The Tallinn Photo Month Biennale of Contemporary Art will be held this year for the sixth time (01.09–17.10). Its main exhibition will be curated by the Creative Association of Curators TOK, who were selected based on the results of a closed competition. The exhibition will take place at the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM) from 3 to 17 October 2021. Tallinn Photo Month is an international biennial of contemporary art, initiated by the Estonian Union of Photographers (Foku) in 2011. This year “Photomonth” and its main exhibition will contribute to the establishment of cooperation between the art-cultural communities of the Baltic region and Russia. For the first time, curators from Russia have been invited to develop the concept of the main exhibition. The exhibition and symposium will bring together artists and researchers from different countries - from Sudan to Ireland - who, in their practice, turn to the issues of decolonizing architecture and abandoning the hierarchical approach to the formation of urban spaces and communities.
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IV Arctic Art Forum "Ecosystems of the Invisible" organized by Arctic Art Institute in partnership with the Creative Association of Curators TOK will take place during October 10 - December 30, 2020. The Forum will take place online and will comprise exhibitions, screenings, seminars and discussions. The Forum will present artistic, curatorial and research practices of examining the Global North and its ecosystms and aimed at (re)creation and reenactment of unknown and excluded Arctic historical narratives anf contemporary contexts. The key event of the Forum is the symposium 'Interdependency as a Condition" conceptualized and curated by TOK.
1 Curatorial Forum, organized in 2019 by the NCCA - St Petersburg in partnership with the Creative Association of Curators TOK, has been awarded the All-Russian Prize "Innovation-2020" in the category "Regional Project"
For the past year curator and co-founder of TOK Anna Bitkina took part in the seminar REALTY as a part of her studies at The Dutch Art Institute. Realty has focussed on the role of Contemporary Art in recent histories of urban development and gentrification. As groundwork, participants of the seminar have focussed on conditions and analytics specific to the Netherlands and Athens.