Maurice Denis, Maximilian Luce, Paul Sérusier, Louis Valtat and Verner Thomé) as well as domestic artists (Konrad Mägi, Villem Ormisson, Herbert Lukk and Konstantin Süvalo). All of the above-mentioned artists were united by their love for the dot of colour, by their yearning for harmony in colours and for the balanced surfaces in their paintings.
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2. Lithuanian Art Museum. National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
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June 30 - October 3, 2010
Algimantas Kunčius "Cycle reconstructions from series Puzzle of Vilnius. Vilnius, 2002–2005. 14 silver prints and 4 digital prints"
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May 21 – September 5, 2010
Women’s time: sculpture and film
The exhibition Woman’s Time is an attempt to re-examine the image of the 20th-century woman in Lithuanian sculpture and cinema. It was inspired by the increased interest in women’s creativity and gender issues in art, as well as the prominent role played by women in the country’s cultural and political life. Sculpture and cinema are selected as ideologically important media that capture the “spirit of the age”.
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April 24 – July 31, 2010
Algirdas Šeškus' personal ehxibition "Archives (Pohulianka). Photographs and Prints 1975–1983"
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3. Riga Film Museum, Riga, Latvia
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The Riga Film Museum, established in 1988, is the only museum in Latvia dedicated to this art field. From 2006 the Riga Film Museum is a division of the S/A National Film Centre, and from September 2006 the museum began actively organizing exhibitions and events in a new location in the Old Town, at Peitavas iela 10/12. By implementing a new concept of film as a focal point of visual culture, the film museum has, in a short time period, become a cultural brand, offering educational, quality cultural products.
The Riga Film Museum does not have a permanent exhibition, but new exhibitions are created approx. twice a year. These exhibitions are a platform for promoting, within the Latvian cultural scene, important Latvian and/or world film history periods, persons or issues, discussed in contemporary language, with exhibitions designed as events involving talented artists and other creative personalities.
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4. Riga Porcelain Museum, Riga, Latvia
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The Riga Porcelain Museum was established in 2001 to preserve the porcelain collection of the state porcelain manufacturing enterprise ”Rīgas Porcelāns”, which due to economic situation was closed down. The museum of the enterprise “Rīgas Porcelāns” was established already in the 1960s, but after the enterprise was liquidated, the activities of the museum stopped. In 1997 a commission of experts, appointed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, carried out the assessment of the collection of the former museum. In the year 2000 the collection was taken over by the Riga City. In 2001 the Riga Porcelain Museum (RPM) was founded. RPM is a state authority museum, which is subjected to the Riga City Council Culture Department.
The museum was opened for public on October 30, 2001.
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5. Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
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June 11 – August 8, 2010
The Borcherts: Between Reality and the Fantasy World
LNMA // Minor Hall
In summer 2010, the LNMA takes part in an interesting and, for Latvia, unique project dedicated to the artists of the Borchert family. Until 1919, the life and work of the family were linked with Riga, later with Germany where the Borcherts – currently, the third and fourth generation of artists – are still active today. The idea for the project belongs to them.
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July 7 – September 9, 2010
Global Intrigue II
The 4th Riga International Textile and Fiber Art Triennial “Tradition and Innovation”
The Arsenals // Temporary exhibitions
The 4th Riga International Triennial of Textile and Fibre Art Tradition & Innovation continues the tradition of organizing the European Textile and Fibre Art Triennials launched in 2001. Due to the fact that the European event has grown far out of its borders and has definitely become the world event and following the advice of the jurors of the previous Triennials, since this year it manifests as the Riga International. After the advice of artists the Triennial continues the theme of the Triennial 2007 and addresses spectators as GLOBAL INTRIGUE II. The Museum chose the theme to echo spirited and lively discussions about the nature of contemporary textile and fibre art, to examine different aspects of its development today.
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5. The Music Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ensembles in Sweden - Man, Music, Environment
Here you can get a notion of how music has been played in in Sweden during the past 500 years. From the musicians in a country tavern to the Royal Court Ensemble at the castle. From the 17th century fiddler to ABBA. Also a violin maker's workshop, a brass instrument workshop and an 18th century music shop.
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Klåjnk
An exhibition, a music workshop, where children of all ages can become explorers in the world of sounds and play together on simple instruments.
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6. The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden
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May 8 - August 15, 2010
Keren Cytter
Film
Keren Cytter has rapidly established herself internationally as one of the most interesting and unique artists on the contemporary art scene.
At the mere age of 33 (born 1977 in Tel Aviv, currently living and working in Berlin), in the last eight years Keren Cytter has produced more than 50 video works, written three novels and an opera libretto, started the dance and theatre company D.I.E. Now, won awards and is the darling of the art press. Last summer, she exhibited at the New Museum's group show Younger Than Jesus and participated in the Venice Biennale.
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May 29 - September 5, 2010
Ed Ruscha – Fifty Years of Painting
Ed Ruscha, born in 1937, is an icon of modern art and exceedingly prolific to this day. His paintings are ambiguous and provocative, recycling scraps from popular culture and redefining established genres. Is he one of the first pop artists, a trail-blazer of conceptual art, a late surrealist, a pioneer of postmodernism, or a bit of everything, all rolled into one?
