Karl-Joonas Alamaa

Karl Joonas Alamaa, is an artist and designer who has studied fashion design at the Estonian Academy of Arts and costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. He is a laureate of Eduard Wiiralt prize, the nominee of Hõbenõel 2021. He has participated at Tallinn Fashion Week with several fashion-related multimedia works. Alamaa has also presented his works at the ERKI fashion show. In addition, he has given performances at the Zuidpool Theatre in Antwerp, at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava in Tallinn, and organized actions and happenings like “Seamless January 10” and “MANIA GRANDIOSA” in collaboration with Lisette Sivard. He has shown his works at exhibitions in Estonia, Finland and Belgium. Alamaa works with a variety of mediums, from installation and performance to creating costumes and fashion collections. His work contains the mundanity of being human and the dissection and contestation of social constructions, including dealing with the interrelationship between gender and the body. It is often characteristic of him to approach topics through sensitive and controversial points of recent history. However, while Alamaa’s work contains dealing with social and cultural pain points, subtle humor and critical absurd are not missing from the works.