Events

On Wednesday, 11 February at 6:00 PM, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar will open the Hares Caress Your Hair exhibition at the Hobusepea Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 8 March 2026. One Hare caresses my head.  It plays gently with my curls. Its paw lands softly on my cheek. I breathe a sigh of relief. I can't close my eyes; everything can change so quickly. Another hare tends and licks my crimson scars. Maria Izabella Lehtsaar’s artistic practice explores the experiences of queer and marginalised people through everyday life and fantasy. Hares Caress Your Hair observes the process of bodies recovering from trauma and violence and how minorities are forced to create safety for themselves in their own bodies, homes and fragile communities at a time when shared spaces are increasingly disappearing or being appropriated.

On Wednesday, 11 February at 6:00 PM, Riin Maide will open the exhibition Architecture of Margins at the Draakon Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 8 March 2026. A marginal note is a note in the margin of a book, manuscript etc., also called a side note.

On Thursday, 5th of February at 6 pm Kaido Ole’s private art collection exhibition will open at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 28th of February, Tue–Fri 12–6 pm and Sat 12–4 pm. “I like art. When I was younger, art affected me more in exhibitions, because everything there was bigger and more magnificent, plus there were many works at once, and nothing else interfered. But the older I get, the more I enjoy (good) art that is displayed in the homes. Even if it isn’t the artist’s masterpiece, the effect is completely different when you see the artwork not for a few minutes, but over the course of years, as part of your own life or someone else’s.

Lisette Lepik’s solo exhibition "Firm & soft. Soft & firm" will open at Haapsalu City Gallery on 5th of February at 7pm. Inspired by autobiographical material the exhibition deals with themes of gender roles in intimate relationships. Visitors will see emotionally charged paintings accompanied by a soundscape created for the exhibition, representing Lepik's personal reflections and conversations with her mother and grandmother about their experiences within relationships and general family life. 

On Friday, 30 January at 5:00 p.m., the Young Painter Prize 2025 final exhibition of young Baltic painters will open in the three galleries of the Tartu Art House. The Young Painter Prize 2025 (YPP), one of the most important contemporary art prizes in the Baltic region, concludes with its final exhibition at the Tartu Art House. After successful shows in Riga, Latvia, and Panevėžys, Lithuania, the exhibition in Tartu completes the first-ever cycle across all three Baltic countries, presenting the most promising young painters from the region.

3.-27. veebruar on ARS Kunstilinnaku Showroomis avatud külastamiseks kaasaegse maalikunstniku Brenda Purtsaku isiknäitus “One day I shall be an abstract”. Autoportreeline näitus ühendab kunstniku perekonna fotodelt välja valitud ning enda mobiiltelefonisse aastate jooksul kogunenud bioloogilist keha puudutavad visuaalsed fragmendid. Kunstnikku ning näituse sisu on mõjutanud itaalia neuroloog-vahakunstnik Clemente Susini loodud vahast anatoomilised Veenused ning Brenda viimaste aastate keerukad katsumused seoses tema füüsilise tervisega. 18. Sajandil loodud kaunid ning ehitud naiste sisikonnad on detailselt ja kihiti hariduslikel eesmärkidel vaataja jaoks “lahti lõigatud”. Ian Shank on kirjutanud, et selliseid Veenuseid vaadeldi omal ajal, kui Universumi mikrokosmost. 

Kristina Õllek Waters of Hypoxic and Once Toxic, Do You See? 23.01– 01.03.2026 Opening 23.01 at 4pm Kristina Õllek’s solo exhibition at Kuressaare Raegalerii continues the artist’s long-term research into the ecological, geological, and chemical processes of the Baltic Sea. Awarded the Eerik Haamer Art Prize in 2024, Õllek’s practice moves simultaneously across multiple temporal scales—from the eutrophicated and hypoxic waters of the present to hundreds of millions of years in the past, when the territory of present-day Estonia lay on the equator and was covered by a shallow tropical sea.

On Friday, January 16, at 5 p.m., artist Maiu Mooses will open her exhibition A View at Vabaduse Gallery. In A View, Maiu Mooses presents abstract works featuring recognizable motifs from nature. The paintings and wooden jewelry were inspired by places and moments that the artist remembers from her travel to Iceland. According to Mooses, the trip opened up new perspectives, approaches, and attitudes. By observing from a distance, it is possible to encounter oneself.

On Thursday, January 15, Andra Rahe’s solo exhibition Little Women will open at Draakoni Gallery. The exhibition will be on view until February 8, 2026. Andra Rahe’s practice is defined by an empathetic investigation of marginality. Within the canon of art history and visual culture, the female body has predominantly been framed through sexualisation and objectification, while the male body has been positioned as a site of authority and dominance. In this exhibition, Rahe disrupts these conventions by positioning the male body as the marginalised subject. The analogue photographic series Little Women investigates shifts in habitual regimes of looking. Rahe invites men from dating platforms, whose self-representation reflects alpha-masculine discourse, to take part in an exhibitionistic collaboration that documents their semi-erect genitalia while withholding identity. The camera establishes a distance that enables male vulnerability. The aim is not to replace the objectified woman with an objectified man, but to enact a shift.

On Thursday, January 15 at 18.00 the exhibition “Fortuna” by Liina Leo will open at Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition opening will feature a performance in collaboration with the group Sanctuary Of Praise (UK). The exhibition will remain open until February 8, 2026. O Fortune,  like the moon  you are changeable,  ever waxing  ever waning;  hateful life… - Excerpt from Carmina Burana. 13th century manuscript by unknown authors