Events

On Friday, 21st of March at 6 pm opens a group exhibition titled "DIRTY SNOW" by Rühm T’s artists Raoul Kurvitz, Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere, curated by Eha Komissarov at Vaal Gallery. The band Raoul Kurvitz & The Republic of Zone will perform at the exhibition's opening event. The exhibition will remain open until 19th of April. On Friday, 27th of April 1990, an unusual crowd could be seen in the evening hours on Väike-Karja street trying to enter a large building from one of the narrow doors. Until then this part of the building had not yet found use, but now it hosted an opening of an art gallery... Estonia's first privately owned art gallery, VAAL, presented itself with its white rooms, lighting imported from Finland, and opening the first exhibition: artist group titled Rühm T presented artworks by its three leading artists, Raoul Kurvitz, Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere.

On Friday, 7 March at 5.00 p.m., the Ukrainian born artist Ivan Zubaka opens his solo exhibition Path from Past to Present at Vabaduse Gallery. The idea of creating sculptures and prints from small components and found materials gathered over time first occurred to Ivan Zubaka about 30 years ago. At the Vabaduse Gallery exhibition, the artist displays some of his earlier sculptures combined from these fragments, as well as prints that he has started to make only recently.

On Friday, 7 March at 5 p.m., the exhibition of this year’s Tartu Art Auction will open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The auction is being organised by the Tartu Artists’ Union in co-operation with the Art & Tonic gallery. The auction itself will take place on 4 April! Fifty works were selected for the exhibition. Participating artists are:

28.02 – 31.03.2025   Sillamae Museum Kajaka 17a, Sillamäe   The exhibition “Eternal Mystery” at the Sillamäe Museum opens a world of subtle allusions, hidden meanings, and aesthetic perfection. Eduard Zentsik’s works captivate with the depth of artistic expression, merging elements of symbolism, mysticism, and lyrical metaphor.   The female figures in his paintings are not merely embodiments of beauty but visual poetry that explores the delicate balance between fragility and strength, eternity and transience. The line here does not just outline form but becomes an independent means of expression, carrying rhythm and emotional tension. The nuances of color act as a bridge between reality and dreams, between conscious perception and intuitive feeling.  

- The bus departs on 07.03 at 14:30 from the Nunne parking lot (next to Snelli pond) and arrives at Tartu Art House at 17:00. - The bus returns to Tallinn at 21:00 from Tartu Art Museum and arrives at the Nunne parking lot at 23:30. The bus is free of charge, but the number of seats is limited, please register before 06.03.25 here: https://forms.gle/9nERtKesfTndDWrL8 For more information please contact projekt@kunstimaja.ee.

On Friday, 7 March at 5 p.m., Sirje Eelma and Rait Prääts will open their joint exhibition, “Same House 16./50”, in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The opening exhibition was born out of the artists' desire to continue a series of joint exhibitions, to celebrate in their own way a milestone anniversary of their life together, to exhibit recent works, to identify the common ground of their partnership and to affirm their continued creative potential. The exhibition mainly features work from recent years, but there are also references to earlier layers.

On Friday, 7 March at 5 p.m., Kairi Orgusaar will open her solo exhibition “Recipe for Harmony” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House. “Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.” / Andrei Tarkovsky / In the exhibition, the artist is trying to find the recipe for harmony. For this purpose, she developed a world made up of fantastic creatures, swinging in beams of light, casting shadows and reflections. The sculptural glass forms and installations become delicate, even poetic, reflections as light is added. Forms melt and morph, and colours glimmer and interact.

On Wednesday, March 5 at 6 p.m. Madlen Hirtentreu will open her solo exhibition “Samurai Horizon” at Draakoni Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until March 29. slow and fast peace and greed grace and speed soil and air A village Teletubby, modeled oneself after old discoveries of forest beliefs, finds itself in mid of adventurous carousel ride.  Cast: Wooden Ronda, Imaginary hitman Ghost Dog, support avatars magnetXreme & Dolphin Delighter, icon Sword Forest, Naive but brave Teletubby, Pirate Swan etc

On Wednesday, March 5th at 18.00, Maarja Nurk’s exhibition Hundred Laps Around the Pond, Hundred Laps Around the Bush will open at Hobusepea Gallery. The exhibition will be open until March 31, 2025. Maarja Nurk: “The fabric absorbs colour just as it does a coffee stain. The water in the fountain circulates, endlessly repeating itself and its form. The pond is stagnant. And I look at the trees and bushes. My gaze gets caught in an unfathomable density, reducing it to conceptual, somber, and graphic surfaces. A little self-mockingly, and at times giving myself agency. Briefly engaging with the imagery – animated, grotesque, personifying – or ambitiously tackling a detailed landscape motif.

Organised by Bob Bicknell-Knight and Fausta Norekaitė Artists: Bob Bicknell-Knight, Giulio Cusinato, Anastasiia Krapivina, Tonya Kroplya, Denis Kudrjasov, Olev Kuma, Fausta Norekaitė, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Anumai Raska, Nora Schmelter and Aidan Timmer Opening 3rd March 2025, 6-9 pm Open from 4th - 6th March 2025, 3-9 pm The Monk’s Bunk Hostel, Lai 22, Tallinn