Exhibitions

Sõprus cinema 06.06. at 5–7 pm

Free entry

Join us at the screening of bachelor’s and master’s theses in animation of the Estonian Academy of Arts, which will take place on June 6 at 5 pm at the Sõprus cinema. The screening is free of charge.

Afterwards there will be a Q&A with the authors at EKA campus, Põhja pst 7.
The screening will take place within the framework of the EKA thesis festival TASE ’26. TASE is the Estonian Academy of Arts’ annual graduation theses festival, where the faculties of architecture, design, art culture and liberal arts present this year’s graduation theses at both bachelor’s and master’s levels. The TASE festival is growing every year, and this year we will present nearly 280 works to visitors.

Check out the TASE ’26 program and list of graduates on the website tase.artun.ee. The written parts of the graduation theses can be viewed in the EKA Digital Archive at eka.access.preservica.com.

Participants: Christopher Galinos, Karmen Müürsoo
Kadi Rebane, Viktoria Shmidt, Chia-Hui Lei, Vilmos Péter, Valerie Sarle, Fernanda Resende
TASE Anima organisers: Lyza Karoly Jarvis, Lilli-Krõõt Repnau
Graphic design: Grittel Kastan, Martin Kislõi, Richard Vainola
Visuals: Christopher Galinos

Welcoming drinks from Punch Club.

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TASE DAY on Saturday, June 6th:

1–9 pm TASE exhibition open
1–3 pm guided tours of the Faculty of Design, in Estonian
3–3.30pm guided tours of the Faculty of Art and Culture, in Estonian
3–6 pm burning ritual at Kail Timusk’s installation “Requiem Larium” on the sea terrace of the main building
3.45–4.30pm Jaak Juske’s historical tour around EKA, in Estonian
5 pm TASE Anima ’26 screening at the cinema Sõprus
7 pm TASE Anima ’26 Q&A in the lobby of the main building of the Estonian Academy of
Arts, moderated by Lyza Karoly Jarvis and Kaur Järve, in English

Keithy Kuuspu’s durational performance in the yard of Kotzebue 4

– “Indirect Performativity” on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 pm

Burning rituals at Kail Timusk’s installation “Requiem Larium” on the sea terrace of the main building of EKA

– Sat 6.06 at 3–6 pm
– Sun 14.06 at 4–7 pm
– Fri 19.06 at 1–4 pm

Margaret Tilk’s study club “Girls, In Theory”

Tuesday, June 9 at 6 pm at EKA Gallery, with pre-registration, in Estonian

GUIDED TOURS

All tours start in the lobby of the EKA main building and participation is free of charge.

Historical tour

Saturday, June 6 at 3.45–4.30 pm historical tour around EKA, led by Jaak Juske, in Estonian, donations are welcome

Guided tours of the Faculty of Architecture

– Thursday, June 11 at 2–3 pm guided tour of the Department of Interior Architecture led by Gregor Taul, in Estonian
– Thursday, June 11 at 3.30–5 pm guided tour of the Departments of Architecture and Urbanism led by Roland Reemaa, in Estonian
– Monday, June 15 at 5–6 pm guided tour of the Faculty of Architecture led by Sille Pihlak, in Estonian
– Tuesday, June 16 at 1–2 pm guided tour of the Department of Interior Architecture led by students of the faculty, in Estonian

Guided tours of the Faculty of Design

– Saturday, June 6 at 1–3 pm, guided tour by Kätlin Leokin and students of the faculty, in Estonian
– Sunday, June 14 at 1–3 pm, guided tour by Kätlin Leokin and students of the faculty, in Estonian

Guided tours of the Faculty of Arts and Culture

– Saturday, June 6 at 3–3.30 pm, guided tour by Valve Saarma, in Estonian
– Sunday, June 14 at 3–3.30 pm, guided tour by Valve Saarma, in Estonian

Guided tour of the Faculty of Fine Arts

– Sunday, June 14 at 4–5 pm, guided tour by Elo Vahtrik, in Estonian

More info at: https://tase.artun.ee/

Being / Becoming
Põhjala tehas, Marati 5-3, 2nd floor
Exhibition open June 4–14, everyday 11:00–19:00
Opening: Wednesday, June 3, 18:00

From materials to maker,
from environment to mind.
Through the fingertips into an object,
which then finds its way back to the environment again.

