Tactile Baltics is a collaboration project started in 2020 between NID, Latvian Design Centre and Lithuanian Design Forum. The new exhibition debuting at LDF21 is a momentous and exciting opportunity to introduce the contemporary Baltic design scene and to build an appreciation and awareness of design from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. With a focus on tactility, visitors can feel the environment around them as they trace a path through the exhibition.
18th September - 3rd October 2021
London Design Festival
The Dray Walk Gallery
Scenography: Helen Sirp & Holger Kilumets
Tactile Baltics
Installations will offer visitors the opportunity to gain an understanding of key themes related to Baltic design, including: sustainability, tradition, craftsmanship, innovation, and materials.
In a collaboration with Adorno—a curated online gallery for contemporary collectible design—Tactile Baltics will also feature a series of limited edition collectible design works, both as part of its Shoreditch exhibition and at Adorno London. Altogether, Tactile Baltics is a momentous and exciting opportunity to present a collection of contemporary Baltic design, and to build an appreciation and awareness of design from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Participating designers
an&angel (LV), Saarepera & Mae (EE), Raili Keiv (EE), Vita Vaitiekūnaitė (LT), DeTales (LV), Pora (LV), Justina Semčenkaitė (LT), Ieva Laskevičiūtė (LT), Estonian Academy of Arts students: Hanna-Liisa Haukka, Siim Simmermann, Oliver Kanniste (EE), INDI (LT), RIGA ChAIR (LV), EMKO (LT), Annike Laigo (EE), Lauri Visnapuu (EE), Studio Aine (EE), Elena Lašaitė (LT), Ieva Kalēja (LV).
Adorno London: Artis Nīmanis (LV), Kateriin Rikken (EE), Evelina Kudabaitė (LT), Aap Piho (EE), Vytautas Gečas (LT), Agnė Kučerenkaitė (LT), Severija Inčirauskaitė (LT), Mantas Lesauskas (LT), Johanna Ulfsak (EE), Martynas Kazimierėnas (LT), mammalampa (LV), Kärt Ojavee (EE), Janis Straupe (LV), Oliver Kanniste (EE), Kadi Hektor (EE), MINT Furniture (LV), Sampling (LV).
Partners
Tactile Baltics is funded by the Baltic Culture Fund and the fund ‘Estonian Culture Abroad’. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Lithuanian Culture Institute, Estonian Embassy, Embassy of Latvia and Embassy of Lithuania.