Events

Annual exhibition of the Estonian Painters Association at MONA the New Museum of Art 6.04.-26.05.2024

On Thursday, 28 March at 6 p.m. Raul Meel, one of the living classics of Estonian art, opens his solo exhibition Letters from Estonian Songbirds at Vabaduse Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 24 April 2024. Since the late 1960s, Meel started to write poetry text-pictures (a term coined by the artist himself) using the sounds made by various Estonian birds. Combining concrete poetry, visual poetry and sound poetry, Meel has transcribed birdsong and presented them as systematic series characteristic to his work. To create his visual and vocal poetry, the artist has turned to the descriptions, transcriptions and hearings of bird sounds. In addition to the information found in ornithological handbooks, he has reminisced what he himself had noticed, seen, heard, experienced and reflected upon, while in nature.

23.03.–23.05.2024 Exhibition “The Magic of Beauty”, Eduard Zentsik Opening 23.03 at 17.00 Ajamaja Gallery, Tallinna 16, Kuressaare, Estonia https://www.facebook.com/events/404201708883500/?ref=newsfeed Welcome to the opening of a unique exhibition. We present to you an exposition titled “The Magic of Beauty” by the artist Eduard Zentsik. Beauty is something infinite and boundless! It is embodied in the eternity of harmony. The author conveys profound messages through images of femininity and mystery, enveloped in magic, symbolism, and mysticism. Meanwhile, modernity adds relevance and interest to this unique combination.

We welcome you to the opening of Ivar Veermäe's solo exhibition A Little Less Blue Skies, A Little More Red Sunsets at Draakon gallery on Wednesday, March 20 at 18.00. The exhibition will remain open until April 13, 2024.  The 1992 eruption of the Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines reduced the global average temperature by 0.4°C for approximately one year. This happened due to sulfur particles thrown into the stratosphere, which reflected 10% of the sun's radiation back into outer space.

On Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m., Laura De Jaeger's solo exhibition Box Seats. Ridadevaheline opens in Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition will remain open until April 15, 2024.  Box Seats. Ridadevaheline brings together remnants of former shows - with attention to things that are tucked away yet held on to. Picking up the role of an indecisive detective, De Jaeger interrogates these objects-in-rest as vessels and fictional catalysts that must contain a multitude of narratives. 

MARGUS Sorge TIITSMAA „Dedictated to” MAURI GROSS „Carte Blanche” KARL-KRISTJAN NAGEL „Accordion” RÜHMITUS VEDELIK „Cabinet Fluid” Curated by: Taave Tuutma March 11 – April 7, 2024 Metropol Staircase, Metropol 6 m2, Metropol Shop and Metropol Cabinet Vana-Kalamaja 46, Tallinn

On 16 March, Tartu Art Museum will open the seventh exhibition of the Tartu 88 series Initiative from Below. Estonian Caricatures in the 1980s offers a cultural-historical perspective on one of the most controversial aspects of life during the Soviet era: humour. In 1986, the Tartu Art Museum hosted an exhibition in its premises on Vallikraavi Street, featuring cartoonists who had come together under the name Tallinnfilm Surrealists. This exhibition, which garnered 15,312 visitors, is likely the most popular project in the history of the Tartu Art Museum.  During the same period, the circulation of the humour magazine Pikker reached 70,000 copies. Herilane / The Wasp, the satire section of the newspaper Edasi, was read by 80% of the paper’s readers. There was an insatiable hunger for humour.

On Friday, 8 March at 6 p.m., the exhibition of this year’s Tartu Art Auction will open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The auction is being organised by the Tartu Artists’ Union in co-operation with the Art & Tonic gallery. The auction itself will take place on 5 April! Fifty works were selected for the exhibition. Participating artists are:

The new exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion, Song of Songs by Raul Meel and Krzysztof Piętka, intertwines images, words and sounds into a whole that is – like life around us – horrifying and sublime at the same time. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk. You are kindly invited to the opening of the exhibition on 8 March at 5 pm. How could Song of Songs not touch the bright side of being human? After all, it is one of the most beautiful biblical texts about love? It couldn’t, indeed – despite the fact that our time adds its unpredictable alternation of hot and cold to our tender feelings, and the melodies of our songs cannot escape darkness.

Dear friend! Join us as we celebrate my 65th year of life. Years come and go, and with them worries and joys. Together we´ve gone through mill, we´ve laughed, we´ve cried. Now it´s time to reminisce over it all. Yours truly Aunt Õie “Aunt Õie's 65th Birthday” is an existential-dystopian comedy in one act. It takes place in an installational, two-floor living space. The audience arrives at the party, Õie's apartment is cramped, but the more the merrier. Let's celebrate the years we lived together, let's look at the pains of the past and the being of the present. As the quote goes: youth is a beautiful time, youth never comes back!