Events

25.02.2023–04.06.2023   The exhibition Look at Me! Listen to Me! introduces vibrant, powerful and touching artworks of Russian-speaking female artists who live in Estonia. Even though the ten artists included in this exhibition have very different upbringings, artistic approaches and career paths, they all have three things in common: they are women, have careers in Estonia and speak Russian as one of their main languages. The artists’ own experiences and research studies of the last twenty years prove that ethnic segregation in the Estonian labour market is still strongly evident. Combined with gender stereotypes that still permeate our society and the economic instability of creative careers, this situation pushes Russian-speaking female artists at least a few, and sometimes quite many, steps backwards compared to other authors.

Valeri Vinogradov will open his solo exhibition Selected in Hobusepea gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. The exhibition will remain open until April 3rd, 2023. Additional information: Hobusepea Gallery Tel: +372 56 451 591       +372 52 85 324       +372 6 276 777 E-mail: galerii@eaa.ee Hobusepea 2, Tallinn 10133 http://galerii.eaa.ee/hobusepea Wed‒Mon 12.00‒18.00

Feministeerium and EKA Gallery invite you to the exhibition “Don't cross their boundaries!” opening on March 17 at 4 pm in the EKA lobby! Don't cross their boundaries! 17.03-25.08.2023 Opening: 17.03, 4 pm at EKA lobby EKA Billboard Gallery, Kotzebue 1 Participating artists:  Kristiina Aarna, Karola Ainsar, Katharina Grepp, Kärt Heinvere, Annika Hint & Irmeli Terras, Maria Kapajeva, Sanna Kartau, Hanna Eliise Kask, Karis Kivi, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Annemarie Maasik, Marlene, Susanna Mildeberg, Katariin Mudist, Enn Nazarov, Liisa Niit, Katerina Rothberg, Pamela Samel, Tiina Sööt, Daria Titova, Kadi Viik, Laura Vilbiks

On 9 March at 17pm two solo exhibitions will open at Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery, one of which is Maria Kapajeva’s “Loose Photos, Odds and Ends”.  

On Thursday, March 9th at 6:00 p.m., artist Gary Markle’s exhibition “Knitwork” will be opened in the HOP gallery.  With his first solo exhibition in Estonia, Markle raises questions about the future appearance of fashion and the possibility of individual expression of dress for machine-based life. The artist uses a lens of expanded fashion and speculative design in combination with craft to examine narratives of (be)longing on a post-human planet that has been left to process the residue of humanity's everyday consumptive habits.  At the center of the exhibition are three large-scale sculptural objects knit from post-consumer plastic on special wooden tools made by the artist. The knitted pieces are based on the concept of "second skin," such as clothing, architecture or environment that extends one's existence. Here Markle playfully explores the absurd notion of a humanless fashion system to challenge late capitalist consumption patterns and human-centric ideas of identity.

Maria Izabella Lehtsaar & Sarah Nõmm open their duo exhibition Beauty in the Belly of the Beast in Draakon gallery at 18:00 on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. Curators of the exhibition are Anita Kodanik and Brigit Arop. Exhibition will be open until April 1st, 2023. 

On Thursday, 23 February at 5 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 24 March!

On Thursday, 23 February at 5 p.m., Sirja-Liisa Eelma will open her solo exhibition “The Skin of Reflections” in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. This exhibition introduces Sirja-Liisa Eelma's paintings completed in 2022 and 2023. The new artworks form a continuation of Eelma's painting series Black Mirror, which was partly displayed at the exhibition of the same title by Sirja-Liisa Eelma and Tiina Sarapu in the Draakon gallery in summer 2022.

On Thursday, 16th of February at 6 pm Jüri Kask will open his solo exhibition titled "LAAMMAAL" at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 11th of March. “The word MAAL is the mirror image of LAAM. The LAAMMAAL has sharp teeth like a saw and is ready to cut. I have caught such an unattainable thing as time, a moment, a blink of an eye and I have found an elastic answer to it, which works and therefore, I can shape thoughts in the mind's eye, which could not be done without such a form. My art is characterised by grandiosity – without being overly wordy – and the need to always see and show the bigger picture to know where it fits. As an artist, I shouldn't have extraneous thoughts – those that come into my head through the ear in the way, shape and form of words. The artist's thoughts are imagined from the mind's eye and are visible instantly.”

Tallinn Art Hall will open major international exhibition Immerse! at its Lasnamäe Pavilion, introducing novel artistic perspectives. “We believe that Estonian audiences may have never seen such an exhibition before,” say the curators of the exhibition, Corina L. Apostol (Tallinn Art Hall) and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás (ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe). “Every day, billions of people alternate between being absorbed into and expelled from a digitally constructed virtual environment. Artificial environments have an enormous immersive power; people seem to live several lives at once. This is what the new exhibition tries to make sense of and reflect with the help of unprecedented artistic possibilities.”