From 4 April, the exhibitions of the collaborative project Rooms in Rhymes by seven curators will start to open. Each week a new exhibition by one of the curators replaces another on one of the museum floors, thus forming a rhythmical and fluctuating whole of displays throughout the museum building. Openings on 4, 11, 17 and 25 April, as well as 2 and 9 May.
The exhibition cycle experiments with curating as a form of poetic, performative and collective practice, wishing to enhance dialogue in visual art projects and to host the plurality of voices. Evelyn Raudsepp invited an extended group of curators to join her, including team members usually carrying out different roles at the museum, and creatives who have previously worked with EKKM: Anita Kodanik, Brigit Arop, Johannes Luik, Laura De Jaeger, Laura Linsi and Marten Esko. The exhibition will feature more than 20 artists, both local and international, including authors from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Laura De Jaeger will open the exhibition cycle on the museum middle floor with in-betweenness, inspired by the suspended time of the waiting room.
Artists: Agnes Isabelle Veevo, Ben Caro & Kat-Cutler MacKenzie, Camille Laurelli.
On the opening night, 4 April, from 18-21, there will be a performance by Kirte Jõesaar (free).
This fragment of Rooms in Rhymes is precisely a moment in-between – like the second floor in a three story building. It relates to the space between two events (or images?) like a waiting room, be it in a care center, a bureaucratic entity, or a station for people about to catch a ride. A place where the currency of time feels as if it is not spent. There is an ambiguity to this, appearing arduous and boring yet functioning as a blank canvas that might ignite something. How does this orbit between feeling jammed and a conscious act of resistance in a society where progress and productive time-management are prevalent? And what can be found in the rhythm of one’s fiddles when there is nothing at hand?
Laura De Jaeger lives between Tallinn and Brussels. Her work focuses on objects and sites that are currently resting. Through gathering and paraphrasing, she checks in on ways stories can charge or reshape them. She works with physical materials as well as writing and inviting. Alongside her artistic practice, she works at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), teaches at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and guides through exhibitions in WIELS.
The Rooms in Rhymes exhibition cycle will be sequenced with six curated exhibitions and an eventful programme, see the full programme here: https://fb.me/e/7Swf8TT3z
Supporters: Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Ministry of Culture, City of Tallinn, Akzo Nobel, Liviko AS, Punch Club OÜ.
Kat Cutler-MacKenzie was kindly supported by The Eaton Fund to produce the work for this exhibition.
EKKM is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12.00 to 19.00.
Laura De Jaeger’s exhibition from the cycle Rooms in Rhymes will remain open until 20 April.