Events

Exhibition “His Dreams were Nothing Remarkable” by Art Allmägi and Keiu Virro will be open in Hobusepea gallery since Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Exhibition will be open until November 23rd, 2020.   Early this year, Art Allmägi made an inventory of his artwork. Different exhibitions have included numerous sculptures and installations which have no extra function, unlike the artwork produced for public space. Among them are the sculptures exhibied in his personal exhibition “I Had a Dream Last Night” in Hobusepea gallery in 2012. Actually, these scupltures should have been stayed in a storage. Not because of damage by mice nor the battered beds but because of the controversial content of the dreams that Art has described beside the sculptures.  

TASE’19 and EAA (Estonian Academy of Arts) Young Artist’s Award winner Keiu Maasik and Madis Kurss in Draakon Gallery!     Co-exhibition by Keiu Maasik and Madis Kurss 100 Ghz to Midnight will be open in Draakon gallery from Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Exhibition will be open until November 21st, 2020. The authors of current exhibition 100 GHz to Midnight study the simulation of post-apocalyptic world through contemporary computer games. In standard online shooting games the player contests in a team against other teams. During the past ten years, first-person shooting games have increasingly gained popularity - in these gaming platforms, everyone stands for himself and the playground is much more expanded.    

From Friday, October 23 Karel Koplimets’s solo exhibition “Case No. 16. Elements of Fear (5 Ways to End the World)” can be visited in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The new exhibition will deal with different doomsday scenarios and their depiction in films. The curator is Kaisa Maasik.   In his new project, Koplimets continues examining fears and paranoias, focusing on sci-fi films that end with the extinction of humankind. These plots are combined with the effects of climate change, which are surprisingly under-represented in films. Even if the end in blockbusters isn’t the outcome of our ecological ignorance, it presumably won’t be as improbable and explosion-driven as the film industry leads us to believe.  

The autumn issue of the Estonian Art magazine focuses on art in the Anthropocene. Writers and artists discuss different subjects such as biomass, the future of textiles, the Anthropocene in Estonian visual culture, eco-activism in the Baltics, the possibility of alternative narratives for the future and community gardens as part of an artistic practice. Artists Laura Põld and Lou Sheppard have created a special visual essay The Exquisite Corpse for this issue, which deals with the abandoned and toxic “zombie mines”.   Visual and written contributions by Hasso Krull, Eike Eplik, Peeter Laurits, Linda Kaljundi, Merilin Talumaa, Laura Põld, Lou Sheppard, Laura Toots, Paul Kuimet, Kärt Ojavee, Taavi Hallimäe, Ann Mirjam Vaikla, Saskia Lillepuu, Sandra Kosorotova, Laura Kuusk, Jaagup Irve, Ott Scheler, Inga Lāce and Heidi Ballet.   “The Anthropocene Issue” will be launched on October 15 at 6pm at Kai Art Center.  

From 24 October, Tartu Art Museum will host the extensive and definitely colourful retrospective exhibition “Nostalgialess”. The two floors of the exhibition introduce the works of one of the best Estonian colourists from the 1960s to the present day. Pääsuke’s oeuvre conveys classic painting traditions through a contemporary prism, transcending times and trends. The exhibition is made even more exceptional by the fact that for the artist this marks a return to the location where in 1957 his professional journey began as a student of the Tartu Art School, since back then the classicist mansion from the end of the 18th century was the boys’ dormitory of the music school and the art school. This period of his life has a special place in the exhibition: visitors can experience the historic atmosphere and, as a rare gesture, works from the time of his studies are shown.

Sergei Inkatov's solo exhibition “Helios” invites you to the world of abstract painting and gives a unique insight into a world order that is full of feelings, colour and energy of life.   The main direction of Sergei's art practice is expressive and abstract compositions. As a mature professional artist, Sergei's original painting style is able to blend different cultures with the use of lush and strong colours.    Sergei Inkatov was born in Baku and has been living in Estonia since 1994. Sergei has had various solo exhibitions in the Baltic and Nordic countries as well as the Netherlands, Germany, UK and Russia. He has participated in famous international art expos such as Beijing Art Expo and Artexpo New York, and has been the laureate of many international and domestic art competitions. Sergei is a member of the Russian Artists’ Union and Estonian Artists' Association.  

The exhibition “May You Be Loved and Protected” will open at Tallinn Art Hall on 16 October at 6 pm, bringing to audiences the works of Dénes Farkas, Tõnis Saadoja and Jevgeni Zolotko as well as a selection of works from the Prinzhorn Collection, displayed in light boxes. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk.  

Lauri Koppel's personal exhibition “Demiurge's Tupperware” will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, September 13th, 2020. Exhibition will stay open until October 31st, 2020. The idea of the world being an abnormal state is emphasized by Gnosticism, a collection of religious ideas and systems originating from early Christian and Jewish sects. Demiurge, a fallen divine but evil being has created a world of negative matter. A global direct seller company Tupperware produces plastic containers for food storage and preparation - the hermetic and waterproof containers of various shapes have become a part of today's household culture.

Monumental art by students at the Painting Department of the EKA 1962–1995 Open 8.10.–5.11.2020   Opening of the exhibition and presentation of the catalogue on 7 October at 5 PM. Entrance from Kotzebue Street. Please wear a mask!  

At Vent Space project space 05.10–14.10.2020 Opening on 04.10 at 18.00   The exhibition "Conversing in Absentia" will present three new installations by audio-visual artist Sten Saarits. The works can be seen as micro-landscapes or externalized thought spaces of how small details of the everyday can shine in a new light during the time of crisis.   The exhibition shows objects familiar from the streets being rearranged, rebuilt and repurposed to act as visual cues or anchors addressing the inconsistent and incoherent projections of future. The gallery itself is situated in one of the basement rooms in Tallinn Art Hall – an underground setting that wants to reverberate the cultural narratives and meanings of whatever less obscure might lie above.