Independent New York with Merike Estna

In a joint presentation at Independent New York, Temnikova & Kasela and Margot Samel will exhibit works by Merike Estna (b. 1980), one of Estonia’s foremost contemporary artists. Her process-based practice challenges traditional hierarchies, embedding patterns and color combinations from the overlooked vocabularies of craft into an expanded language of painting. From canvas, she has progressed to producing clothes, objects, and entire spaces. Estna transforms the materials and techniques of Estonian folklore into works of personal archaeology, as seen in the immersive installations created for her 2022 retrospective at Kai Art Center in Tallinn.