In spring 2016 each participating museum hosted an artist residency, as well as visits by curators and educators from partner museums. Kumu Art Museum invited the artist Luigi Coppola to work with local youngsters. Read more about the residency in a special blog created by Kumu Youth Club: [ Ссылка ]

Luigi Coppola is an Italian artist (based in Brussels, Belgium) who works within the fields of public art and video projects. Through his research, he develops social choreographies as democratic models, participative and collaborative practices and politically motivated actions, bringing to the forefront a notion of art practice as a mise en forme of political, economic and social issues and claims.

His artistic practice comes from a combination of various educational and professional experience. He has trained both as a scientist (Environmental Engineering, PhD in Risk Analysis) and as an artist (Visual and Performing Arts). His first experiences as an artist were in the field of research theatre, based on conceptual language and the construction of perceptive environments. Successively his research has moved to politically motivated actions, strategies of representation of relational mechanism and the dynamics of society.

Find out more about Luigi Coppola at his official website: [ Ссылка ]

Art projects created in cooperation between artists and young people will be put on display at a common exhibition, which tours all the museums in 2017. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue about the project. What finally came out of the residency at Kumu?

LUIGI COPPOLA (1972)
The Society House #Estonia

Construction of a collective identity of places and places of identity.

In a country as young as Estonia, it is interesting to propose these open ideas to a group of young people in the midst of a period of transition strongly related to the construction of one’s own identity and sense of belonging to a territory, a collectivity, a nation.

The starting point of the project carried out with the youth group was the society house, a place created at the end of 19th century on the initiative of ordinary people and rural intelligentsia as part of the emergence of Estonian nation-building and the public sphere.* The landing site for our experiences was Kumu, the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia, which was built to consolidate national identity.

The photo series, which incorporates the stimuli created during the workshop, was taken in an in-between space, a majestic entrance planned to welcome the public to the museum and to connect it with the great Lasnamäe city district, a vast residential area that was created in the Soviet period. However, this connection has yet to take place, and for practical and logistical reasons the entrance on the other side of the museum has become the main entryway. So we decided to hijack this space for our project. The site then became a stage or a transitional identity space where ghosts could resurface, fragile narratives could be built and walls could collapse.

Together with: Anna Borissova, Helen Birnbaum, Lauren Grinberg, Loora Kaubi, Sofja Melikova, Ramona Mägi, Olivia Raudsik, Gert Avar Reinumägi, Simona Stenberg, Ingrid Tamm, Emel-Elizabeth Tuulik, Katre Vahter, Erik Heiki Veelmaa

* Kulbok-Lattik, Egge (2012). Estonian Community Houses as Local Tools for the Development of Estonian Cultural Policy. Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift, 2, 253−283.


Video: Ingrid Tamm

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The Translocal: Museum as Toolbox project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.

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