🔜🍄 #Vienna
Laura Põld: “Beautiful Pulsating Web”.
🗓️ March 17th - June 27th, 2026
📍 Eva Kahan Foundation Vienna
🍄 In a series of new textile and ceramic works, artist Laura Põld (@laurap6ld ) continues to work with her longstanding interest towards rehearsing alternative modes of knowing, shifting aside from the dominant assumption that thought begins with human perception and instead granting intelligent agency to fungal and vegetal life. Her large hand-tufted rugs, and ensembles of ceramic works are populated by fungal bodies, proliferating rhizomes, and apertures that behave like vigilant orifices, interrupting the persistent fiction that cognition is a human monopoly.
🌱 The organisms in Põld’s works appear vaguely familiar, yet they carry an element of uncanniness. Figures we are accustomed to reading as passive, or simply too slow, too distant from our linguistic and perceptual frameworks to register as agents, are here endowed with their own authority. In their dispersed, non-human-centred presence, they gesture toward what Michael Marder terms “plant-thinking”: a form of thought that unfolds without the familiar coordinates of human cognition, imagery or intention. Põld’s exhibition explores a practice attentive to more-than-human entanglements, where co-composition replaces representation.
👩🎨 Laura Põld (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist working within an expanded field of sculpture, where ceramic and textile-based works bridge sculptural form and pictorial surface. Drawing on mythology, folklore, and environmental history, Põld explores interspecies entanglements and forms of embodied knowledge, foregrounding practices of care, shelter, and survival within unstable contemporary conditions.
The exhibition is curated by Lilian Hiob-Küttis (@hiobl ), an independent curator and art advisor, and artistic director of Foto Tallinn Art fair 2026.
#EvaKahanFoundation #LaurePõld #LilianHiobKüttis #KahanArtSpaceVienna
We’re thrilled to introduce the Artistic Director of Foto Tallinn 2026, Lilian Hiob-Küttis, and the remarkable team bringing the art fair to life ✨
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Lilian Hiob-Küttis is a curator and gallerist with extensive international experience. Her journey includes long-term work at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery and art advisory at ELLELL Advisory. She has curated exhibitions at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Punctum Gallery, Kogo Gallery, Margot Samel Gallery (New York), Asni Gallery (Riga), Vaal Gallery, and more.
Holding a Master’s degree in Art History and Visual Culture from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Lilian is also a guest lecturer in the Curatorial Studies programme and teaches “The ABCs of Art Collecting” at the Academy’s Open Academy.
Her curatorial vision and international perspective give Foto Tallinn 2026 a strong, forward-looking foundation. ✨
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The team turning vision into reality (from left to right):
✨ Hedi Jaansoo — artist and photographer; Project Manager at the Estonian Union of Photography Artists and FOKU gallery. At Foto Tallinn 2026, she leads key projects and keeps the engine running.
✨ Kadri Laas-Lepasepp — Co-founder and Director of Operations at Kai Art Center and the ECADC; a long-term partner of Foto Tallinn.
✨ Lilian Hiob-Küttis — Artistic Director of Foto Tallinn 2026.
✨ Taivi Koitla — growth strategist and award-winning marketing & communications expert. At Foto Tallinn, she strengthens visibility and helps take the art fair to the next level.
✨ Kadi-Ell Tähiste — Director of Operations at the Association of Estonian Art Institutions, Executive Director of Foto Tallinn, and art advisor at ELLELL Advisory. She has led Foto Tallinn successfully for many years — and continues to shape its next chapter.
✨✨ Behind the scenes: Jaan Evart & Ott Kagovere (graphic design), Ranno Ait (web development), and Alexia Menikou (international communications) ✨✨
Together, we are building a platform that supports artists, galleries, and collectors — and we look forward to welcoming you in September 2026 🤍
More soon.
📸 Laura Arum-Lääts
Rõõm on teatada kaua küpsenud suurt uudist - oleme Kadi-Elliga loonud uue kunstinõustamisele pühendunud ettevõtte 🌟
ELLELL kunstinõustamine pakub professionaalset nõustamist kunstikogude loomisel ja arendamisel, aitab leida üksikteoseid ning viib läbi loenguid ja kureeritud programmiga kunstireise.
Võta meiega ühendust, kui tahaksid osta kunsti koju või kontorisse või arendada oma kogu.
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💻Ranno Ait, @www_stuudio
📸@zilverr
adidas 2025 wrapped: Lilian Hiob-Küttis
Neljandana esitleme teile Liliani, kes on juba pikemat aega olnud osa kuraatori ja kunstiagendina meie adipeeps perest! See naine on Eesti kunstimaastiku tippekspert, ta teadmistepagas on põhjatu.
Liliani lapsepõlve detail jõuludest, mis tänaseni temaga on: “Eestiaegne tammepuidust lahtitõmmatav ümmargune laud, mille vaheklappide paika sättimine oli omaette suurprojekt. Veedame alati jõulud koos suguvõsaga ühise pika laua taga.”
Kujutame ette siirast jõulurõõmu pere keskil!
The beauty clinic is the modern cave — a place where beauty, fear and ritual intertwine.
Our conversation with Madlen opens a door into a world where a Neanderthal could easily share a chair with a beauty-salon client 🧌
The video extract on the second slide (from a 12-minute piece) was created for the exhibition “Neanderthal Beauty Clinic” (duo-show with @madlenoffice ) at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (curator @hiobl )
Camera: @celes7ica and @ando.src
Editing and sound design: @ando.src
Sound correction: @andruss
Subtitle translation: @kkeiu_
The exhibition is open until 22 February 2026.
Photos are by: @roman_sten and @alana_proosa
3D-support: @joonastimmi and @karmo.jarv
Neanderthal Beauty Clinic 🦏
Open til 22/02/2026 @disainimuuseum@darja_popolitova@madlenoffice show curated by @hiobl
Neanderthal Beauty Clinic” is a gallery exhibition that presents a speculative beauty installation created by Madlen Hirtentreu and Darja Popolitova, through which the artists reflect on how beauty procedures have become consumable quick commodities, revealing how activities marketed as self-care can conceal mechanisms of bodily control and subjugation.
more info: https://www.etdm.ee/en/naitused/neanderthal-beauty-clinic
Graphic design by @norman.orro
Exhibition Team: Ketli Tiitsar, Katharina Kala, Toomas Übner
Tehnical master @joonastimmi
Text edits and translation @kkeiu_
Photos: @alana_proosa Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
#delphianopencall2026 @delphiangallery
Lilian Hiob-Küttis sits down with Augustas Serapinas – the artist working with everything from ruins and pastries to personal trainers and antique sculptures. You’ll find his work on salvaged rooftops and drifting boats just as well as in institutions like Art Basel Unlimited and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius.
Link in bio to explore his deadpan wit and architectural precision 🗡️
Interview by @hiobl
Photography by @zilverr
