New virtual platform for exhibitions

Tallinn Art Hall launches a unique and innovative virtual platform, bringing its exhibition programme online for audiences worldwide. The usability, accessibility, quality, and detail offered to the viewers is the industry’s best when it comes to virtual exhibitions, including features and access to elements that other platforms don’t. This level of intricacy is not achieved by ground-breaking new technology, VR headsets, and 360-degree cameras but rather by developing a new format that builds on existing well known and accessible tools and processes—cinematography, interactivity, and basic web applications. The technological complexity for implementing such virtual exhibitions is much lower than that of the specialized VR tools used by some institutions, yet it creates a distinctly spatial and ambient experience of the multidisciplinary work featured. The requirements for viewers are simply a moderately sized screen and a reasonably fast internet connection. Potential uses for the technology, however, are not limited to exhibitions and can be used for digitizing various spatial experiences: a platform that is easily accessible and achievable for most institutions interested in bringing their exhibitions online. 

Launch event: New solution for virtual exhibitions by Tallinn Art Hall:
April 9, 2020 at 4pm (Tallinn EEST, London 2pm BST, New York 9am EDT)
Register here (live Q&A)
Or view a live feed on YouTube

The format of the virtual platform has been developed by Taaniel Raudsepp (author of the platform format, director of Tallinn Art Hall), Sven Raju (coding and design), Elen Lotman (Video directing), Ivar Taim (Cinematography), Madis Tüür (Video production). The creators of the virtual platform are currently seeking partners to develop it further and release it for free use.

The platform is accessible at kunstihoone.ee/en

Tallinn Art Hall will launch its virtual platform with the following exhibitions, also offering live curators’ tours via video platforms, Youtube and Zoom: 

Current exhibition

Mihkel Ilus and Paul Kuimet. Endless Story
March 7–May 3, 2020
Curated by Siim Preiman

Endless Story brings together new work by Mihkel Ilus and Paul Kuimet. Based on their methods, materials and creative ideas, their practices may not appear to have much in common. However, their work is united by a dedication and creative intensity that is most clearly expressed in a shared fanaticism for their chosen media and techniques.

Virtual curator’s tour of the exhibition Endless Story by Siim Preiman:
April 14, 2020 at 4pm (Tallinn EEST, London 2pm BST, New York 9am EDT)
Register here (live Q&A)
Or view a live feed on YouTube

Recent exhibitions

Disarming Language: disability, communication, rupture
December 13, 2019–February 24, 2020
An exhibition and programme curated by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme

Disarming Language, in bringing together artists, graphic designers, writers, and activists, establishes a number of critical vantage points that imagine disability beyond a stigmatised “condition”. Its purpose lies in imagining new conceptual and experiential frameworks that use language and communication in innovative ways—through, with, and beyond disability—advancing a radically more expansive point of view past limiting ableist perspectives and possibilities

The following exhibitions will launch on the virtual platform to coincide with their live curator tours.

Ede Raadik. The Best You Can Ever Be
February 14–March 29, 2020
Curated by Corina L. Apostol

How do the advertisements we consume daily affect our behavior and establish certain gender roles? Can self-care become an empowering alternative to consumption? Or another clever advertising strategy that furthers oppression?

For her solo exhibition, she employs socially conscious art installations as a tool to engage with the world that we inhabit. 

Virtual curator’s tour of the solo exhibition of Ede Raadik The Best You Can Ever Be curated by Corina L. Apostol:
April 15, 2020 at 4pm (Tallinn EEST, London 2pm BST, New York 9am EDT)
Register here (live Q&A)
Or view a live feed on YouTube

Laura Kuusk. Dear Algorithm,
February 20–March 29, 2020
Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

As our lives are more and more digitally controlled, our bodies’ relationship to the environment has also changed in profound ways. Laura Kuusk’s solo exhibition Dear Algorithm, curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, explores the productive tension between our desire to adapt and survive on the one hand, and our resistance to the logic of codes, on the other.

Virtual artist’s tour of the exhibition Dear Algorithm by Laura Kuusk:
April 16, 2020 at 4pm (Tallinn EEST, London 2pm BST, New York 9am EDT)
Register here (live Q&A)
Or view a live feed on YouTube

About the Director of Tallinn Art Hall: author of the virtual platform’s format
Taaniel Raudsepp has been the director of Tallinn Art Hall since December 2014. He studied sociology and cultural theory and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2009, majoring in Photography. He is a member of the artist group Visible Solutions LLC (with Sigrid Viir and Karel Koplimets), which focuses on the economy and economic theory. He has previously worked as an IT risk manager (computer security) at Swedbank, systems administrator, freelance consultant, IT systems administration educator and as creative director guiding the production of e-learning solutions. He has been awarded the Baltic Assembly Prize for the Arts (2012), the Annual Art Award of Cultural Endowment (2013).

About Tallinn Art Hall
The Tallinn Art Hall Foundation is a contemporary art institution established in 1934 with an exhibition programme in three galleries on the central square of Tallinn—the Tallinn Art Hall, the Art Hall Gallery and the nearby City Gallery. Tallinn Art Hall addresses the most critical issues in contemporary art and society, providing a fascinating programme for contemporary audiences and helps artists create new exhibitions and works. They hold 15 to 17 exhibitions a year, making them one of the largest art producers in Estonia.

They are part of the larger international contemporary art scene and mediate an active exchange of ideas between local and international art scenes and audiences. In addition, they also organise exhibitions abroad. When putting together their programme they value being contemporary, international, well-curated, and engaging different generations.

In addition to exhibitions, their programme also features performances, concerts, talks and many other interesting events. 

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