Exhibition Views 2019

December 13, 2019-March 1, 2020, Adamson-Eric Museum 
The first part of the exhibition introduces Annus’s legendary 1987 backyard performances Transitions (also known as Mooni 46a, based on their location). Annus’s pictorial works from the late 1970s to the present day enter into a dialogue with his performances. In a sense, Siim-Tanel Annus has spent his life creating a single large integrated work of art, in which the visionary geometrical graphic pictures created as a teenager intertwine organically with his mystical backyard rituals and today’s large-scale murals.

Curator: Liis Kibuspuu (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Designer: Sylvia-Johanna Annus
Graphic designer: Külli Kaats

August 16-December 1, 2019, Adamson-Eric Museum 
In Järvenpää, on the picturesque shores of Lake Tuusula, a community of National Romantic artists developed in the 1890s, with the artists Eero Järnefelt (1863–1937), Venny Soldan-Brofeldt (1863–1945) and Pekka Halonen, as well as the composer Jean Sibelius and the writer Juhani Aho at its core. The peak of Eero Järnefelt’s and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt’s creative period coincided with the time that the visual idiom of the Finnish identity and national ideal was taking shape.

Curator: Hanna Nikander (Järvenpää Art Museum) Coordinator: Kersti Koll
Designer: Osmo Leppälä
Graphic designer: Maria Appelberg

April 5-August 4, 2019, Adamson-Eric Museum 
With the birth of professional Estonian theatre at the beginning of the 20th century, a need arose for a more holistic approach to staging, including the stylistics and visual aspects of performances. In Teatri-raamat, published in 1913 on the state of Estonian theatre, the members of the Noor-Eesti group criticised the weakness and primitiveness of Estonian stage design, which had been left far behind by the developments in German and Russian scenography. The existing design principles of the time could not be used to express more complicated dramaturgical ideas.

Curator: Kerttu Männiste
Designer: Mae Kivilo