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ONE TO MANY: A-Galerii Annual Jewellery Exhibition 2025

This year, the largest annual group exhibition of Estonian jewellery art turns its focus to values. At a time when value is so often reduced to numbers, the artists highlight other forms of worth – those shaped by collaboration, community, and the relationships that emerge in shared space. The exhibition brings together works by A-Galerii’s community alongside artists who have recently engaged with jewellery from new angles, creating a meeting point across generations and backgrounds.

The exhibition design by artist Karl Joonas Alamaa features soft figurative objects made from leftover garment textiles, combined with organic wooden and metal structures. It intertwines jewellery with sculptural forms and invites reflection on the role of jewellery amid the complexities of being human and living through sharply contrasting crises.

The title “One to Many” points to the tension between valuing uniqueness and universality, carrying an ironic undertone: whatever, just one among many. Each artwork becomes a small world of its own, a question and a possible answer. In a large group exhibition, seemingly similar parts multiply and individuality may blur, yet something distinctly original still emerges, offering new perspectives and unexpected shifts.

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Curator: Sille Luiga

Exhibition design: Karl Joonas Alamaa

Graphic design: Villem Sarapuu

64 artists: Mirjam Aun, Andrei Balašov, Merike Balod, Jens Andreas Clausen, Margus Elizarov, Rita-Livia Erikson, Kati Erme, Elize Hiiop, Tatiana Iakovleva, Hedi Jaansoo, Ivar Kaasik, Keesi Kapsta, Mari Käbin, Liisi Kõuhkna, Keiu Koppel, Ülle Kõuts, Kalle Kotselainen, Olga Tea Krek, Kadi Kübarsepp, Triin Kukk, Valdek Laur, Kristiina Laurits, Krista Lehari, Claudia Lepik, Viktorija Lillemets, Elis Liivo, Urmas Lüüs, Keiu Maasik, Tõnis Malkov, Henry Mardisalu, Ülle Mesikäpp, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Paul Aadam Mikson, Maarja Niinemägi, Erle Nemvalts, Ulrika Paemurru, Õnne Paulus, Margit Paulin, Mari Pärtelpoeg, Darja Popolitova, Ane Raunam, Anne Reinberg, Mari Relo-Šaulys, Liisa-Chrislin Saleh, Tamara Sergijenko, Kairi Sirendi, Birgit Skolimowski, Riin Somelar, Kärt Summatavet, Hansel Tai, Sven Tali, Harry Tensing, Margus Tänav, Bianca Triinu Toots, Kertu Tuberg, Maria Valdma-Härm, Ene Valter, Katrin Veegen, Kadi Veesaar, Kertu Vellerind, Tea Vellerind, Raili Vinn, Ülle Voosalu

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Indrek Mesi, Ulrika Paemurru, Tauris Reose

Exhibition HOKSTOL HEDGA PÄRELMIT JALD presents Indrek Mesi’s search for a novel visual language. The artist combines the expertise of jewelry design with graphics and AI-generated visuals, thus promoting dialogue between disciplines.

The AI-generated visuals are turned into graphic sheets through the process of xerox lithography, which are then segmented and enhanced with ornamental metal details. In selecting the visuals, Mesi has consciously avoided stereotypical polished AI-generated images. By deliberately opposing the trend of cliché-heavy aesthetics, the works tend to feature darker tones and more hybrid forms, resulting from a blend of digital and analog processing, rather than what we typically associate with AI-generated art. Experimentation in graphics adds an additional layer to the final visual elements, setting them apart from the original generated images – there’s a greater presence of manual craftsmanship and visual ‘translation errors’ that come with the process. While sharp details may be lost, new interesting textures are gained.

Through this project, the artist aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion in the art world about AI-generated visuals. By approaching AI as just one of many tools that can be added to an artist’s existing skills and toolkit, AI becomes a valuable companion in the creative process, without diminishing the artist’s personal input or hindering their unique approach to the subject matter of the work.

Indrek Mesi (1987) is an interdisciplinary artist who combines jewelry and metal art with graphics, sculpture, and new technological solutions in his work. Mesi holds a bachelor’s degree in jewelry art and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in the same field at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Estonia and Spain.

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Ulrika Paemurru’s exhibition POST STONE AGE centers around head and neck pieces in brass and stoneware, which bring together archaic materials and contemporary shapes, and create an impression of prehistoric artefacts without actually referencing any particular historical culture. The project invites viewers to find meanings in the symbolism of the works and to create their own mythologies based on personal backgrounds and interests. The artist has a background in Egyptology and is fascinated by the idea that people haven’t really changed with time – we are still bound by the same worries, pains and questions as humans from thousands of years ago.

