Solo Exhibition at SG Gallery, Venice

submergeemerge
solo exhibition I Jaanika Peerna

15 -31 January, 2015

22 January 2015, 6pm
Performance with Lucio Corrente (cello)

Venice is in the constant flux of emerging & submerging. There are reminders of it everywhere; even the gallery space gets flooded at times! Jaanika Peerna creates a room size drawing installation that marks the highest ever water levels in the gallery and adds spouts that could turn on, at any moment.

She uses plastic film for her graphite drawings which makes them resistant to getting wet. There will also be a drawing series, “Three Movements on Water”.

All works have been created during her residency at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia and in co-operation with Artist Pension Trust ®.

for pictures of the exhibition and performance click HERE 
for video of the performance click HERE 
SG Gallery
Cannaregio 1798, 30121 Venezia – Italy
tel. (+39) 041-721-950
more info: info@scuolagrafica.it

HELP get PEERNA's BOOK PUBLISHED

Help publish a book of Jaanika Peerna's artwork

After ten years of work as an artist, it’s time to release the first book of Jaanika Peerna’s drawings, installations, and performances.

Producing a book costs more than you might think, with expenses for design, printing, shipping and distribution. We hope you can help us complete this project. 

You can learn more about the book and support the project by clicking HERE.  Thanks in advance for your support!

Ellipse group exhibition in Moscow

a partial inventory from the West curated by Erin Lawlor and Katrin Bremermann 

a3 gallery, Moscow

16th October — 2nd November 2014

left: Jacob Melchi, right: Jaanika Peerna 9x Avanzare, graphite on mylar, 2014  photo: Erin Lawlor 

Ellipse, a partial inventory from the West presents works by about twenty artists from around Europe and the United States, exploring a number of tendencies in abstraction that are currently at play. 

Olivia Bax — Stephen Beal — John Beech — Katrin Bremermann — Steven Day — Vincent Hawkins — Erin Lawlor — Jaanika Peerna — Guillermo Pfaff — Lael Marshall — Jacob Melchi — John Millei — Kevin Monot — Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke — David Rhodes — Wilma Vissers — Don Voisine — Michael Vos

article (in Russian) : HERE 

photos: HERE 

BER-LINIE solo project at BAU, Beacon, NY

Jaanika Peerna with her installation at BAU  photo: Linda Speziale 

opening Oct 11 6-9PM
exhibition Oct 11-Nov2, 2014
Beacon Room @ BAU
506 Main Street

Beacon, NY
http://baugallery.com/

Jaanika Peerna presents her new site-specific drawing installation for the solo project. The installation, which can be viewed only from outside of the room, consists of large graphite drawings on mylar that spread out in the small project space, lit from behind. Movement and sound is created by a softly blowing fan, and the artist will occasionally introduce elements of performance within the installation. 
More on her work:  http://jaanikapeerna.net/

OPEN STUDIO @ BC APT residency Sept 28 NYC

You are invited to see the new work by Jaanika Peerna in Brooklyn this Fall

Jaanika Peerna

OPEN STUDIO

drawing, installation, video

September 28 1-6PM 

APT studios

34 34th street

4th floor 

Brooklyn, NYC

 646 934 1756

one subway stop from Barclays Center and two stops from Manhattan on the D, N and R trains  to 36th street station

5 min walk towards 3rd Ave

more information and directions find HERE
see images of the residency HERE 

Jaanika Peerna @APT studios photo: K.Pärn

Harjutusi joontele/ Exercises for Lines : solo in Tallinn

The third solo exhibition of Jaanika Peerna in her homeland Estonia turns the gallery Vaal into a gym where both imaginary and real lines can put their creativity and flexibility on test. 13-meter long straight lines hang between the ceiling and the floor while shorter lines try out their qualities on the walls of the gallery’s second floor.

Line has been one of the centerpieces of Peerna’s artistic creation since the beginning of her career in New York. The process of drawing is very demanding for the artist as it requires focused physical energy as well as concentration of mind. Only by combining these two has it been possible to create such straight lines as can be seen on the pieces of this exhibition. 

