Events

The group exhibition Pine-fulness is open at the City Gallery from 1 October. The exhibition deals with the relationship of Estonians with the natural environment and makes an attempt to raise awareness of the impact of today’s actions on our dream future, using bitter humour and available gestures.   The participating artists are Eike Eplik, Olimar Kallas, Reet Kasesalu, Jan Lütjohann, 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 30 September at 6 pm.   For years there has been a public conflict in Estonia, which the media has variously dubbed “the forest dispute”, “forest polemics” and even “the forest war”.

Katrin Koskaru's personal exhibition “Engine Noise from the Sun” will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Friday, September 24th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until October 11, 2021.   „The sky above Annelinn district was thick with noise. Especially at night. The daytime sky was cheerful, full of colourful parachutes. Sports in the sky involves military objectives, and that is a well-known fact. Tu-16K, followed by Tu-22M3, Tu-4D and the colourful, bright Il-76MD. Some of the Il-76MD models were in Aeroflot's colours and armed with automatic guns, and in Aeroflot's colours, but armed with automatic guns and equipped against the ground-to-air and ground-to-air rockets. Helena? An arm's length to the right from the gray cloud! Diligent exercises for observing airplanes, considerations, considerations, diligent exercises may vastly decrease the time spent on searching for an airplane. An airplane can appear in upper layers.

On 30 September, at 18.00 the Narva Museum Art Gallery opens the exhibition “Keep ___ close to your chest“. Free transport to Narva is available – an art bus starts from Tallinn at 13.00   Programme: 13 The bus starts from Tallinn, Georg Otsa street (behind the Estonian Drama Theatre) 16 Tour at the exhibition “Portrait of an emotion” at Narva Art Residency with the curator Laura Toots (in English) 17 Tour at the art gallery’s permanent exhibition “Life or karma? Stories of Narva” with the curator Rael Artel (in Estonian, English audio-guides available; only with museum ticket 2/4 €) 18 Opening ceremony of the exhibition “Keep ___ close to your chest“ 20.30 The bus leaves for Tallinn

Sigrid Viir will open her personal exhibition “False Vacationers Workcation Travels” in Draakon gallery at 6pm on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021. Exhibition will be open until October 9, 2021.   Sigrid Viir's current exhibition False Vacationers Workcation Travels serves as a conceptual continuation of the artist's personal exhibition recently held in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) where the artist focused on the subject of blurring the borders between work and vacation in contemporary society.   The border between work and leisure time seems to become increasingly vague – this is also clearly proved by the use of the following neologisms such as workcation (also written as workation; work+vacation), bleisure (business+leisure), or bizcation (business+vacation) in English-speaking environments.

22.09.2021 – 23.10.2021 Gallery Pallas     On Wednesday, 22 September at 5 p.m. the Eighth Estonian Small-Scale Sculpture Exhibition will be opened in the Gallery Pallas alongside the Annual Exhibition of the Estonian Sculptors’ Union. The tradition of these open call group exhibitions was founded by the long-time sculpture collection registrar at the Tartu Art Museum Ahti Seppet in 1986. Therefore, the present edition also marks the 35th anniversary of the series.   Small-scale works from 53 authors with the longest side being no longer than 60 centimetres were selected through the application process. In addition to numerous works in classical materials like ceramics and bronze, the exhibition also includes various installations.

On Friday, 17. September at 6pm, an exhibition entitled “What Makes Another World Possible?” will open at Tallinn Art Hall, which looks at socially engaged art in the last decade and the role of art in social and political struggles. The exhibited works provide an overview of how art has been used as a tool for shaping society in the last decade.   Corina L. Apostol, the curator of the exhibition, remarks that when compiling the exhibition she was guided by the belief that artists contribute to some of the most crucial debates of our times and that their voices are significant in shaping society and imagining how it could be different. “The work of the artists in this exhibition brings together the various facets of art, activism and global politics,” she says.    The exhibition includes works by 14 artists or groups from Estonia and abroad: Alina Bliumis, Zach Blas, Chto Delat?, Vala T.

18.09–23.10.2021   Garages, where walls, caked with oil and dust, were covered with cut-outs of naked women from porn magazines, and it was completely normal to ask how many women they had fucked. Guy stuff.   As the feeling of not fitting in with a proper hunk's criteria, was haunting, it intuitively rather shaped a critical attitude towards the surrounding macho world. Growing up with a grandmother, mother and sister, it was hard to understand a stereotypical man's being and characteristics, which had never been a part of my own character.   Earning money at a car repair shop and as a truck driver, gave a chance to infiltrate into this kind of environment. The kind where the men were "the real men". Strong, broad, handy.

The personal exhibition of the artist Huupi “Day Palace II” will be opened at the SOLARIS Gallery in Tallinn on Thursday, September 9 at 7 pm, which depicts the author’s attempt to decode something that is not dependent on people - the changing of colours in time and something descriptive and imaginary - time itself in which we measure ourselves. The exhibition is a follow-up to the artist's exhibition held at the Pallas Gallery in Tartu in August this year.   Day Palace is a series of paintings that combines colour and architecture, light and shadow. The titles of the works are timestamps that mark the movement of light in time and space.

Well-kept gardens and flowers visibly unify the majority of Käsmu’s community. My flowers have “come to me on their own” – they’ve been gifted by neighbours and friends, so over time, some of the plants have gotten names of their own – when admiring a plant, the person will come to mind as well. Both humans and plants are finite, but it seems like the people that have passed away will continue to live on in the flowers. The time the flowers were gifted, as well as their flowering periods in accordance to 2020 observations have been added.   Thank you: Urve Sinijärv, Heli Russak, Delija Thakur, Avo Tragel, Priit Kõiv, Anna Kaarma, Anni Kõrvemaa, Linda Zupping, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, Tallinna Botaanikaaed, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia   Additional information: Tallinn Bothanic Garden / Palm House

3.09.–30.09.2021.   From 3rd September the Pärnu Central Library will host the Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding “Scripta manent VI”. The exhibition is organised by the Estonian Association of Designer Bookbinders. The exhibition is a continuation of the international exhibition competition held last year in the ARS Project room, which was attended by 130 artists from 15 countries.   “Scripta manent“ (meaning ‘written words remain’ in Latin) is held in Tallinn every five years. Introducing the very best selection of Estonian culture to the world wide audience has been the focal idea of organisers right from the very first exhibition in 1995.