Events

Kelli Valk will open her personal exhibition Walk-through Rooms in Draakon gallery on Monday at 6pm on June 27th, 2022. Exhibition will be open until July 23rd, 2022. 

A unique colourful and playful international exhibition series “Colour Go-Go!” is coming to Estonia! Opening on the 1st of July at 5 p.m.  This summer and early autumn brings Finnish and Estonian artists together for a trio of group exhibitions “Colour Go-Go” that take place in three quite different venues – Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery in Võru, RuutikellariGallery in Hamina and the Gallery of Tampere House, Tartu.  Amidst a difficult pandemic and many global crises, the organisers bring the “Colour Attack!” series to Estonia under the name “Colour Go-Go” - an exhibition that approaches content and form with positive, optimistic and playful attentiveness.

Woman&Woman in the Pärnu City Gallery in the Artists’ House (Nikolai 27) and Man&Man in the Pärnu City Gallery in the City Hall (Uus 4), 25 June -23 July 2022 The opening of the exhibitions will take place on June 25th: at 4 pm at the Artists’ House; and at 5 pm at the City Hall.

The popular annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association will take place from 20 June to 14 August at the Tallinn Art Hall and Art Hall Gallery on Freedom Square, and will present a cross-section of art created in the last year. You are welcome to attend the opening of the exhibition on Sunday, 19 June at 3 pm!

18.06.–16.10.2022 From 18 June the exhibition “Half-Love” can be visited in the Tartu Art Museum. Half-Love explores the relationship between the artist Diana Tamane and her younger half-sister Elina. Exhibited here for the first time, this new body of work continues a long line of projects focused on her family, in which since 2010 Tamane has collaborated with members of her extended family, with photography at the heart of the conversation. Beginning in 2008, the year of her sister’s birth, Tamane began taking photos of their shared time together. This ongoing project, when viewed in retrospect, traces the life of Elina from birth to the spring of 2022.

Opening of the exhibition Self-Portrait as a Dancer and a Revolutionary by Brit Pavelson and Cloe Jancis at Võru Showcase The opening of the duo show entitled Self-Portrait as a Dancer and a Revolutionary by Brit Pavelson and Cloe Jancis will take place on 11 June at 5 pm at Võru Showcase. The exhibition playfully addresses topics such as women’s everyday roles and the spaces in which these roles are expressed. What are the roles that permeate through the definition of a parent, a partner and an artist? How can we best cope with the emotional states that different roles make us feel? Which domestic practices are considered “feminine” and what is their social or artistic value?

On Friday, 10 June at 6 p.m. Tartu Printmaking Festival “Shadows” named after Peeter Allik will open in the large gallery of Tartu Art House. For the first time, the Tartu Printmaking Festival bears the name of Peeter Allik in honour of Allik as the founder of the festival. The artist has written about the idea of the festival: “Good old printmaking is an opportunity even when everything else disappears, completely free self-expression, everyone’s own printed press, in the conditions of any democratic or totalitarian organization.” The festival has been held regularly since 2012 and is scheduled to take place this year in its interdisciplinary spirit throughout the summer. Various exhibitions, international performance actions, a chess tournament named after Peeter Allik and workshops will take place all over the town.

On Friday, 10 June at 6 p.m. Veiko Klemmer will open his solo exhibition “Transitory” in the small gallery of Tartu Art House. A common topic for the exhibition seems to be grotesque, irony and a sentiment somewhere between being and non-being. In some sense it’s an observation of what will happen if we continue the current trends to their logical end. According to the artist, the idea for the exhibition began some years ago when he wanted to explore and understand human archetypes better. He was trying to find some new depictions of stereotypes and embodiments of different moods, which can be throughout history. In particular, the relationships of those who exist between the shadows of greed, pride, power and other similar totems. 

On Friday, 10 June at 6 p.m. Eero Ijavoinen will open his solo exhibition “Silent hour” in the monumental gallery of Tartu Art House. Ijavoinen has worked as a teacher for many years, which is why the idea of the exposition derives from school, primarily from its material aspects or, in other words, the educational tools. The paintings and drawings are made of old teaching tools and packaging. Expired educational tools exude a vibe that is no longer needed in this form. The artist has changed their original meaning and has given them a new potential and life. The sculptures focus on the classroom, furniture and the occupants of the space: the students. The main figure is the Teacher, that old stump, who shines and gives out wisdom and knowledge. The exhibition “Silent Hour” is an hour which lacks any pressure.

Growing Out? Growing Up? Contemporary Art Collecting in the Baltics4. june – 20. november 2022 Zuzeum Art Centre Lāčplēša iela 101, Riia, LV–1011 Sun–Thu 12.00–19.00 Fri–Sat 12.00–21.00 The exhibition “Growing Out? Growing Up? Contemporary Art Collecting in the Baltics” at Zuzeum Art Centre in Riga introduces vibrant contemporary art collections in the Baltics while emphasising the social aspects of private collecting. It is a project that aims to unite art collectors in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and facilitate public and international access to art in private collections and the emerging art infrastructure in the Baltic countries.