Events

Maria Erikson's personal exhibition Soft Touch on the Deckle will be opened in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Exhibition will stay open until February 4, 2023.  At her present exhibition Soft Touch on the Deckle, the artist observes her relationship with the process of graphic art, including the body of the artist and the lithographic stone. While comparing body and its surface to the one of the lithographic stone, one is looking for the parallels and contradictions. And while attributing the litographic stone the ability to memorize just like human skin, Erikson studies her personal artwork as a dialogue between two bodies – the one of the artist and the one of the lithographic stone. The contact between the two bodies results into new forms of co-existence and non-hierarchical ways of communication of the bodies through the similarities and differences. 

Taavi Rekkaro's solo exhibition thank you for everything will be opened in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022. Together with the exhibition opening there will be also a presentation of the artist book based on the current exhibition. Exhibition will be open until January 7, 2023. When a long-term relationship suddenly ends, the artist discovers himself in a complete emptiness. His partner takes all her things and when she leaves then all the meanings leave with her. Only the good-bye message "thank you for everything" left on the mirror reminds the artist of the fact that a certain world has existed somewhere at some time before. From the mirror, I am facing life that seems to have failed for good. I have studied a specialty that is now just a diploma for me and not my calling. My long-time loved one has found herself a better partner. My room is empty.

15.12.2022–09.01.2023 Opening 15.12.2022, 18.00 “I used to be so fragile… But now I am so wild. Crazy girl, do a twirl! Now I feel so much better.” In the dark, it's all a trick. And nobody knows. We are in the moment, in the moments. Our eyes throw a glance, we make you laugh, we are provocative, we dance, we drink. We pretend to have fun. We break our own hearts. And we do it again and again. Compelled by lyrics from the song Party Girl by Michelle Gurevich, Tammoja and Cox present contemporary jewellery pieces that depict, deny, define, and distort the images we hold of ourselves as women: of our vulnerabilities, of our strengths, of our fears and our desires — real or imagined. Of that girl: who you may know, who you might also be.

On Wednesday, 14.12. at 19:00 there will be a fireside chat evening between Evi Tihemets and Joonas Hellerma in the black-ceiling hall of the Writers House. During the discussion event, the large-format lithograph “Waves" printed in the 50s by Evi Tihemets will be presented in the black-ceiling hall of the Writers House within the exhibition format “One Picture Gallery”. Evi Tihemets (b. 1932 in Tapa) graduated from the Estonian National Art Institute in 1958 and then worked as a freelance artist. Tihemets has cultivated a wide variety of techniques, especially colour lithography, soft varnish and other gravure printing techniques, mixed techniques. She has created both small graphics, portraits and monumental large forms, illustrated books, and depicted both nature and industrial landscapes. Tihemets has received the Wiiralt Art Prize (2011) and the Kristjan Raua Prize (1992, 2013).

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.