20.–23.04.2017
Kuimet’s project aims to turn the visitor’s sharp eye towards the world, where we were used to following the circumstances of Nature, that allowed us to predict, allowed to speculate what might happen. Kuimet’s focus, intensity and intervention reveal a contemporary moment described by constant spotlight and zooming in, turbulent times that continuously need re-adjusting to.
Kuimet uses aesthetic means to connect two artworks – of a pre-modern (and pre-capitalist) object and the demolition of a modernist building (former Ministry of Finance in Tallinn), modelling the different layers of time and eras into one integral installation. Kuimet’s participation is organised in collaboration with Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia and Lugemik publishing.
Established in 2011 as a counterpoint to mainstream art fairs, Poppositions has previously addressed questions of artistic agency, self-organisation, cynicism and criticality in order to shape its profile within the cultural and economic landscape. With the 2017 leitmotiv Don’t Agonize, Organize! inspired by philosopher Rosi Braidotti, the forthcoming edition of Poppositions seeks to respond to the political turmoil we are currently experiencing on a geopolitical scale. Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk (The Office for Curating, NL) has been appointed as the artistic director of this year’s edition.
This year’s jury consisted of artist Kasper Bosmans, artist and curator Jo-ey Tang and curator Elise Lammer, with the support of curator Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk. With the leitmotiv as a leading principle, the jury has sought for proposals that steer and reinvent the political imagination by proposing diverse forms of political opposition that are rich in alternatives, concrete in propositions, and delivered through everyday projects.