View from the exhibition 'If This Is Light, Then Give Us Darkness' (with Ellen Vene), Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'If This Is Light, Then Give Us Darkness' (with Ellen Vene), Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'Savepoint 1' (2023). Pigment print mounted on aluminium composite, custom painted display frame, museum glass, 80 × 110 cm. View from the exhibition 'If This Is Light, Then Give Us Darkness' (with Ellen Vene), Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'Savepoint 2' (2023). Pigment print mounted on aluminium composite, custom painted display frame, museum glass, 80 × 110 cm. View from the exhibition 'If This Is Light, Then Give Us Darkness' (with Ellen Vene), Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo and Ellen Vene 'Sit Down, Relax, And Die Again Later' (2023). Installation, chrome coated ceramic objects, printed fabric, dimensions variable. View from the exhibition 'If This Is Light, Then Give Us Darkness' (with Ellen Vene), Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2023. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'Your Afterlife Is Cancelled' (with Ellen Vene), ARS project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'Your Afterlife Is Cancelled' (with Ellen Vene), ARS project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'Afterlife 1' (2022). Pigment print mounted on aluminium composite, display frame, 50 × 70 cm. View from the exhibition 'Your Afterlife Is Cancelled' (with Ellen Vene), ARS project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'Afterlife 2' (2022). Pigment print mounted on aluminium composite, display frame, 50 × 70 cm. View from the exhibition 'Your Afterlife Is Cancelled' (with Ellen Vene), ARS project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'Out of Sight Is Out of Mind' (with Ellen Vene), Roam project space, Berlin, Germany, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'Out of Sight Is Out of Mind' (with Ellen Vene), Roam project space, Berlin, Germany, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'XTC' (2022). Installation, digital print, 110,8 × 168 cm, 2022. View from the exhibition 'Out of Sight Is Out of Mind '(with Ellen Vene), Roam project space, Berlin, Germany, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'Time Melting Away' (2022). Installation, ropes, printed fabric, sneakers, candles, candle wax, paint pigment, dimensions variable. View from the exhibition 'Out of Sight Is Out of Mind' (with Ellen Vene), Roam project space, Berlin, Germany, 2022. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'Dreams in Unfreedom' (with Sven Parker), Tartu Art House Monumental Gallery, Tartu, Estonia, 2022. Curator: Madli Ehasalu. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'Dreams in Unfreedom' (with Sven Parker), Tartu Art House Monumental Gallery, Tartu, Estonia, 2022. Curator: Madli Ehasalu. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'Forever Green Is the Tree of Life' (2022). Pigment print mounted on aluminium composite, display frame, 70 × 90 cm. View from the exhibition 'Dreams in Unfreedom' (with Sven Parker), Tartu Art House Monumental Gallery, Tartu, Estonia, 2022. Curator: Madli Ehasalu. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air' (with Arvi Anderson and Sven Parker), Naked Island project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
View from the exhibition 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air' (with Arvi Anderson and Sven Parker), Naked Island project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air' (2021). Pigment print mounted on aluminium composite, 111 × 155 cm. View from the exhibition 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air' (with Arvi Anderson and Sven Parker), Naked Island project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'The Faithful Guardian' (2021). Installation, Ikea shopping bag, porcelain figure, sand, 55 × 37 × 35 cm, 2021. View from the exhibition 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air' (with Arvi Anderson and Sven Parker), Naked Island project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
21. Roman-Sten Tõnissoo 'S-Klasse' (2021). Installation, Mercedes-Benz hood ornaments, pieces of asphalt, shiny lycra fabric, dimensions variable. View from the exhibition 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air' (with Arvi Anderson and Sven Parker), Naked Island project space, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021. Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo (1989) has graduated from the department of photography (BA) and contemporary art (MA) at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and has also studied at FAMU, Film and TV School in Prague. The focal point of his artistic practice lies in the quest for spirituality and purpose in contemporary society, and in the fragile connections between aggression and the sense of security. The artist’s cross-media work methods refer to and search for spatial moments of dialogue, including the potential to visualize new possible future perspectives.

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Works for sale

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

59.462644, 24.651089 II

70 x 50

570 EUR

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Ruby Woo

24 × 34 cm

155 EUR

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Marienbad

24 × 34 cm

155 EUR

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo

Forever Green Is the Tree of Life

70 × 90 cm

1248 EUR