Events

The spring season of the Narva Art Residency's project “Artists Are Present” will conclude with an open seminar on May 15 at 3 PM at Alex cafe (Linda 2).  The project aims to increase the accessibility and presence of contemporary art in Narva by bringing Estonian-speaking artists into local schools and offering students opportunities to practice the Estonian language.  At the seminar, nine participating artists, along with their mentors and teachers, will share their experiences. The artists are Erki Kasemets, Vaim Sarv, Jevgeni Zolotko, Tea Lemberpuu, Kairi Getman, Trevor Kinna, Kerttu Siplane, Mari Männa and Mia Tamme. Preliminary results of a study on the project’s impact will be presented, and a panel discussion will reflect on its successes and challenges. 

Time: Sunday, 3rd of May 12-14 Location: vegan restaurant Kartul, Kopli 16 Places are limited, please sign up here: https://forms.gle/Xog4V7wabomV5wLW6 

On Thursday, 30 April at 5 PM the artists Eva Mustonen and Elīna Vītola will open the exhibition Pastoral: August at the Haapsalu City Gallery.  The collaboration project began when artists Eva Mustonen and Elīna Vītola took a caravan trip on the roads of South-Latvia. Bitter thoughts and outlooks sent them on a romanticised search for freedom with the rented caravan symbolising their confusing life. One stop of the ongoing collaboration was the Let’s Find A Way: Off-Season project exhibited at the Kanal Gallery in 2022. Pastoral: August is the next chapter of the journey where the artists face the season of harvest and vacations, abundance and decay. Jars clink in kitchens as petals curl in the month of vanitas. It’s the moment when fullness tips over toward loss. The only thing that is left, are memories. 

Eve Kiiler 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 02.04.–13.06.2026 In 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴, Eve Kiiler explores the shared space between humans and plants as a process of co-growth, linking the city with the surrounding landscape. Plant communities take centre stage in her latest photographic series, which ranges from portraits of individual plants to group compositions and documentary-style images that place them within their spatial context. The photographs capture urban gardens where every square meter is carefully structured through strict geometries, alongside in-between landscapes and more freely designed gardens where diverse plant communities converge. Presented in series, Kiiler’s works unfold like urban short stories or visual micro-dramas.

On 23 April at 6:00 PM, the solo exhibition of the contemporary artist Jaanika Peerna Glide through the Thaw will be opened at the ARS Project Space. The exhibition features a large-scale installation, melting ice, ink works on wax paper and a meditative space imbued with John Grzinich’s soundscape. The artist has also inspired students from the Sally Studio Art School located within the ARS Art Factory: under the guidance of Annely Köster six artworks in dialogue with the exhibition were created and will be displayed as a satellite project in the courtyard windows of the Sally Studio Art School. In the framework of the public programme, an artist talk with Jaanika Peerna and the sound artist John Grzinich will take place on 15 May at 5:00 PM, followed by their joint performance at 6:00 PM.

On Thursday, 9 April at 6:00 PM, a duo exhibition On the Verge of Completion by contemporary artists Gerda Hansen and Rebecca Norman will be opened at the Hobusepea Gallery. The end is actually an unspeakably bleak place where no clear way forward presents itself and nothing no longer seems to lie ahead. The duo exhibition by Gerda Hansen and Rebecca Norman invites the viewer to experience art not only as something definitive, but as a way of becoming. The exhibition reveals the stages of artistic practice that usually remain hidden, offering a chance to step into the moment where a work is born and where meanings have not yet settled.

On Friday, 10 April at 5:00 pm, Anna Škodenko and Maria Valdma-Härm will open their joint exhibition “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is focused on the human internal struggle to remain upright (both literally and figuratively) amid overwhelming circumstances, in which endless moral wandering exhausts, yet enforced stillness is equally impossible. In this way, we reflect our emotional landscape to the viewer through spatial experience. Wandering endlessly in a vicious circle is accompanied by self-discovery and the possibility of noticing within oneself feelings that previously remained unrecognised and ignored.

On Friday, 10 April at 6:00 PM, the joint exhibition QUINTESSENCE by the Phoenix group of women artists will open at the Vabaduse Gallery. The exhibition unites female creators from the Estonian contemporary art field to explore the deep layers of being and the sources of creative power. Artists participating in the exhibition: Marina Aleksejeva, Eve Ermann, Iris Jurma, Katrin Kaev, Kalli Kalde, Lylian Meister, Kaire Nurk, Tiiu Rebane, Anne Rudanovski, Lembe Ruben, Ülle Saatmäe, Maris Siimer, Tiina Tammetalu, Maria-Kristiina Ulas, Katrin Saag, Eveli Varik, Alide Zvorovski.   Curator and designer of the exhibition: Eveli Varik.

On Wednesday, April 1st at 6:00 PM, Line Wasner and Maarja Nurk will open the exhibition "Tree Leaf Report" at Haapsalu City Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until April 26th. Wasner and Nurk have developed an adventure story from a dendrology manual, coptic tapestries and landscape painting. A rhythmically chopped story where nothing particularly remarkable happens. The biggest events occuring are a few leaves moving in the wind and a few bushes riding by on bicycles or simply standing very still.

EARTHBOUND LOVERS x LOU: DEEP END BY LIINA LEO 28.3.-8.4.2026 Opening on 27.3. 18-20 When I first descended below 300 meters, I had trouble maintaining altitude. There was a strong wind. All of my attention went towards operating the ship. (...) I couldn't see the sun, but the fog glowed red in its direction. (...) The waves disappeared. - Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972)  Deep End is a solo exhibition by Estonian artist Liina Leo. The exhibition takes the form of a cruise ship journey, alluding to a metaphorical passage into the deeper layers of the soul. Living in the exhibition space and activating it through a series of performative actions, Leo becomes the passenger on this enigmatic voyage. The exhibition continues Leo’s exploration from her previous solo show Fortuna (2026, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn), in which she examined the characteristics of a divine force believed to govern the unpredictable turns of fate. In Deep End, the gaze turns inward, toward the tempestuous undercurrents of the mind and the desire to steer the course of one’s life.