The practice of craft is one of interconnection: between material and body, environment and society, thought and action. Craft extends beyond the production of a physical object – it shapes the ways we relate to the world around us and to one another.

The exhibition Being / Becoming presents works by the first year students of the Craft Studies MA program. Developed alongside one another over the past year, the works emerge through conversations between materials and makers, processes and practices, experiments and outcomes – shaped through sharing spaces of making, thinking and exchange.

Being is existing in the same space with others. Becoming is an endless process of change until we decide to lay a pause on it.

Participating:
Astrid Davis
Þórey Björk Halldórsdóttir
Carmen Kremm
Anna Larionova
Athaly Lens
Marco Manfredino
Teresa RA
Anna-Maria Saar
Kay Shek
Laura-Maria Vahimets

In curatorial dialogue with: Anu Vahtra
Graphic design: Andrew Kuus-Hill & Linda Morel

Thank you: Juss Heinsalu, Kärt Ojavee, Põhjala tehas
Supporters: Craft Studies, Estonian Academy of Arts, Punch Club OÜ

29.05–16.08.2026
Maria Kapajeva. I Am A Border
Curator: Siim Preiman, Exhibition designer: Anu Vahtra

Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva will open her largest solo exhibition to date at the Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion on 28 May at 6 pm. Titled I Am a Border, the exhibition brings together 16 works created between 2014 and 2026, many of them produced specifically for this show. Admission is free.

The exhibition is the culmination of more than a decade of artistic research into the border as a geographical, bodily, and emotional phenomenon.

Its point of departure is the region beyond Narva, Narvataguse – the former homeland of the artist’s paternal family, now located within the Russian border zone and inaccessible to the family today. Through photographs, video works, installations, and textiles, Kapajeva approaches borderliness not as a fixed place, but as a continuous state of transition – never fully one thing, never fully becoming the other.

The works intertwine the Narva River, the post-operative body, family archives, a disappearing language, and disrupted connections to landscape and heritage. One of the exhibition’s central works, Four Generations Later, features the artist’s relatives reading dialect texts from the Narvataguse region recorded in 1947 – a language that has become partly incomprehensible even to younger Russian-speaking generations.
The installations incorporate materials such as maps from the family archive, diary entries by Kapajeva’s father, a family tree drawn by a geneticist, and a blanket that once belonged to the artist’s grandmother. Several works also explore the fluidity of the body and identity, connecting queer perspectives with ecology and border landscapes.

“What moves me in Maria Kapajeva’s work is her ability to speak about identity without simplifying it. Her works hold vulnerability, the weight of history, and a deeply personal clarity all at once,” said the exhibition’s curator Siim Preiman. “Every day I see how nationalism is often something that divides rather than unites us.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a diverse public programme:

• 30 May at 2 pm – curator’s tour with Siim Preiman
• 17 June at 5 pm – artist’s tour with Maria Kapajeva
• In July, Maria Kapajeva and Anton Küünal will host a joint event exploring the intersections of plants, ecology, and queer perspectives (date to be confirmed)
• 9 August – a collective textile workshop titled Queering and Sewing Together
• On the exhibition’s final day, 16 August, there will be an artist’s tour followed by a communal cooking event in the Korr-korr (Borborygmus) series, where the exhibition team and visitors will prepare and share food together.

Maria Kapajeva is an artist whose work explores questions of identity and gender, with a particular focus on in-between and transitional states. Her works are included in several museum collections, including the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tartu Art Museum. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is one of the recipients of the Estonian state artist’s salary.

When you think of the Nordic and Baltic regions, your first associations might be trolls and Vikings, the midnight sun and polar nights, saunas and ice swimming, hygge and fika, Nokia and IKEA. Maybe you have also heard about their excellent school systems and strong social welfare models. But what is behind these myths? 16 comic artists from across the Nordics and Baltics created works that reflect their unique perspectives on life in the region.

