25/6/2026 – 11/7/2026
Bladr, Copenhagen, Denmark
© Pille-Riin Jaik and 5-7 & 10 & 16 Catharina Leth
Works on display: someone is in charge, wrestling hands I and II, the world keep s me hanging, the waves tell me everything, the waves tell me nothing, borders touch and break in intimate ways, unsalty waters, selection of Bladr books by the artist.
PRESS RELEASE:
June 25th — July 11th, 2026
Opening and publication launch: Thursday 25th June, 5-8 PM
Reading by Pille-Riin Jaik at 6 PM
In the region of Grenen two different water bodies of the Baltic Sea (where the artist is from, a former colony) and the Northern sea (where the exhibition takes place, a former colonizer) meet through the Kattegat Strait. The different salinities of the water bodies (one salty, the other brackish), create a unique environment of clashing waves and currents. In the midst of polycrises, where water and border politics come forth, the idea of control and seamless transactions in the background, show their false rigidness more strongly. The new series of textile sculptures, images and sound, created specifically for Bladr, wish to open those restless waters as maps for transcending imaginaries and cross-historic connections.
"The waves tell me nothing, they hide their currents under the surface. The waves tell me everything, there is so much happening i'm drowning. No wonder the halocine is deemed a non-swim zone". (quote from the released publication "Unsalty Waters")
Pille-Riin Jaik (born 1991 in Tallinn, Estonia) is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary artist working with camera-based mediums, performance and sound as well as with various weavings in textual or spatial form. Her artistic work is focused on text, plants, textile, storytelling, surplus and waste materials/thoughts in feminist and class aware discourse. Currently she is working on her PhD research about political and poetic storytelling in Baltic landscapes in Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
The exhibition is supported by Statens Kunstfond and Rådet for Visuel Kunst. Biggest thank you's: Ali Amiri, Myrto Vratsanou, Simon Villadsen, PhD in Practice Department in Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Klaus Rabeder.