read the interview and see images HERE
Jan 29, 2013
Interview with Jaanika Peerna at ScribbleBlog.com
Jaanika Peerna reveals on her Soviet area art schooling, creative process and freshest projects at hand:
read the interview and see images HERE
read the interview and see images HERE
The Question if Slow in NYC, curated by Alison Pierz
Alison Pierz presents a new StandPipe Project, A Question of Slow, at Skylight Gallery in Chelsea.
Please join us for our opening reception this Thursday, Dec. 13, 6-9pm.
A Question of Slow features work by six emerging and mid-career artists, each of whom are actively engaged in “slow” art-making processes or slow, contemplative viewing practices. An outgrowth of the various slow movements of the past 20 years – slow food, slow money – the exhibition encourages a new consciousness about the relationship between time and aesthetics.
Artists include:
Sean Boggs
Dan Durso
Jaanika Peerna
Yadir Quintana
Taney Roniger &
Rob Swainston.
A Question of Slow runs through Jan. 11, 2013
artinfo review of the show: click HERE
Please join us for our opening reception this Thursday, Dec. 13, 6-9pm.
A Question of Slow features work by six emerging and mid-career artists, each of whom are actively engaged in “slow” art-making processes or slow, contemplative viewing practices. An outgrowth of the various slow movements of the past 20 years – slow food, slow money – the exhibition encourages a new consciousness about the relationship between time and aesthetics.
Artists include:
Sean Boggs
Dan Durso
Jaanika Peerna
Yadir Quintana
Taney Roniger &
Rob Swainston.
A Question of Slow runs through Jan. 11, 2013
artinfo review of the show: click HERE
Sep 4, 2012
Drawing Installation at Viinistu Chapel
Peerna was invited to create a site specific drawing installation for Viinistu Art Museum's Chapel which is overlooking the Baltic sea in Viinistu, Estonia. The artist was inspired by the special site and the ever changing view from the huge window facing the sea. Peerna created a 18 meters (60 feet) long graphite drawing which continues the horizon line seen from the "altar window". The chapel is open to all visitors until September, 25th 2012 daily.
Viinistu Art Museum
Viinistu, Harjumaa
Estonia
For more information contact curator Margot Kask at margot.kask@gmail.com or by calling
+372 5275531 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Chapel overview with Peerna's drawing installation on the walls. photo: David Rothenberg
Drawing installation on the side of the chapel. photo: Tanel Rannala
Jaanika Peerna at the opening of the installation. photo: Pille Olde
Close up of the drawing. photo: Pille Olde
View out to the sea with drawing on the wall. photo: Rita Rahu
Viinistu Art Museum
Viinistu, Harjumaa
Estonia
For more information contact curator Margot Kask at margot.kask@gmail.com or by calling
+372 5275531 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Jul 27, 2012
Silent Revolution: group exhibition in Tallinn
Curatorial Project of the Tallinn Drawing Triennial
VAIKNE REVOLUTSIOON / SILENT REVOLUTION
Tallinn International Drawing Triennial “Vaikne revolutsioon/Silent Revolution“, curated by
Anu Juurak, expands upon the fears and hopes of today’s society and popularizes drawing
in the context of contemporary art.
The curator has used the titles "Hell" (1930-32), "Melancholia" (1933) and "Young Arab"
(1940) of the works of the most famous drawer and cosmopolitan artist Eduard Wiiralt as a
metaphor to exteriorize various themes featured in the exhibition. Hopefully the given
timeline will help the viewer to understand the novelty as well as universality of the
happening processes.
Jaanika Peerna's Live Light, single channel video installation, 2008 is included in the exhibition.
Information: Anu Juurak, tel: 56 68 24 55
Exhibition is open until September 9th.
Tallinn Art Hall
6 Vabaduse väljak
Tallinn, Estonia
Open Wednesdays 12am - 8pm, from Thursdays till Sundays 12am - 6pm
More information: www.kunstihoone.ee <http://www.kunstihoone.ee;
for Estonian State TV news on the exhibition click here
VAIKNE REVOLUTSIOON / SILENT REVOLUTION
Tallinn International Drawing Triennial “Vaikne revolutsioon/Silent Revolution“, curated by
Anu Juurak, expands upon the fears and hopes of today’s society and popularizes drawing
in the context of contemporary art.
