Literacy – Illiteracy. The 16th Tallinn Print Triennial
Location: 5th floor, Gallery of Contemporary Art
Compared to the early 20th century, the concept of literacy has acquired a new meaning today. If earlier it primarily referred to reading and writing skills, today many different types of literacy are discussed, mostly digital literacy, but also functional, mathematical, natural science and media literacy.
The 16th Tallinn Print Triennial project titled “LITERACY – ILLITERACY” / “KIRJAOSKUS – KIRJAOSKAMATUS” continues to deal with this old topic with the goal of finding new development scenarios for graphic media in presenting a selection of Nordic, Baltic and international artists and print makers, that work in the field of both the classical genre of graphic as well as digital medias.
For the 16th Tallinn Print Triennial new approaches will be taken to integrate a discussion about the relationship between the tradition of printmaking and contemporary approaches, digital or analogue, to the genre. Besides the main exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum, the triennial offers different new collaborations and co-operations to make the triennial an active knowledge and production site. The selected artists have, for the most part, been invited to make new works specifically for the triennial. For some it will result in research in the archive of the triennial, and for others it will be direct collaborations with the local art scene and public.
The investigation of the reproduction techniques and the aesthetic and expressive strategies, be it classical or contemporary, that apply to them, opens up a complex field of the most diverse questions to concepts such as: original and copy, production and reproduction, presentation and representation, ultimately leading to the question of how the message of an art work can be interpreted.
Participating artists:
Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Søren Andreasen, Arnas Anskaitis, Britta Benno, Eglė Budvytytė, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Johan Elm, Dénes Farkas, Ester Fleckner, Goodiepal, Louise Hold Sidenius, Katri Ikävalko, Publication Studio Malmö, Anita Jensen, Toril Johannessen, Flo Kasearu in collaboration with Aleksandr Roslini, Jaan Rõõmuse, Ronald Uusiga, Tõnis Kenkmaa & Mariliis Oksaar, KIWA, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Toomas Kuusing, Oliver Laas, Leonards Laganovskis, Karl Larsson, Victoria Leonidou, Alexandra Leykauf, Anna Lihodedova & Mihkel Vorsman, Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė, Raul Meel, Daria Melnikova, Dan Mihaltianu, Katja Novitskova, Orbita, Berit Pajula, Jurgis Paškevičius, Lea Porsager, Ede Raadik, Mark Raidpere, Cia Rinne, Zofia Rogula, Viktorija Rybakova, Liina Siib, Rūta Spelskytė, Andres Tali, Claudia Terstappen, Mads Thomsen, Peter Thörneby, Jiří Thýn, Ola Vasiljeva, Carolin Weinert, Eglė Vertelkaitė, Urmas Viik.
Curator of the Triennial: Maria Kjær Themsen (Denmark)
Collaboration partners and sponsors:
Embassy of the USA in Tallinn, Danish Arts Council, DHL Estonia AS, DSV, Art Academy of Estonia, Estonian Artists’ Association, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Goethe Institute, Council of Gambling Tax, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, Danish Culture Institute, Embassy of Denmark in Estonia, Tallinn Cultural Heritage Office