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Critical Gallery: LIINA SIIB – AUGUST PROCESSION

  1. 18.04.2025–20.04.2025 12.00—18.00
  2. 22.04.2025–27.04.2025 12.00—18.00
  3. 29.04.2025–04.05.2025 12.00—18.00
  4. 06.05.2025–11.05.2025 12.00—18.00
  5. 13.05.2025–18.05.2025 12.00—18.00
  6. 20.05.2025–25.05.2025 12.00—18.00
  7. 27.05.2025–01.06.2025 12.00—18.00

Kriittinen Galleria, 1.kerros, Palokunta

Organiser: Kriittinen Galleria

LIINA SIIB: AUGUST PROCESSION
18.4.–1.6.2025
Tue – Sun 12pm to 6pm


Opening on Thursday 17.4.2025 at 17-20
Doors open at 17. 
Opening speech at 18.

Critical Club from klo 19–20: Is there future for penniless films? Liina Siib in discussion with Teemu Mäki.

I am an observer, I like to observe people. Some of my works are based on historical figures or are semi-fictional and research-based. I like to read history, work in an archive and read documents but the observation is a very characteristic trait.”

Liina Siib, in an interview in 2022.)

LIINA SIIB is one of Estonia’s best known and most respected contemporary artists. She was Estonia’s representative at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and works as a professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Siib’s output consists of films, photographs and installations, often with a documentary basis. 

One of her best-known works is A Woman Takes Little Space (2007–2017), which was part of her exhibition at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The work is a series of photographs in which, as the title suggests, she documents women in various workplaces: behind a kiosk counter, in a corner of an office, at an assembly line, and so on. Indeed, from the pictures, it seemed that each of them had about one square metre of space in this world, which they occupied during their working day. The title and idea for the work came from a gender-biased and misogynistic argument Siib had heard. Of course, the work did not claim that these photographs per se prove that women have less space in their workplaces than men. Instead, the work showed a cavalcade of women in jobs and occupations that are more common for women. It was up to the viewer to think about what the images say about women’s roles and space in society — and to observe how women perform their assigned roles through their appearance.

In the Critical Gallery, Siib will be showing three recent films and a few related photographic works.

The three films have a combined running time of 50 minutes:

And Then Came The End (2025. 17’40”)
August Procession (2023. 11’33”)
In the Storm of Roses (2022, 20’40”)