Events

On Friday, 16 May at 5:00 p.m., Evelyn Grzinich will open her solo exhibition “The Burrow Zone” in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition is about soil. Soil, as the living and ever-changing layer of the earth's crust, has become a poetic space for the artist. It can only be physically experienced in a very limited way, but through the imagination we are given a much wider opportunity to immerse ourselves in this complex environment.

Opening: May 17 at 15:00 at the Eduard Vilde Museum. “I look out the window, there is a fountain.. When I was on the dock some day, I laid my hand in the water with my eyes fixed on the stream, I became one with the river. When I was swimming in a lake, in the bog or the sea, it's the same. I was one with the water. But it's different from the fountain that I see. You shouldn't swim in there nor drink it either. The fountain is only for looking at.“ Participating artists: Eva Mustonen, Helena Keskküla, Liisa Mudist, (also featuring contributions from Jenny Grönholm, Ly Lestberg, and Ieva Putniņa). On Saturday, May 31 at 14:00, there's a poetry event that will take place as part of the exhibition, featuring performances by Sveta Grigorjeva, Nancy Nakamura Rap Crew, and Tõnis Vilu. Exhibition dates: May 18 – June 28, 2025. Supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

You're invited to Ingrid Helena Pajo’s exhibition “Butterfly’s flight is a meander” opening at Keskpuur on Saturday, May 10th, h 13.00. Exhibition will remain open until 7th of June and can be visited every day 9.00–15.00. Gallery is located at Keskturg hall second floor, Keldrimäe 9

From Saturday, 3 May 2025, the solo exhibition Under the Blue Sky by painter Mall Paris will be open at Vabaduse Gallery. Instead of an exhibition opening event, a meeting with the artist will take place on 23 May at 17.00. Under the Blue Sky presents Mall Paris' eponymous, minimalist and conceptual series of paintings created in recent years, which the artist regards in its entirety as a spatial installation. The artist describes the creation of her artworks as follows: I painted thinking of loved ones. Then a blue, high sky 'appeared'. – Under a blue sky. We all are under a blue sky.

16.-25.05.2025 Plat-Pelles Kulturhus (Stora Nygatan 1, Sigtuna) Opening: Friday, 16 May at 16:00-19:00 Guided tour: Saturday, 17 May at 12:00   Oher opening hours: Weekdays 16:00-19:00 Weekends 12:00-16:00   Skin is the membrane that encloses a body, a living being In the skin's tracks are the traces of time, the hand’s work, beauty and fragility Signs from the past are etched in the twists of the skin

With the exhibition “AFTERGLOW” by Mare Saare the artist looks back on her creative path and brings works from 1979 to the Järvakandi Glass Museum, aiming to explore the influences and changes on her journey from her school years to her artistic life.  Mare is known mainly for her fragile colored glass objects resembling flowers, but also for her extremely sensitive and almost imperceptible patterns and shapes engraved on black glass. The themes are usually philosophical, the observer of the abstract works of expression is left with room to form their own understandings, the titles of the works hint at the original reason for creation, but are still general enough. Art historian Heili Sõrmus has written (Sirp 27. 03. 2015): “These works are as if alive and one feels that the artist has captured a second of the bubbling process. The artworks do not seem like something that is ready. It is as if the matter is rebelling from the time of the creation of the world – something that has the potential of everything that exists, a frightening inner vitality.”

On 6 May at 6 PM, artist Jevgeni Zolotko’s curatorial debut Lilac will open at Tallinn City Gallery, bringing together lesser-known works by Jass Kaselaan, Kristjan Teder, and Eduard Wiiralt.  

Studio is a place where I go to create, an honest and raw reality, not like the space of gallery. Studio is always messy for some reason, the material world has no power there, it is forgotten or drops somewhere in the corner and stays there, unimportant. It is a place, where nobody else is looking, and there is no desire of the artist to be clearly understood, seen, or bought. A place where I go to meet the spirit, finding it, and the material world is left behind on the way. The works that appear on the walls are wishes, prayers and presence, that the rational mind hasn't subdued. A weird recognition in aspiration, that is also present in old cave paintings, that are many centuries old. Isn't the studio a cave with cave paintings, with manifestations?

On April 30, 2025, at 18.00, the solo exhibition CONTRACT by Anita Kremm, recipient of the 2024 EKA Young Artist Award, will open at Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition is curated by Ene-Liis Semper.

Peacetime Monuments 28.04.-17.05.2025 GÜ Gallery ARS Art Factory Mon-Fri kell 12-18, Sat kell 12-16