Interviews

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City.  Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director &amp; Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams.

Cecilia Alemani

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The Many Faces of You

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

Lilian Hiob is a curator and gallerist. She is manager at Temnikova &amp; Kasela gallery. Lilian is also the founder of Hoib gallery, an independent exhibition space located in her basement. Together with Siim Preiman she hosts Vitamin K, a radio show dedicated to contemporary art on IDA radio.

Lilian Hiob

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We deserve better, really – Interview with Tai Shani

Anti Saar is a writer and translator based in Tartu. Mostly, he writes for children and translates from French, with a focus on fiction, philosophy and humanities. Currently, he’s in the process of translating the third volume of Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time into Estonian.

Anti Saar

Jevgeni Zolotko, Alus I, 2016. Exhibition view at Noorus gallery, Tartu-Photo Jevgeni Zolotko

There has never been a time without art – Interview with Jevgeni Zolotko

Keiu Krikmann is the managing editor of A Shade Colder.

Keiu Krikmann

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The Shapes of Language

Exhibition language is universal but often feels empty: Interview with Cecilia Alemani on text and language in curatorial practice

Gregor Kulla is a composer, performance artist, writer and model. They are the creative producer of the international contemporary music festival AFEKT and they also teach at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy.

Gregor Kulla

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Gender is a language, and it could be fun to play with if there wasn’t so much power and coercion attached to it. Interview with McKenzie Wark

Heneliis Notton currently works as a dramaturg at the performing arts centre Kanuti Gildi SAAL. In September 2023, she will start her MA studies in Queer Performance at Rose Bruford College in London.

Heneliis Notton

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Flesh in Tension

The position of spectatorship is by default triggering: An interview with Samira Elagoz

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

Kaarin Kivirähk

Architects Arvi Anderson, Mari Möldre and Aet Ader. Photo_ Kertin Vasser copy1

From home sweet home to an object of speculation: Interview with architects Aet Ader, Arvi Anderson and Mari Möldre

Eda Tuulberg is an art historian based in Tallinn, Estonia. She is a curator at the Kumu Art Museum and doctoral student at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Her field of research is Soviet and contemporary art, with a focus on the work of women artists and the problematics of gender issues. She is currently working on a research and curatorial project exploring the legacy of late Soviet Estonian women printmakers.

Eda Tuulberg

Maria Arusoo is an Estonian curator and dramaturg. She is interested in performative practices and socially engaged art. Since 2013, Arusoo has been working as the Director of the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art and the Commissioner of the Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She is also part of the curatorial team for the 2023 Sequences real time art festival that takes place in Reykjavik.

Maria Arusoo

Edith Karlson is a freelance artist who has persevered in this position for 30 years. She plans to stay the course.

Edith Karlson

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Johanna Ulfsak is a designer and artist mainly working with traditional textile techniques. She also likes to make nice projects and to have fun on Photoshop. She is a long-time friend of Edith Karlson.

Johanna Ulfsak

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Shifting Timelines

Fight as much as you have strength for. Interview with Eha Komissarov

Brigit Arop is a freelance curator based in Tallinn, Estonia. Among other things she is co-running the Infinite Life Gallery and the self-organised dumpster diving group Üle Prahi collective.

Brigit Arop

Copy of GolfClayderman, Star Parade at 427, 2020. Photo: Elīna Vītola

Process > result, or notes on running a project space for those who need a sign to start one

Max Hannus is a curator and writer working in the intersections of sexual/romantic relationships and art making. Their practice is autobiographic, and they’re always searching for (queer) love. They work with different forms of writing: mundane, unpretentious, blunt &#8211; always looking for sincerity.

Max Hannus

Elo Vahtrik is an artist based in Mustamäe. Vahtrik&#8217;s work explores the plasticity and relations between body and perception.

Elo Vahtrik

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Thirst

Art as a way of creating safer spaces, possibilities for intimacy and connection. A conversation with Sarah Nõmm and Maria Izabella Lehtsaar

14 Emilie Saal in collaboration with Andres Saal, Tropical fruit still-life, overpainted photograph, c. 1910-1920. Courtesy of the Estonian Literature Museum

The Eyes of My Other

The Terrifying and Mundane Seduction of Orchids

Piret Karro is a cultural critic and curator based in Tallinn. Her academic background lies in Gender Studies and Semiotics, and she is currently the Head of Exhibitions at Vabamu museum.

Piret Karro

Hanna Samoson explores the boundaries of art and tries to perceive the unknown. Being in constant motion as an intuitive creator, her work is characterized by quick and spontaneous decisions. Since the beginning of 2022, he has been searching for her dream along the 2222 islands belonging to Estonia.

Hanna Samoson

From Family Photo Albums to the White Cube – Interview with Diana Tamane

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

A Shade Colder

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