A goal of the course was to network students with 3D service providing companies in an attempt to interpret the notion of intimacy by using digital technologies’ toolkit. Where intimate and digital meet? Is such contact is possible? What are the laptop’s conceptual possibilities? These were the questions BA III students intended to answer through the practical […]
I co-curated the exhibition “Offset” that was organised in collaboration with NID and was dedicated to Estonian jewellery design as part of the Paris Design Week 2017. My part lay in selection and communication with artists participated. The vernissage happened on 10th of September at Galerie Résidences. NID participated in Paris Design Week for the third time. 2017 year’s theme was jewellery, […]
Symposium Jewellery Matters concerned a context and material research and took place in Amsterdam at Rijksmuseum for two days. On the third day I assisted Prof Kadri Mälk at her private view at Louis Smit residency. PROGRAMME OF THE SYMPOSIUM: SOME STILLS FROM SYMPOSIUM AND THE VIEW: Lauren Kalman Last glance onto jewellery:) A ring for one… […]
ENJOIA’T, Contemporary Jewelry Awards is an important meeting of professional and student jewelers from all over the world, which occurs during Barcelona Jewelry Week. I have travelled there as a semifinalist and showed three works at Disseny HUB Barcelona from 27.09 to 5.10.2017. Metanoia V brooch 2015 stabilized wood, silver, steel modelled & 3D scanned, CNC milled 11.5 […]
Isiknäituse “EROS LOADING” / “EROOTILINE LAETUS” avamine toimus HOP galeriis 14. septembril, 2017 a. Elutute esemete hingestatus; digitaalne animism. Mis võiks olla arvuti ning nutitelefoni kasutamisel veel intiimsem kui tema pidev, lakkamatu ning lähedane kohalolu? Kohalolu, kus Platoni idee Erosest kui ideaalsest vormist on viidud täiuslikkuseni; ekraani operatsioonide näiline lihtsus, virtuaalsete vormide ja värvide laitmatus […]
ESTONISHING ! 13* from Estonia 17.11.2016–15.01.2017 Exhibition was opened 16 November 2016 at Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design __ Contemporary Estonian jewellery has become a hallmark of quality on the international stage and stands out with its emotional depth and melancholic contemplation from the ever-conforming jewellery of the mainstream. This is also the […]
DIGITAL INTIMACY – the course I was honoured to conduct for 3rd BA students of Jewellery and Blacksmithing Department at EAA. Final goal was to create an art object or a piece of jewellery, exploring how and where the intimate and digital meet and whether such confluence is possible. __ how to deliver a message […]
My everlasting gratitude for having such wonderful time in Munich with Olga Biro and her family. The time – Kadri Mälk’s exhibition’s setup and the vernissage, where I am also the lucky one to represent my works. #EstArtJewellery The great three! Treasures from 2007. Found behind the scenes of the gallery. Tanel Veenre, Kadri […]
From 6 to 29 October 2016 the EAA Gallery in Tallinn exhibited works by four young jewellery artists, Hanna-Maria Vanaküla, Sofia Hallik, Merlin Meremaa, Darja Popolitova. The show titled “Symptom” explores sypmtoms and pathologies born within the innermost corners of the artists’ psyche. photos by Liina Lelov GD Thnxallatte Special thanx to Keiu Krikmann, Tanel Veenre, Kadri […]
KAФEDRA – exhibition by the department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Art 29 April, 2016, Narva Art Residency Sofia Hallik Merlin Meremaa Hanna-Maria Vanaküla Federica Cogliandro Miikael Danieljants, Jens Clausen Federica Cogliandro, Viktorija Domarkaite Krenholm Jens Clausen, Miikael Danieljants, Rauno Paju, Darja Popolitova A speech of Kadri Mälk Küllike Kullerkupp (from the left left) […]
It started one year ago, and finally we would dare to name ourselves “Atelier Aur”. We define it as a working place that brings together soulmates who share the same vision about contemporary jewellery. Our atelier is located in retro-industrial building called ARS. This building is a former ceramics factory that is set to undergo […]
