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Appointed Curator of the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial 2021

August 6, 2020

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing curator and theme for the 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial 

The next Tallinn Applied Art Triennial will be curated by Stine Bidstrup, a Danish glass artist and art historian, whose curatorial concept focuses on the phenomenon of translucency both in contemporary craft and in a broader social context. The 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial opens at Kai Art Center on 28 May 2021. 

The main exhibition of the triennial titled "Translucency" is built around Stine Bidstrup's curatorial concept and features around twenty artists. Merle Kasonen, the chairwoman of the triennial, highlighted the curatorial concept's resonance in various fields of applied art as well as its broader implications in the contemporary world. "As Stine pointed out, depending on the context, translucency can reveal what is hidden or conceal what is seemingly visible," added Merle Kasonen.

For example, the curator expanded on how wide use and promotion of glass (and transparency) indicates power and economic surplus, but when transparency is proclaimed as a sign of openness in architecture or politics or elsewhere, it is more often than not a sign of opacity, of not being able to see what is really going on. Looking in and looking out do not take place on equal grounds – transparency on the surface can, in fact, hide hermetic power structures and hierarchies. However, opacity, too, can be of value and at times, truly necessary," explains Stine Bidstrup, whose curatorial concept centres what is in-between the two extremities – translucency. 

Stine Bidstrup is a Danish glass artist, educator and art historian whose work and research explores optical phenomena, and interprets and brings ideas about utopian, architectural visions to life through glass sculptures, installation and video. Her curiosity revolves around the power of perception and power of context and point of view in constructing our understanding through vision and how the human eye and mind are always engaged in myriad determinations and negotiations.  

Bidstrup holds art degrees from The Rhode Island School of Design and The Royal Danish Academy of Art School of Design and a degree in art history from The University of Copenhagen. She has taught in Denmark and internationally. She maintains a studio in Copenhagen, goes to Småland Sweden to blow glass, and is represented by Heller Gallery in New York and FUMI Gallery in London.

The 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial opens at Kai Art Center in Port Noblessner in Tallinn (Estonia) on 28 May 2021 and will remain open to visitors until 15 August 2021.

Tallinn Applied Art Triennial is an international art event established in 1997, organised by NGO Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society. The triennial contributes to the development of fields of applied art and contemporary craft.
Please find attached a photograph of Stine Bidstrup and a visual for the 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial.
Additional information:
Merle KasonenThe 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, chairwoman  merle@trtr.ee, +372 528 1637www.trtr.ee/en

Stine BidstrupThe 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, curator

Katre Ratassepp
The 8th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, communication
katre@trtr.ee, +372 509 6650

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