Events

Tarrvi Laamann “ME DEYA” Finissage, ART Walk and LIVE PAINT On Wednesday, August 31, the closing of Tarrvi Laamann's exhibition “ME DEYA” will take place in PÕHJALA Factory. From three o'clock until late in the evening, the author of the works will be present at the exhibition, live-painting session will take place, and we will give visitors art tours through the various exhibition spaces, revealing the behinds of the works and printing techniques. The evening is accompanied by music chosen by Tarrvi. On the spot, Okeiko with a background as a street artist creates art together with Tarrvi Laamann. At 10 o'clock in the evening, the dismantling of the exhibitions begins to the accompaniment of reggae rhythms. On the spot, it is possible to buy the author's creations and make offers for interesting works. Tarrvi Laaamann's work can also be found on the art platform NOBA.AC -

On Friday, 2 September at 6 p.m. Pilvi Tammoja and Erinn M. Cox will open their joint exhibition “That Girl” in the small gallery of Tartu Art House. The artists present contemporary jewellery pieces that depict, deny, define, and distort the images we hold of ourselves as women. The works are inspired by our vulnerabilities, our strengths, our fears, and our desires — whether they are real or imagined. They are thinking about that girl: who you may know, who you might also be. The authors add: “In the dark, it's all a trick. And nobody knows. We are in the moment, in the moments. Our eyes throw a glance, we make you laugh, we are provocative, we dance, we drink. We pretend to have fun. We break our own hearts. And we do it again and again.”

On Friday, 2 September at 6 p.m. Tiina Sarapu and Julija Pociūtė will open their joint exhibition “Dust” in the large gallery of Tartu Art House. The exhibition explores forgetfulness: the forgotten spatial practices and forgotten places; actions preserved as scattered memory images, or actions, dreams, completed for yourself and packed away in a box. “Dust, the symbol of forgetting, reveals hidden dimensions of the banality of everyday, moments and places considered insignificant. Dust accompanies glass artists while working, being a remnant of their work, but also hiding the transparency of the glass,” the curator Karin Paulus explains. Dust also refers to something being worn out and forgotten, marking the inevitability of reality and the constant changing of the world around us.

Taavi Suisalu opens his solo exhibition Attention Figures on 26 August at 18.00. The exhibition is centred around the ideas of machine imagination, attention economy and the changing self-image of man in the contemporary information era.   The artist Taavi Suisalu looks at the tools used to occupy our attention, how imagination is shaped and visions of reality are created. Reflecting on the course of humanity in a situation where algorithms create images and make decisions for us, Suisalu wonders about the role of humans in the future.  ​​

Electric Dreams - 1st CMA International Symposium and Exhibition Dates: Online symposium: 25 - 26th Aug 2022 Virtual exhibition: runs online from August 25th 2022 to June 2023 Location: Due to travel restrictions in Asia, this Electric Dreams iteration will run entirely online. Book your free tickets here: Eventbrite Event website: electricDreams.ust.hk

This week, from August 25 to 28, Foku will represent Kristina Õllek at the art fair Art-o-rama in Marseille, France. From August 19, artist Laura Kuusk is represented in the selection of digital artworks at the Immaterial Salon online platform, an extension of the art fair. By Kristina Õllek a selection of works from the series “Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Silicones” (2019- ...) will be presented in Marseille. Using the example of the North Sea as an example of the effects of human activity on the ecological balance of the world's oceans, the project enters into a dialogue with the coastal area of ​​Marseille and raises burning questions from the point of view of nature conservation.

Kai Kaljo will open her personal exhibition Pile of Dirty Rags in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, August 24, 2022. Exhibition will be open until September 19, 2022. “In February 2022, I created a folder Explosions and volcanoes in my computer. Actually, I had had it already for a year since I added there my first image.

Jüri Kass will open his personal exhibition Black-White in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Monday, August 22, 2022. Exhibition will be open until September 17, 2022.  With his current exhibition, Jüri Kass continues with the minimalistic means of expression that he has been presenting in various techniques at several personal exhibitions. The artist chooses the most simple way for creating a visual trace while translating this „elementary particle of a picture” in various ways – and at the present exhibition, this elementary particle will be served by the hole in paper.  Jüri Kass (b. 1956) has graduated from the department of industrial art at the Estonian State Art Institute in 1979. He has worked as a graphic designer, painter, graphic artist and lecturer. He has participated in exhibitions since 1974. Kass has held about ten personal exhibitions (posters, drawings, paintings, graphic art). 

Opening of a new group show „On the other side of Võru“ on the 19th of August at 5 p.m in Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery.  Grop show „On the other side of Võru“ that will be opened during Võru city’s 238th birthday, is a combination of ten diferent Estonian artists, whose small world has been brought together through irony – this time in Võru. Again and again a good old question rises: „Is grass greener on the other side?“ and how much it matters, where we are from and where we’re going. Is there some place, where art feels better? Or is the mundane world even connected to the internal creation?  The unique approach of this colourful and opposing group can be seen through psychedelic punch needle rugs, digital paintings inspired by street art and utopia, vivid and masterful oil paintings, captivating audiovisual, surprising sculptures and are-you-kidding-me graphics.

Merike Estna’s solo exhibition “Soil will not contain our love” will be on view from August 19 to November 27, 2022. The exhibition has been conceived as a mini-retrospective of the artist’s work, showing a series of new works as well as several works that will be shown in Estonia for the first time. The latter include Estna’s large-scale painting “The Ocean of Endangered Ages”, created for the 2019 Moderna Museet Malmö exhibition, and the hand-woven, large-scale rug “The House of the Tragic Poet”, commissioned for a solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum Gallery in London in 2021 among several others.