Events

Estonian Ceramists’ Association's Annual Exhibition Porcelain in Patarei 19.08.2025 – 19.09.2025 Exhibition opening: 19.08.2025 at 18:00 Opening hours: Thu, Fri, Sat 13:00 – 18:00 Sun 13:00 – 17:00 Kalaranna 28/1, Tallinn Patarei Sea Fortress is a building that holds within it a colorful yet dark history. Originally built in the 1820s, the complex served as a sea fortress for only a short time before being converted into barracks. During the Estonian War of Independence, the building was taken into use as a prison, which operated there until 2005. At present, the building is undergoing a thorough transformation to become a modern museum and lifestyle center.

On August 24, 2025, acclaimed Estonian artist Mery Crystal Ra (Meeli Kõiva) will open her new exhibition HABEMUS PAPAM. BETWEEN TWO DAWNS at the historic former Pastorate of Kodavere Church Manor . The show runs until September 30, 2025. The title references her new painting Habemus Papam, inspired by this year’s papal elections and the hope that a new pope could bring positive change. It also nods to local legend — that Pope John Paul II stayed overnight at the Kodavere rectory during his 1993 visit to Estonia. The exhibition features expressive acrylic and aquarelle works drawn from the artist’s dreams, rich with symbols of hope, light, and pathways forward. Mery Crystal Ra is celebrated for her bold brushstrokes, luminous color, and ability to merge personal vision with universal themes. Mery Crystal Ra's rise as a star painter began at New York's top gallery ART 54 in Manhattan in 1997. 

Pärnu City Gallery, Town Hall, Uus Street 4, Pärnu 15.08.2025 – 06.09.2025 Quintessence Revisited Janno Bergmann Exhibition designer: Pamela Sume Supported by: Estonian Cultural Endowment, City of Pärnu & Huudifuudi gänghäng Opening: Friday, 15 August, at 18:00

Exhibition 19.08—05.09 Opening 18.08.25 18:00  EKKM Vitriingalerii FB event This season, when the house is installing, EKKM vitrine is activated in the framework of ambiguity. Questioning a showcase as a space for clear-cut, well defined messages, this series of exhibitions host material from artists' studios that is in a state of doubt. It welcomes open-endedness, questioning, and hesitation as a crucial voice in public space. The (mis)print by Raul Keller opens up the layers of a state of becoming, with an emphasis on fog and chance encounter. The coming weeks, the vitrine moves to the artist's earlier work called Reflector (2007–2011), the first official acquisition of EKKMs collection.

On Wednesday, August 13 at 5 PM, gallery Pallas opens a solo exhibition by Urmas Viik titled “Megaflowers and Tribalfoxes”. The display features the artist’s signature floating installative objects, pseudo-documentary recordings created in special techniques, oversized formats and miniature works. The exhibition draws inspiration from 19th-century botanical engravings and imaginative medieval travelogues.  Having returned to printmaking only in the last decade, Viik blends digital creation with elements of classical line-based aesthetics. His mythological “Tribalfoxes” are strange figures that merge animal and human forms on stark white paper. Their postures,  gazes, and inner tensions stir layered rhythms in the viewer and provoke a multitude of interpretations. The artist describes his characters as follows: 

KOFF is dedicated to artist films, bringing together works that experiment with visual language and structure from art, film and architecture field, as well as from the Estonian Film Archive. The festival will take place from August 6th to 8th, at the KORDON Art Residency in Hiiumaa island (Ranna1, Kärdla). All are very welcome! This year's film festival focuses on the experience of being a woman, the themes of sleep and sleeplessness, and the relationship between architecture, man and nature. The screenings will feature films by Eva Giolo (BE), Tõnis Jürgens (EE), Liis Nimik (EE), Sofie Benoot (BE), Louise Lemoine & Ila Bêka (IT, FR), Aglaia Konrad (BE), Anne Reijniers & Eline De Clercq (BE), Saodat Ismailova (UZ).

On August 8 at 16.00, the international travelling exhibition “BALTIC SEA ART PROJECT” will open in the main hall of Kuressaare Cultural Centre. The exhibition brings together artists from four Baltic Sea islands – Bornholm (Denmark), Öland (Sweden), Åland (Finland), and Saaremaa (Estonia). The exhibition is part of a broader two-year collaboration project that aims to promote peaceful coexistence and cultural understanding through art and culture. The travelling exhibition moves between the four islands over a two-year period, being displayed during the summer months in each location. The Saaremaa edition, which also marks the festive conclusion of the project, has been curated by local artists Külliki Järvila, Anne Olop, and Maria Evestus. The artists hope that the friendship and cooperation between the four islands will continue beyond the project.

On Friday, 8th of August at 6 pm, Anna Škodenko’s solo exhibition “Slippery slope” will open at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 6th of September. 

On Thursday, 7 August at 6 PM, we will open the joint exhibition Contemplated Distances by artists Johanna Adojaan, Paul Kuimet and Krista Mölder at the FOKU gallery. You are warmly invited! The exhibition Contemplated Distances is a visual poetic mapping of natural, mediated and personally experienced landscapes, distances and closenesses. The common threads connecting the works of the three artists are quiet frames, sensitivity to detail, surfaces and currents underneath or behind; vibrations between the visible and the invisible, looking and observing.

You are invited to the opening of Planet Amor, an exhibition by Perdita S. and Pire Sova, at the sex shop Planet Amor, on August 7 at 18:00. The exhibition will remain open until October 8. Planet Amor is an exhibition about female sexual agency, intimacy, and the power to set boundaries in a world that often expects quiet compliance. It doesn’t speak of sin or redemption, but of choices – personal, complex, and sincere. It speaks of people whose bodies and affection do not automatically belong to anyone. The works of the two artists connect personal experience with social critique, questioning the norms that define whose sexuality is visible and accepted, and whose is not. What would change if the right to decide over one's body and desires were not overshadowed by shame, the threat of violence, or poverty? Texts by Aet Kuusik 08.08–08.10.2025 Mon-Sat 11-23, Sun 11-18 Sex shop Planet Amor, Väike-Ameerika 11, Tallinn