On June 6, 2014 a summer exhibition “Glas” opened in the Nordic House, Faroe Islands.Participants: Tróndur Patursson (FO), Brynhildur Thorgeirsdóttir (IS), Pipaluke Lake (DK), Outi Turpeinen (FI), Kristiina Uslar (EE), Anna Viktoria Norberg (SE), Brandur Patursson (FO). Open till the end of August.
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Mare Saare and Kristiina Uslar participated at The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2014. The exhibition opened April 12 at the Museum of Contemporary European Glass Art in Rödental and the Veste Castle Museum in Coburg and stays open till Sept. 14. Continue reading
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An international exhibition of Nordic and Baltic glass, titled 2D →, opened May 13, 2014 at the Arka Gallery in Vilnius, Conrad g . 7. This is a follow-up to the first such exhibition, which took place in Vilnius and Klaipeda in 2012.
The light and glass artist Meeli Koiva was one of the keynote speakers at Light in the City 3-rd Conference in Eskilstuna, Sweden. There was also organizedthe light festival Natlljus. Meeli Koiva was the only artist as the keynote speaker at this conference.
The conference was about light and design in a larger perspective.
Light in the City is the project what was supported by European Union foundations.
The topic of the conference was to fiund high level permanent art-light sculptures for the cities, to promote and show the perspectives of light art and citylighting.
The organizers’ idea was to link artists, city officials and the representatives of light firms.
The Light in the City conference in Eskilstuna was the third conference of the 2 years series.
Two previous conferences of The Light in the City took place in Hasselt, autumn 2013 and spring 2014 in Tartu.
Artists have been chosen by the European competition for all these conferences.
And the jury was formed by the leading curators of European art museums and city officials.
Meeli Koiva was one of the winners for two times, for the Hasselt (Belgium) Conference 2013 and to the Tartu (Estonia) Conference 2014.
The third time there was also organized a competition for professional artists and via competition 8 artists from Europe were selected, by a short portfolio viewing presentation.
Meeli Koiva’s talk was about the importance of artists’ vision in nowadays very similar and monotonous technically cold environments.
By the words of an artist the unique handwriting of an artist helps to bring to the city environment human sensitive touch, where our glimpse could stay, and to turn the environment more unique and personal.
At her paper She introduced her new glass -light projects for Silicon Valley, that clue together glass, light, social problems and the environment.
Meeli Koiva has been one of the innovators, trailblazers and forerunners in the glass and light field for over 30 years.
Her glass and light art for the architecture has been reproduced at the US and at the European magazines.
She has been invited to make presentations at universities, she has been an invited speaker at seminars and at conferences in Europe and USA.
The magazine The World of Glass published at their autumn issue an article “Visions of Light and Glass about Meeli Koiva`s glass creations. The article is written by British professor David Richard Arney. The magazine is published in English and Greek languages.
The first presentation of the magazine took place in October, 2014 at the world’s biggest and leading glass exhibition and glass congress Glasstec in Düsseldorf.
In the future, the magazine will be presented at the leading glass exhibitions, conferences USA, Europe, Asia.
In the article David Richard Arney is describing philosophical glass creations in architecture and their meanings and connections with light.
Last 30 years, Meeli Koiva has been an innovator, a pioneer and a trailblazer in the field of glass -light art in Europe and in the USA.
There are also examples and stories about the meanings in the architectural context and about their impression for the viewer.
Meeli Koiva is describing her long creative process: how the glass paintings have born.
The glasspaintings have been created on the surfaces of the new bureau glass façades, on the atrium glass surfaces, on the façade windows.
Meeli Koiva is describing also her innovative acrylic paintings which have been printed on glass panels and give a kinetic effect in collaboration with specifically composed animations.
Meeli Koiva is expressing how important is the artist’s handwriting in our monotonous architectural environment and speaking about the artist’s mission to make changes in architectural situations.
The artist is transforming her sensitive aquarelles and acrylic paintings in huge glass surfaces.
For Meeli Koiva, the architectural context is as a sensitive screen for light-glass messages. Science is meeting spirituality through light and glass.
Innovative and technically experimental and pioneered glass-video art pieces and glass-light sculptures by Meeli Koiva achieved recognition and accolodates among European and American top professionals and in international magazines.
The same article is also published in full length at the Marbella Marbella Adelante website.
Visions of Light and Glass-International Success for Meeli Koiva: .http://marbellamarbella.es/2014-10-01/visions-of-light-and-glass-international-success-for-meeli-koiva/
Glass artist Meeli Koiva was selected via competition from European artists at the European competition “Light in the City”, Northern Light.
In the course of the event 14 Nordic artists presented their work.
The light event “Light in the City” showcase works by Nordic light artists that have been selected by an international group of experts. Continue reading
Kateriin Rikken is presenting her work at the TABLE. You are very welcome on Sunday, 18.08 at 2pm-8pm. The installation is part of Kumu Art Museum exhibition “Afterlives of Gardens”. The artist is present.
Kateriin Rikken is a freelance glass artist and curator at GaleriiPINK.
kateriinrikken.com
 Tiina Sarapu “Long field” 2012; 95 x 28,5 x 20cm |
 Mare Saare “Defining chaos II” 2012; d 35cm h 9cm |
Estonian glass art celebrates its 75th jubilee with a grand installative exhibition „Grand Fragility“ from 9 June to 22 July in Tallinn Art Hall. Continue reading
Mare Saare “Spiral I”
European Museum for Modern Glass, Rosenau, Germany
Pâte de Verre – From Jugendstil to Studio Glass
May 10 to October 28, 2012
Pâte de verre is a special and extremely fragile type of glass. This mixture of glass powder, binder and metal oxides has been known since ancient times, but it enjoyed an unforeseen heyday in the Jugendstil or art nouveau period before being rediscovered, once again, by the studio glass movement in the UK and France in the 1980s. One fascinating aspect is that the art works – mostly bowls, vases and objects, although some sculptures and installations are also on display – are not immediately recognisable as glass; at first glance, what they are actually made of is a mystery. Continue reading