Events

On Thursday, 16th of February at 6 pm Jüri Kask will open his solo exhibition titled "LAAMMAAL" at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 11th of March. “The word MAAL is the mirror image of LAAM. The LAAMMAAL has sharp teeth like a saw and is ready to cut. I have caught such an unattainable thing as time, a moment, a blink of an eye and I have found an elastic answer to it, which works and therefore, I can shape thoughts in the mind's eye, which could not be done without such a form. My art is characterised by grandiosity – without being overly wordy – and the need to always see and show the bigger picture to know where it fits. As an artist, I shouldn't have extraneous thoughts – those that come into my head through the ear in the way, shape and form of words. The artist's thoughts are imagined from the mind's eye and are visible instantly.”

Tallinn Art Hall will open major international exhibition Immerse! at its Lasnamäe Pavilion, introducing novel artistic perspectives. “We believe that Estonian audiences may have never seen such an exhibition before,” say the curators of the exhibition, Corina L. Apostol (Tallinn Art Hall) and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás (ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe). “Every day, billions of people alternate between being absorbed into and expelled from a digitally constructed virtual environment. Artificial environments have an enormous immersive power; people seem to live several lives at once. This is what the new exhibition tries to make sense of and reflect with the help of unprecedented artistic possibilities.”

On February 10 at 6PM the international sound-art festival Walls Have Ears will be opened. The festival will showcase sonic creations by various artists and will be held on every two years at the ARS Art Factory. Walls Have Ears aims to introduce and promote sonic culture through a variety of exhibitions and live performances. The exhibitions, held in multiple spaces simultaneously, will feature interactive, participatory, perceptual, site-specific, and conceptual pieces. Participants in the sound art exhibition of 2023: Therese Frisk (SE), Kaisa Maasik & Gerda Nurk (EE), Kat Austen (DE/GB), Katrin Enni (EE), Madlen Hirtentreu (EE), Mari-Liis Rebane, Jaanika Arum & Helen Västrik (EE), Taavi Suisalu (EE)

Solveig Lill and Olev Kuma will open their co-exhibition A Garden Without Borders in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Friday, February 10th, 2023.  A garden is a limited ecosystem in which man is in charge of the development and growth of natural forms. The incentive for creating a garden could be either an aesthetic, experimental or a practical consideration. However wild or maintained a garden may be, its main characteristic is the authority of the gardener and his or her control over everything that takes place there. People set their borders in a garden on many levels while deciding which species to bring together, which to weed out, which to restrain and which to let grow freely.

On Tuesday, 7 February at 18.00 Maret Sarapu opens her solo exhibition Free and Held at Draakoni gallery. The exhibition is open until 4 March. Maret Sarapu's seventh solo exhibition looks at the question of how to be free and held. Through five artworks, the artist maps quotidian rituals and symbols, activities and stories that help to ensure our mental sharpness, emotional well-being and a sense of safety in everyday life. That is, focal points that help us make sense of life, prevent crises and find strength in the everyday.

Opening Friday, 3 Feb at 18

On the 26th of January at 6 PM, the opening of Laura Põld’s solo exhibition “Translating and Co-labouring” will be held at the Gallery (AV17). Laura Põld’s work combines disciplines such as sculpture, textiles, ceramics, video and photography. Her work explores the customs of the individual and society, various cultural rituals and their signs. In her work, Põld employs implementing traditional crafts and building techniques in ceramics and tufting, which interest her as the preservation of stories, memory and skills.

The White Ship -  DET VITA SKEPPET Estonian Painters Association Estonian House in Stockholm Opening 03.02.2023 at17.00 3.02.‒27.02.2023    Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian House, Estniska Kultursamfundet

Marta Vaarik’s solo exhibition “Hold me dearly” will open at 17:00 on 20 January at Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery. “Hold me dearly” is a visual interpretation on the theme of children’s mental health. It was preceded by a collaboration project between the Victim Support and Prevention Services Department of the Social Insurance Board and Marta Vaarik where the artist conducted painting and collage workshops and group discussions with children in closed children’s institutions (KLAT). The exhibition presents the children’s thoughts, feelings and experiences through art and a short documentary film.

On Friday, 20 January at 6 pm, Jenny Grönholm’s solo exhibition Future Memories will be opened at the Tallinn City Gallery. Going through her memories when searching for material for her paintings, the artist interweaves the associations from her inner world with imaginary time-spaces, presenting them to the viewer with evocative power. Her slightly melancholic works are characterised by muted earth tones that blend her depicted subjects with the background. Born in Finland where she also started her education, Jenny Grönholm later arrived in Tallinn as an Erasmus exchange student and obtained her Master of Arts degree in Estonia where she has now found a home and place of creation. Alongside experimenting with different media, she arrived at painting, following her own path as a determined self-taught artist. Characteristically of the Grönholm, Future Memories is a suggestive exhibition that looks both into the past and the future, standing firmly on the ground while having its head in the clouds at the same time.