Depicting the Future
East Prussian State Museum
27.03 2025 - 23.08 2025
The curators of the Exhibition: prof Aet Ollisaar and prof Heli Tuksam
Project Management: Dr. Joachim Mähnert
Realization: Ursula Blancke-Dau, Ulrike Hennecke
Exhibition office: Dr. Eike Eckert
Exhibition Design: Madis Liplap
Typesetting and design: Kadi Pajupuu
Educational Program: Fabian Lenczewski M.A.
Public Relations and Marketing: Raja Nicolaisen M.A., Lucia Rohmann
Installation: Thorsten Althoff und Museumsteam
Estonian artists from Pallas UAS Jaanus Eensalu, Andrus Kannel, Margus Meinart, Aet Ollisaar, Kadi Pajupuu, Sirje Petersen, Tuuli Puhvel, Anne Rudanovski and Heli Tuksam show their fresh artworks at the joint exhibition aiming to initiate discussion about the meaning of art in the future.
How to visually interpret all the things that we can only vaguely think of? The future begins with the past, a solid foundation gives the courage to look farther than the eyes can reach. This metaphor also makes one think about the temporal horizon of a person’s life, and it feels like something limited, although we know there is more beyond it. There is always something more. Is this frightening or comforting? The horizon is a promise of spaciousness and openness, the horizontal infinity embraces the entire globe in its arms.
In this joint exhibition, authors exhibit their newest creations and discuss the meaning and relevance of art for the future during the events linked to the exhibition. Can we, or should we, be able to predict what lies beyond the horizon? The exhibition presents a variety of visual art media – painting, sculpture, photography, textile art, objects – and sometimes contradictory approaches open the theme through the artists’ personal stories.
The exhibition is a continuation of the ongoing collaboration and exchange of exhibitions between artists from two twin cities over the years. In 2016, an exhibition of Pallas artists took place in Lüneburg (curator Reet Pulk-Piatkowska), followed by exhibitions of Lüneburg artists in the Pallas gallery in 2017 and 2024. Additionally, several reciprocal visits, exhibitions, and masterclasses have taken place over the years.
In keeping with this year's special exhibition of Estonian artists at the East Prussian State Museum, a parallel exhibition of Lüneburg artists, titled "Depicting the Future," opens at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 5, 2025, in the Heinrich Heine House. This exhibition, which was shown in Tartu a year ago under the title "Depicting the Future," is a special exhibition of the East Prussian State Museum with the Baltic German Department in cooperation with the Pallas University of Applied Sciences.
The East Prussian State Museum with its Baltic German Department is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the State of Lower Saxony.
Exhibition is supported by Pallas University of Applied Sciences
Jaanus Eensalu, Paintings
Andrus Kannel, Photo
Margus Meinart, Paintings, Objects
Aet Ollisaar, Textile Art
Kadi Pajupuu, Textile Art
Sirje Petersen, Paintings
Tuuli Puhvel, Objects
Anne Rudanovski, Objects
Heli Tuksam, Paintings, Objects
