Contemporary Art Triennale for School Students

The Contemporary Art Triennial for School Students Eksperimenta! is the largest and the most unique contemporary youth art event, involving more than 800 people from 13 countries. The first ever Eksperimenta! belongs to the programme of European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 and challenges young people to present their artwork at an international triennial by the game rules of professional art exhibitions.

The expositions at Tallinn Song Festival Grounds and in Maarjamäe Palace take up more than 2000 square metres and showcase the works of authors from South Korea, Canada, Iceland, Turkey, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Finland, Germany and Lithuania.

“Eksperimenta! is the hotbed of creativity, a free-thinking-zone of smart ideas. By organizing the exhibition, we wish to guide young people to see inspirational opportunities in both everyday and global problems, unleashing a flow of creative thinking and problem-solving. The triennial offers young people an opportunity to enter into a dialogue with the life that surrounds them, and to make their ideas visible. Young visual artists have little opportunities to do that in pre-professional level. Singers and musicians have concert performances and tours, young actors have plays, while young people involved in arts have considerably less opportunities to present their works and receive feedback. Eksperimenta! starts in Tallinn in the year of European Capital of Culture 2011, with the ambition to become the biggest youth contemporary art event in the world,“ said Annely Köster, the director of the triennial.

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