On two Sundays, 25 January and 8 February at 3 PM, artist tours with Neeme Külm will take place at Tütar gallery as part of the exhibition “en face.” The tours will be conducted in Estonian and are free for all visitors.
Neeme Külm’s work is known for its site-specific and space-manipulating qualities. The pieces created for this exhibition are also inspired by the spatial environment. By exploring and shifting the possibilities and limitations of the gallery space, Külm develops a new logic for moving through the exhibition and interacting with its surroundings.
According to philosopher Eik Hermann, it is fitting to say that Neeme Külm’s true creative subject is the visitor and their experience, particularly the part of that experience that hovers between playfulness and the uncanny. “Through his spatial interventions, he shifts our habitual expectations of the exhibition’s ‘user experience,’ as well as our usual ways of relating to objects, asking what this evokes in us and how we respond to it. He does so indirectly, through gently executed acts of care-infused brutality and finely honed roughness,” Hermann writes in the exhibition text.
Neeme Külm (1974) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a BA in Sculpture (1998) and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts (2005). In 2008, he received the Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine and Applied Arts and Architecture for the Estonian pavilion “Gaasitoru” at the 11th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2012, Külm was awarded the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s Fine and Applied Arts Award for his solo exhibition “Pinnavirvendus”, and in 2015 he received the Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for his role in the Estonian Contemporary Art Museum program (together with Anders Härm).
The artist and the gallery would like to thank Aksel Haagensen, Raili Keiv, Kadri Villand, Tarvo Porroson, Tiit Pääsuke, Karl Nagel, Viktor Gurov, Ott Metusala, Marko Smirnov, Alice Kask, Veiko Illiste, Johann Möldre, Eik Hermann, Virgo Pastak, Art Allmägi, Joosep Kivimäe and Valge Kuup Studio. The exhibition is supported by Tallinn Art Hall and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
