Events

On Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m., Laura De Jaeger's solo exhibition Box Seats. Ridadevaheline opens in Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition will remain open until April 15, 2024.  Box Seats. Ridadevaheline brings together remnants of former shows - with attention to things that are tucked away yet held on to. Picking up the role of an indecisive detective, De Jaeger interrogates these objects-in-rest as vessels and fictional catalysts that must contain a multitude of narratives. 

MARGUS Sorge TIITSMAA „Dedictated to” MAURI GROSS „Carte Blanche” KARL-KRISTJAN NAGEL „Accordion” RÜHMITUS VEDELIK „Cabinet Fluid” Curated by: Taave Tuutma March 11 – April 7, 2024 Metropol Staircase, Metropol 6 m2, Metropol Shop and Metropol Cabinet Vana-Kalamaja 46, Tallinn

On 16 March, Tartu Art Museum will open the seventh exhibition of the Tartu 88 series Initiative from Below. Estonian Caricatures in the 1980s offers a cultural-historical perspective on one of the most controversial aspects of life during the Soviet era: humour. In 1986, the Tartu Art Museum hosted an exhibition in its premises on Vallikraavi Street, featuring cartoonists who had come together under the name Tallinnfilm Surrealists. This exhibition, which garnered 15,312 visitors, is likely the most popular project in the history of the Tartu Art Museum.  During the same period, the circulation of the humour magazine Pikker reached 70,000 copies. Herilane / The Wasp, the satire section of the newspaper Edasi, was read by 80% of the paper’s readers. There was an insatiable hunger for humour.

On Friday, 8 March at 6 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 5 April! Fifty works were selected for the exhibition. Participating artists are:

The new exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion, Song of Songs by Raul Meel and Krzysztof Piętka, intertwines images, words and sounds into a whole that is – like life around us – horrifying and sublime at the same time. The curator of the exhibition is Tamara Luuk. You are kindly invited to the opening of the exhibition on 8 March at 5 pm. How could Song of Songs not touch the bright side of being human? After all, it is one of the most beautiful biblical texts about love? It couldn’t, indeed – despite the fact that our time adds its unpredictable alternation of hot and cold to our tender feelings, and the melodies of our songs cannot escape darkness.

Dear friend! Join us as we celebrate my 65th year of life. Years come and go, and with them worries and joys. Together we´ve gone through mill, we´ve laughed, we´ve cried. Now it´s time to reminisce over it all. Yours truly Aunt Õie “Aunt Õie's 65th Birthday” is an existential-dystopian comedy in one act. It takes place in an installational, two-floor living space. The audience arrives at the party, Õie's apartment is cramped, but the more the merrier. Let's celebrate the years we lived together, let's look at the pains of the past and the being of the present. As the quote goes: youth is a beautiful time, youth never comes back!

On Friday, 1 March at 5 p.m. Liivia Leškin opens her solo exhibition Closer, Much Closer at Vabaduse Gallery displaying her new paintings. The exhibition will remain open until 27 March 2024. Liivia Leškin: „I think, considering the viewer, the most just form of expression is abstract art. Without formulating one’s emotions, premonitions, fears and all the rest that takes place in the subconscious. It leaves the door open for both a shared experience as well as an entirely personal perception. If a line or colour conveys an honest emotion and directs the viewer towards a certain path, then it is already good. Here lies the justification for the fact that my work is rooted in myself. What is going on around us today is brutal and full of the unexpected. But we can allow ourselves to spend time in art, in nature. It does not serve only as a consolation, it is more akin to love.“

Join us for the opening of the group exhibition “Gentle Gestures of Self” at EKA Gallery on March 7th at 6 pm! The exhibitions at EKA Gallery are now also open on Sundays! The exhibition remains open until March 31. The group exhibition "Gentle Gestures of Self" brings together a selection of contemporary self-portraits. The paintings and photographs primarily depict the faces and hands of the artists, pointing at the emotions brought out by their facial expressions and gestures.

On Friday, 1st of March at 6 pm Urmas Viik will open his solo exhibition titled “Megaflowers” at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 30th of March. The primary sources of inspiration for this exhibition are botanical engravings of the XIX century as well as medieval fantasy travelogues. The pivotal themes have transformed during the process, fragmented and branched into different directions, changed emphasis and reached a combination that is difficult to define with any certainty.

On Thursday, February 29th, Kärt Hammer will open her solo show, titled “Dirty White”, at Tütar gallery. Her exhibition project delves into the intimate interplay between the divine and the secular within earthly realms. Hammer examines humanity's yearning for morality and purity, embodying her thoughts with expressive impact through the concept of "Dirty White." Her artworks lead the viewer on a poetic journey of contemplation, moving away from over-explanation and rigid definitions of art, towards semi-divine concepts, shedding the weight of excessive explication and definition. Kärt Hammer (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist whose main focus of creative self-expression is abstract painting and drawing, but whose activity also extends to the field of installation, photography and fashion. Hammer's method is intuitive. The artist searches for intensities of pure aesthetics that are both aesthetic and psychological.