The curator has used the titles "Hell" (1930-32), "Melancholia" (1933) and "Young Arab"
(1940) of the works of the most famous drawer and cosmopolitan artist Eduard Wiiralt as a
metaphor to exteriorize various themes featured in the exhibition. Hopefully the given
timeline will help the viewer to understand the novelty as well as universality of the
happening processes.
Jaanika Peerna's Live Light, single channel video installation, 2008 is included in the exhibition.
Information: Anu Juurak, tel: 56 68 24 55
Exhibition is open until September 9th.
Tallinn Art Hall
6 Vabaduse väljak
Open Wednesdays 12am - 8pm, from Thursdays till Sundays 12am - 6pm
More information: www.kunstihoone.ee <http://www.kunstihoone.ee;
for Estonian State TV news on the exhibition click here
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| Live Light, one channel video with sound, 2008 by Jaanika Peerna |
May 15, 2012
New Curatorial Project: SILENCE opens May, 24 in NYC
Curated by Jaanika Peerna
Exhibition 24 May - 5 July 2012
OPENING RECEPTION 24 May, 2012
SIX TO EIGHT IN THE EVENING
Masters & Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street New York, NY 10013
+1 646 926 2787
GALLERY@MASTERSPELAVIN.COM
for more info:http://masterspelavin.com/silence/
Masters & Pelavin is proud to present Silence, a group exhibition of international artists, curated by Estonian artist and curator Jaanika Peerna. A variety of media will be shown—video, sculpture, painting, photography and installation—a number of artists represented, including: Peter Baumann, Anne Lindberg, Janine Magelsen, Kazumi Tanaka, Thomas Fougeirol, Kaido Ole, Jaan Toomik, Jaanika Peerna and Krista Mölder.
What can silence mean in a world as noisy as ours, to minds as filled with images, thoughts, and plans as the one around us? One often hears that there is no such thing as silence, as John Cage found out when he entered the anechoic chamber at Harvard, a room designed to research the complete absence of sound. He heard the beat of his heart and the firing of neurons in his brain.
We can barely attain silence but we continue to quest for it, and we are in awe when we find it. As Max Picard writes in his eloquent and spiritual book The World of Silence in 1952, “When silence is present it is as though nothing but silence has ever existed.” As Picard continues, “Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence.” It is as if the world watches us, looking for all those things of which we cannot speak. Each artist in this exhibition offers us a work which comments on a different aspect of those things that can be perceived only in quiet, or what is impossible to say, or what is forbidden to be said.
Within Western culture, silence is defined as the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech. Yet, silence is used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. It is the absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern. A freedom from the onslaught of thoughts and thought patterns. A state of being forgotten. A bringing to rest or stillness. A hush. A quell. A muzzle.
image: Jaanika Peerna, Murmuring Silence, graphite on mylar, 36x36 in, 2012
Exhibition 24 May - 5 July 2012
OPENING RECEPTION 24 May, 2012
SIX TO EIGHT IN THE EVENING
Masters & Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street New York, NY 10013
+1 646 926 2787
GALLERY@MASTERSPELAVIN.COM
for more info:http://masterspelavin.com/silence/
Masters & Pelavin is proud to present Silence, a group exhibition of international artists, curated by Estonian artist and curator Jaanika Peerna. A variety of media will be shown—video, sculpture, painting, photography and installation—a number of artists represented, including: Peter Baumann, Anne Lindberg, Janine Magelsen, Kazumi Tanaka, Thomas Fougeirol, Kaido Ole, Jaan Toomik, Jaanika Peerna and Krista Mölder.
What can silence mean in a world as noisy as ours, to minds as filled with images, thoughts, and plans as the one around us? One often hears that there is no such thing as silence, as John Cage found out when he entered the anechoic chamber at Harvard, a room designed to research the complete absence of sound. He heard the beat of his heart and the firing of neurons in his brain.
