PRESS RELEASE
CARMEN LANSBERG (1981) will open her personal exhibition An Unknown Entity of Desire in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on July 4th, 2012.
Carmen Lansberg has graduated from the department of cultural theory at the Estonian Institute of Humanities and as an exchange student studied at the Rome University of Fine Arts. In 2010, Lansberg obtained BA degree in painting at the department of fine arts of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
According to the artist, her current drawings and paintings function as a psychogeographical adventure in a molecular landscape, or as a journey into the labyrinths of cerebral hemispheres. Such labyrinths with the impasses of emotions and desires are the ones where amorphous, swollen, grotesque, Mimoid-like baroque freaks or elephantiac images appear from hyperactive disarrangement. Then everything will mutate and disappear into the chaos as an ephemeral hallucination, in order to transform into new organic and anorganic images., thus telling the story how desire becomes a subject, an entity, a being and how the subject desires to become a Man; however, the result will be always left unknown.
Exhibition will be open until July 16, 2012.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture.
CARMEN LANSBERG
Education
2006-2010 Estonian Academy of Arts, Fine Arts, BA in painting
2001-2005 Estonian Institute of Humanities, BA in cultural theory
2008-2009 Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Erasmus Programme
Training
2011 Anna Parkina's trainee at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco
2010 Anna Parkina's trainee at Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibitions
2011 Adventure pictures from home and abroad. Haapsalu City Gallery
2010 Elative exiting. Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
Group exhibitions
2011 Estonian Music Days. With the artist group Female Father (Urmas Muru, Kaido Ole, Flo
Kasearu, Andres Lõo), Sõprus Cinema, Tallinn
2010 Groupshow (with parents). Niklas Schelchinger Fine Arts, Hamburg
Painting in Process. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Polish sausage with eggs. With the artist group Female Father, Sõprus Cinema, Tallinn
Estonian Music Days. With the artist group Female Father, Artis Cinema, Tallinn
2009 Comechacha. Together with Kaido Ole, Urmas Muru, Flo Kasearug, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
Progetto Erasmus 2008/2009. Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Alternative nation. RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
KoViKaVi. Kaunas Picture Gallery
CologneOFFV - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival
2008 Passage. Moving Image + Performance. 30 young artists from 8 European countries.
Bruxelles & Mechelen
VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich
Making of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum of Art, Estonia in Tallinn
Elephant Bullet, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
2007 Sculpture Speaks: Power and Freedom. Tallinn Art Hall
Bibliography
http://laanlane.ee/article/haapsalu-linnagaleriis-avab-näituse-carmen-lansberg
„Painting in process has chosen litigiousness“ by Hanno Soans, Sirp, May 28, 2010
„Can sculpture influence our life, existence and politics?“ by Teet Veispak, Postimees, August 29, 2007