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“What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.”
Photo: Annika Metsla
Paberist
What is Paberist
Paberist is a name of our medium for presenting creative ideas and artworks we produce together.
Paberist in Estonian means “made of paper” and “about paper”.So the outcome on this website can be a collection of graphic series or a notebook or any other project that starts from a sketch or sentence on a sheet of paper.
Artist Family
Our Story
We are Estonian artist couple Mariliis and Tõnis Kenkmaa. Our collective journey began in 2012 when we decided to apply to a popular art gallery in Tallinn Old Town and our project was accepted.
We were part of Estonian Art Academy’s printmaking department back then where we discovered a very similar taste in visual world and the way of thinking about environments surrounding us.
It has been the minimalistic black and white aesthetics that has inspired us making the artworks we do.
Together with the minimalist visual approach we wanted to add conceptually triggering titles and produce the artworks in the very classical printmaking techniques like silk-screen print, etching, lino-cut etc.
Our first exhibition “Prophecy Of Nothingness” (in Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2013) was a prolific project as we were able to fill the gallery walls with 51 framed prints. All works having their individual story and title.
The making of this exhibition introduced us to a unique level of collaborative creativity and guided us towards quality and conceptuality of an artwork.
This was the proof for us that together we can do everything.
Since then we have made several exhibitions with more than 250 different graphic works. We have started an organic clothing brand Dadamora inspired by our own children. And we run our own studio for art-making and gatherings.
Vision
What is Art for us
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History
Past Exhibitions
2019 “Konkreetne segadus”, Draakoni Galerii, Tallinn
2017 “Mõtte Jõud”. Haapsalu Linnagalerii, Haapsalu
2015 “Kokkusattumus”. Draakoni Galerii, Tallinn
2013 “Olematuse ettekuulutus”. Riigikogu Galerii, Tallinn
2013 “Olematuse ettekuulutus”. Hobusepea Galerii, Tallinn
Our Allusion
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