Weather Report (2022-2024)
Artistic research on atmospheres at all 43 tram stops in Tallinn, Estonia.
Two months of fieldwork resulted in 318 drawings which are published in a dedicated Instagram account @tallinn_tram_weather.
Read more in my paper ‘Drawing and Writing in the Atmospheres at Tram Stops’ in PSIAX 4 - Estudos e reflexões sobre desenho e imagem (pp. 9−18) and in the interview to the Estonian science portal NOVAATOR.
Drawings were presented at my solo show TRAMMIFAKTOR (2024) at GÜ Gallery by the Estonian Associations of Printmakers.
Arctic Palimpsest (2022-2023)
Artistic research of the multi-layered atmospheres of the city of Luleå in the Swedish North.
Large drawings based on ethnographic sketches and an art book.
The project is made in collaboration with Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK)
Drawing People Waiting (2022)
This video features sketches from different public transport places in Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Russia.
Display: Lumbung Lounge installation, a project by Guerilla Architects and Along the Lines, at the Stellwerk Galerie, in Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, from July 22nd through July 30th, in parallel to documenta fifteen, 2022.
Along the Laagna Road (2022)
Sketches from bus stops along the Laagna road in Lasnamäe, Tallinn, Estonia.
Display: Euroopa Galerie, Tallinn University, 2022.
STRANGE(R)DISTANCE (2021)
Sketches at the Viru Bus Terminal, the major transport hub in Tallinn, at the time of the social distance of the pandemic 2020-2021.
The project is conducted in the residency at Vent Space, a student-run initiative of the Estonian Academy of the Arts, in collaboration with Anete Kruusmägi, an Estonian poet who wrote short stories about the atmosphere at the terminal. Stories and more sketches are here.
Berliners (2018-2019)
Ticket-sized sketches with stamps from the validators at public transport stations in Berlin, Germany.
Display: Die Kollisionen Show at Ufer Studios, University of Arts (UdK Berlin) in the frame of the course “Regionalexpress 1. Künstlerische Recherche und ortsbezogenes Arbeiten” curated by Ina Weber and Annett Gröschner.
Tramway 27 (2018)
Sketches from the stops are on display inside the tram 27 in the Timiryazevskii district in Moscow, Russia.
NON-PLACE PEOPLE (2016-2017)
The project consists of sketches made at the stations of the Moscow Central Circle (which opened in 2016) and graphic works based on the brand colours of the Russian Railways Company.
Display: Workshops 17. Over there, Where no one dreams: from sacred geography to non-place, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, 2017.
TRAM CITY LINE: Graphic Diary (2016)
The project consists of around a hundred sketches from the stops of tram line number one, the longest and oldest in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia.
Sketches together with my short stories about each stop are published in English and in Russian.
Display: permanent installations at the library in the city of Orsk, Russia, 2022.
Display: Kunstraum Behrenstrasse Berlin in 2018.
Display: National Center of Contemporary Art, Tomsk, Russia in 2018.
