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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The norm has no distinctive features. It is a singular space located between the fool and the madman. Explosion, too, has no distinctive features, or to be more exact, possesses a whole range of possible features. In the case of individual behaviour, it distances itself from the norm and in such a case represents itself as folly; translated into mass culture, it becomes a form of stupidity.

Juri Lotman