I would like to share my emotions from Schmuck 2016, where altogether 13 Estonian artists represented Galeria Thomas Cohn under the name ESTONISHING ! During the week of being in Munich, there are two things that I have found about our team. It means that no matter how strong is the creative energy of an artist, the sense […]
ANDROGYNOUS JEWELLERY #hybridity #techpoetry #futusensualism #metanoia You must strip yourself of every sentiment, of everything to which man clings. Unless you do this, you are but halfhearted in your enterprise. Honore de Balzac, “Séraphîta”, 1897 […]
I would kindly like to thank Jewellery and Blacksmithing department for the opportunity to conduct “Oil Shale course”. Also I would like to thank my students who experienced tough emotional three-month period: I saw them obstinate and passionate, modest and expressive, sad and happy. And this is great, because we all have changed. The story of this course is that […]
The work above is by Merlin Meremaa Küsitleb Anneli Oppar. Scroll down for English. VUNDAMENT Sa oled noor ja edukas kunstnik ning proovid kätt juba ka õpetajana. Missugused on need iseloomuomadused, mis sind edasi viivad? Distsipliin, vaatamata igasugustele olukordadele. Sinu juhendatud kursus tegeleb põlevkiviga. Kuidas tulid idee peale teha põlevkivist ehted? Kuna ma olen pärit Sillamäelt […]
I had a pleasure of being accompanying Professor Kadri Mälk in Munich for the conference Real Magic. Different lecturers and guest professors from various disciplines are invited to speak about current realities of magic and its rediscovery in the arts. Kadri also made a 4-day schedule for us to walk around Munich. We had a […]
I realised the information on the city of my childhood. Sillamäe – a global miniature with a poetry of Konstantin Balmont’s fairies.* It is known that Estonia is rich with slate (in the layers of rocks). Reserves prolong from St. Petersburg until Toompea (Tallinn). By the way, the clay which is on the top layer […]
Book “Andorgyny: jewellery beyond gender” is a MA thesis research, where I consider the concept of gender as disintegration of the wholeness, that generated male and female duality. The idea of merging natural and synthetic was also represented through the book design, where instead of classical binding rubber bands were used. collaboration with: Olga Makaronskaja, Sofia […]
Tanel Veenre, the most inspiring tutor! Great to have so much beholders!
By documenting backstage events that happened in my life during while working on the topic of Androgyny helped me to move forward with this project. The documentation has a chronological order. June 2013 I applied for MA of Jewellery and Blacksmithing department at EKA. It was an interview. I knew that in order to […]
The upshot of the internship at fashion jewellery brand “Florian jewelry” in Vienna/2014. TYPICAL DAY My day began early in the morning. I got onto a tramm at 7:30. By passing Siegmund Freud’s park and University of Vienna, I came to the city center. STUDIO LIFE If I would divide four month work onto […]
Kliv is a series of jewelry made out of cutlery where originally fork parts were cut, bended and polished into unusual brooches, earrings, pendants and rings. Logo is created by graphic designer Anastassia Sharõmova http://sharomova.com/
All of the lockets were done by me during last two years. Here are some examples which I would like to share with you. This one has a chain with a tourmaline stone and the lock has a small cubic zirconia stone as well. This locket I did during my studying at Estonian Academy of Arts. The […]
Gallop is a series of blacksmithed, silver and leather jewellery on hands, neck and the head, which was selected and shown at Erki fashion show 2014. The idea is to apply a symbol of a horse to a person. Special thanx to autosport photographer Vladmir Ljadov for the pictures http://wheelsbywovka.com/ and my favourite models: […]
Photography: Jackie Wilde Model 1: Aleksandr Janchuk Model 2: Aleksej Katjuk Stylist: Dmitry Knut MUA: Margarita Leonova Jewellery: Darja Popolitova Special thanks to Levvis Benuchi, Eleonora Shljanda May 2014