Events

On 9 October at 4 PM, the opening of “Exhibition as Conversation” takes place at the Tartu Art House. The exhibition brings together works by five artists from Estonia and nearby countries: Kjell Caminha, Cloe Jancis, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Maarit Murka and Diana Tamane. An extensive public programme is part of the exhibition, featuring numerous dialogue partners: Grete Arro, Eva-Liisa Roht-Yilmaz, Community Development master’s students (UT), Värska Südamekodu care home residents, and many others. The exhibition is part of the satellite programme of the Tallinn Photomonth contemporary art biennial.   The common thread linking the artworks exhibited at the Tartu Art House Large Gallery and Monumental Gallery is the exploration of relevant social processes.

Anna Mari Liivrand will open her personal exhibition “Prick of a Daisy” in the Project Room of the ARS Art Factory at 6pm on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. Exhibition will be open until October 16, 2021.   “Prick of a Daisy” is an exhibition about rituals, objects, ornaments and anxieties that structure our everyday activities.   The pandemic-related quarantines have created a situation where interruptions in everyday practices make it impossible for people to define the flow of time and the emerging gaps in perceiving time cause anxiety. There is a lack of rituals that would help structuring and creating time, interpersonal relationships and perceiving daily changes. Similarly to rituals, ornaments contextualize time as well. Things embellished by ornaments are elevated to the present moment of time while revealing more complex reference systems.  

On Thursday, October 7th  at 17 in the Gallery of Physicum the exhibition of paintings by the art robot AI_NORN will be opened. The exhibition remains opened up to November 2nd and is visitable from 9 to 19 on working days. The creators of AI_NORN are Russian data scientists Nikolay Gavrilin and Anna Mischenko (Altai / Moscow). Their art robot uses for painting traditional tools such as paints, canvases, and brushes. Despite its young age (the project was started in 2019) it has already gained international attention, participating in the spring of this year in an international art fair in Dubai. The authors about their “child”:

Liivia Leškin's personal exhibition “Who's the King of the Castle?” will be open in the basement, or the belly of Draakon gallery from Monday, September 27, 2021. Exhibition has been curated by Anna Leskin De Muynck.   Liivia Leškin: “This exhibition is dedicated to Estonian men. Tiit, Tõnu, Riho, Rein, Urmas, Peeter, Toomas, Jaak, Peep, Eerik, Hannes, Aare, Avo, Ilmar, Mart, Ivo, Indrek, Raivo, Lembit, Hennes, Jaan, Mart ... To them and lots of other men who are more or less the same age as me, whom I remember from kindergarden or school. They have been good colleagues, friends, neighbours. Yet, the exhibition is also dedicated to those Estonian men whom I have never personally met, but whom I feel like I know them. Because they are my contemporaries.   PS! These names were popular back then. Sometimes there were several boys with the same name in the class. Similar list could be made also with the girls' names that were popular back then.

The group exhibition Pine-fulness is open at the City Gallery from 1 October. The exhibition deals with the relationship of Estonians with the natural environment and makes an attempt to raise awareness of the impact of today’s actions on our dream future, using bitter humour and available gestures.   The participating artists are Eike Eplik, Olimar Kallas, Reet Kasesalu, Jan Lütjohann, Mall Nukke, Hanna Samoson and Johannes Säre. The curator of the exhibition is Siim Preiman.   You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on 30 September at 6 pm.   For years there has been a public conflict in Estonia, which the media has variously dubbed “the forest dispute”, “forest polemics” and even “the forest war”.

Katrin Koskaru's personal exhibition “Engine Noise from the Sun” will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Friday, September 24th, 2021. Exhibition will be open until October 11, 2021.   „The sky above Annelinn district was thick with noise. Especially at night. The daytime sky was cheerful, full of colourful parachutes. Sports in the sky involves military objectives, and that is a well-known fact. Tu-16K, followed by Tu-22M3, Tu-4D and the colourful, bright Il-76MD. Some of the Il-76MD models were in Aeroflot's colours and armed with automatic guns, and in Aeroflot's colours, but armed with automatic guns and equipped against the ground-to-air and ground-to-air rockets. Helena? An arm's length to the right from the gray cloud! Diligent exercises for observing airplanes, considerations, considerations, diligent exercises may vastly decrease the time spent on searching for an airplane. An airplane can appear in upper layers.

On 30 September, at 18.00 the Narva Museum Art Gallery opens the exhibition “Keep ___ close to your chest“. Free transport to Narva is available – an art bus starts from Tallinn at 13.00   Programme: 13 The bus starts from Tallinn, Georg Otsa street (behind the Estonian Drama Theatre) 16 Tour at the exhibition “Portrait of an emotion” at Narva Art Residency with the curator Laura Toots (in English) 17 Tour at the art gallery’s permanent exhibition “Life or karma? Stories of Narva” with the curator Rael Artel (in Estonian, English audio-guides available; only with museum ticket 2/4 €) 18 Opening ceremony of the exhibition “Keep ___ close to your chest“ 20.30 The bus leaves for Tallinn

Sigrid Viir will open her personal exhibition “False Vacationers Workcation Travels” in Draakon gallery at 6pm on Tuesday, September 21st, 2021. Exhibition will be open until October 9, 2021.   Sigrid Viir's current exhibition False Vacationers Workcation Travels serves as a conceptual continuation of the artist's personal exhibition recently held in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) where the artist focused on the subject of blurring the borders between work and vacation in contemporary society.   The border between work and leisure time seems to become increasingly vague – this is also clearly proved by the use of the following neologisms such as workcation (also written as workation; work+vacation), bleisure (business+leisure), or bizcation (business+vacation) in English-speaking environments.

22.09.2021 – 23.10.2021 Gallery Pallas     On Wednesday, 22 September at 5 p.m. the Eighth Estonian Small-Scale Sculpture Exhibition will be opened in the Gallery Pallas alongside the Annual Exhibition of the Estonian Sculptors’ Union. The tradition of these open call group exhibitions was founded by the long-time sculpture collection registrar at the Tartu Art Museum Ahti Seppet in 1986. Therefore, the present edition also marks the 35th anniversary of the series.   Small-scale works from 53 authors with the longest side being no longer than 60 centimetres were selected through the application process. In addition to numerous works in classical materials like ceramics and bronze, the exhibition also includes various installations.

On Friday, 17. September at 6pm, an exhibition entitled “What Makes Another World Possible?” will open at Tallinn Art Hall, which looks at socially engaged art in the last decade and the role of art in social and political struggles. The exhibited works provide an overview of how art has been used as a tool for shaping society in the last decade.   Corina L. Apostol, the curator of the exhibition, remarks that when compiling the exhibition she was guided by the belief that artists contribute to some of the most crucial debates of our times and that their voices are significant in shaping society and imagining how it could be different. “The work of the artists in this exhibition brings together the various facets of art, activism and global politics,” she says.    The exhibition includes works by 14 artists or groups from Estonia and abroad: Alina Bliumis, Zach Blas, Chto Delat?, Vala T.