Participating artists: Akvile Magicdusté (Lithuania), Cecilia Vårhed (Sweden), Clara Jetsmark (Denmark), Disa Wallander (Sweden), Elín Elísabet (Iceland), Emmi Valve (Finland), Ida Neverdahl (Norway), Joonas Sildre (Estonia), Jurijs Tatarkins (Latvia), Laura Ķeniņš (Canada), Liisa Kruusmägi (Estonia), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Ona Kvašytė (Lithuania), Søren Glosimodt Mosdal (Denmark), Tim Ng Tvedt (Norway), Tommi Musturi (Finland). Curator: David Schilter.

Along with the exhibition comes the publication Baltic Comics Magazine š! #57 ”Mythbústers,” which collects these stories and gets distributed worldwide.

Organized by Kuš! in collaboration with Nordic Council of Minister’s Offices in Latvia and Estonia.

Supported by Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation, Nordic Council of Minister’s Offices in Latvia and Estonia, Danish Cultural Institute and Embassy of Sweden in Riga.

On May 23 at 1:30 PM the 2nd year glass and ceramics department students of EKA will open their exhibition Same Time Same Place in the Viinistu`s Barrel Gallery.

In a time marked by tension, acceleration and fragile boundaries, this exhibition gathers works that linger in the space between presence and relation. Created by 12 student artists from the glass and ceramics departments of EKA, the exhibition unfolds as a series of quiet negotiations between materials, bodies, and ways of being that do not always easily align.

Rather than offering a unified perspective, it brings together distinct, sometimes conflicting approaches. The works explore connection as a process: we leave traces, we transform, inevitably and continuously, both intentionally and unintentionally. In this, there are tensions and collisions, moments of conflict, and recurring attempts to foster peace.

The exhibition attends to the conditions under which beings share space. Proximity does not guarantee understanding; contact does not ensure unity. Instead, the works move through closeness, tension, dependence, and care, questioning what it means to coexist. Symbiosis is more than living side by side, just as parasitism speaks to forms of reliance and imbalance.
Co-existence emerges here as a kind of chemistry — a dissolving you and an insoluble me, and vice versa. Together, the works ask what it means to exist alongside difference without dissolving it.

Works by: Antigone Doron-Sornin, Lee Saarepera, Maria Ivanova, Karl Otti, Daniela Treviño, Martin Kõiv, Stina Preiman, Kirke Vahar, Una Poriete, Olivia Jegorov, Ellen Schleyer, Helen Vinogradov

Advisors: Kaja Altvee, Kateriin Rikken 

The exhibition will remain open until June 11th.

Opening times:
 
Until May 31: Fri-Sun 11-18
From June 1: Mon-Sun 11–18

Supported by: Viinistu Art Harbour, Lexplast, EKA Student Council, Põhjala, Peetri Lõheäri, High Voltage, Capra Saun, Käbliku, Coca Cola, Juhan Kivitoa 

Everyone’s warmly invited to Master’s thesis presentations by EKA Urban Studies students.

May 25, 2026, 09:30

EKA, A-501

09:30–10:20 Melissa Lee

The Uneven Grounds of Publicness: Community and Control in Singapore’s Void Decks

10:20–11:10 Maria Kazlovskaya

Making Space, Finding Meaning: Youth and the Use of Urban Space in Tallinn, Estonia11:20–12:10 Adeolu Jeremiah Afolabi

Island Urbanism: Power and Spaces of Exceptions

12:10–13:00 Annabel Pops
The Startup City: Entrepreneurial Governance and Growth-Oriented Planning in Contemporary Northern Tallinn

14:00–14:50 Laman Mammadli

Green Displacement: Phased Construction of Baku Central Park and its Impact on the Sovetsky and Bayırşəhər Neighbourhoods (Baku, Azerbaijan)

14:50–15:40 Marta Bodnar

Grassroots Memorial at Maidan Nezalezhnosti at the Crossroads: Documenting the History of Now and the Risk of Institutionalisation

15:40–16:30 Yiğithan Akçay
It Doesn’t Disappear, It Moves: European Plastic Waste and the Governance of Displacement to Türkiye

16:40–17:30 Verdha Anjum

The Urban Political Ecology of River Ravi Transformation: Unpacking the Institutional Mechanisms Behind Manufactured Flood Risk in Lahore, Pakistan

17:30–18:20 Lion Herrmann

Artful Perfection: An Examination of the Instrumentalisation of Culture and Art in the Context of the New City Quarter, Am Tacheles, in Berlin’s Centre.

