2026 Exhibition Programme of Tallinn Art Hall

This year unfolds at Tallinn Art Hall under the sign of significant change and forward movement. We are returning in order to move ahead. In the first half of the year, exhibitions will take place at the Lasnamäe Pavilion, Tallinn City Gallery, and in venues across the city. In the second half of the year, our activities will return to the Freedom Square, where the fully renovated historic main building will reopen in November. But until then…

Until the end of February, the group exhibition Plenty of Room to Grow!, curated by Tamara Luuk, is open at the Lasnamäe Pavilion. The exhibition tells a story of growth and coming of age – a journey that moves from the joy of discovery through moments of hurt, doubt, and fear when confronted with one’s own creation. It is a story of adaptation, of death and resurrection.

At Tallinn City Gallery, the duo exhibition Imprint of Vulnerability by Maria Erikson and Mari Männa is on view. Created at the invitation of curator Madli Ljutjuk, the exhibition transforms fragility and delicacy into strength: form emerges through cracking and breaking. Imprint of Vulnerability does not approach disintegration as loss, but rather as a condition that allows the world to continually reshape itself.

The annual Spring Exhibition opens on 13 March! For the first time, this major survey exhibition will extend across the entire city: in addition to the Lasnamäe Pavilion, works will also be presented in the Old Town galleries managed by the Estonian Artists’ Association. A record number of applications were submitted to this year’s open call – 438 in total. As always, the audience’s favourite artist will be announced during the exhibition. The €6,000 Public Choice Award is funded by Riivo Anton, Aivar Berzin, Jaan Manitski, Tiit Pruuli, and Rain Tamm.

In April, a solo exhibition by Priit Pärn – best known as an animation filmmaker – will open at Tallinn City Gallery. The exhibition brings forward lesser-known facets of Pärn’s practice, including his charcoal drawings and unrealised film scripts. It is curated by Tamara Luuk. This will also be the final exhibition organised by Tallinn Art Hall at the City Gallery, as the Art Hall’s activities will be consolidated into a single building following the return to the Freedom Square.

At the end of May, Maria Kapajeva’s largest solo exhibition to date will open at the Lasnamäe Pavilion. Its working title is I Am the Border. Through photography, handicraft, and objects and images drawn from her family archive, Kapajeva explores borderliness – not as a fixed line, but as a state of constant transition: never fully one thing, never fully becoming the other. The exhibition is curated by Siim Preiman.

In November, Tallinn Art Hall’s historic building on the Freedom Square will reopen once again – marking its fourth return to the space. Each time, the Art Hall has opened into a different era: the Age of Silence, the newly established Estonian SSR, a country that had just regained its independence… Into what kind of era does the Art Hall reopen today? Reflecting on this question, a group exhibition with the working title The Beginning of Estonian Art and …, curated by Tamara Luuk and Siim Preiman, will accompany the reopening. In search of both a timeless common ground and a point of reference in the present, the exhibition focuses on this place itself – Estonia – along with its nature and its people.

Further information:
Madli Ehasalu
Project Manager
madli@kunstihoone.ee