Exhibition “Missing”

12:00 - 18:00

Tartu city | Tartu Kunstimaja

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The exhibition “Missing” is part of the Tartu 2024 program and focuses on the cultural meaning of endangerment to bring to public attention aspects of extinction through artistic means.

With this exhibition, we aim to blur the boundaries between art and science to offer an individual grasp of environmental decline, and interrogate the process and monitoring of species endangerment and extinction. The exhibition is designed to constitute a makeshift natural history museum of lost species to address the human relationship to endangered and extinct nonhumans.

Works by Ackroyd & Harvey, Justine Blau, Samuel Collins & Mo Langmuir, Alain Delorme, Katrin Gattinger, Elisa Gleize, Louise Gügi, Jayne Ivimey, Flo Kasearu & Elīna Vītola, Linda Knight, Diana Lelonek, Kristina Õllek & Kert Viiart and Fiona Tan will be displayed. The curators of the exhibition are Sara Bédard-Goulet and Marie-Laure Delaporte.

Exhibition is also connected to the research project “Meanings of endangered species in culture: ecology, semiotic modelling and reception” at the University of Tartu, which emphasizes the contribution of arts not only to mediate this important issue but also to produce, combined with scholarly investigation, critically informed works. The curatorship of the exhibitions is rooted in this research-creation approach that brings together academic and artistic practices.

Exhibition is a part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 main programme.

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