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KRISTINA NORMAN — ORCHIDELIRIUM FILM TRILOGI

  1. 12.03.2026 kl. 18.00—20.00
  2. 13.03.2026–15.03.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  3. 17.03.2026–22.03.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  4. 24.03.2026–29.03.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  5. 31.03.2026–02.04.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  6. 04.04.2026–05.04.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  7. 07.04.2026–12.04.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  8. 14.04.2026–19.04.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  9. 21.04.2026–26.04.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00
  10. 28.04.2026–03.05.2026 kl. 12.00—18.00

Kritisk Galleri, Brandkår, dörr C4

Arrangör: Kritisk Galleri

13.3.—3.5.2026
Exhibition opens on Wednesday, 12.3.2026 at 6–8 pm.
CRITICAL CLUB: Kristina Norman will have an artist talk at the gallery on Saturday, 11.4.2026 at 3 pm.

Critical Gallery invited Kristina Norman to exhibit her Orchidelirium film trilogy. The trilogy was originally commissioned for the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2022).

ORCHIDELIRIUM FILM TRILOGY

Kristina Norman’s ORCHIDELIRIUM FILM TRILOGY offers multiple ways to reflect on the legacies of colonialism. Investigating forgotten connections between Eastern Europe and the global south, it relates to the post-Socialist countries’ often uncomfortable rediscovery of their colonial history. The trilogy departs from research on an Estonian couple, Emilie and Andres Saal who end up as members of the colonial administration and elite in the Dutch colony in Indonesia in the late nineteenth century. Working with the Saals’ life stories and archives, Norman is intrigued by the conversion of the colonized into the colonizer and the hybrid identities resulting from this, full of controversies and tensions. Thus, from a more global perspective her films also speak about the anxious relations between the colonial elites and the colonial subjects, and the ever-present afterlife of those liaisons. Including acts by three performance artists, the films explore the longing for privilege and abundance, as well as the environmental effect of these desires on the invisible consumption of human labour and non-human animals, plants, soil and water in the age of the Anthropocene. Being first and foremost interested in the contemporaneity of colonial past, the films explore the workings of neo-colonialism in the age of accelerating crisis but also hint towards the possibility of resistance.

SHELTER (11 min)
RIP-OFF (14 min)
THIRST (14 min)

KRISTINA NORMAN

Kristina Norman is a visual artist, performing artist and filmmaker, born in 1979, who lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. 
https://www.kristinanorman.ee/