{"id":108389,"date":"2026-04-23T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/uncategorized\/galeriis-seek-einar-tiits-kuidas-olla-puuoksake\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:31:46","slug":"gallery-seek-einar-tiits-how-to-be-a-twig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/fotomuuseum-en\/gallery-seek\/gallery-seek-einar-tiits-how-to-be-a-twig\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition in Gallery SEEK<br> <b>&#8220;Einar\u00a0Tiits.\u00a0How to be a Twig&#8221;<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107349\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KYT3525-1-e1776933018438.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107349\" class=\"wp-image-107349 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KYT3525-1-e1776933018438-400x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KYT3525-1-e1776933018438-400x603.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KYT3525-1-e1776933018438.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Einar Tiits. Hand-coloured photograph from the series How to Be a Twig, 1990s.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">The work of Einar\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW46903236 BCX8\">Tiits<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">\u00a0(1963\u20132016) stands among the most significant recent discoveries in Estonian photographic art.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">Largely unrecognised<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">\u00a0during his lifetime,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW46903236 BCX8\">Tiits<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">\u00a0used handmade colour filters, gouache, and ink pens to create a vividly grotesque style that transformed photography into a vibrant circus. With methods innovative for his time, he boldly reimagined the human body, often p<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">lacing<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">\u00a0himself before the camera as a fragile and vulnerable, yet self-ironically defiant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">\u00a0model<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">. He also\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">emerges<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW46903236 BCX8\">\u00a0as a lyricist of nature, whose desire to experience the world from a plant\u2019s perspective feels strikingly contemporary in the context of today\u2019s eco-philosophical thinking.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW46903236 BCX8\"><br class=\"SCXW46903236 BCX8\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\"><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Annika Haas<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Open: <b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6 June <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2013\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1 August 2026 at 2\u20138 PM.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"row oi-gallery oi-gallery-1\" >\n<li class=\"col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TIITS_02.jpg\" class=\"gallery-thumb__url\" data-mh=\"gallery\">\n                            <span class=\"gallery-thumb__image card-img-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TIITS_02-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"TIITS_02\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span>\n                            \n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n<li class=\"col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TIITS_03-1.jpg\" class=\"gallery-thumb__url\" data-mh=\"gallery\">\n                            <span class=\"gallery-thumb__image card-img-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TIITS_03-1-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"TIITS_03 (1)\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span>\n                            \n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n<li class=\"col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TIITS_16.jpg\" class=\"gallery-thumb__url\" data-mh=\"gallery\">\n                            <span class=\"gallery-thumb__image card-img-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TIITS_16-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"TIITS_16\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span>\n                            \n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n<li class=\"col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KYT3068-1.jpg\" class=\"gallery-thumb__url\" data-mh=\"gallery\">\n                            <span class=\"gallery-thumb__image card-img-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KYT3068-1-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"_KYT3068 (1)\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span>\n                            \n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Einar\u00a0Tiits\u00a0(1963\u20132016) stands among the most significant recent discoveries in Estonian photographic art.\u00a0Largely unrecognised\u00a0during his lifetime,\u00a0Tiits\u00a0used handmade colour filters, gouache, and ink pens to create a vividly grotesque style that transformed photography into a vibrant circus. With methods innovative for his time, he boldly reimagined the human body, often placing\u00a0himself before the camera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,101,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotomuuseum-en","category-naitused-fm-en","category-gallery-seek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108514,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108389\/revisions\/108514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linnamuuseum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}