Recently decorated Appreciated Glass Artist 2022-2023, Sofi Aršas opened her solo exhibition “See through the Fog” Feb 8, 2025, at.l 16.00 at the Rapla County Centre for COntemporary Art.

Layers: Baltic Contemporary Glass Art
15.02.2025. – 18.05.2025.
Museum of Decorative Arts and Design

From 15 February to 18 May 2025, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (Skārņu iela 10) invites to visit an impressive Baltic contemporary glass art exhibition entitled Layers, embracing the work of 24 talented artists from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

The Baltic glass art exhibition focuses attention on the modern application of glass – the ways how the traditional properties of this material can be used in a contemporary and conceptually ideological context. The atmosphere and mood of the show will immerse the viewer into a beautiful, fragile, and at the same time powerful world expressed through the poetic and slightly mysterious medium.

The title of the project is based on the idea of multidimensionality, uncovering the nature of objects and phenomena from different perspectives. Multilayering can be observed in the earth’s crust, in the atmosphere, and in the perception of any thing. History is also shaped by the layering of events. Nothing has ever been clear-cut; the secret nature is always ambiguous – it can be perceived either in context or subtext.

The exhibition brings together 24 diverse professional artists from Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, whose primary medium of self-expression is glass. At the same time, it provides an overview of the current possibilities within the field of glass art and poses a question: what defines the value of a glass artwork – is it the visually irresistible beauty or the conceptual message?

The objects represented at the Baltic contemporary glass art exhibition were judged and selected through a competition by a panel of curators – Kati Kerstna (Estonia), Dalia Truskaitė (Lithuania), Bārbala Gulbe, and Marta Ģibiete (Latvia). The jury also included other local and international experts of the field. Finally, the exposition demonstrates 23 individual and collaborative artworks by 9 artists from Latvia, 7 from Lithuania, and 7 from Estonia.

The show offers a rich spectrum of art – from intricately crafted paintings and glass graphics on paper to large-scale installations, monumental glass piles, and molten glass sculptures. The Baltic dimension of the exhibition allows us to discern the kindred and at the same time assess the differences of perception while viewing the artworks from the neighbouring countries. It helps us to rediscover our own perspectives on glass – the material common to us all – and see how the shared history and related identity of the Baltic States are in an artistic way echoed in it. It is the same Baltic Sea and shores, the same forests, the same grey rain and fog, the long months of darkness, and the closer to the North, the greater the hunger for light.

Maret Sarapu has completed her monumental work Carbon and Kevlar for the Kilingi-Nõmme Emergency Services building.

Info and photos: https://rkas.ee/et/uudised/kilingi-nomme-uhishoonet-ehib-maret-sarapu-klaaspannoo

Sigrid Maria Luitsaluäs work “Gender is Doing” has been selected for the European Prize for Applied Arts. Exhibition of works is open 23.11.2024 – 16.2.2025, in Belgium, Mons Anciens Abbatoirs’.

Info: https://www.becraft.org/event/maestria
Catalogue of works:
https://www.becraft.org/…/eyJfcmFpbHMiOns…/Catalogue.pdf

IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Glass installation, sound, ligh, movement
VANA-VÕROMAA KULTUURIKODA
6.12.2024 – 2.02.2025

Artists: Sofi Aršas, Kairi Orgusaar, Kati Kerstna
Guest: Erki Kannus

From Nov 15, 2024, Kati Kerstna and Marta Gibiete show their works at the Kaldabruna Church, Latvia. The exhibition, titled “Connections” is a conversation between two artists from two different countries – but also a story about a small community that suffered under Communist rule.

Several members of the EGAU participated at solo and group shows at the Tartu Festival of Light:

Birgit Pählapuu with her solo exhibition “Rebellion of the Flies” at the Botanical Garden

Group exhibition “Flying” at the Botanical Garden-  Kati Kerstna, Kairi Orgusaar, Sofi Aršas

Group exhibition “Inherited Light” at the Pallas Gallery – Rait Prääts

Eili Soon and Elo Sein
TRIACA
Design and Architecture Gallery, Tallinn
11 – 23.11.2024

TRIACA – the force of glassblowing. A mental and emotional antidote to daily pressures and challenges. Glass is more than amaterial; it is a medium to express human dreams, collisions and amendments. Each object becomes a symbol to a journey, a quest for balance. We invite the audience to find their own activities and moments which purify the soul, bring you back to your essence. This exhibition reminds us that everyone is capable of creating their personal antidote.

At the 110th anniversary of the Estonian Academy of Arts, EVe Koha presented her newly printed book “Glass Painting – Painting with Light.”

Eve Koha’s book presents an overview of the history of glass painting and its methods. Glass painting methods and materials have undergone great development over time. Eve Koha’s book is primarily intended as educational material, but it is also suitable for anyone who wants to get to know the glass painting more closely.

Author and compiler: Eve Koha
Editor and illustrator: Kai Kiudsoo-Värv
Design: Anneliis Aunapuu
Language editor: Triin Truuvert
Technical editor: Heige Peets
Print: GRANO

152 pages, in Estonian
Glass Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, 2024