Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Blooms
Kristina Õllek
Texts by Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Jeff Diamanti, Kristina Õllek
Exploring Kristina Õllek’s marine and coastal ecological interest, the publication Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Blooms invites us to think with her four year long working process, based on research and personal observations around anthropocentric influences on marine ecology. Focusing on the North Sea and its filter feeders: blue mussels, oysters and the expanding jellyfish population; as well as on the Baltic Sea and its cyanobacteria, blue green algal blooms and dead zones.
![Book launch at Page Not Found, The Hague, December 1, 2022. Kristina Õllek in conversation with Angeliki Tzortzakaki.]()
![Book launch at Kai Art Center, Tallinn, Estonia, March 9, 2023. Kristina Õllek in conversation with Keiu Krikmann.]()
The publication includes a letter correspondence between Kristina Õllek and curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki, as well a collaborative visual essay by Kristina Õllek, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Kert Viiart, and an essay by theorist Jeff Diamanti. The publication includes a wide range of exhibition views from her three recent solo exhibitions at Draakon Gallery (Tallinn), A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam) and ISSP gallery (Riga).
210 × 280 mm
104 pp
Offset printing
Sewn binding
In English
Graphic design: Kert Viiart
Colour correction: Agnes Ratas (Stuudio Stuudio)
Typefaces: Version G (Céline Hurka),
New Edge 6666 Rounded (Charlotte Rohde), Bougie (Andree Paat / Tüpokompanii)
Paper: MultiArt Silk 130g, Scandia 2000 White 270g
Printed by Tallinn Book Printers
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia, FOKU—Estonian Union of Photography Artists
Edition of 400
Published by Lugemik
ISBN 978-9916-9817-1-9
2022
Kristina Õllek
Texts by Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Jeff Diamanti, Kristina Õllek
Exploring Kristina Õllek’s marine and coastal ecological interest, the publication Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Blooms invites us to think with her four year long working process, based on research and personal observations around anthropocentric influences on marine ecology. Focusing on the North Sea and its filter feeders: blue mussels, oysters and the expanding jellyfish population; as well as on the Baltic Sea and its cyanobacteria, blue green algal blooms and dead zones.
The publication includes a letter correspondence between Kristina Õllek and curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki, as well a collaborative visual essay by Kristina Õllek, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Kert Viiart, and an essay by theorist Jeff Diamanti. The publication includes a wide range of exhibition views from her three recent solo exhibitions at Draakon Gallery (Tallinn), A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam) and ISSP gallery (Riga).
210 × 280 mm
104 pp
Offset printing
Sewn binding
In English
Graphic design: Kert Viiart
Colour correction: Agnes Ratas (Stuudio Stuudio)
Typefaces: Version G (Céline Hurka),
New Edge 6666 Rounded (Charlotte Rohde), Bougie (Andree Paat / Tüpokompanii)
Paper: MultiArt Silk 130g, Scandia 2000 White 270g
Printed by Tallinn Book Printers
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia, FOKU—Estonian Union of Photography Artists
Edition of 400
Published by Lugemik
ISBN 978-9916-9817-1-9
2022