ART IST KUKU NU UT is a site- and context specific festival, designed especially into the cultural space of Tartu, an historical university city of the 100 000 inhabitants in the Eastern border of EU. As organizers, we wish to introduce the cream of contemporary art to the local community as well as the national audiences, also to integrate local artists into international networks and draw attention to local emerging artists. Wish us luck!

Programme
September 15, 2011 at 2 pm: Conversational moment at Noorus Gallery organized by Ytter group (Bergen) with special guests from Nordic and Baltic contemporary art scene.

September 15, 2011 at 5 pm: Opening of the festival ART IST KUKU NU UT and the exhibition Art Must Be Beautiful. Selected Works by Marina Abramović (Amsterdam/New York) in Tartu Art Museum.

September 15, 2011 at 7 pm: Screening of Seven Easy Pieces at Athena cinema.

September 16, 2011 at 2 pm: Conversational moment at Noorus Gallery organized by Ytter group (Bergen) with special guests from Nordic and Baltic contemporary art scene.

September 16, 2011 at 5 pm: Opening of the Acts of Refusal, an international exhibition guest curated by Ellen Blumenstein & Kathrin Meyer (The Office, Berlin) in Tartu Art House.

September 16, 2011 at 7 pm: Opening of the collective project "Leaving Tartu" by Anna Hints, Eva Labotkin, Marja-Liisa Plats, Toomas Thetloff (Tartu/Tallinn), the winners of KUKU NUNNU production grant in Y Gallery.

September 17, 2011 at 12: Hang-over brunch cooked by Ytter (Bergen), and at 1 pm seminar on relations between curators and artists, organised by Ytter group in collaboration with ART IST KUKU NU UT team. Participants from Nordic and Baltic region.

PS: After official programme, each night spontanous parties will follow in different clubs and bars in Tartu!

http://www.artistkukunuut.org