Events

On Friday, 30 June at 5:00 p.m. the Kursi School artists’ group will open its 35th anniversary exhibition in the Tartu Art House. The Kursi School was established in spring 1988. The artists’ group was founded by Albert Gulk, Peeter Allik, Ilmar Kruusamäe and Priit Pangsepp. Over the years, Marko Mäetamm, Reiu Tüür, Imat Suumann, Külli Suitso and Priit Pajos have also joined. With its 35 years of activity, it is one of the oldest active artist groups in Estonia. A common feature of the work of the school's artists is an interest in people and their activity and living areas, and they deal with these in realistic, surreal and often grotesque creative ways.

On Friday, 30 June at 5:00 p.m. the group exhibition “Through fog and stones”, with works by Katarina Kruus, Liina Leo, Eugenio Marini and Ingrid Helena Pajo, will open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. In the exhibition, the artists will regather to weave their creative journeys into one living and breathing organism. As a follow-up to the exhibition projects “Roaming” (ARS Kunstilinnak, 2022) and “DOKKING Station” (Vent Space, 2021), this joint project is reaching into blurred intervals, into the mist.

The 23rd annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association can be viewed until 22 June at Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion. The audience’s favourite artwork will be announced on 21 June at 6 p.m. Entrance to the exhibition is free and everyone is welcome!   Choosing the audience favourite has become a tradition at the Spring Exhibition. Visitors can vote for their favourite until 17 June. Art patrons Tiit Pruuli, Jaan Manitski, Riivo Anton, Aivar Berzin and Rain Tamm have put forward a prize of 6,000 euros for the winner of the audience vote, which will be presented at the award ceremony.   A gift voucher of 500 euros for the NOBA art environment will be drawn from among all the voters. The winner will be also announced at the award ceremony. This year’s winner of the audience award will have the opportunity to exhibit their works in a solo exhibition at the ArtDepoo Gallery.  

Join us for the TASE '23 guided tours on June 15 and 16!  You will be guided through topics like mixed media, neomaterialism, AI, LGBT+, mental health, post-internet aesthetics, sustainability and our shared future. Guided tour by Anna-Liisa Villmann 15.06 at 15.00 in English Starts in front of Tallinn Art Hall Architecture TASE Guided tour by Gregor Taul at EKA 16.06 at 12.00 in English Starts at the EKA lobby, Põhja pst 7

The conference “Artistic Originality in the Age of AI” will take place Estonian Academy of Arts on June 15th, from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. The conference discusses historical and contemporary issues of originality and artistic innovation in the age of artificial intelligence. The main topic is to explore originality and novelty in art in a situation where creators are surrounded by a visually oversaturated environment; where creators have technology at their disposal that allows them to easily copy, modify and distribute their art; where professional (art-educated) creators have to compete with visually untrained creators; where digital technology participates not only as an aid and instrument of creation but with the example of artificial intelligence programs tend to question the author’s visual ability.

Helena Keskküla, Jihye Rhii & Alice Slyngstad will open their group exhibition salty ember normal smoulder in Draakon gallery at 17:00 on Friday, June 16th, 2023. Exhibition will be open until July 8th, 2023.  She brought her friends along to show where L. dropped it and sat down to cry afterwards.  Her tears were salty, but the lake was not. Many many years ago an airplane landed there as well.  Winking with long eyelashes, he said he was a mouth breather. In between the hairs there are complex congregations of information. 

On Friday, June 16 at 18:00 we celebrate the opening of a group exhibition When time no longer flows, it wells up and pools without a rim curated by Mariliis Rebane. The exhibition connects artworks by Diego Bruno, Freja Bäckman, Piibe Kolka, Kaarina-Sirkku Kurz, and Ingel Vaikla into a loosely associated constellation. As the title suggests, the exhibition is an invitation to engage with ideas that view time as a stretched out continuous present. In their subject matter, the exhibited works spread in various directions as they transcend a single current and approach an array of contemporary concerns. Although the time-based works do not explicitly deal with the question of time, their mediums—video, photography and sound, amongst others—capture some of the ways in which time is currently seen, experienced, and conceptualised. The curatorial aim of the exhibition has been to complicate the division between past and present, as well as old and new. This is attempted, for example, through questioning and re-evaluating ideas around progress and linear narratives.

We kindly invite you to the opening of international graphics festival PRINTMAKING IN, which will offer an intense programme of art. Performance of legendary group of international artists NON GRATA will take place as part of the opening programme, participating Dr. Kontra, Morgan Schagerberg and Kate Seržāne. Performance Workshop FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/281499364312286

On June 14, the Estonian Center of Contemporary Art hands its video archive over to deposit it in the the Film Archive of the Estonian National Archive with the aim of securing its preservation, the visibility and accessibility of artists’ video work. Please RSVP here. The celebration of the handover of the video archive is introduced by the video work “The Bridge” by artist Tõnis Jürgens. The work can be seen on Monday, June 12, every full hour on the large-scale screens on Freedom Square and the Nordic Hotel Forum. Jürgens’ work is based on the audiovisual archival materials of film director Marko Raat.

Amy Boulton, Keiu Maasik, Kelli Gedvil & Natalia Wójcik, Kertu Rannula  07.06.2023-08.08.2023 www.post-gallery.online enter the exhibition The exhibition deals with the transformations and symbiosis that happen between the invisible walls in the virtual and real world. An invisible wall is a boundary in a video game that limits where a player can go. If a character passes through that wall, they may enter an area of the map which was not intended to be entered. They might step into an endless space which contains nothing at all.