PRESS RELEASE


Veiko Klemmer's personal exhibition What You Can't Get for Money will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, May 18th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until June 5th, 2021.






Artworks of this exhibition serve to continue the series of abstractions that Klemmer started working with in 2011. Presently exhibited pieces have been completed during the autumn and winter of 2019. The exposition was initially planned to be exhibited in 2020, but due to the conditions of pandemic the exhibition takes place a year later.

Veiko Klemmer comments on his exhibition: „On one hand, the purpose of creating artwork has been mainly the process itself, particularly the experiments with adding tension to space and stimulating a sharpened state of mind where an artwork hovers between an image and imagination. On the other hand, there are definitely some motifs and ideas floating in zeitgeist recorded in the exhibited works. And yet, I guess there is no point in translating the pictures into words for the audience, since all sorts of meanings can be attributed to abstraction. This is a part of the liberating game of art – in order to take part in it, one needs something more than traditions, a cow or money. The artworks are presented without titles. If you wish you can touch them gently.“

According to the artist, the function of art is to explore, perceive, experiment, connect, amplify and express. To create something new, important and wholesome.
In Klemmer's artwork there is a considerably large amount of socio-critical satire – the artist says that even if this is quite an ineffective way to improve the world, it at least „scratches a certain nerve of metaphorical relevance“. Next to satire there are also abstract games of form where the artist searches for „more material impressions of expanse and distance“. He states that urban environment and screen cult have become oppressive, so there is the increasing need for real textures and the exotism of nuances.

Exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
 
Exhibitions in Draakon gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture and Liviko Ltd.

VEIKO KLEMMER
https://veikoklemmer.wordpress.com/

Haridus / Education:
2009 Tartu Ülikool, kunstide magister
2007 Tartu Ülikool, kunstide bakalaureus

Tunnustused / Acknowledgements:
2014 Loviisa residency
2009 Dora scholarship
2008 Wiiralt scholarship
2007 Kalmus scholarship

Valik isikunäitusI / Selected personal exhibitions:

2015 Vaenlane on su kõrval / The enemy is next to You
Pärnu Linnagalerii, Pärnu
Kurjuse kaardistamise katse. Vaade inimühiskonna ahnele ja arale poolusele /
An attempt to map Evil. A view to the greedy and cowardly sides of humans and society.

2015 Avamaa / Field
Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu
Vormitehted juhusliku ja tehisliku vahel /
Formal operations between natural and industrial

2014 Positiivne programm / Program Positive
Draakoni galerii, Tallinn
Avastusretk improvisatsiooni ja abstraktsiooni muljetesse /
Explorations in improvisation, abstraction and expression

2012 Ekstremaalne Marginaalne / Marginal Extreme
Kunstimaja monumnetaalgalerii, Tartu
Puhtavärvilised abstraktsioonid, mis hõlmavad ka tavaliselt kasutamata pildiraame /
Pure colour abstractions based on usually unused painted picture frames

2012 Süsteem / The System
Kunstihoone galerii, Tallinn
Kujutused elututest tubabest ja fantastiliste ideoloogiate süstemaatilise huulumeelsuse korporatiivjääkidest /
Depictions of lifeless rooms and artefacts of fantastic ideologies, depicting the systematic insanity of corporate politics
(Press: Kangor, Eero 2012 Veiko Klemmer esteetiline utoopia – Kunst.ee 03/2012 )

Valik grupinäitusI / Selected group exhibitions:

2014 Baltic Young Painters Prize exhibition (under an alias)
Select works by international jury, Vilnius
Organizers: Vilmantas Marcinkevičius, Julija Petkevičienė

2014 This is what I am
Gabo Manchano Gallery, London
Introducing Estonian artists

2013 Focus Europa 7th International Contemporory Art exhibiton
Kulmbach and Bad Elster, Germany

2012 May be (R)Evolution
Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin

2012 CDH-2012. Roads and paths.
Select works from International Confederation of Artists Unions
Central House of Artists, Moscow
Curators: Margarita Karlova,

2011 Baltic Young Painters Prize Finalists Exhibition
Select works by international jury. Art center Titanikas, Vilnius
Organizers: Vilmantas Marcinkevičius, Julija Petkevičienė

2011 Abstract / Abstraktne
Estonian Artists Association’s XI annual exhibition in Tallinn Kunstihoone
Curator: Leonhard Lapin
(Press: Levin, Mai Kui abstraktne on abstraktne kunst? – Sirp 28.07.11)

2009 The Language of Painting / Maali sõna vol. 2
Estonian Painters Association in Tartu Kunstimaja
Curator: Harry Liivrand
(Press: Juske, Ants 2009 Eesti maalikunst pole veel surnud – Eesti Päevaleht 28. sept. )

2008 Freedom Square / Vabaduse väljak
Estonian Artists Association’s IX annual exhibition in Tallinn Kunstihoone
Curators: Heie Treier, Reet Varblane ja Jaan Elken
(Press: Juske, Ants Vabaduse valikutest jõuti Vabaduse väljakuni – Eesti Päevaleht 05. märts )

Kureeritud / Curated:

2016 Sea / Meri
Koos Andrus Raagiga. Viinistu Kunstimuuseum
In accordance with the year of maritime culture, artists were asked to show all the different sides of sea in personal, cultural, economic and historic scale.

2011 Pure / Puhas
März project space, Tallinn
Interpretations on a theme of “pure materials, pure ideas, pure feelings”
(Press: Kaljula, Liisa Minimalism on aktuaalne – Sirp 28.07.11 )

2011 „2031“
Koos Andres Koortiga. Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu
On the 20th anniversary of the Estonian re-independence the artists were asked to reflect upon the next 20 years to come.