Events

Join us for the opening of the exhibition “Symbiosis” at Okapi Gallery on Friday, August 29 at 6 pm! Kultuuriöö 2025 (Culture Night), subtitled Me and the Machine, brings art projects collectively titled Symbiosis to the Okapi Gallery. In this three-part exhibition, artists Erik Alalooga (EE), Gelb Divov (LT), Rait Prääts (EE), and Temuri Hvingija & R_R projekt (EE) create a dialogue between technology and creativity, offering the opportunity to experience contemporary art in an interdisciplinary way and to interpret the relationship between humans and machines. The project Mixed Reality focuses on exploring the potential of modern technology in Rait Prääts' work, creating a dialogue between contemporary technology and traditional craftsmanship. In collaboration with Lithuanian artist Gleb Divov, innovative mixed reality elements have been added to Prääts's works, allowing users to experience the sculptures interactively through their smartphones.

This Friday, August 22, at 17:00, Vabaduse Gallery will open the exhibition Mummuistic Beach by painter Ashot Jegikjan. In his first solo exhibition at the Vabaduse Gallery, Ashot Jegikjan is exhibiting a wide selection of mainly oil paintings completed this year, which combine post-impressionist, abstract and expressionist imagery. The exhibition provides a good overview of the painter's philosophy and current creative state; works that have emerged under the influence of both the inner and outer worlds, combined on canvas into a unified whole.

On Wednesday, August 27 at 18.00, Hedi Jaansoo’s & Juliana Lindenhofer’s duo exhibition She put the butterfly on the door and said spring has now arrived will open at Draakoni Gallery. The exhibition will remain on view until September 20, 2025. “She put the butterfly on the door and said spring has now arrived” is first and foremost a collaboration, an exchange of ideas based on a shared sensibility toward material and a sensitivity towards the world. It grew out of a connection, formed between two artists, Hedi Jaansoo and Juliana Lindenhofer who met in Brussels in a residency a couple of years ago. It’s a bond that still holds strong, containing enough friendship and creative trust to let conversations materialise as an exhibition.

On Wednesday, 27th of August 2025 at 6 PM, the exhibition Anatomy of Dust, by Juss Heinsalu and Kim Morgan, opens at Hobusepea Gallery.  Anatomy of Dust brings together two artistic practices that meet at the intersection of material investigation, scientific inquiry, and narrative building. Through intricate objects, experimental processes and installations, the gallery transforms into a cohesive spatial experience, a hybrid lab–studio environment, exploring the physical and conceptual forms of matter – from dust and dirt to blood, skin, and ash.

19th Tallinn Print Triennial invites you to the presentation of the main exhibition's catalog, which will take place on August 21 at 7 p.m. at the Lasnamäe Pavilion of the Tallinn Art Hall. The event will feature a discussion between Britta Benno, director of the Tallinn Print Triennial, Marika Agu, curator of the main exhibition, and artists Tõnis Jürgens and Alessandro Ludovico (IT). The discussion will be moderated by Brigita Reinert.  In the catalog, Alessandro Ludovico discusses the ecology of publishing in the digital age, where information flows endlessly and rapidly, but there is little room for memory. He calls for a restoration of attention and an appreciation of print media as a slow, archival, and intimate carrier of information.

On August 20, 2025, on the occasion of Estonia’s Independence Day, two artist talks, an artist tour and a short film presentation will be held at the Tallinn Television Tower at the artist Mery Crystal Ra’s exhibition INVISIBLE, at 1 pm and 5 pm. Mery Crystal Ra: "WELCOME TO THE TV TOWER AT DAY OF RESTORATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AUGUST 20, FOR ART TOURS AND TO "WAITING FOR THE WHITE SHIP" WITH ME at 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM." The artist talk will begin in the hall on the 2nd floor, where the acclaimed artist will present the short film “Mery Crystal Ra” created by Igor Ruus and other short films from her work. An exhibition of paintings, multimedia sculptures and innovative monumental works will be presented on the 21st floor. Everyone is welcome!

Estonian Ceramists’ Association's Annual Exhibition Porcelain in Patarei 19.08.2025 – 19.09.2025 Exhibition opening: 19.08.2025 at 18:00 Opening hours: Thu, Fri, Sat 13:00 – 18:00 Sun 13:00 – 17:00 Kalaranna 28/1, Tallinn Patarei Sea Fortress is a building that holds within it a colorful yet dark history. Originally built in the 1820s, the complex served as a sea fortress for only a short time before being converted into barracks. During the Estonian War of Independence, the building was taken into use as a prison, which operated there until 2005. At present, the building is undergoing a thorough transformation to become a modern museum and lifestyle center.

On August 24, 2025, acclaimed Estonian artist Mery Crystal Ra (Meeli Kõiva) will open her new exhibition HABEMUS PAPAM. BETWEEN TWO DAWNS at the historic former Pastorate of Kodavere Church Manor . The show runs until September 13, 2025. The title references her new painting Habemus Papam, inspired by this year’s papal elections and the hope that a new pope could bring positive change. It also nods to local legend — that Pope John Paul II stayed overnight at the Kodavere rectory during his 1993 visit to Estonia. The exhibition features expressive acrylic and aquarelle works drawn from the artist’s dreams, rich with symbols of hope, light, and pathways forward. Mery Crystal Ra is celebrated for her bold brushstrokes, luminous color, and ability to merge personal vision with universal themes. Mery Crystal Ra's rise as a star painter began at New York's top gallery ART 54 in Manhattan in 1997. 

Pärnu City Gallery, Town Hall, Uus Street 4, Pärnu 15.08.2025 – 06.09.2025 Quintessence Revisited Janno Bergmann Exhibition designer: Pamela Sume Supported by: Estonian Cultural Endowment, City of Pärnu & Huudifuudi gänghäng Opening: Friday, 15 August, at 18:00

Exhibition 19.08—05.09 Opening 18.08.25 18:00  EKKM Vitriingalerii FB event This season, when the house is installing, EKKM vitrine is activated in the framework of ambiguity. Questioning a showcase as a space for clear-cut, well defined messages, this series of exhibitions host material from artists' studios that is in a state of doubt. It welcomes open-endedness, questioning, and hesitation as a crucial voice in public space. The (mis)print by Raul Keller opens up the layers of a state of becoming, with an emphasis on fog and chance encounter. The coming weeks, the vitrine moves to the artist's earlier work called Reflector (2007–2011), the first official acquisition of EKKMs collection.