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New exhibition is 'ksk'ik' for Estonian artist Marta Vaarik
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (108+ words) Tuesday evening saw the opening of an exhibition of work from artist Marta Vaarik at Tallinn's Artrovert Gallery. Titled "1k'ik," the exhibition's name is a play on words: "ksk'ik," which loosely ranslated means "whatever" or "one or the other," when…...
Expat women in Estonia share experiences through museum exhibition
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (330+ words) Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device, when visiting our website. Our website uses different types of cookies: If you would like to accept the use of cookies and use the website fully, please click…...
Gallery: Danish photographer's exhibition showcases creativity of moisture | News | ERR
2+ week, 1+ day ago (167+ words) The exhibition's title draws on a thought by 19th century Edinburgh novelist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894): "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." The question of the stranger shifts from the subject depicted…...
'So where are the children?' An interview with painter Merike Estna
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1819+ words) Estonian artist Merike Estna, selected in the fall of 2024 to represent Estonia at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, discusses her upcoming monumental exhibition, her pursuit of painting and parenthood. Seven years ago, Estna was preparing her solo exhibition "The Ghost of…...
Gallery: NYC, Stockholm artists probe how history is staged in Tallinn show
3+ week, 6+ day ago (117+ words) Tallinn-based New York native Zody Burke and Stockholm's Klara Zetterholm have teamed up for a joint exhibition in Tallinn examining how history is staged and reimagined. "Ersatz Strata," which opened at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery on Thursday, draws on the visual…...
Gallery: Finnish street artist EGS opens Estonian-inspired exhibition
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (261+ words) An exhibition by Finnish street artist EGS opened at the Tallinn Poco pop art museum, where the artist highlights works created in Estonia over decades and reveals his personal connection to Tallinn's fading industrial landscape. The exhibition brings together new…...
Estonian refugee artist Karin Luts' travel-inspired works on view
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (288+ words) At Tallinn's Kumu Art Museum, "Pictures from Travels" showcases travel-inspired watercolors and drawings by Karin Luts, a leading Estonian artist of the 20th century. An expansion on the Tartu Art Museum show by the same name, the retrospective at Kumu features…...
Latvian photographer Inka Ruta's new exhibition opens at Fotografiska Saturday
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (150+ words) The series"My Country People"was created over the course of two decades in Balvi, a rural region of Latvia near the Russian border and the hometown of Ruka's mother. Ruka began visiting the area in the early 1980s and gradually…...
Meet Estonia's lighthouse postage stamp artist
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (338+ words) Estonians take pride in the dozens of lighthouses that dot the country's long coastline, a noted postage stamp artist noted. Roman Matkiewicz has been creating designs of Estonian lighthouses for official Eesti Post stamps for the past 30 years, and told…...
Gallery: Estonian photo center opens two documentary exhibitions in Romania
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (110+ words) The Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Center opened two exhibitions this weekend at Bucharest Photofest, spotlighting Estonian and international documentary photography. First presented in Tallinn in 2023, the exhibition, conceived by Kristel Aimee Laur and co-curated with Toomas J'rvet, explores the relationship…...