Anagama Firing
Short film made by Krista Jutt during the 15th Kohila Symposium, 2015.
Fifteen Years of Kohila Symposium
This article was first published in The Log Book, issue 63, 2015 / Külli Kõiv Enchanted by Fire – Fifteen Years of Kohila International Ceramics Symposium One can follow a new path without knowing where it will lead, or start a new adventure without knowing how it will end. At the start of the 2000s, nobody …
Taming Fire in Kohila
David Jones / artist and writer / 2015 Fire provides us with warmth and security and the power to change matter, but it also has destructive potential. These aspects of technology have been nurtured by the Kohila International Ceramics Symposium as a possibility for creating contemporary art; 2015 is its 15th anniversary. This is a …
Enchanted by Fire
2015 marks 15 years from the beginning of the Kohila International Ceramics Symposium in Estonia. All the symposia have been conducted in Kohila, at the Tohisoo Manor, and have centered on a unique anagama-type wood-burning ceramic kiln in the manor park, which is one of the largest of its kind in the Baltics. During the symposia, the participants produce large-scale ceramic …
Conversation about the exhibition Enchanted by Fire
Laura Põld / artist and writer / 2015 Conversation with Pekka Paikkari, curator of Enchanted by Fire and ceramicist Ingrid Allik. Pekka Paikkari, what were the criteria for selecting the works for the exhibition? Since the collection includes about twice as many works. When seeing the collection at Tohisoo Manor, what provided the greatest impulse …
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What has been cooking in Kohila?
David Jones / clay artist and writer / 2010 The history of Estonia is a history of interruptions. Estonia achieves independence from foreign domination in 1991; in the year 2000 the kiln at Kohila was first fired. This booklet reflects the product of the last five years of that kiln. It can be read as a …
More about the Tohisoo kiln
Inna Laanmets / head of Kohila Educational Center in years 1993-2003 / 2010 It was back in the mid-1990’s when Professor Richard Spiller from East Carolina, USA, suggested the Estonian ceramicists the idea of building a wood-fired kiln in Estonia. At about the same time Kaja Pirnpuu had started ceramics courses at Tohisoo manor. In …
An Unexpected Art Collection
Kai Lobjakas / art historian / 2005 Public opinion in Estonia is currently divided over the issue of whether old manor complexes, the crowning glory of Estonian rural architectural heritage, should be in private custodianship or serve wider national cultural interests. While this debate has continued, the Tohisoo manor, just outside Kohila township, has quietly been …