BE FRAGILE! BE BRAVE! – Melanie Bonajo, Liisa Hirsch, Anu Põder, Alina Szapocznikow, Iza Tarasewicz
Be Fragile! Be Brave! is a sequence to 2017 exhibition Anu Põder. Be Fragile! Be Brave! at Kumu Art Museum. As the first show evolved around retrospective, historical, thematic and material recontextualisation of the work of Estonian sculptor and installation maker Anu Põder (1947-2013), the new exhibition in Pori Art Museum will continue paying tribute to Anu Põder’s artistic ouevre, while in Pori the aim is to put emphasis on focusing on art works that are simultaneously intimate and social, abstract and exact, fragile and brave.
The exhibition is made in collaboration with Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Łódź Art Museum, Iza Tarasewicz Studio, family of Anu Põder, AKINCI Gallery and it is supported by Estonian Embassy, Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Tuglas Society.