4. February – 20. April 2022

Exhibition “Journey in Juri Lotman’s semiosphere”

Estonian National Museum, Tartu

Estonian, Russian, English

The exhibition introduces Juri Lotman, a professor of the University of Tartu, world-renowned semiotician, literary theorist and cultural historian, who dedicated himself to the study of culture, art and the workings of human consciousness. He was an extraordinary man who held the doors of his home and the world of his ideas open to people in the closed society.

centenary 2022, exhibition
Näituse „Rännak Lotmani semiosfääris“ plakat

Organizers: Estonian Semiotics Association, Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Juri Lotman’s family

Content Curators: Katrin Sipelgas and Jaak Kilmi

Contact: Katrin Sipelgas, katrin@meeter.eu

Link: ERM, Journey in Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere

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Quote background

For human thought all that exists is that which falls into any of its languages. Thus, for instance, purely physiological processes such as sexual contact or the impact of alcohol on the organism represent physical and physiological realities. But it is precisely these examples which manifest an essential law: the more distant by its very nature this or that domain is from the sphere of culture, the more effort is applied to introduce it into this sphere. 

Juri Lotman