FOKU is participating in Foto Tallinn 2024 international photographic art fair and will present the works of Eve Kiiler, Joosep Kivimäe and Ivar Veermäe. Art Fair Foto Tallinn will take place 6—8 September 2024 at Kai Art Center in Tallinn.Â
Foto Tallinn is a biannual international photographic art fair that presents the latest contemporary photography selected by a professional jury and creates an opportunity for the art audience to see, buy, and collect fresh photographic art. The curator of Foto Tallinn 2024 is Isabella van Marle, and the main organizers are Helen Melesk and Kadi-Ell Tähiste. The fair is organized by Foto Tallinn, the Estonian Union of Photography Artists and the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center. This year, the 11th edition of the photographic art fair will take place September 6-8 at the Kai Art Center.
Eve Kiiler (EE, b. 1960) is an artist, a curator, a teacher, and an active spokesperson for the medium of photography. Her personal projects often explore changes in the urban landscape and public space, as well as observing visitors to museums and exhibition venues. Her solo exhibitions include Urban Observations: Fenced Garden City (2016), Looking through the Windows (2018), Old and New Neighbours (2019), Location Scouting by the Sea (2020), All Roads lead to the Sea (2021), Alone in the City (2022) and Everyone is at Home (2023).
Ivar Veermäe (EE/DE, b. 1982) works in Tallinn and Berlin. He is an artist whose works evolve through careful study, conducting first-hand research or gathering insights from discussions with others – those connected to a place or subject in question. Veermäe combines video, photography and sound recordings with 3D animations into a mixture of documentary, staged and computer generated imagery. Often, he presents his results as multi-channel spatial installations. Environmental theory, climate literature, technology criticism, behavioural science and fiction provide a theoretical foundation for his projects.
Joosep Kivimäe (EE, b. 1994) is a Tallinn-based photographer, who graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2022. In 2020, Kivimäe participated in the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, the Netherlands, with his Umbrella of Illusion work. That same year, his Isolation Dialogues project – an extensive visual conversation with photographer Rait Tuulas – was staged by the Estonian Museum of Photography. Kivimäe’s work has been shown domestically in a range of surprising locations: the Lõuna exhibition (2020) brought his work to a former shopping mall, whilst the Hulgad exhibition (2020) took place in the tunnel of the Tallinn Baltic Railway Station.
Photo: Ivar Veermäe ‘Multiple Centuries of Sunlight’ (2024)