Supervisors: Nabeel Imtiaz, Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik, Leonard Ma, Mattias Malk, Agáta Marzec, Karlis Ratnieks, Mira Samonig, Sean Tyler, Karina Vabson 

Reviewers: Kush Badhwar, Sinan Erensü, Tahl Kaminer, Daria Khrystych, Madita Kümmeringer, Anton Küünal, Lily Song, Tauri Tuvikene, Aro Velmet 

Evaluation committee: Sergio Davila, Maroš Krivý (non-voting), Maria Lindmäe, Andres Ojari (chairman), Helen Runting, Sean Tyler (non-voting)

23.05.26.-14.06.26

Opening: 22.05.26 18:00

with a Performance by Anumai Raska starting at 19:00!

Artists: Bob Bicknell-Knight, Giulio Cusinato, Anastasiia Krapivina, Kroplya, Denis Kudrjašov, Lisette Lepik, Fausta Noreikaitė, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Kertu Rannula, Anumai Raska, Nora Schmelter

Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen and Nora Schmelter

Entrance No. 4 transforms the ARS Project Space into a stage of sorts, where the audience engages with the artworks on show through a series of curtailed entranceways, examining ideas of control, illusionary realities and voyeuristic tendencies. Through actively herding and throttling the viewing experience, Entrance No. 4 demands a re-examination of how artworks are seen and engaged with, reflecting upon how images are shared and diffused within contemporary life.

When navigating the purposefully oblique space one will have the opportunity to encounter work from 11 artists currently undergoing a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Artworks on show range from painting and sculpture to video and installation, engaging with ideas associated with the home, climate collapse and our collectively fraught relationship with the body and physical spaces.

Tue–Fri: 12:00–18:00

Sat, Sun: 12:00–16:00

ARS Project Space, Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn 11317

Graphic Design: Chloé Gourvennec, Ethan Anthony Read

The exhibition is supported by ARS Kunstilinnak, Estonian Artists’ Association, Estonian Academy of Art, Nudist, Põhjala Brewery, Tuletorn

If history were to end today, as who would you be left standing in the following static oblivion? The exhibition “Läbi dissonants” contrasts five audiovisual artworks, with the goal of taking a deeper glance at the tools and mechanisms that neoliberalism, as a system, uses to enforce and recreate its modern political hegemony.

Abstraction can be found everywhere, from long, seamlessly blending beaches to industrial megastructures. From strong outlines around hollow bodies to misleading wordplay that those shapes espouse. From the foggy beginnings of a human’s existence to their last interrupted movement.

The exhibition includes works from the artists Inna Tarakanova, Artjom Jurov, Aksel Haagensen, Marto Mägi, and John Smith.
Open from the 13th of May till the 19th of June. To visit, we ask that you contact the gallery a day ahead of time to organize your visit.

Curator: Kaur Järve

Metropolkapp – https://www.instagram.com/metropolkapp/?hl=en

Curated by Rebeka Põldsam

15.05.-14.06.2026

Opening Thursday, May 14 at 6 pm at Draakon Gallery 

Mara Kirchberg’s solo exhibition explores the technologization of care, focusing on how the automotive sector has shaped care work. Moving between garage and medical settings, Kirchberg examines the metaphor of the body as a machine, tracing how petromodern systems designed for efficiency come to structure how we carry, support, and maintain one another.

At the center of the exhibition is a hanging installation assembled from industrial materials forming a fragile organism—lifting slings, artificial membranes, lubricants—requiring ongoing maintenance to remain functional. During “Service Hours,” the artist activates the pulley system, performing a public maintenance while wearing a PVC “Sweat Suit”. 

Performances: 30 May and 13 June at 5 PM

Performed by Mara Kirchberg

Curator: Rebeka Põldsam

Graphic design: Kert Viiart–Õllek

Technical support: Gisèle Gonon, Marko Odar

Outside Eye: Gisèle Gonon

Supported by The Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Goethe-Institut Estland

Special thanks to: Eesti Kunstnike Liit, Hans-Otto Ojaste, Mari Volens, Sandra Ernits