Kristina Norman, Frame from film 'Monolith'

Estonian Pavilion

53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

After-War

Kristina Norman

PRESS RELEASE 01.09.2008

Project for Estonian pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia selected

The Estonian artist Kristina Norman will represent Estonia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2009. Working title of her project is “Eternal Memory”. The project deals with different processes concerning political memory and events that culminated in April 2007 when riots took place in central Tallinn, caused by governmentally orchestrated removal of a soldier statue with Soviet symbolics to the military cemetery.

The exhibition at the Estonian pavilion (Palazzo Malipiero, S. Marco 3079) is commissioned by Center of Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Negotiations with Marco Laimre, who presented the winning project to the international jury as a curator, began in 1st of September 2008. Altogether 20 projects were presented to the Estonian pavilion competition this year.

53rd Biennale di Venezia takes place on 7.06–22.11.2009, director of the biennale is Daniel Birnbaum. Estonia takes part of the art event since 1997, organizer of Estonian pavilion is Center of Contemporary Arts, Estonia.