Paemurru writes: “It seems to me that a cornerstone of being human is that we need to know how things work, to look for explanations and starting points, and to do that we need to simplify the complexity of the world to a level we can understand – whether that level is a fairytale or a list of technical ingredients. And it is charming in a way that a lack of factual or easily searchable knowledge does not paralyse a human being, as it might paralyse a machine, but that the role of knowledge will be taken over by imagination – which will more often than not help to bring about new knowledge.”

The works in the exhibition are further developments of the author’s previous projects “Fragile Chains” (2018-2021) and “Superstition and the Unreal” (2023). The exhibition is part of the Tallinn Applied Arts Triennial (TRTR) satellite program.

Ulrika Paemurru (1989) is a visual artist, based in Tallinn, working mainly with jewellery, video and interactive pieces. Paemurru has MA degrees in Egyptology (University of Liverpool, 2013) and Jewellery (Estonian Academy of Arts, 2023). She has has studied also at HfG Karlsruhe in Germany, Haute école des arts du Rhin in France and has been a intern at the studio of Ruudt Peters in Netherlands. Paemurru has taken part in exhibitions in Estonia, Italy and Germany.

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Tauris Reose’s solo exhibition MORBID EUPHORIA gathers objects and jewelry which reflect the artist’s inner turmoil in moments when feelings have remained one-sided. The exhibition is part of the Tallinn Applied Arts Triennial (TRTR) satellite program.


“The longer the period under the pressure of euphoria becomes, the more captivating and also more shackling it is.
Each subsequent step may be unpredictable. I still do plan the entire upcoming journey – an hour, a day, a week – but unpredictable twists in my mental space rework everything. Torment through new choking and relentless ideals that burden the mind until those thoughts take over all aspects of life. Appetite disappears, and a sickening, intoxicating feeling arises.


The mental beating takes on new forms over time – maybe physical self-whipping would free me from these thoughts and feelings. It’s just exhausting. My brain could explode at any moment, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all. It’s simply impossible to focus my thoughts on other essential life matters. Simply impossible. A painful calm prevails. The inability to pull oneself out. There is no direct path through which I could step back over the edge into reality. I just have to let time carry me.”


Tauris Reose (1996) is a metal artist and teacher based in Estonia. He is a graduate of the Märjamaa School of Music and Art (2012), holds a degree in metal art from the Estonian Academy of Arts (Jewelry and Blacksmithing BA 2021), and studied at the University of Gothenburg in Steneby, Sweden (2019). His works have been exhibited in Estonia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Portugal. The recurring themes in his creations are overthinking and the search for mental balance.

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FRAGILE CHAINS

Ulrika Paemurru
Ulrika Paemurru
Ulrika Paemurru
Ulrika Paemurru
Ulrika Paemurru

Ulrika Paemurru plays with the image of the chain, but through her chosen material – clay – takes away the shackling function of this symbol.

Dark heavy chains bring to mind imprisonment, damp shadowy catacombs, oppressive obligations, stagnation and limitations. At the same time a chain is also the symbol for security, unity and togetherness, an unbreakable spiritual bond. These impressions seem to be in opposition, but they have actually grown out of the same fear and desire: we wish to live in a safe world. We have a chain to keep the enemy locked away and a chain to keep everything dear close to us. Only, sometimes you might discover that you yourself have become the prisoner – when you are seen as dangerous by others or perhaps when you are chained by obligations and love somewhere where you feel trapped.

Visually akin to worn and twisted iron chains, the works feel heavy and unyielding. Immovable. Unchanging. But clay makes the connections fragile and the mess of links becomes easy to bear. By choosing an unexpected material the author wants to shake this absolute certainty that we simultaneously fear and wish for. To bring a little hope to those who are drowning in the ocean of their responsibilities or suffocating under heavy restrictions, but also care and caution to those who are currently feeling deceptively confident…

The works in the exhibition are a further development of the authors BA final project at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and special thanks are reserved for the supervisors of the original project: Nils Hint, Piret Hirv, Urmas Lüüs and Eve Margus-Villems. 

Ulrika Paemurru (1989) is currently an MA student at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and has also studied at HEAR in Strasbourg and at the studio of Ruudt Peters in Amsterdam. Ulrika Paemurru has exhibited in group-shows in Estonia, Italy and online. “Fragile Chains” is her first solo show. In her artistic practice Ulrika Paemurru is interested in the small conflicts that surround safety, power and superstition, where through the element of fear emotionally very different ideas can come together.