Helena-Reet: Taking down the exhibition “Our home witch kitchen” in ERM and DRAWING LOTS who from the visitors won E&S PRODUCTS!

08 Oct, 2021 by Helena-Reet Ennet

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NordenBladet – It was only so recently that we spent an entire week setting up the all-family exhibition. Last weekend we went to Tartu to uninstall the exhibition that had been up over three months in the Estonian National Museum. From among the visitors that played the E&S herb-puzzle game in ERM’s participation hall, 5 exclusive Elisheva & Shoshana gift packages were given to the lucky winners!

While the setting up of the exhibition required a lot of preparation work, planning, construction and time (it took several people an entire week to set everything up), then taking down the works and packing everything took a lot less time. To set the exhibition up, we drove five times from Tallinn to Tartu in order to transport the paintings, pottery, herbs, and E&S products to ERM, yet it took just one trip to transport the same amount of art back. It surprised me how much stuff one can fit in one car! Iccccc..

Breakfast in the restaurant Tikupoiss (Paiaristi, Imavere village, 72401). Currently my favourite place on Tallinn-Tartu road. The prices are slightly too expensive, yet the dishes are really delicious. Me and Allan, we bought their tasty takeaway poppy rolls, too!

The Estonian National Museum with its versatile and wonderful exhibitions and enormous museum facilities is as well known and popular in Estonia, in the Baltics and in the Scandinavian countries. Presenting one’s artwork in ERM is every artist’s greatest dream! I am among the few lucky ones that can say that this dream has come true! And, which is more, I was so happy when I heard that there was such great interest in our exhibition and that visitor numbers skyrocketed, even despite the global pandemic. It was so good to hear that the hall hosting my exhibition was full of visitors all the time! This also reflected on the submitted lottery leaflets (there were so many of them!) and actually already the opening ceremony where a great part of Estonian cultural elite gathered. And yes, I must mention and announce with great pride — MY EXHIBITION WAS VISITED BY, AND THE OPENING SPEECH WAS PERFORMED BY THE NEWLY ELECTED ESTONIAN PRESIDENT MR. ALAR KARIS!!! How cool is that?! Yes, pinch me! Sooo fancy! So nice!!!! A great compliment to us! MANY THANKS!!!! 🙂

During this summer, ERM also excelled with its fantastic fairy-tale exhibition that was now taken down at the same time with “Our home witch kitchen” and awaits being set up in a new country! ERM’s head of exhibitions, Kristjan Raba revealed that already as many as four countries are currently willing to host the exhibition! WOW!

I have received very many questions from you, a la: I wish to hold my personal exhibition, what should I do for that?, How to arrange an exhibition?, What must one take into account when preparing an exhibition?, Where can one hold an exhibition?, Who can hold a personal exhibition?, Will there be a financial bonus for holding an exhibition or do you need to cover all the costs?, What are the costs that are related to arranging an exhibition?, How much does it cost to hold an exhibition?, Where do you start when you wish to hold a personal exhibition?, Could I, too, hold an exhibition in the Estonian National Museum?, How can I provide media attention to my exhibition? etc, etc.. There have been very many similar questions. I gave a promise to the Estonian National Museum that I will publish on their website (erm.ee) the blog of my exhibition — definitely this will come! I suppose the most rational option would be to do so in a Q&A format. Once it has been accomplished, I will provide you with a link to that text here in my blog, so that you can visit the page to read it! 🙂

Below you can find a few pictures from the exhibition and from the setting up of the exhibition..+ our dinner at ERM’s restaurant Pööripäev (Muuseumi road 2, 61714 Tartu)… and then already about the lottery!!!

Drawing the lots!!! Everyone that visited our exhibition has been able to take part in the exclusive lottery. For that reason we prepared a fun game where you need to find a herb from the table – chamomile, dandelion, primrose, meadowsweet, fireweed, red clover, yarrow, buckthorn and valerian. Among all those that played this game and left their replies in the lottery box, we drew lots and found FIVE WINNERS!

We will deliver a luxurious gift package with Elisheva & Shoshana products to the winners!

The five winners are:

Ronja Kask
Allan Padar
Rain Roball
Kätlin Väär
Lily Laanemäe

Thank you to everyone that participated and congratulations to those of you that won the prize! We will contact you and agree upon where your gift package will be delivered!

And to conclude today’s blog..

I wish to cordially thank the Estonian National Museum. The collaboration with you has been a pleasure, an inspiration and a lot of fun! Thank you so very much for this opportunity! To express my gratitude, I made a gift to the museum, a painting by me – “Cattail, which is not in the picture”. You can read about the painting HERE and HERE. Below, the handing over of the painting to the director of exhibitions at ERM, Kristjan Raba.

THANK YOU! 🙂

Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)

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