Events

On Friday, 11 April at 5 p.m., Ivar Veermäe will open his solo exhibition “Sun-kissed” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition focuses on techno-utopian ideas, according to which humans could, theoretically, control the global climate system. By spraying large quantities of aerosols into the stratosphere it should be possible to mimic the activity of volcanoes and thereby reduce climate warming by reflecting some solar energy back into space. Artist has broken down such proposals into parts, then expanded them and worked with the locations and processes referred to in them: the stratosphere, volcanic areas in southern Italy, and biological and technical systems.

ARS Showroom Gallery 3.04.–2.05.2025 Mon–Fri 12–18 thus, thinking of Lilith and Eve and Medusa and Cassandra, and those expected to be quieter, and those whose singing goes unnoticed

HAMMER/SOOME “HOLY DINNER” 09.04–03.05.2025 Pärnu City Gallery’s Artists’ House On Friday, April 11th at 4:00 PM, an exhibition by Kärt Hammer and Patrick Soome titled “HOLY DINNER” will be opened at Pärnu City Gallery’s Artists' House. You are welcome to attend!

On Friday, 4 April at 5.00 p.m. the painter Leho Rubis will open his solo exhibition Poetic Inner Landscapes at Vabaduse Gallery. The exhibition follows the author’s creative path examining the relationships between consciousness, text and perceptual fields, based on Aldous Huxley’s essay The Doors of Perception (1954). The nature of consciousness, its emergence and relationship with perceptual fields are among the last questions science hasn’t been able to resolve. But a poetical answer can be found. And this is what the current exhibition sets out to do by using the works of various Estonian poets, artists, musicians and a few other undercurrents as source material... Static figures melting into landscape and text, dissolving the boundaries between consciousness and perceptual fields.

Artworks of the 9th Artishok Biennial Siesta are open and 100 art critical texts published!  Until 20 April, the 9th Artishok Biennial’s artworks can be visited in various public locations in Tallinn. Texts written by ten authors about ten pieces can be found on the biennial’s website. 

Al Paldrok, “Mental Diversion” Opening 03.04.2025 at 17.45 03.04.–26.04.2025 The works exhibited in the exhibition have been started since 1990 and will be completed in 2025. Despite the time window of activity, the exhibition is exceptionally topical in terms of the author's creative thinking, special situations require extraordinary measures. The works have acquired their relevance precisely now, when reality has caught up with the artistic vision of years ago. Large-scale graphic works contain recognizable names, places and messages, three-dimensional military compositions take us to the theater of war, video works from the last banned street performances in China and from the coronation celebrations of the new American president in Manhattan, New York.

The morning sun reverberated from the bronze sword. There was no longer even a vestige of blood. "Would you believe it, Ariadne?" said Theseus. "The Minotaur scarcely defended himself." - The House of Asterion, Jorge Luis Borges, 1964. (From Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings) On the 3rd of April at 6pm, Hobusepea gallery will open Zody Burke's solo exhibition “The House of Asterion”. A live performance will take place at 7pm by experimental musician & performance artist Nick Klein (US/DE).

19th Tallinn Print Triennial will take place on 21.06.—31.08.2025 at Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe pavillion. Curator: Marika Agu The exhibition  focuses on the art medium of printmaking through the lens of media archeology. This exhibition focuses on the culture of memory: the means through which information and knowledge are stored, marking different technological stages - from the impulse to leave a trace to the information glut and the resistance to produce it. The Triennial continues its traditional role as an innovator in the field of graphic arts, critically analysing developments in the visual arts and visual culture in the local art field.  Tallinn Print Triennial will culminate on 29 August 2025 at Lindakivi Cultural Centre with a closing event featuring experimental time-based works in sound, spoken word, and video art.

On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 18:00, Tiiu Kirsipuu will open her solo exhibition Dream at Draakon Gallery. The exhibition will be open until April 26, 2025. Tiiu Kirsipuu: "Sleep is as essential to human existence as sustenance. It is a time of rest and renewal, but also a time to communicate with our subconscious. Dreams unfold in phases, yet the transitional state between sleep and wakefulness is particularly compelling – a space-time where one veil is lifted while another has yet to descend. At that moment, perception shifts, boundaries blur, and alternate realities intertwine. In this threshold state, half-dreaming, one tunes into the source of creativity – this is the time for shamans to journey. The dream world often feels as real as the one we experience when awake. Whether illusion or reality, dreams have many faces.” Most of the works were created in 2025, and the exhibition is accompanied by a soundscape.

On Friday, 21st of March at 6 pm opens a group exhibition titled "DIRTY SNOW" by Rühm T’s artists Raoul Kurvitz, Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere, curated by Eha Komissarov at Vaal Gallery. The band Raoul Kurvitz & The Republic of Zone will perform at the exhibition's opening event. The exhibition will remain open until 19th of April. On Friday, 27th of April 1990, an unusual crowd could be seen in the evening hours on Väike-Karja street trying to enter a large building from one of the narrow doors. Until then this part of the building had not yet found use, but now it hosted an opening of an art gallery... Estonia's first privately owned art gallery, VAAL, presented itself with its white rooms, lighting imported from Finland, and opening the first exhibition: artist group titled Rühm T presented artworks by its three leading artists, Raoul Kurvitz, Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere.