Events

OPENING: WEDNESDAY, 12 APRIL AT 6–8PM 13.04.–22.06.2023 For some reason they thought this exhibition should be titled Amber. Amber could be a natural resource, a souvenir, a wall colour, or a way to accidentally preserve mosquitos full of dinosaur blood, making Jurassic Park possible. They are imagining this curator. Her name is Amber. She is on a Baltic-Nordic tour, taking the long trip from LA to Vilnius, making her way through Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki to look for inspiration. Afterwards – Ibiza, for fun and romance. Maybe Amber is from a tiny spa town with an air of mystery. Shallow Springs, Wyoming. Shallow Springs, Arizona. She has left town, she has made it in the art world, but what happened in Shallow Springs is haunting her dreams.

Galleries Metropol Cabinet and Metropol Staircase (Vana-Kalmaja 46) March 11 – April 2, 2023 During Performative Arts Festival of March 9 titled “Body Culture” an exhibition which brings to light some undercurrents of the theme of percentage art was opened in the Metropol gallery. How is it that an industry like sports has risen to play an ever-increasing role in the cultural landscape? Music and flm makers have been competng or a long tmee Now it's tme or visual arts - partcipaton in percentage art compettons is taking on the dimensions o a natonal sporte But whenever there is competton, there are downsidese The competence o the judges, the bias o the competton conditons and the shortcomings in the quality o the executon are new topics in art circlese What could be done beter and what are the possible botlenecks? ou have to compete and adapte

25.02.2023–04.06.2023   The exhibition Look at Me! Listen to Me! introduces vibrant, powerful and touching artworks of Russian-speaking female artists who live in Estonia. Even though the ten artists included in this exhibition have very different upbringings, artistic approaches and career paths, they all have three things in common: they are women, have careers in Estonia and speak Russian as one of their main languages. The artists’ own experiences and research studies of the last twenty years prove that ethnic segregation in the Estonian labour market is still strongly evident. Combined with gender stereotypes that still permeate our society and the economic instability of creative careers, this situation pushes Russian-speaking female artists at least a few, and sometimes quite many, steps backwards compared to other authors.

Valeri Vinogradov will open his solo exhibition Selected in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. The exhibition will remain open until April 3rd, 2023. Additional information: Hobusepea Gallery Tel: +372 56 451 591       +372 52 85 324       +372 6 276 777 E-mail: galerii@eaa.ee Hobusepea 2, Tallinn 10133 http://galerii.eaa.ee/hobusepea Wed‒Mon 12.00‒18.00

Feministeerium and EKA Gallery invite you to the exhibition “Don't cross their boundaries!” opening on March 17 at 4 pm in the EKA lobby! Don't cross their boundaries! 17.03-25.08.2023 Opening: 17.03, 4 pm at EKA lobby EKA Billboard Gallery, Kotzebue 1 Participating artists:  Kristiina Aarna, Karola Ainsar, Katharina Grepp, Kärt Heinvere, Annika Hint & Irmeli Terras, Maria Kapajeva, Sanna Kartau, Hanna Eliise Kask, Karis Kivi, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Annemarie Maasik, Marlene, Susanna Mildeberg, Katariin Mudist, Enn Nazarov, Liisa Niit, Katerina Rothberg, Pamela Samel, Tiina Sööt, Daria Titova, Kadi Viik, Laura Vilbiks

On 9 March at 17pm two solo exhibitions will open at Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery, one of which is Maria Kapajeva’s “Loose Photos, Odds and Ends”.  

On Thursday, March 9th at 6:00 p.m., artist Gary Markle’s exhibition “Knitwork” will be opened in the HOP gallery.  With his first solo exhibition in Estonia, Markle raises questions about the future appearance of fashion and the possibility of individual expression of dress for machine-based life. The artist uses a lens of expanded fashion and speculative design in combination with craft to examine narratives of (be)longing on a post-human planet that has been left to process the residue of humanity's everyday consumptive habits.  At the center of the exhibition are three large-scale sculptural objects knit from post-consumer plastic on special wooden tools made by the artist. The knitted pieces are based on the concept of "second skin," such as clothing, architecture or environment that extends one's existence. Here Markle playfully explores the absurd notion of a humanless fashion system to challenge late capitalist consumption patterns and human-centric ideas of identity.

Maria Izabella Lehtsaar & Sarah Nõmm open their duo exhibition Beauty in the Belly of the Beast in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. Curators of the exhibition are Anita Kodanik and Brigit Arop. Exhibition will be open until April 1st, 2023. 

On Thursday, 23 February at 5 p.m., the exhibition of this year’s Tartu Art Auction will open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The auction is being organised by the Tartu Artists’ Union in co-operation with the Art & Tonic gallery. The auction itself will take place on 24 March!

On Thursday, 23 February at 5 p.m., Sirja-Liisa Eelma will open her solo exhibition “The Skin of Reflections” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. This exhibition introduces Sirja-Liisa Eelma's paintings completed in 2022 and 2023. The new artworks form a continuation of Eelma's painting series Black Mirror, which was partly displayed at the exhibition of the same title by Sirja-Liisa Eelma and Tiina Sarapu in the Draakon gallery in summer 2022.