Events

On May 27, 2025, at 18.00, Danel Kahar will open his solo exhibition The Old Man and the Snowflake at Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition will remain open until June 30. Every evening, my grandparents would watch the news on TV. My grandfather (who had been in war) was particularly vocal, commenting on everything he watched. The overall tone was deeply pessimistic. The war in Chechnya dominated the headlines. Most of my grandfather’s remarks boiled down to the belief that Russia would never change and that Estonia’s freedom hung by a thread. If a nuclear bomb were ever dropped on Estonia, he said, those who survived would not be able to escape, instead, they would be deported to Siberia. The atmosphere grew too dreary, and I began to avoid the TV room.

On Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 18.00, Marleen Suvi will open her solo exhibition Water, Greenery and a Beautiful Face, curated by Kerly Ritval, in Draakoni gallery.

On Friday, 23rd of May at 6 pm opens a group exhibition titled "MIЯЯOЯERROR" by KIWA and Toomas Volkmann at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 28th of June. Communication that doesn’t work as expected. A message that doesn’t get there. An image that repeats itself until it’s empty. A system that reflects its own interruption. The exhibition brings together Toomas Volkmann’s aesthetic glitch and Kiwa’s party and poetics of noise and error. Before the messages get there and Volkmann’s works start making noise, Kiwa’s work has become empty and dusty. A glitch remix of “The Hell” plays, glitter flashes, and a glorified spirit has emerged in the mirror of the mirror. The party is just beginning.

On Friday, 16 May at 5:30 p.m., Sirje Petersen will open her solo exhibition “Storms and Urges” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition offers insights into the artist’s painting practice from 1983 to the present. Sirje Petersen’s journey of becoming and being an artist began exactly 50 years ago, in 1975, when she enrolled at the Tartu Art School.

On Friday, 16 May at 5:00 p.m., Evelyn Grzinich will open her solo exhibition “The Burrow Zone” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is about soil. Soil, as the living and ever-changing layer of the earth's crust, has become a poetic space for the artist. It can only be physically experienced in a very limited way, but through the imagination we are given a much wider opportunity to immerse ourselves in this complex environment.

Opening: May 17 at 15:00 at the Eduard Vilde Museum. “I look out the window, there is a fountain.. When I was on the dock some day, I laid my hand in the water with my eyes fixed on the stream, I became one with the river. When I was swimming in a lake, in the bog or the sea, it's the same. I was one with the water. But it's different from the fountain that I see. You shouldn't swim in there nor drink it either. The fountain is only for looking at.“ Participating artists: Eva Mustonen, Helena Keskküla, Liisa Mudist, (also featuring contributions from Jenny Grönholm, Ly Lestberg, and Ieva Putniņa). On Saturday, May 31 at 14:00, there's a poetry event that will take place as part of the exhibition, featuring performances by Sveta Grigorjeva, Nancy Nakamura Rap Crew, and Tõnis Vilu. Exhibition dates: May 18 – June 28, 2025. Supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

You're invited to Ingrid Helena Pajo’s exhibition “Butterfly’s flight is a meander” opening at Keskpuur on Saturday, May 10th, h 13.00. Exhibition will remain open until 7th of June and can be visited every day 9.00–15.00. Gallery is located at Keskturg hall second floor, Keldrimäe 9

From Saturday, 3 May 2025, the solo exhibition Under the Blue Sky by painter Mall Paris will be open at Vabaduse Gallery. Instead of an exhibition opening event, a meeting with the artist will take place on 23 May at 17.00. Under the Blue Sky presents Mall Paris' eponymous, minimalist and conceptual series of paintings created in recent years, which the artist regards in its entirety as a spatial installation. The artist describes the creation of her artworks as follows: I painted thinking of loved ones. Then a blue, high sky 'appeared'. – Under a blue sky. We all are under a blue sky.

16.-25.05.2025 Plat-Pelles Kulturhus (Stora Nygatan 1, Sigtuna) Opening: Friday, 16 May at 16:00-19:00 Guided tour: Saturday, 17 May at 12:00   Oher opening hours: Weekdays 16:00-19:00 Weekends 12:00-16:00   Skin is the membrane that encloses a body, a living being In the skin's tracks are the traces of time, the hand’s work, beauty and fragility Signs from the past are etched in the twists of the skin

With the exhibition “AFTERGLOW” by Mare Saare the artist looks back on her creative path and brings works from 1979 to the Järvakandi Glass Museum, aiming to explore the influences and changes on her journey from her school years to her artistic life.  Mare is known mainly for her fragile colored glass objects resembling flowers, but also for her extremely sensitive and almost imperceptible patterns and shapes engraved on black glass. The themes are usually philosophical, the observer of the abstract works of expression is left with room to form their own understandings, the titles of the works hint at the original reason for creation, but are still general enough. Art historian Heili Sõrmus has written (Sirp 27. 03. 2015): “These works are as if alive and one feels that the artist has captured a second of the bubbling process. The artworks do not seem like something that is ready. It is as if the matter is rebelling from the time of the creation of the world – something that has the potential of everything that exists, a frightening inner vitality.”