Restart Maajaam

We have stayed quiet for a long time as we have re-organized, planned and envisioned many things about Maajaam and it’s future. The new form of Maajaam Newsletter will help us to tell you about all these changes and hopefully engage with you on all the levels. Even being a small farm on the side of the creek on the edge of the world, we want to be connected and open to everybody.

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New website

We are happy to present you our new website. It’s still a work in progress, but it’s already showing the directions we are going for. The website will be the central place that ties together all things happening in Maajaam - the residencies, exhibitions and productions in the studio. An Estonian version of the website is planned as well.

Residency House

This year we started building the brand new residency house to expand the artist-in-residency program. The timber-frame house is currently under construction and will be opened in spring 2022. It will be specially designed with artist-in-residency needs in mind, with 4 small double rooms upstairs, a kitchen corner and an open studio space downstairs. The programming of the residency will be dynamic. Partly we organize funded residendies like Wild Bits and partly it will be fee based. We are looking to partner with organizations like museums, galleries and universities to host their residencies in Maajaam and we are open for individual artists of all fields as well. The construction is partly financed by Estonian Ministry of Culture. Contact for availability at info@maajaam.ee.

Wild Bits

Our Wild Bits exhibition concept is now officially included in Tartu European Capital of Culture 2024 project and it is going to be a long-term, large-scale and exciting project. During the next years our team of Mari-Liis Rebane, Kadri Lind, Marie Kliiman, Taavi Suisalu and Timo Toots will curate and produce the outdoor technological art exhibition at Maajaam. The artists will be selected both through open calls and invitations. The main exhibition will be presented in 2024 at Maajaam, but there will also be smaller exhibitions in Kaunas in 2022 and Latvia in 2023.

Wild Bits Open Call

In November we announced an open call for works. The deadline for the first open call was extended until 26th of December 2021. With this open call we are seeking proposals for installations, interventions or processes to be installed/performed in landscapes spread out around Maajaam that explore the human condition in a contemporary technological society. Deadline of the first call is very soon, but it’s not going to be the last one! https://www.wildbits.ee/opencall.

Intern Leopold Inkapööl

Swedish-Estonian designer-artist and mayonnaise expert Leopold Inkapööl has been doing his internship in Maajaam since October. Maajaam has received lots of good ideas, designs and help from him. Check out his website studioleopold.com or instagram.com/leopold.things for fun projects involving sound, music and human interaction.

Happy holidays

We wish you peaceful holidays and happy new year!