Events

The exhibition by graphic artist Elle May Palumäe captures the moment just before the decision to move forward or turn back KUNSTIAKEN, a gallery specialising in applied art and printmaking in Tallinn’s Old Town, presents in the display window the work of Canadian-born Estonian printmaker Elle May Palumäe.

On Friday, 9 October at 5:00 PM, the exhibition You Were Selected This Time by Katariin Mudist and Keithy Kuuspu will open at the Tallinn City Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 29 November. The first version of the exhibition took place at the Tartu Art House in early 2025. However, something almost anticipated by the exhibition happened in the meantime. The exhibition tackling themes of recognition and the experience of being overlooked received the Annual Award for Visual and Applied Arts of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. Thus, the new version of the exhibition at the Tallinn City Gallery will take place from an already changed position.

Marju Bormeister’s “Born to Be a Master” Opens a Door into the Artist’s World In Marju Bormeister’s paintings, we encounter familiar characters, moments and everyday settings — yet each time they appear in a new guise. Her painted world is immediately recognisable, while at the same time constantly shifting and revealing new layers. Every work carries the artist’s attentive gaze upon life as it is lived: upon people, encounters and the situations that make up our everyday existence.

On 27 August at 17:30, Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins solo exhibition It Is the Wind Which Swells the Sails will open at the Draakon Gallery. Continuing the themes explored in her previous exhibitions, Teinfeldt-Grins approaches landscape as an archive, a layered carrier of memory shaped by political power and human intervention. As the artist herself has said: „The momentum begins to fade. The highway falls behind, and the road grows narrower. The landscape, which at first unfolds as distant and unfamiliar, gradually begins to reveal itself. The edges of forests, strips of fields and bends in the road that moments ago were merely features of the scenery become landmarks. One could swear that, as the speed slows, time itself eases its pace.

On 27 August at 6:30 PM, the artist Andre Joosep Arming’s debut solo exhibition Chain Reaction will open at the Hobusepea Gallery with a festive, Renaissance-themed masquerade ball, directed by Linda Mai Kari. The exhibition is an exploration of human fragility, solitude, adaptation and perseverance, focusing on the tension field between the ending of life and new beginnings. The exhibition will remain open until 27 September. Chain Reaction is about celebrating the joy of existence and the privilege of being alive. Arming’s works serve as a poignant reminder to inhabit the present fully, with complete intensity, despite not knowing what the future holds. The artist adds: “I would like to remind everyone and acknowledge that life is hard, but it is worth it.”

On 28 August at 5:00 PM Külliki Järvila’s exhibition Apocalyptic 7 will open at the Vabaduse Gallery. The apocalypse referred to in the title is a Greek word that means ‘removing the cover’ or ‘revealing the hidden’ – the exhibition should be read as a vision of the world, and the role humans play in preserving it.

On Friday, August 28 at 5:00 PM, the opening of Kaido Ole’s exhibition Krt will take place at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery. That same evening, Johanna Ulfsak’s pop-up exhibition will open at Peetri 11, with access limited to the first 50 guests at the opening.

Mery Crystal Ra's artist talk at the exhibition "Royal Visit to the Golden Waterfall" will take place on Thursday, August 13 at 5 pm at Tokko&Arrak Gallery, Teachers' House, Raekoja plats 14 on the topic "Mery Crystal Ra's global transformation of paintings into interdisciplinary, human kinetic sculptures and monumental objects". The talk will be attended by art historian and artist Kaire Nurk, choreographer, dancer, poet and critic Sveta Grigorjeva, interdisciplinary artist and interior architect Tea Tammelaan and interdisciplinary painter, light-human kinetic sculptor and monumental artist Mery Crystal Ra. The artist talk is dedicated to painter Silvia Jõgever and art historian Reet Varblane.  

The Bootmaker. Solo exhibition by Paul Rodgers  12.08-12.09.2026 Paul Rodgers’ solo exhibition “The Bootmaker” will be open at gallery Pallas from Wednesday, 12 August. Spanning two floors of the gallery, the exhibition brings together works created specifically for the show as well as pieces from earlier periods of the artist’s career. The main hall on the gallery’s ground floor will feature a series of works created by Rodgers over the past year specifically for the exhibition in Tartu. Comprising sculptural objects, photographs, videos and texts, the series explores the artist’s personal memories and the influences of growing up in post-war England. Rodgers also examines the impact these emotional experiences and memories have had on the artist.

Mery Crystal Ra's painting exhibition "Royal Trip to the Golden Waterfall" extended until August 28.