KORDON welcomes applications from all types of creative practitioners and researches, including visual artists, architects, filmmakers, writers, curators, musicians, performing artists and those working across disciplines or in collaboration. KORDON offers 2 or 4 week residencies to change of pace and the space to create.

The Narva Art Residency (NART), in cooperation with the Architecture and Urban Planning Department of the City of Narva, is organizing a third competition to create a new large-scale installation or sculpture. This time, the location will be outside the city center, on the edge of the Pähklimäe district. The object is expected to enrich public space with spatial and artistic value, with a particular focus on the use of light.

As part of the Utopias Lahti 2026 festival, free workshops for photographers will take place. The application deadline is April 20.

Inventing Sauna: Playing with Fire, Smoke and Water

Deadline: 15 April 2026

We announce an open call for exhibition slots at Raegalerii for the year 2027.

KORDON is thrilled to announce the selected residents for the PINHOLE residency program, which will take place from May 17 to July 15, 2026 in Hiiumaa. PINHOLE focuses on spatial situations in post-traumatic times, addressing the persistence and adaptation of military architectural heritage in the context of social and political transformations.

This year unfolds at Tallinn Art Hall under the sign of significant change and forward movement. We are returning in order to move ahead. In the first half of the year, exhibitions will take place at the Lasnamäe Pavilion, Tallinn City Gallery, and in venues across the city. In the second half of the year, our activities will return to the Freedom Square, where the fully renovated historic main building will reopen in November. But until then…

Open Call : On Sonic Agency

The short film premiered on Estonian National Broadcasting TV channel ETV2 on January 3 and it was created for the anniversary of the Narva Art Residency which has now been operating for more than 10 years. The 15-minute short film can be viewed on the Jupiter webpage and NART channels. It helps to introduce NART to both domestic and international audiences, but also has a broader mission to explain the concept of creative residencies and their role for practicing artists.

Tallinn Art Hall organised an art competition to find the best conceptual proposals for artworks for the renovated main building on Freedom Square. From among the works submitted by the deadline, the jury selected the design submitted under the motto Soup Kitchen ‘Art’, authored by artist Dénes Farkas.