Events

On Friday, 16 December at 6 p.m. the traditional annual exhibition of Tartu art will be opened in the Tartu Art House, designed by Enn Tegova. The selection was made by a jury consisting of Enn Tegova (chairman), Indrek Grigor, Tõnis Kriisa, Meiu Münt, Hando Tamm, Anita Trink and Martin Urb. A selection of the exhibited works is visible on the website NOBA.ac, where they can also be purchased. Altogether, 225 authors presented their works for the exhibition with 117 artists participating:

  Opening of Kursi Artists' Group XXXV birthday exhibition is on the 25th of November at 5 p.m in Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery. The colourful Kursi Artists' Group is travelling to Võru for the first time to celebrate their XXXV birthday with an exhibition. For this occasion, nine Kursi Artists' Group members and one guest artist have gathered their most interesting pieces. Several of these works have been hidden in their studios for years, but now they will meet again. Kursi Artists' Group was founded in 1988 in Tartu by Peeter Allik, Albert Gulk, Ilmar Kruusamäe and Peeter Pangsepp. Its purpose is and was to differ from Tallinn artists and artists who work with classical art in Tartu. The exhibition will show hyperrealistic, surrealistic and conceptual artworks. Kursi Artists' Group book published in 2015 will also be available at the museum. 

You are invited to the opening of Risto Tali & Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav's monumental work The Blacksmith's Fountain. In just one weeks’ time we will lower the veil on the work of art, which will adorn the campus and Viktor's Square for decades. Come and celebrate this event with us on Tuesday 15.11 at 13:00 on Viktor's Square. Please let us know if we can expect you latest by 11.11.2022 REGISTER HERE NB! This event will take place partly outdoors, please choose your clothing accordingly. Viktor's Square, Lõõtsa 1a, Tallinn

Lilian Mosolainen will open her personal exhibition Memento Vivere in Draakon gallery at 17:00 on Friday, November 18th, 2022. Exhibition will be open until December 10, 2022. 

Egle Ehtjen, Kelli Gedvil, Kristen Rästas, Sten Saarits 11.11.–11.12.2022  On Friday, 11th of November at 6pm a group exhibition by Egle Ehtjen, Kelli Gedvil, Kristen Rästas and Sten Saarits “It's Lonely in the Metaverse” will be opened at Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition remains open until 11th of December, Tue–Sun 3–6pm. A bus will go to the exhibition’s opening from Tallinn at 17:15 and will drive back to Tallinn at 21:00. Register for the bus by writing to kelli.gedvil@artun.ee

On Friday, 11 November at 6 p.m. the exhibition “To Sense the Light, You Must Close Your Eyes”, with the works of the painter Kristi Kongi and printmaker Mare Vint, opens in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. At first glance, the handwriting of these too very individual authors seems almost contradictory. Mare Vint’s metaphysical, nearly black-and-white landscapes demand that their discreet tension be quietly contemplated. Kristi Kongi, however, yanks the viewer into her endlessly colourful world, where deep dark tonal gradients are interspersed with pastel variations and, by including the space surrounding the works of art, she emphasises the comprehensive nature of her oeuvre.

On Friday, 11 November at 6 p.m. Kersti Rattus opens her solo exhibition “A Garden of Change” in the small gallery of Tartu Art House. The exhibition is an insight into the artist’s recent explorations and an overview of the path the artist has taken in her career. The works in the exhibition are in one way or another dedicated to the life of plants. Among the new works, however, there is also a painting from an earlier time, when human relationships seemed to determine the entire existence, and a textile print recalling the long-ago times.

On Friday, 11 November at 6 p.m. Erik Alalooga opens his solo exhibition “Liberated Machines” in the monumental gallery of Tartu Art House. The artist invites everyone to bathe in an undulating sound array because the monumental gallery is filled with acoustic machines. Large and small, acoustic and amplified, soft and aggressive, fast and slow objects allow you to experience different sound patterns in an unlimited range of combinations.

“Is There Hope For Lovely Creatures?”, asks the opening exhibition of Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion, which focuses on the inner world of women, the most fragile yet bravest members of society.

Kaisa Maasik’s new solo exhibition The Human Sponge in the Age of Screens is open from Thursday, November 3 at the ARS Showroom Gallery. The new project dealing with the susceptibility of children and the way kids mimic everything they see and hear, brings together video footage filmed by kids themselves. The exhibition will remain open until November 29. Something that the gathered material has in common is its influences from mass media, the mainstream film and music industry. From the 2000’s onwards, filming equipment like video, web, digital and phone cameras became more affordable. Ever since then, kids have had a way to record different re-enactments of what they see on screens. The artist adds: “The endless creativity, sincerity and enthusiasm of the children in the work is amazing, but it’s clouded by the violence in most of the scenes. When mirroring their surroundings, kids have a way of showing us what society is like in general.”