Tanel Veenre (born 5 May 1977) is Estonian jewellery artist and designer of a brand his own name. Tanel Veenre was born in Tallinn and grew up in a family of artists and musicians. He studied under professor Kadri Mälk at the Estonian Academy of Arts where he graduated in 2005 after having taken part in an exchange program in Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Tanel Veenre has participated since 1994 in more than 200 events between, fairs, shows, art gallery exhibitions and fashion shows in Estonia, Germany, United States of America, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Taiwan, China, Israel, Finland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico etc. His body adornments have enhanced the windows of Selfridges retail store in London. Tanel Veenre has been working as a fashion photographer, journalist and editor. He has been giving lectures and workshops in Konstfack, China Academy of Art, Tainan National University of the Arts, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and in many other institutions. 2012-2016 professor in Estonian Academy of Arts.

The fact that something is handmade is significant in of itself; it draws a direct connection with the person. Every handmade object evokes the realization that you could have made it yourself, with your own hands. Even if it exceeds your technical skills, there is something universal to all of humanity; something stored in our collective experience, reminding us that everything once began somewhere in a cave.

I create to understand. Every new day begins with new question marks; every day I have to do a better job than the day before.

It is never-ending failure and always starting anew, as each solution gives way to another puzzle. In the morning my destination seems rather clear and I fearlessly rush to work: drilling, digging, paving the way. Only to sink into a murky fog by the evening, when there are more questions than answers in hand. And then on the next morning, I once again dash in the direction of new potential revelations.

Jewellery is made to be loved, not understood – I would like to blurt that out to the over-thinker, weary from our contemporary artistic paradigms and narratives, eneseküllaselt eneseteadlikele, to the simple unconscious pleasure-seeker – what a joy it would be!

Sometimes it feels good to make something completely insignificant; there is already enough significance.  It’s a ticklish feeling of being left aside, hovering in some bush.
By creating, we can walk along multiple paths at once, diverging into paths with different rhythms, intonations and objectives. This is surely one reason I have to create so much – to travel on multiple paths. Of the two types of artists – discoverers and inventors – I definitely belong to the first. Theoretical answers in art don’t convince me.
I am filled with an immense restlessness. Movement with no point of origin and no destination; countless diffuse convulsions, which often have the colour of blame. When will I stop flirting with the surface and actually dive into the depths? But this same omnipresent anxiety does not allow it; it urges me to gallop, never allowing for boredom. I wait (restlessly!) for the moment when I will truly be bored.

I dread conclusiveness, perfect symmetry. Perfection embodies something horrible, something inhuman and mechanical. But it seems even more dangerous to strive for imperfection. Naturalness comes to terms with being somewhere in the middle ground. Art should be as imperfect as an idealist will permit.

The symmetry of existence is a moment. A moment that acts as an axis to the image of time, allowing it to spread its wings in both directions. The completeness of existence thus becomes one: there is just as much past as there is future. One reflects in the other. The pattern of the wings is determined by beliefs and myths that are perceived as reality. Because what is reality if we wipe off the dust of beliefs and myths? A transparent nothingness.
The secret of creative symmetry is the ability to move in both directions.

Tanel Veenre (born 5 May 1977) is Estonian jewellery artist and designer of a brand his own name. Tanel Veenre was born in Tallinn and grew up in a family of artists and musicians. He studied under professor Kadri Mälk at the Estonian Academy of Arts where he graduated in 2005 after having taken part in an exchange program in Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Tanel Veenre has participated since 1994 in more than 200 events between, fairs, shows, art gallery exhibitions and fashion shows in Estonia, Germany, United States of America, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Taiwan, China, Israel, Finland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico etc. His body adornments have enhanced the windows of Selfridges retail store in London. Tanel Veenre has been working as a fashion photographer, journalist and editor. He has been giving lectures and workshops in Konstfack, China Academy of Art, Tainan National University of the Arts, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and in many other institutions. 2012-2016 professor in Estonian Academy of Arts.

The fact that something is handmade is significant in of itself; it draws a direct connection with the person. Every handmade object evokes the realization that you could have made it yourself, with your own hands. Even if it exceeds your technical skills, there is something universal to all of humanity; something stored in our collective experience, reminding us that everything once began somewhere in a cave.

I create to understand. Every new day begins with new question marks; every day I have to do a better job than the day before.

It is never-ending failure and always starting anew, as each solution gives way to another puzzle. In the morning my destination seems rather clear and I fearlessly rush to work: drilling, digging, paving the way. Only to sink into a murky fog by the evening, when there are more questions than answers in hand. And then on the next morning, I once again dash in the direction of new potential revelations.

Jewellery is made to be loved, not understood – I would like to blurt that out to the over-thinker, weary from our contemporary artistic paradigms and narratives, eneseküllaselt eneseteadlikele, to the simple unconscious pleasure-seeker – what a joy it would be!

Sometimes it feels good to make something completely insignificant; there is already enough significance.  It’s a ticklish feeling of being left aside, hovering in some bush.
By creating, we can walk along multiple paths at once, diverging into paths with different rhythms, intonations and objectives. This is surely one reason I have to create so much – to travel on multiple paths. Of the two types of artists – discoverers and inventors – I definitely belong to the first. Theoretical answers in art don’t convince me.
I am filled with an immense restlessness. Movement with no point of origin and no destination; countless diffuse convulsions, which often have the colour of blame. When will I stop flirting with the surface and actually dive into the depths? But this same omnipresent anxiety does not allow it; it urges me to gallop, never allowing for boredom. I wait (restlessly!) for the moment when I will truly be bored.

I dread conclusiveness, perfect symmetry. Perfection embodies something horrible, something inhuman and mechanical. But it seems even more dangerous to strive for imperfection. Naturalness comes to terms with being somewhere in the middle ground. Art should be as imperfect as an idealist will permit.

The symmetry of existence is a moment. A moment that acts as an axis to the image of time, allowing it to spread its wings in both directions. The completeness of existence thus becomes one: there is just as much past as there is future. One reflects in the other. The pattern of the wings is determined by beliefs and myths that are perceived as reality. Because what is reality if we wipe off the dust of beliefs and myths? A transparent nothingness.
The secret of creative symmetry is the ability to move in both directions.