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Mētra Saberova is a Latvian queer feminist performance and moving-image artist. Mētra received her BA from the Art Academy of Latvia and completed her postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in London. Next to exhibiting, her interests lie in forming sustainable networks between the queer culture and activism in the Baltic region. Mētra is the co-founder and manager of the Baltic Drag King Collective (est. 2019) and part of the core team at Riga Pride since 2022.

Mētra Saberova

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The Many Faces of You

The variations in the Baltic Drag scene

Keiu Krikmann is the managing editor of A Shade Colder.

Keiu Krikmann

Networking of the publishers of art magazines in Nordic and Baltic countries in Vilnius. The common language is obviously English. Photo by Inga Juodyte

The Shapes of Language

We are still translated people

Airi Triisberg is an independent writer, curator and educator. They are actively engaged in advocacy work to improve working conditions in the art sector, performing different roles such as journalist, labour organiser, tax critic, coach in financial education and agitator by saying “no” to unpaid labour. In the book Art Workers – Material Conditions and Labour Struggles in Contemporary Art Practice, co-published with Minna Henriksson and Erik Krikortz in 2015, they conceptualise recent practices of organising art workers in Europe.

Airi Triisberg

Zody Burke is an American multimedia artist and musician living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. She creates cyphers through sculpture and sound, through which she cartographs the complexity of identity within late capitalism, and interfaces world-building with geological time. Her material practice ranges from ceramic high-relief to experimental music, video, illustration and fibre work.

Zody Burke

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Flesh in Tension

Wages for art work

Jaak Juske is a teacher and populariser of history based in Tallinn. He has written over 30 books, mainly on the history of Estonian cities.

Jaak Juske

Angela Maasalu is a visual artist living and working in London, UK.

Angela Maasalu

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Shifting Timelines

Mapping Monsters

Vaida Stepanovaite is a curator, organiser, editor, and writer whose practice is emerging in relation to the affective legacies of the European post-socialist region. Currently she is the Editor in Chief and Head of Organisation at Artnews.lt, Lithuania. Vaida is undertaking practice-based doctoral research at Goldsmiths, London, looking into how the tensions between the institutive, the radical, and the communal drive self-organised resistance in the contemporary visual art field.

Vaida Stepanovaite

Sandra Kosorotova. Can I Grow Here. 2022. Still from the video(1)

Whispers in the Landscape

More often than not, …

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Parallel formations

Kärt Ojavee is an artist, designer and a visiting professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts textile department. She experiments with new technologies and traditional textile fabricating techniques, testing the borders of both disciplines.

Kärt Ojavee

‘Healing Detox Shirt ’ Ojavee, K. (2020) _Photo by Mari Volens

Material affairs

Andrew Berardini is a writer and curator from California. He currently helps run the Private Practice Residency at MobileCoin with the painter Inga Bard and has a new book forthcoming titled <a href="https://notacult.media/books/p/colors">Colors</a> (Not a Cult, 2022).

Andrew Berardini

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Thirst

The Floral Fantasias and Pop Potentials: On the Work of Malle Leis

Kaarin Kivirähk is the editor-in-chief of A Shade Colder.

Kaarin Kivirähk

Exhibition by Laura Kuusk at Kanal gallery. Photo by Laura Kuusk(1)

City profile. Catching the spirit of southern Estonia

Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine and his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs.

Jan Verwoert

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The Eyes of My Other

From Life. On the work of Anu Põder

Andreas Kalkun received his PhD degree in Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu and is currently working as a senior researcher at the Archival Library of the Estonian Literary Museum. His main area of study is the religion and the songs of the Seto women but he has also researched the history of folkloristics, the heritage of obscenities, and the LGBT history in Estonia.

Andreas Kalkun

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Sickly-Sweet Monsters at the Ethnography Museum

A Shade Colder is a platform for discussions about and around art in Estonia and beyond.

A Shade Colder

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A mouth is more than a hole

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Irony is not a productive tool, unless compassion and empathy are used alongside it – Interview with Edith Karlson

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Art and solidarity

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Your guide to Estonia and Beyond Spring and Summer 2024