Events

On 17 June at 5 PM, we warmly invite everyone to join an artist-led tour with Maria Kapajeva at Tallinn Art Hall's Lasnamäe Pavilion. The tour will be held in English and Russian, and admission is free. In May 2026, Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva opened her largest solo exhibition to date at Tallinn Art Hall's Lasnamäe Pavilion. “I Am a Border” brings together 16 works created between 2014 and 2026, many of them produced specifically for this exhibition. Spanning photography, video, textiles and installation, the exhibition is the culmination of more than a decade of artistic research into the border as a geographical, bodily and emotional phenomenon.

On Friday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m., the group exhibition “Urban Utopia III: Foundscape” will open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House.  Ten graphic artists have taken on the task of depicting urban visions. The exhibition focuses on phenomena that fall outside the mainstream depiction of the city: artists find the invisible, the marginal, the absurd in urban space and imagine new landscapes, patterns and shapes inspired by it.

On Friday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m., Lembe Ruben will open her solo exhibition “Between the Point and the Line” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.  In her work, the artist explores the connections between the point and the line, and between the beginning and the end. The starting point is always the seed of the end point. Does every first impulse already contain the entire possible trajectory? Where does the point arise that sets a person in motion, the invisible cause that gives shape to will and meaning to direction? Being is the movement of objects from one point to another. So that this does not remain a meaningless motion of molecules, we have been given free will: an end point we wish to reach.

On 18 June at 6 PM, Maarja Mäemets and Evelina Lindström will open the joint exhibition Through at the Hobusepea Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 19.07.2026. The exhibition brings together two different approaches to memory that have taken form as delicate ceramic and glass art pieces. Evelina Lindström addresses memory through Henri Bergson’s concept of duration (durée), while Maarja Mäemets views it as a spatial structure. According to Bergson, time in lived experience does not flow linearly or evenly, instead it moves in different rhythms and intensities. Memory is not an archive of the past, but a continuously active and ongoing variable. In Lindström’s works, this idea is expressed in recurring pearl shapes, implying how an irritation or a foreign body, such as a grain of sand, can over time develop into something enduring and coherent .

It's the last week left to visit Entrance No. 4 at ARS Project Space in Tallinn, which includes a selection of work from the second year MACA/MAKK programme. The exhibition will close with a soft finissage in the presence of some of the curators and artists on Sunday, 14th June, from 14:00 – 16:00. There will be coffee and cookies!   The exhibition transforms the space into a stage of sorts, where the audience engages with the artworks on show through a series of curtailed entranceways, examining ideas of control, illusionary realities and voyeuristic tendencies. Through actively herding and throttling the viewing experience, Entrance No. 4 demands a re-examination of how artworks are seen and engaged with, reflecting upon how images are shared and diffused within contemporary life.

Curator tours for the exhibition “Unbounded within – Symbiotic Subjectivities” at the Pärnu Artists' House will take place on: Wednesday, June 3 at 4:00 PM Saturday, June 13 at 4:00 PM The tours are FREE OF CHARGE! You are warmly welcome! The tours will be held in Estonian and/or English, depending on the participants. Curator Elo Liiv

On Thursday, 4th of June at 6 pm a group exhibition “Phantom of the Paradise”, will open at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 4th of July, Tue–Fri 12–6 pm and Sat 12–4 pm. The exhibition “Phantom of the Paradise” examines the contemporary condition in which the human beings increasingly experience themselves as a project that must be constantly developed, improved, and reshaped. Philosopher Byung-Chul Han has described the modern individual as a self-exploiting being whose imagined freedom manifests through self-management, control and endless optimization. Ambivalence, loss, mourning, confusion, or stillness are treated as problems that must be solved, corrected, or overcome.

Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva will open her largest solo exhibition to date at the Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion on 28 May at 6 pm. Titled I Am a Border, the exhibition brings together 16 works created between 2014 and 2026, many of them produced specifically for this show. Admission is free. The exhibition is the culmination of more than a decade of artistic research into the border as a geographical, bodily, and emotional phenomenon.

Mara Kirchberg’s installations and performances at the exhibition My Weight Hangs in Your Arms at the Draakon Gallery, 15 May–14 June 2026. Mara Kirchberg’s solo exhibition examines the technologisation of care. At the heart of the exhibition is the metaphor of the body as a machine. The automotive industry has shaped not only the technical equipment of care work, but also its organisation, treating humans as mechanical systems. The conceptual framework of Kirchberg’s exhibition is petromodernity, which characterises the current material world, overwhelmingly fueled by crude oil. While the oil economy has prolonged human life expectancy, the imminent end of Earth’s fossil fuel supply creates fear and imperialist wars. However, fears are also known to provoke fetishised desires.

On Friday, 15 May at 5:00 p.m., the Tartu Artists’ Union’s first spring exhibition will open in three galleries at the Tartu Art House. The spring exhibition brings together, for the first time, works exclusively by members of the association. The exhibition brings together artists from different generations, focusing on the differences and similarities between them. There will be 104 members of the Tartu Artists’ Union participating in the exhibition.