Peerna has been researching lines by means of drawing, video and light art combined with the techniques of installation and performance. Her recent production brings closer together the pieces of art created in the silence of the studio and pieces created during performances.

During the opening evening of the exhibition on Friday, August 1, a performance took place on the topic of “Exercises for Lines” created by the artist Jaanika Peerna alongside her colleagues from the world of movement (üüve-lydia Toompere), voice (Anne Prommik), design (Björn Koop) and music (Anne Vatsk). The evening was a playful multimedia event where the audience can was alos aligned with the mood.

See photos of the exhibition HERE
See video documentation of the performance HERE 
Read review of the exhibition HERE

August 2 - September 19, 2014

Vaal galerii 
 

Tartu mnt 80d
10112 Tallinn, Estonia
telefon: 6810 871
mobiil: 53 028 766
e-post: galerii@vaal.ee

more info HERE 

Collateral Drawing Performance in Berlin

Jaanika Peerna, Vanessa Enriquez and Dolanbay will collaterally perform diverse drawing act(s) on a large white (un)common surface.

The essential condition of this group performance is the resulting situation itself, the manifestation of act(s) has a plural stance on the white surface…for once, then, something.

July 19
18.00-21.00

Duration of the performance: 3 hours

Venue:berlinerpool, Chausseestr 11, 
entrance Tieckstraße 1a
10115 Berlin

https://berlinerpool.de/event/view/for-once-then-something

WiE Kultur featuring Peerna's works in Berlin

Mein Lustgarten I My Passion Garden

Jaanika Peerna : video installation, drawing 
Loris Cecchini : wall installation 
Bingyi : drawing

WiE KULTUR Berlin, Wegenerstrasse 14-15. Open daily noon- 19.00 
June 6-13 
curated by Chen Yang 

more photos can be seen HEREhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152755116819863.1073741839.31631189862&type=1

Solo Exhibition @ Rimini Drawing Biennial 2014

Jaanika Peerna

Avanzare, Arretrare

Advancing, Retreating

drawing, video installation, performance

curated by Giuseppe Padula

to see more images of 

the exhibition and opening reception please click here

live drawing performance click HERE

Primo Piano

May 16th –June 16th, 2014

Opening:                May 16th, 19.00

Live performance:       May 17th, 21.00

 Gallery hours:          Tue.- Sat 15.30 -19.30

By appointment:         phone +39 335 674898

Primo Piano

via Garibaldi 20, Rimini, Italy / phone +39 338 7609080

 'Advancing, Retreating' is an iterative process that seeks its point of equilibrium, by tracing the space with the exploration of action and movement, not with the concept itself.

The artist sculpts the 'space' as raw, primordial  material  to return the 'Space' as an element of meaning for humans, as a synaptich environment for the body.
Not an a priori Kantian space, but the result of the dialectical  fine perception of the density, a border between the full and the empty, between the delineated traces of the graphite on paper and the  energetic movement of the body  in the space, on a search for the strange attractors, unperturbed centers of imperceptible vibrations.

It is a stable representation of the region of chaos, tracing the border of temporary balance between a controlled emotion reminescent Soviet realism with the creative emotion  of Western performance in a  dialogue that the artist Jaanika Peerna, belonging to both cultures, tries to elaborate in her research and her works.

On view there will be a large room-size drawing installation, a trilogy of counterpoint drawings, and a video installation.  The artist will hold a drawing performance working on the large gallery windows.

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Nando Randi, founder of Ninapì art gallery.

for more info on the Biennial click HERE 

Live Drawing Performance in Berlin, 4x4hours

photo: photofactory

MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER - Four Live Performances

Within the program of Month of Performance Art - Berlin

Dolanbay
Katrina Brown
Frank Homayer
Jaanika Peerna

One condition. Four approaches. What will occur? Four artists will perform simultaneously on four paper platforms for four hours within the characteristic ambiance of the MPA-HUB. Each of them chooses one more material to work with. During the time zone of four hours you are invited to witness singular approaches, occurrences and spheres.

Cürated by: Teena Lange (grüntaler9)

May 4 2014 17-21.00

Holtzmarktstrasse 25, Berlin

photos of the performance by Photofactory: click HERE