FILM
2025, Estonia, 28 min, EN/RU UT
BREAD LABORATORY: Tina Haber, Thomas Ravens, Birgit Schlieps
An interview-based short documentary that explores the cultural and personal role of bread in the lives of the people we met in Narva. Filmed during our stay at the Narva Art Residency NART in August 2025, where we set up a temporary
BREAD LABORATORY to engage in an exchange on the topic of bread with local residents and Estonian artists.
The film reflects on memory, tradition, and community through the stories told around this staple food.
Interview partners: Ilya Grim, Irina, Kohvik Kaar, Gleb Kuznetsov, Ahti Lyra, Anneli Oduvantsik, Reinhold Oster, Alexander Openko, Bakery Petrovskaya, Hildegard Reimann, Jelena Tšekulajeva.
MAIL ART PROJECT
buttered bread / võileib / бутерброд
During our stay at Narva Art Residency in August 2025, we set up a temporary BREAD LAB, exchanging stories and thoughts about bread as a staple food with the residents of Narva.
As part of the project, we launched a Mail Art Call titled buttered bread / võileib / бутерброд
All the postcards and letters we received were presented in our final exhibition, held from August 22 to 24 in a former office building of the Kreenholm Factory at Joala 20, Narva. They can also be viewed in the following documentation:
EXHIBITION
Leib on elu alus - Хлеб, всему голова - Bread is the Head of Everything
For some people from Narva, the first thing that came to mind was the Russian proverb ‘Хлеб — всему голова’.
So that became the title of the pop up exhibition we curated at the end of our residency from August 22nd to August 24th in a former Administration building of the Kremholm Factory at Joala Street 20, Narva.
It was based on three sources: what we discovered in Narva, what people sent us per Mail and what we carried in our luggage.
With multiples and other portable small works by
Cécile Dupaquier, Alexander Gürten, Ulvi Haagensen, Tina Haber, Thaddäus Hüppi, Iréne Hug, Maarten Janssen, Jorge Lopes, Johanna Mangold, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Franziska Nast, Reinhold Oster, Thomas Ravens, Susanne Ring, Birgit Schlieps, Archiv Laura Mars, Stefanie Seufert, Erik Steinbrecher.
