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.
Anita Kodanik weaves a transindividualist sensibility, inspired by rats, into an exhibition that explores inevitable misery—one that can only be alleviated through the hope of togetherness.
Artists: Alina Kleytman, Filip Vest, Sam Elagoz, Zody Burke.
On the opening evening, 9 May at 19.00 artist Filip Vest will perform their piece Self Tape.
Together in their lonely misery, rats collide and act with no future – making it happen here and now. Rat colony’s way of life is essentially transindividual – they gather together not because they can’t survive alone but because it’s easier together. Repelled into illth yet they are crawling out and taking space. Obsessing about their own blood, sweat and tears, they gloriously raise their heads to expose and exhibit, thus declaring one’s existence. They take the stage and make it happen. It is time to get disturbed in order to keep living – to seek passion, compassion, and companionship. The exhibition is about the sensibility of rat life – about moving beyond individual, claiming space to perform the self, obsessively, unconditionally.
Anita Kodanik is a curator, writer and educator based in Tallinn. In her practice, she is interested in expressions of identity (politics) in visual culture. She also works with queer theories and practices. Anita is currently curator of public programmes at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM).
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.
EKKM is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12.00 to 19.00.
Anita Kodanik’s exhibition from the cycle Rooms in Rhymes will remain open until 25 May.