We can barely attain silence but we continue to quest for it, and we are in awe when we find it. As Max Picard writes in his eloquent and spiritual book The World of Silence in 1952, “When silence is present it is as though nothing but silence has ever existed.” As Picard continues, “Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence.” It is as if the world watches us, looking for all those things of which we cannot speak. Each artist in this exhibition offers us a work which comments on a different aspect of those things that can be perceived only in quiet, or what is impossible to say, or what is forbidden to be said.
Within Western culture, silence is defined as the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech. Yet, silence is used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. It is the absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern. A freedom from the onslaught of thoughts and thought patterns. A state of being forgotten. A bringing to rest or stillness. A hush. A quell. A muzzle.
image: Jaanika Peerna, Murmuring Silence, graphite on mylar, 36x36 in, 2012
Mar 29, 2012
Live Drawing/ Dance Performance and Exchibition in NYC
Jaanika Peerna Exhibition and Live Drawing/Dance Performance at New York Estonian HouseDocumentation of the live drawing and dance performance is here
EXHIBITION of DRAWINGS
11 April 2011 – 1 May 2012
New York Estonian House
243 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
Opening Reception April 11 6-8PM
7PM live drawing and dance performance with dancer Jane Thornquist
Video of the live drawing/dance performance:Otherwise open by appointment only:
Contact Katrin Albaz 212 684 0336 or e-mail:info@estonianhousenewyork.com
This exhibition, entitled "Wind and Light", is part of NY Estonian Cultural Days programming and features dynamic drawings of forces in nature. The drawings are wax pigment and graphite on mylar, ranging from intimate, 5 x 5 inch squares to larger, more ambitious expressions measuring up tothree feet on a side. Regardless of scale, the group of drawings, identified by the titles: Air Dance Series and Maelstrom Series, are a response to the motions of air and wind. An economy of line spontaneously, yet assuredly, echoes the swirling, energized forces of nature. Peerna writes of these works that they are “mappings of air movement in nature registered by my senses. They chart quiet and tender breezes but also storms that have the power to destroy. There is beauty in the extremes as well as a hint of anxiety. The works are very immediate responses to sensory data and also reverberate on a bigger theme of changes in climate.” Their simplicity of black on white combined with an intense energy yields a rare profundity and beauty.
Nov 27, 2011
Smoke Free Fall, a new video installation on view in Paris
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| Smoke Free Fall, 2 channel video installation with mirrors by Jaanika Peerna | photo by Veronika Valk |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,
contact Kaia Kiik , +33 671217296
Group
exhibition
18th of November – 4th of
December, 2011
Opening
Reception 18th of November at 19.00 -21.00
...
Le château
d’Asnières
89 rue du
Château, Paris
Artists:
Aili Vahtrapuu,
Louis Dandrel,
Czeka,
Einike Leppik, Elo Liiv, Flo Kasearu, Jaanika Peerna,
Jass
Kaselaan, Jevgeni Zolotko,Kirke Kangro, Kiwa, Terje Toomistu,
Lestberg,
Marko Mäetamm, Mayumi, Stefan Nikolaev,
Terje
Ojaver, Veronika Valk, Villu Plink
Curator: Kaia
Kiik
The
objective of Vadabus/Freedom 2011 is to give to Estonian artists
the
possibility to speak of their own experience of freedom in the
system of
signs of contemporary art, and to do so in dialogue with
French,
Bulgarian and Japanese artists.
Like
science, art mirrors society and orients it towards the future.
Thus the
participants to the project Vadabus/Freedom 20011 speak of
ourselves
and our dreams. We dream for instance to disrupt the
unfolding of
things (Jaanika Peerna), to free oneself for the next
world (Jass
Kaselaan, Elo Liiv), to find one’s own space (Einike
Leppik), to
flee and simply get lost (Flo Kasearu), to be able to
communicate
withouth linguistic bareers (Aili Vahtrapuu), of the freedom to say “NO”
(CZEKA), of what one thinks (sometimes) of the family (Marko Mäetamm) or of
bioethics (Veronika Valk), but also of politics - of the possibility to
look
under the
skirt of politics (Terje Ojaver), not to mention the freedom
to wear the
skirt of not (Kiwa / Terje Toomistu).
