European Glass Context 2008 forms part of a biennial symposium for European
Contemporary glass and ceramics. This biennial symposium takes place on the Island
of Bornholm, Denmark in September and October 2008. For the first time this event
presents contemporary European glass. Continue reading →

“The Light and Silence in Sound”
December 7th-25th of 2007

A human being accepts the world through senses. But quite often we would like to share, what we have received. Continue reading →

FRAGILE. RECORDED INFLUENCES

September 14th – October 2nd 2007

Hop gallery
Hobusepea 2, Tallinn
open Th – Tu 10 -1 8

Artist Meeli Kõiva gave a presentation at the worlds biggest glass conference.

The presentation, called “Metamorphosis in glass space installations” was given at the Tampere Glass Processing Days in June, which is one of the most distinguished glass conferences in the world. This was the tenth year that the conference took place. Continue reading →

ROUND: exhibition of glass at the Albu manor July 11 to july 29, 2007

The exhibition ROUND comprises the latest works of Estonian glass artists.
The Albu manor, originally built in the 18th century, was renovated in 1995-2000. The spacious exhibition area includes several rooms and, as frequently characteristic of manor houses, one can proceed from one room to another through double doors all around the building. Continue reading →

Eeva Käsper: Chandelier

Viivi-Ann Keerdo, Eeva Käsper and Tiina Sarapu together with German glass artists Annelie Grund and Werner Kothe were invited to participate in series of events organized by Glasbrücke Berlin.

The evening of June 2nd was a great beginning of the season. There was an open air glass art exhibition in Berlin Glass Night. Hundreds of people gathered in the garden to enjoy art and music. The beautiful garden was a perfect place for the exhibiting and lightning of glass art works. Continue reading →

Feb. 28 – Mar 21, 2007

Rakvere Gallery

Pikk 15, Rakvere Continue reading →

Kersti Vaks (b. 1940) belongs to the generation of Estonian glass artists who began their artistic careers in the 1960-ies. Due to the lack of opportunities at that period to work with glass in Estonia she worked from 1967 to 1972 as a designer at the Byelorussian glass factory Neman, one of the largest in the then USSR.

After her return to Estonia in 1972 she started teaching at the department of glass of the Estonian Academy of Arts (then: State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR). Her ties with the factory continued and thanks to the artist-friendly atmosphere she was able to experiment and work out her own technique, combining lead crystal with sulfide glass. The outcome was complicated three-dimensional drawing, black and white threads of glass creating beautiful graphical worlds inside clear and milky white glass. Her use of colors remained modest, yet nuanced. Her beloved forms – elegant vases, sometimes ground and polished, and simple plates lent her the “canvas” to draw on and reveal the richness of graphical patterns. The inspiration most often has been taken from nature.

Among Estonian glass artists she stands out as one of the very few who have stayed true to blown and furnace-worked glass, although recently she has also sometimes turned to kiln-work as well.

Kersti Vaks’s works will be exhibited at the Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimäki from March 16 to April 24, 2007.

Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
PRESS RELEASE 18 January 2007
“ESTONIAN GLASS ART 70: The decade’s best (1996-2006)”
25 January – 25 February 2007

Professional glass art in Estonia turns 70 this year. The field is considered to have started in Estonia in 1936 when a department was created at the State School of Industrial Art (now the Estonian Academy of Arts) for teaching the speciality. It’s a suitable time to cast a nostalgic glance back at the most memorable works and show them to others as well. Ten years ago at the Tallinn Art Hall, we displayed a retrospective that went well into the more distant past. This year’s selection includes works from the ten years since that exhibition. Continue reading →

Tiina Sarapu: Voices

Nov.10  – Dec. 3, 2006
Tallin Art Hall Gallery
Vabaduse väljak 8

Glass artists Mare Saare and Tiina Sarapu have built their recent exhibitions upon certain projects: delving into a subject, playing with conceptual and formal issues; analysing glass as a material with exceptional qualities and, above all, with diverse meanings. Continue reading →