Events

On Wednesday, July 2, at 6 p.m., Liisa Kruusmägi’s exhibition “Yokai Tea Party / 妖怪のお茶” will open at Draakon gallery. The exhibition will remain open until July 26, 2025. Liisa Kruusmägi has been painting her thoughts and feelings, featuring people, animals, and the things around her in various environments. The bright colours of her paintings can make us breathe and rest in these anxious times.

On Friday, June 27 at 17.00, the joint exhibition Surrounded by graphic artist Kadri Toom and painter Helle Vahersalu will open at Vabaduse Gallery. The exhibition “Surrounded” is a visual dialogue between two generations, a conversation between a teacher and a student. For Kadri Toom, it was her painting studies at the Tartu Art College under Helle Vahersalu that deeply influenced her later colour-centric printmaking. This time, however, Toom has approached the part of her teacher’s oeuvre that has previously remained hidden from the wider audience: colourful sketches and abstract compositions painted on cardboard. In this way, two different, yet delightfully complementary perceptions of landscape come together. – Peeter Talvistu in the text accompanying the exhibition.

VERNISSAGE -  Arne Maasik “Jazz meets art - NYC SHOTS” at Philly Joe’s! Created for the 2025 Jazzkaar Festival, Arne Maasik’s over-three-metre-tall, five-part photo panel “Jazz meets art – NYC SHOTS!” has now found its home at the jazz club Philly Joe’s. The official vernissage will take place on June 27 at 6 PM! All friends of art and music are warmly welcome! PHILLY JOE’S Vabaduse Väljak 10, Tallinn

This summer is butter yellow! 19th Tallinn Print Triennial invites everyone to the opening party of the main exhibition on Friday, 20 June at 18:00 at Tallinn Art Hall Lasnamäe pavilion! Siim Pojeng and Groove Research DJ set (IT) will perform at the opening party and a cocktail bar will be open. The party will go on until late! The next day, 21 June, at 12 noon, there will be a curatorial tour with Marika Agu and the artists participating in the exhibition. The tour will be in English. Starting from 21 June, there will be an artist tour every Saturday at 13:00, with a participating artist at the Triennal.

15.06–13.07.2025, Mon - Sun 9–15 Opening 15.06.2025, 14–16 Keskpuur, Keskturg, Keldrimäe 9, Tallinn, Estonia 10113 When visiting Keskpuur’s caged location for “You Forget Some Things, Don't You?”, the audience will encounter the work of two artists; Bob Bicknell-Knight and Olev Kuma. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on ideas surrounding time, decay and transformation. The exhibition, taking its title from a quote in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, hopes to depict a moment in time that, once captured, swiftly fades away.

On Friday, 20 June at 5:00, the exhibition of artists' films “Once More I Would Like To Return” * will open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is being curated by Marge Monko and designed by Karel Koplimets. The exhibition features five films by artists that deal with home and the memories, longing and melancholy associated with it in various psychological and aesthetic registers.

Exhibition 3.06—13.06 Opening 2.06.25 at 18:00  EKKM Vitriingalerii Location: metal structure facing the front door of the museum  FB event This season, when the house is installing, EKKM vitrine is activated in the framework of ambiguity. Questioning a showcase as a space for clear-cut, well defined messages, this series of exhibitions host material from artists' studios that is in a state of doubt. Moving away from the wall of the museum, it welcomes open-endedness, questioning, and hesitation as a crucial voice in public space.   Keiu Maasik deals with the experience of daily playing online shooter games and reflects on the sensation of becoming desensitized to the violence in such a medium. Curator: Laura De Jaeger

A hybrid event of exhibition, performance and hanging out 05.06.2025 at 5pm–11pm Ankru Studio (Ankru 6, Tallinn) Artists:  Anna Ovtšinnikova Anumai Raska Bob Bicknell-Knight Clara Jantson-Köstner Edvard Vellevoog Fausta Noreikaite Keithy Kuuspu Liisbeth Horn Mats Johan Soosaar Nora Schmelter Olev Kuma Ricu ja Anrku ateljee On June 5, we invite you to Here for 6 Hours — a six-hour hybrid event that blends the concepts of an exhibition, performance and casual, unrushed hangout. The event begins at 17:00 and ends at 23:00, welcoming those who are curious and interested in the idea of slowing down time. To participate it is necessary to be present for the entire duration of the event, but fresh air breaks are possible on the balcony!

This summer is butter yellow! 19th Tallinn Print Triennial invites everyone to the opening party of the main exhibition on Friday, 20 June at 18:00 at Tallinn Art Hall Lasnamäe pavilion! The opening party will feature Siim Pojeng and DJ Groove Research (IT) and a cocktail bar. The party will go on until late! More information coming soon. 

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.