Exhibitions

“STUDIO: EKA Architecture and Urban Planning Graduation Projects 2004–2026”
EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026
Open Tue–Sat 12–6 pm Sun 12–4 pm
Opening: Friday, September 11 at 6 pm

Architecture is one of the disciplines through which societies imagine alternatives to present conditions. In Estonia too, architecture students have for decades asked in their graduation projects what other lives could be possible for us. Characteristically for the discipline, answers have been sought through imaginative representations – drawings, models and texts.

The graduation project, a creative genre in which realisation is not expected, has allowed students to wander and stake out a place of their own in this strange territory between hard reality and pure imagination, starting from existing conditions, yet able to play out possibilities more freely, sometimes well beyond the bounds of realism.

From 2004 to 2026, EKA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning has supervised this work in the studio format. “STUDIO” situates this format within the broader history of architectural education and practice-based research, while looking back at the rich archive of graduation projects that have accumulated over these years. What have successive cohorts considered worthy of attention, investigation and change? What architectural responses have they imagined? And what role has the studio played in shaping such inquiry?

Curators: Eik Hermann, Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, EKA)
Exhibition design: Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis
Design of light boxes: Raul Kalvo (InPhysica Technology)
Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio
Technical support: Ats Kruusing, Eugenio Marini, Éric-Olivier Thériault-Raymond

Thanks: all the supervisors and students of the EKA department of Architecture and Urban Planning 2004–2026, Sander Haugas, Oliver Kanniste, Mikk-Mait Kivi, Jevgeni Krassi, Priit Kõiv, Tiina Tammet, Avo Tragel

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn City and Sadolin Estonia.
Opening drinks from mirai™ and Põhjala Brewery.

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A joint exhibition by the EKA Textile Department and Kreenholm textile artists on the process of printed-fabric making

Opening at Narva Art Residency on September 5th 16:00, From Sketch to Printed Fabric brings together archival materials by Kreenholm textile artists and contemporary printed fabrics by students of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The exhibition looks at the process behind printed textiles: how a repeat is constructed, how a sketch develops into a printable fabric, and how colour separation and registration shape the final result.

The exhibition presents works and archival materials by Kreenholm textile artists from 1960–2000, including sketches, repeats, colour studies, print proofs and fabrics. Alongside them are large-scale digital prints by EKA Textile Department students, designed in relation to Kreenholm’s historical repeat dimensions of 640 and 914 mm and bringing contemporary themes and perspectives into the exhibition.

An installative printing table with technical samples introduces the screen-printing process from idea to printed fabric. Visitors can also experiment with creating their own patterns and immediately see how they work in repetition.

Opening: 5 September 2026
Exhibition: 6 September 2026–10 January 2027
Location: Narva Art Residency (NART)

Curator: Alyona Movko-Mägi
Exhibition design: Eva Reiska

Works and archival materials by Kreenholm textile artists, 1960–2000

Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Textile Design
Artists: Rosena Marju Melvin, Annabel Mustasaar, Ethel Noortoots, Karin Sarv, Hannah Parman, Katriin Tammoja, Getlin Tammoja, Eliisa Leppik, Marta Velda Loos, Freia Mugra, Lisandra Murumets, Helena-Mai Posti

Tutors: Krista Leesi and Piret Valk

Supporters and partners: Estonian Academy of Arts, EKA Textile Design, Cultural Endowment of Estonia / Eesti Kultuurkapital, Narva Art Residency (NART)

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Narva Venice
3.–6.9.2026

In September the nomadic Pori Biennale takes place in Narva Venice (Kulgu), a striking post-industrial area in eastern Estonia, and imagines what a biennale could be when shaped by local histories, architectures and communities. Continuing Porin kulttuurisäätö collective’s long-term research into the biennial format, the project examines how a biennale might function as a site for co-existence, collaboration, activation and event. Art does not always need grandiose exhibition halls but rather people, who come together around it.

Artists: Baran Caginli (TR/FI), Kristin Wiking (FI/SE), Jonas Palekas (LT), Sashapasha: Pavel and Sasha Rotts (FI), Aksel Haagensen (EE) and Ulvi Haagensen (AU/EE) Cotyledon project: Helena Atkin (UK/EE) and Daria Titova (EE/UA).

Curators: Anna Jensen & Eliisa Suvanto, Porin kulttuurisäätö

Pori Biennale VII takes place alongside the music and city festival Station Narva that since 2018 fills Estonia’s easternmost city Narva with music, art, communal gatherings and cross-sector initiatives.

The event is kindly supported by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Kone Foundation, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Oskar Öflunds stiftelse, and created in collaboration with NART residency, Station Narva, Narva Gate, and the Finnish Institute in Estonia

Graphic design by Daria Titova.

