Events

You are very welcome to the final events of the residency program KORDON Pinhole on Saturday, July 11th at the Kordon Art Residency, Ranna 1, Hiiumaa. The events start at 15.00 and are free for all participants! The PINHOLE residency program focuses on spatial transformations in the post-traumatic period, addressing the persistence and adaptation of military architectural heritage in the context of social and political change. The goal is to explore and analyze how and why architectural structures are transferred from one era to another, even after losing their original function and meaning. We will discuss the questions: what spatial values transcend the timeline of change? The goal of the residency program is to address political trauma using creative research methods. The program is a continuation of the TIME LAP residency program, which took place in Kordon in the fall of 2024.

Flow State 7.07 – 7.08.2026 Opening: 7.07.26 18:00 Curator: Nora Schmelter Lisette Lepik’s solo exhibition Flow State focuses on the dialogue between painting as a non-linear medium and dance as a medium unfolding in time. The exhibition is guided by the question: how can movement that disappears in time be transformed into an image, and can painting convey the experience of movement?

From 11 July, Tartu Art Museum’s project space will present Kaisa Maasik’s solo exhibition “The Lightness of Being” as part of the “Young Tartu” exhibition series. The exhibition will remain open until 25 October 2026. Kaisa Maasik’s solo exhibition “The Lightness of Being” focuses on ordinary yet beautiful moments that are easy to overlook. These may be a fleeting smile between two strangers, the first day after a long winter when you can finally swap your boots for sneakers, or the sound of rain tapping on a windowsill that briefly wakes you in the night before lulling you back to sleep. Maasik’s works are rooted in observation and attentiveness, bringing together collected moments and everyday observations shared by different people. 

On Friday, 19 June at 6:00 PM, the artist Lappy Mary opens the exhibition Columna Cochlis at the Vabaduse Gallery. Recently, the artist has become deeply fascinated by the history of the ancient world and the various folk myths that go along with it. This interest has found expression in her newest works, where traces of ancient traditions are apparent. The aim of the artist was not to illustrate specific mythological narratives; rather, these images emerged unconsciously and independently, opening up new ways to experience time, memory, form and the interconnectedness of people from different eras.

On 17 June at 5 PM, we warmly invite everyone to join an artist-led tour with Maria Kapajeva at Tallinn Art Hall's Lasnamäe Pavilion. The tour will be held in English and Russian, and admission is free. In May 2026, Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva opened her largest solo exhibition to date at Tallinn Art Hall's Lasnamäe Pavilion. “I Am a Border” brings together 16 works created between 2014 and 2026, many of them produced specifically for this exhibition. Spanning photography, video, textiles and installation, the exhibition is the culmination of more than a decade of artistic research into the border as a geographical, bodily and emotional phenomenon.

On Friday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m., the group exhibition “Urban Utopia III: Foundscape” will open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.  Ten graphic artists have taken on the task of depicting urban visions. The exhibition focuses on phenomena that fall outside the mainstream depiction of the city: artists find the invisible, the marginal, the absurd in urban space and imagine new landscapes, patterns and shapes inspired by it.

On Friday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m., Lembe Ruben will open her solo exhibition “Between the Point and the Line” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.  In her work, the artist explores the connections between the point and the line, and between the beginning and the end. The starting point is always the seed of the end point. Does every first impulse already contain the entire possible trajectory? Where does the point arise that sets a person in motion, the invisible cause that gives shape to will and meaning to direction? Being is the movement of objects from one point to another. So that this does not remain a meaningless motion of molecules, we have been given free will: an end point we wish to reach.

On 18 June at 6 PM, Maarja Mäemets and Evelina Lindström will open the joint exhibition Through at the Hobusepea Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 19.07.2026. The exhibition brings together two different approaches to memory that have taken form as delicate ceramic and glass art pieces. Evelina Lindström addresses memory through Henri Bergson’s concept of duration (durée), while Maarja Mäemets views it as a spatial structure. According to Bergson, time in lived experience does not flow linearly or evenly, instead it moves in different rhythms and intensities. Memory is not an archive of the past, but a continuously active and ongoing variable. In Lindström’s works, this idea is expressed in recurring pearl shapes, implying how an irritation or a foreign body, such as a grain of sand, can over time develop into something enduring and coherent .

It's the last week left to visit Entrance No. 4 at ARS Project Space in Tallinn, which includes a selection of work from the second year MACA/MAKK programme. The exhibition will close with a soft finissage in the presence of some of the curators and artists on Sunday, 14th June, from 14:00 – 16:00. There will be coffee and cookies!   The exhibition transforms the space into a stage of sorts, where the audience engages with the artworks on show through a series of curtailed entranceways, examining ideas of control, illusionary realities and voyeuristic tendencies. Through actively herding and throttling the viewing experience, Entrance No. 4 demands a re-examination of how artworks are seen and engaged with, reflecting upon how images are shared and diffused within contemporary life.

Curator tours for the exhibition “Unbounded within – Symbiotic Subjectivities” at the Pärnu Artists' House will take place on: Wednesday, June 3 at 4:00 PM Saturday, June 13 at 4:00 PM The tours are FREE OF CHARGE! You are warmly welcome! The tours will be held in Estonian and/or English, depending on the participants. Curator Elo Liiv