Events

“One of her eyes is full of fluffy snow, but from the other, a bewildered, icy eye stares straight into the sky.” /../ “Emotion. Pain. Illusion. Either you feed on or you can finally let go. Now the Best Before has passed.  Miscarriages, babies dying in the Belly - how much does it hurt, how does it affect the course of ones life going forward, is it even possible to get over it?  Pouring it into creation, giving it another form other than just in your head spinning and your heart crying, is one of the ways to heal the pain.

Estonian Sculptors Union “Sculpturism” 09.10-09.11.24 Pärnu City Gallery The exhibition “Sculpturism” of the Estonian Sculptors Union brings together artists whose work reflects both their personal themes and their common goals, creating dialogues through form and space. The focus of the exhibition is search for balance – not only visual but also existential. Each exhibit, whether classical or installative, represents the artist’s efforts to find impulses, ideas and harmony in the creative process and its results. We can see the sculptors approaching balance – either by means of traditional materials and techniques or by using dynamic installations. 

On Friday, 11 October at 5 p.m., Art Allmägi and Katrin Piile will open their collective exhibition “Symbiosis” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The opening exhibition is the third and final exhibition of the artists' collaboration, in which the sacred trinity of the art world - author, idea and work - is elevated to an object of study. The aim of the series of joint exhibitions has been to create a creative process based on the principle of correlation, with observable interaction. When partially handed over, the opportunity to fully control one's own creative process dislocates the individual relationship between author and work. This mutual creative reflection provides a chance to explore the intrinsic facets of the media of painting and sculpture, which are added or lost as they move from the planar to the spatial (or vice versa). 

On Friday, 11 October at 5 p.m., Anna Mari Liivrand will open her solo exhibition “Tower” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The opening exhibition is inspired by the artist's interest in decorative elements and symbolic and emotional spaces. In the gallery, we encounter a situation in which the strength and durability of both the internal and external sides of towers are called into question, referring to towers' tendency to decay over time.  Anna Mari Liivranna's work in recent years has been characterised by an interest in everyday rituals, ornamentation and decoration. The artist often looks at them from the perspective of self-creation, but she also treats them as reference points in a changing world full of uncertainty and anxiety. As a result, her works often include spaces that carry emotional states of a ritual nature. 

The audience programme of the Lasnamäe Pavilion exhibition Difficult Pasts. Connected Worldsinvites visitors to explore themes of solidarity, empathy and the enduring legacy of historical trauma. Recent wars have shifted our understanding of history and highlighted how present-day normalisation of violence often stems from unresolved traumas of the past. The exhibition, curated by Margaret Tali and Ieva Astahovska, brings together challenging, uncomfortable and frequently overlooked histories, including violent conflicts and painful losses, and their long-term impacts. The exhibition is open until 20 October 2024. You are invited to the following events of the audience programme. All events are free of charge.

Gallery of Kalamaja museum September 28, 2024 – September 1, 2025 During the next year, an interactive installation exhibition of the artist group --> Arrowgroup can be seen in the gallery of the Kalamaja museum. It will be landing from the level of artistic reflections directly to the local background scenery. In this sad and festive cross product of fairy tales, puns and bitter imagery yesterday, today and tomorrow, a stalled and an accelerated moment in time, are present at once. Serious questions are referred to with humorous comparison and layering.

On Thursday, October 3, at 18.00, Laurianne Bixhain & Krista Mölder open their duo exhibition The sum of the words that accumulate within us at Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition will remain open until October 27, 2024. Bixhain and Mölder's work embody the conviction that the fabrication of images and the transformation of language not only enable but promote a disruption and redistribution of conventionally-assigned roles and the circulation of power, specifically all ordering in which mastery plays a part.

You are invited to the opening of Laivi Suurväli’s exhibition Fragmented Unity at Draakon gallery on Thursday, October 3rd, at 18.00. The exhibition will remain open until October 26th, 2024. Today, I am neutral. Expressively unexpressive. A blank canvas. A white t-shirt* on bare skin. Faithful. I am free in a swathe of possibilities. In full emptiness. In the mundane grip of conformity, I yearn to yearn. To be something more. To stand alone. To be a dress like a story. A narrative layer, where contrasting details and parts melt together at the seams. To flow in dispersed definition. I want to try to defy... To be overtly unattainable in my inner multiplicity. Elusive, like a text brimming with references. To not even be aware of all my secrets and abilities. I can fray; you can wear me in many ways. Find hints and hidden spaces. To be contradictory. To be sincere and innocent and grumpy and sinful.** Laivi

BEAST International Film Festival taking place in Porto from 25 to 29 September celebrates the best cinema from Central & Eastern Europe. The 7th edition of the festival is launched under the title “Where do we go from here?” and is composed of five sections: Official Competition, Focus Estonia, Visegrad Film Hub, How to Care for Cosmos and EEFFN – Eastern European Film Festival Network. The curated programme including feature films, documentaries, experimental, short films and animation works, as well as screenings, talks, workshops, exhibitions and much more. This year’s focus country is Estonia. Among other Estonian films, this year BEAST presents CLUB CLASSICS, a programme comprised of Estonian video art from the 2000s by a variety of artists such as Kadriann Kibus ja Liina Paaksuu, Laura Nestor, Mark Raidpere, Mari Laanemets and Killu Sukmit as well as the group Valie Export Society. This programme was developed based on the archive of the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA).

Al Paldrok, Taje Tross, Siim Kuljus and Arvo Sailev in the composition of Non Grata will participate in the JiTan Live Art festival taking place on 19-25.09.2025 at the Han Tao Museum in Jinan, the birthplace of Confucius. China's recent political developments have led to a complete ban on performance art, and in such a situation, conducting performance art festivals is like walking on a knife edge, because law-abiding organizers-curators face imprisonment and the closing of museums-institutions. Non Grata will perform in 5 different cities across China, and exhibitions, artist talks, lectures and workshops in each city.