Lembe Ruben

Lembe Ruben (b. 1974) has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts graphic arts department and later obtained a Master´s degree in fine arts. She has mainly produced graphic art and drawings. She has taught printmaking, drawing and composition at the Estonian Academy of Arts and in vocational art schools; designed and illustrated magazines and books; and has also worked in animation, set design and exhibition curation.

Ruben has participated in exhibitions in Estonia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czech, Latvia and Lithuania. She was awarded the Wiiralt art prize for her accomplishments as a young artist in 2011. Her works can be found in national art museums of Estonia and Denmark.

Ruben describes her works from her exhibition “Nothingness” (which gives us a hint into her thinking patterns): “Estonian composer Arvo Pärt revealed me in my dream a secret to a perfect creation. In music, the perfect piece is created by dismissing the notes. The whole is created by the pauses between the rhythm, but also by the dismissed layers and spaced structures – only the hints remain. Like in a worn-out lace curtain, we can feel the continuity of the pattern, although we don’t see the missing pieces. We perceive something that does not exist. The missing notes in our heads recover the feeling of the structure. Creation is a meeting of the resonating levels – creating mind and a life event that releases the inspiration. Different angles of view create new patterns with a different density. The whole is created by emptyness.”

Source: noba.ac, typa.ee