Events

Until 9 August, the international group exhibition “Triumph of Galatea: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” is on view in the Contemporary Art Gallery on the 5th floor of Kumu Art Museum. On Saturday, 8 August, we will celebrate the exhibition with a special finissage programme featuring the following events: 13:00–14:00 Curator’s Tour of the exhibition "Triumph of Galatea: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", Anders Härm, in English

On Friday, July 31st, the Pärnu Artists’ House is holding an Open House Day!  On this day, artists will open the doors to their studios, giving visitors an opportunity to peek behind the scenes of the creative process. You can also purchase unique artworks directly from the creators on-site: paintings, ceramics, books, and much more. Of course, our exhibitions will also be open! Schedule: 3:00 PM  Meet the artist Pusa at her solo exhibition “And Then Came the Dove…” in the Project Space  4:30 PM  Guided tour of the painting exhibition “Unfamiliar Taste” by Maria Kallau and Hanna Vinter, led by artist Maria Kallau and curator Kirke Kits  Music will be provided by Plaadimeri Records and Tallamalla Killaz. Opening hours: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Admission is FREE. Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/6Wx8RQ5Kl P.S. If you can’t make it on Friday, the gallery is also open on Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and several artists will have their studios open that day as well.

Opening on August 5 at 17.00 Curated by Lieven Lahaye and Anu Vahtra Can’t Do Hard Sun Whim brings together artists and designers whose work relates in different ways to ideas of light and wear – either as material processes or conceptual conditions. Light can be seen as a physical phenomenon as well as a condition of visibility and perception; wear as a force for erosion and transformation, as well as an act of carrying, inhabiting or being worn. Through wearable sculpture, monoprint, quilt, cyanotype, slideshow, video and installation, the exhibition explores how materials, bodies and images are transformed through time, contact and environmental conditions.

On Thursday, 30 July at 6:00 PM, the group exhibition Joie de Vivre will open at the Tallinn City Gallery, featuring the artists Andre Joosep Arming, Katrin Enni, Aksel Haagensen and Silvia Sosaar. The exhibition observes life as a process, wherein growth and decay, invasion and extinction are parts of the whole, striving for balance yet perhaps not achieving it. The four participating artists each tackle these subjects based on their own practices. Personal memories, bodily experiences, absurdity and environmental tact converge to produce an exhibition that is in bloom and in collapse, playful and melancholic. Andre Joosep Arming’s installation ∞ miracle combines personal memories with a desire for visibility and presence. Experiences detailed on bed sheets portray new locations, fears and relationships as parts of everyday change. The work tackles life as a cycle in which experiences are collected, cleansed and forgotten, in order to start over again.

Uno Roosvalt’s anniversary exhibition Home Shores, inspired by homely motifs, is open at the Vabaduse Gallery from 24 July. The exhibition is being curated by Katariina Pruus and it will remain open until 26 August. The exhibition features a comprehensive and contemplative ensemble of the artist’s most recent work, where nature and man, creator and creation come together and merge into a harmonious whole. The selected works highlight Roosvalt’s distinctive style, offering compositionally engaging insight into the lifelong dialogue of a master with his surrounding environment.

On 23 July at 5:30 PM the painter Johanna Mudist will open her solo exhibition Little Man at the Hobusepea Gallery. Mudist depicts the human figure in proportion to nature: as small. Through her practice, Mudist examines how humans relate to their surroundings, to other people, animals and the various elements of the natural world. In her paintings, the boundaries between humans and nature dissolve, become distorted or disappear altogether. Similarly to the melting figures that merge, reappear or dissipate, there is also a breaking down of familiar categories: human and nature, strong and weak, large and small.

The solo exhibition Selected Constraints by Vano Allsalu (curated by Liisi Kõuhkna) is open from 23 July at the Draakon Gallery. The exhibition can be viewed as a continuation of his 2014 exhibition Motive at the same gallery. Undoubtedly, both the artist and the world have changed during this time, yet the questions of (artistic) freedom, the artist's message and motivation remain relevant.

On Saturday, 18 July at 5 p.m., the joint exhibition Conversation by Mare Mikoff and Berit Talpsepp-Jaanisoo will open at the Evald Okas Museum in Haapsalu. The curator of the exhibition is Peeter Talvistu. The exhibition is a dialogue between two sculptors from different generations, where the central motif is the conversation between works depicting women. The oeuvre of both authors is mainly figurative, frequently depicting the artists themselves or their loved ones (family members or fellow artists). In addition to mere depiction, these works often also deal with being an artist and a woman. Therefore, the main gallery of the museum seeks to find a common ground between the two authors.

On Friday, July 17, at 4 p.m., artist Mery Crystal Ra will introduce her exhibition "A ROYAL TRIP TO THE GOLDEN WATERFALL", which is open at Tokko&Arrak Gallery, Tallinn Teachers' House (Raekoja plats 14). The tour lasts approximately 1 hour. The event is in Estonian and free of charge. Artist Mery Crystal Ra will talk about her world tours, the origins of her art and energy fields in the light of the ongoing global crisis, and the chances of a small person surviving in an atmosphere of general crisis.

You are very welcome to the final events of the residency program KORDON Pinhole on Saturday, July 11th at the Kordon Art Residency, Ranna 1, Hiiumaa. The events start at 15.00 and are free for all participants! The PINHOLE residency program focuses on spatial transformations in the post-traumatic period, addressing the persistence and adaptation of military architectural heritage in the context of social and political change. The goal is to explore and analyze how and why architectural structures are transferred from one era to another, even after losing their original function and meaning. We will discuss the questions: what spatial values transcend the timeline of change? The goal of the residency program is to address political trauma using creative research methods. The program is a continuation of the TIME LAP residency program, which took place in Kordon in the fall of 2024.