Events

The popular annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association will take place from 20 June to 14 August at the Tallinn Art Hall and Art Hall Gallery on Freedom Square, and will present a cross-section of art created in the last year. You are welcome to attend the opening of the exhibition on Sunday, 19 June at 3 pm!

Riin Maide will open her personal exhibition It's Like I Barely See in Hobusepea gallery at 6pm on Wednesday, June 1st, 2022. Exhibition will be open until June 27, 2022. Windows covered by transparent plastic and scaffolding are normally the signs of something new or fresh arriving soon in an urban environment. Similarly to curtains, these elements denote certain anticipation and will be forgotten when they open up new views.  It's Like I Barely See is pays homage to forgotten architecture. While depicting fragile phenomena in urban space, such as framework and construction, the artist attempts to stretch the temporary into something endless.

Sirja-Liisa Eelma and Tiina Sarapu will open their co-exhibition Black Mirror in Draakon gallery at 5pm on Tuesday, May 31st 2022. Exhibition will be open until June 25, 2022.  Black surface absorbs light and colours; while looking at black surface, one can see info infinity, unknowing, solitude and protective tenderness. Mirror gives you the honest truth. The danger to get stuck in reflections and in the reflections of reflections is as big as the temptation to touch the snoozing screen of a smartphone in order to open completely different kind of worlds. Landscape painter of 17th century Claude Lorrain made use of black mirror as an optical aid. Compared to a clear mirror, the details are more subtle and the reflection of black mirror is more simplified. The black reflection brings forth the tonal range as well as reduces the intensity of tones. 

The Helsinki Artists' Association and the Estonian Painters' Association are creating new forms of art co-operation between countries. In 2022, big steps have been taken in the exchange of exhibitions, event planning and the transmission of know-how. In the summer, a large joint The Sea exhibition will be held at HAA Gallery in Suomenlinna and Malmitalo Gallery 4.6.–30.7.2022 The main opening will be held on Friday 3.6. at 17–19. The exhibition will be opened by Heidi Hautala, Member of the European Parliament, and Imbi Paju, a writer and film director. Music is provided by Kairi Leivo, who has also made a career as a press, information and culture manager in Estonian embassies. Since 2018, Leivo has been a recognized freelance musician and promoter of traditional culture. You are welcome to get to know and interview curators and artists at our opening ceremony starting on 3 June at 17 You can also agree on your own suitable time from 1 to 3 June, when at the galleries will be build an exhibition.

Thursday 19th of May at 6pm opens solo exhibition by Peeter Laurits titled 'Sacred Baths' at Vaal Gallery, Tallinn. The exhibition will remain open until 2nd of July, Tue–Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16. In Estonian culture, Peeter Laurits’ work fits in with a theoretical grouping of different creative professionals who are interested in Estonians’ and other Finno-Ugrians’ mythological relationship with nature. To this day, many Estonians see themselves as a nation who has a special relationship with their natural environment and landscape. In the works of Peeter Laurits uber-technologization merges with old-growth forests, marshes, and ancient legends. Laurits see nothing contradictory in this, ‘Human consciousness is based on archetypal structures which are probably not that dissimilar from those of pine trees, squirrels, or martens.’

14.05–11.06.2022 Exhibition opening will take place on the 14th of May at 16:00. Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s annual exhibition, which travels between different exhibition spaces in Estonia, will make its debut this year in Ida-Viru county. It is a sequel to Estonian Glass Artists’ Union’s 20th annual exhibition Colour – RED held in ARS Project Space in 2020. With the follow-up exhibition new time- and site-specific layers and viewpoints are added to the topic of red and its variations that were the main focus in the previous exhibition.  The keywords for Estonian Glass Artists´ Union´s exhibition Colour – red 2.0 are  c o n t r a s t , c o n f r o n t a t i o n  and  t r a n s i t i o n . The exhibition showcases the works from eighteen glass artists, who have interpreted the topic freely by using personal semantics, metaphors and symbolism.

Pine-fulness group exhibition will open from 7 May in the gallery of Vana-Võromaa Cultural Centre. The exhibition deals with the relationship between Estonians and their natural environment. Using bitter humour and sustainable gestures, it attempts to raise awareness of the impact of today’s actions on our dream future. The participating artists are Eike Eplik, Olimar Kallas, Reet Kasesalu, Jan Lütjohann, Georgi Markelov, Mall Nukke, Hanna Samoson and Johannes Säre. The curator of the exhibition is Siim Preiman. You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on 6 May at 6 pm in the gallery of Vana-Võromaa Cultural Centre!

From Friday, 6 May, Tallinn City Gallery will host the exhibition Happiness and Everything Else, which brings together artists Evi Tihemets and August Künnapu, professionals and dreamers who are both picturesque and graphic at the same time. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.

Kunsthalle Recklinghausen 1 May – 7 August 2022 With Flo’s Retrospective, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen presents the Estonian artist Flo Kasearu’s first solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition is part of the Ruhrfestspiele 2022 official program. Working across various media and genres, the artist is able to condense socially urgent and politically relevant topics in a remarkable way.

Riga Photography Biennial, "Screen Age III: Still Life", Riga Art Space, 22.04 -12.06.2022 The exhibition Screen Age III: Still Life continues a series from 2018 that poses existentially pressing questions through observing the way technology is slowly changing people today. How deeply has human consciousness become inseparable from the technological solutions that grow increasingly useful and convenient with each day? Are we the same individuals that we were when we didn’t have smartphones and smart watches that serve us so well in monitoring the world? What are the ways in which our attitudes have shifted in respect to seemingly eternal things and ethical values centuries in the making? What testimony will there remain after our time is past? We invite you to pursue this line of thought by employing the coordinate system used throughout art history – that is, the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. These have changed beyond recognition in the new epoch, the screen era.