Today, in 2011,
this exhibition about freedom looks squarely at freedom.
Last but not
least, I hope that this exhibit will make you laugh at
least once.
Because laughing about things is a source of freedom.
The project
is exhibited in the rococo 18th century castle of
Asnière,
designed by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne,
Which will
add another interesting layer to the exhibition.
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Jaanika
Peerna’s work included in the exhibition:
Smoke Free Fall: site specific two channel video installation, 2
projectors, 2 DVD players DVD, mirrors, 2011
Smoke Free Fall is a
site specific video installation using large video projections of downward
moving smoke on a wall, with a reflective floor surface nearby. Free fall is
something that is a familiar experience for only a few of us, and in small
doses, though most of us have seen objects in free fall. Smoke in Peerna’s
installation seems to be free in its downward motion until we realize that
smoke does not usually move downwards of its own volition. From here on the
thoughts and interpretations that follow will be different for each visitor.
fro more info click here
fro more info click here
Nov 4, 2011
Solo Exhibition @ Estonian Embassy in Washington DC
WIND and LIGHT
1 November 2011 - 15 January 2012
Estonian Embassy in Washington
2131 Massachusetts Av., NW
Washington, D.C. 20008 USA
Open only by appointment:
tel. (1 202) 588 0101 or e-mail: info@estemb.org
This exhibition, entitled "Wind and Light", features drawing and video works. The drawings are wax pigment and graphite on mylar, ranging from intimate, 5 x 5 inch squares to larger, more ambitious expressions measuring up to four feet on a side. Regardless of scale, the group of drawings, identified by the titles: Air Dance Series and Maelstrom Series, are a response to the motions of air and wind. An economy of line spontaneously, yet assuredly, echoes the swirling, energized forces of nature. Peerna writes of these works that they are “mappings of air movement in nature registered by my senses. They chart quiet and tender breezes but also storms that have the power to destroy. There is beauty in the extremes as well as a hint of anxiety. The works are very immediate responses to sensory data and also reverberate on a bigger theme of changes in climate.” Their simplicity of black on white combined with an intense energy yields a rare profundity and beauty.
In the video work, Lines of Light ( 7:03, 2010) Peerna is observing changes of light on her studio wall. Ordinary moment turned into the magical world.
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian born artist living and working in New York since 1998. Her work encompasses drawings, videos and light installations often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. She has an MFA in intermedia design from State University of New York, and has worked as teaching artist at DIA:Beacon, NY and the Visual Thinking Strategies project of the Soros Foundation. She has exhibited her work extensively since 2001 in entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Honolulu, Dubai, Paris, Lisbon, Tallinn, Rome and Sofia. Her 2011 exhibitions include the International Paper Art Biennial in Sofia, Bulgaria and a group exhibition Libetre at Chateau Asnieres in Paris. Her work is represented by Masters & Pelavin Gallery in New York. (www.masterspelavin.com)
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| Looking at "Maelstrom Series", wax pigment on vel |
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| Terje Raadik, Kaare Kolbre in discussion |
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| opening reception |
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| opening reception, Mrs. Marina Kajurand, The Ambassador |
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| Estonian Embassy on Washington Ave, DC |
Sep 20, 2011
ORDINARY:young estonian drawing opens @pART gallery
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| Maelstrom Series, 2010-2011, wax pigment on vellum, 92x92cm/36x36" |
Põltsamaa Art Gallery Part
October 2 - 31, 2011
Põltsamaa, Estonia
Artists:
Ines Erlemann, Kaie Kal, Kaij
a Kesa, Kaili Angela Konno, Eva Luure, Joonmeedia (Tanel Rannala & Siiri Taimla), Kadi Pajupuu & Marilyn Piirsalu, Pastacas(Ramo Teder), Jaanika Peerna, Lembe Ruben, Alide Zvorovski, Helen Tago, Indrek Tali & Triine-Anette Täks, Toomas Tõnissoo.
Curated by Margot Kask.
view on-line catalog of the traveling exhibition:
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