Artist
Curator
Diana Tamane’s solo exhibition “Typology of Touch” acts as a summary of the artist’s works about the women in her family which involve three earlier generations of women besides the author herself. Although the central works are actual portraits of four (and later three) women, all the protagonists are also approached separately through their personal stories and shared destiny, forming a collective portrait of a family.
Tamane is a Latvian-born artist who received her education in Estonia and continues to live and work here. Her works are often based on very personal themes and tell the stories of her family, but their content is emphatically understandable and recognisable to everybody thanks to our shared history. Due to Tamane’s professional interests, the people in her works are mostly explored through the medium of photography, frequently using material created by the protagonists themselves. The exhibition “Typology of Touch” on the three floors of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia forms a peaceful contemplation that highlights the inner strength of three women who have played an important role in Tamane’s life.
Diana Tamane (b 1986, Riga, Latvia) lives and works between Tartu, Estonia and Riga. She has graduated from the Tartu Art College (BA), the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels (MA) and HISK post-academic residency program in Ghent. Her primary medium of expression is photography, but she also uses video, sound, text and found objects in her work. Besides Estonia, she has had solo exhibitions in Belgium, China, France, Germany and Latvia. In 2020, APE published Tamane’s first book “Flower Smuggler”, which received the Recontres d’Arles Book Award and was shortlisted for the Paris-Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award.
Peeter Talvistu (b 1983) is an art historian and curator. He has studied at the University of Tartu and has worked since 2010 in various positions at the Tartu Art Museum and the Tartu Artists’ Union. Currently he is the chairman of the Union. In 2015, Talvistu curated Diana Tamane’s solo exhibition at the Tartu Art House.
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Typology of Touch by Diana Tamane at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia
The programme will include tours in Estonian, Russian, English and Ukrainian. If you wish to participate in the tour, please register here. Participation in the tour and admission to the exhibition at EKKM is free of charge!
Artist talk
with Martin Germann,