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At the main exhibition of 9th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial artists from the Baltic and the Nordic countries exhibit works around the idea of constructiveness in art. The curator of the exhibition, Maret Sarapu selected 28 artists via an open call that attracted 470 submissions. The curator wanted to highlight the possibilities art has to address complicated issues, offer solace, hope and new perspectives. She was intrigued by the grounding effect of manual activities. “Thinking with hands helps to explore ideas and solutions intuitively, which may not emerge when we take a verbal or abstract thinking approach,” says the curator. The artists selected for the exhibition share common traits such as courage to experiment, as well as a fresh and caring perspective on material and its life cycle. The works also exhibit a lot of concern about sustainability and people’s mental balance.

 

At the tour, Lithuanian artist Ieva Baltrėnaitė-Markevičė introduces her research project focusing on Lithuanian women’s garments and their stories from 1940s to 1970s. Baltrėnaitė-Markevičė’s work consists of garments visitors can touch and explore and a wall of visual research, providing an overview of the artist’s research process.

 

Ieva Baltrėnaitė-Markevičė is an artist, designer, researcher. For the last five years Ieva has been calling herself a clothes detective. Although her entire creative path has revolved around clothes, she has never designed clothes themselves. Rather, she has translated them into works of art, reflected on them, explored them from different angles and experimented with them. From 2019 to 2024, she studied design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts as a PhD student. In 2024, she obtained the degree of Doctor of Arts after successfully defending her dissertation in the field of design.