Anne Rudanovski

Anne Rudanovski (b. 1964) studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts from 1984 to 1990. Since 2014, she has been a professor in the Sculpture Department at Pallas University of Applied Sciences. In 2019, she undertook a six-month journey to trace the fading art of handmade paper across traditional “paper countries” – China, Japan, Korea, and beyond. Rudanovski explores the world of paper, a human-made medium rich with cultural significance. An example of her work is a series of exhibitions that explore and question the meaning of the book as a format. The first in the series, Appreciated and Abandoned Books I: The Repository, was held at the Kondas Centre in 2017 and focused on the fate of thousands of printed reference works. It was followed by Appreciated and Abandoned Books II: Vanishing Time (2018), Appreciated and Abandoned Books III: The Need to Forget (2018), and Appreciated and Abandoned Books IV: Reading I–II (2021).