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On September 5 at 18:00, the exhibition “Who Gets a Seat at the Table” by August Kilmi and Ly-Ann Kõllo will open at Krulli SAAL.

The artists explore the dream of an ideal family, the expectations formed in childhood, and the disappointment that arises when a person feels there is no place for them within that dream. The exhibition examines family and home, and how a queer person fits—or does not fit—into these spaces.

The exhibition will be open until September 20, every day from 14:00 to 19:00.

Graphic design: Ly-Ann Kõllo

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One of the starting points for the exhibition is Karel Čapek’s The Gardener’s Year. Čapek’s sharp and humorous observations on a (city) gardener’s desires, joys, disappointments and endless need to care for something immediately struck a chord.

Having spent an increasing amount of time at a summer cottage in recent years, I have also begun to develop my own, still rather vague understanding of rural life and the rhythms of nature. These rhythms can be calming and abundant, but at the same time ruthless and starkly indifferent.

Autumn evenings and nights in the countryside are dark, unless the moon is shining. If wearing a reflector in the city is recommended, in the countryside making yourself visible can be a necessity.

A beautiful summer is pleasant and abundant, but already in August the creatures that have kept their distance from the house begin pushing their way back in through cracks and openings. All it takes is a single day away for birds to devour all the berries ripening on the bushes, or for the last apples fallen beneath the trees to disappear overnight.

It is uncomfortably sobering to realise how fragile life is, and how much care is required to maintain this small part of our surroundings that we try to “domesticate” or cultivate. Even if one somehow manages to avoid disease, fungi and frost, a vole suddenly moving into the garden can be enough to throw the entire order of things into question.

In the countryside, humans are not necessarily the masters. Everyone is competing for food, light and space. If humans imagine they have an advantage in this struggle, it is only for as long as they remain vigilant and keep things “in order”. In the end, everything is food for someone or something.

Of course, one can take an arrogant position – scatter poison left and right, put up deterrents, or concrete over every available patch of ground. But at least I don’t want the countryside to become too orderly and controlled. That would take away one of the reasons for being there in the first place.

The ant, the wasp and the snail all have their place. So does the frog.

With thanks to: Estonian Artists’ Association, ARS Art Factory, EKA Foto, EVA Lab, Katrin Koit, Lipuvabrik OÜ, Taavi Varm, my wife, and my mother.

Open Mon-Fri 12-18, Sat 12-16

Finissage: 28 September, 18:00

* This plea has stayed with me from a period I once spent in Kütiorg, which significantly reshaped my understanding of living alongside nature and of nature conservation as an alternative worldview – one in which slogans and radicalism do not take centre stage, but rather common sense and an understanding of what is and is not possible.

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Join us for the opening of the Nordic and Baltic Comics Exhibition “Mythbústers” on Thursday, September 3 at 5 pm in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts!

The opening will be followed by an artist talk on the stairs of the lobby at 5.30 pm, where the artists participating in the exhibition Emmi Valve and Joonas Sildre will talk with the exhibition curator David Schilter. The talk will take place in English.

Read more about the exhibition here.

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In September, the nomadic Pori Biennale takes place in the striking post-industrial Narva Venice (Kulgu), imagining what a biennale could be when shaped by local history, architecture and communities.

Continuing Porin Kulttuurisäätö collective’s long-term research into the biennial format, the project examines how a biennale might function as a site for co-existence, collaboration, activation and event. Art does not always need grandiose exhibition halls – rather, it needs people who come together.

Artists: Baran Caginli (TR/FI), Kristin Wiking (SE/FI), Jonas Palekas (LT), Sashapasha: Pavel and Sasha Rotts (FI), Aksel Haagensen (EE), Ulvi Haagensen (EE/AU).

Cotyledon project: Helena Atkin (UK/EE) and Daria Titova (UA/EE).
Cotyledon project workshop takes place on 25.,26., 27., ja 28.08. More info here.

Curators: Anna Jensen & Eliisa Suvanto, Porin kulttuurisäätö

Exhibition opening times: Thursday at 12:00–19:00; 3.09, Friday, 4.09 at 12:00–19:00; Saturday 5.09 at 12:00–19:00, Sunday 6.09 at 12:00–16:00.

Friday 4.09. at 16:30
Exhibition opening

Ingrian Pavilion: Clay. A durational performance by Pavel Rotts

Throughout the opening, the artist hand-builds clay bricks bearing the letters of INGRIA. Gradually, the repeated act of writing transforms language into architecture, assembling the Ingrian Pavilion brick by brick.

Saturday 5.09. at 14:00–16:00

Serving food and baking books. Food event by Jonas Palekas & Baran Caginli

16:00–

Ingrian Pavilion: Boat. A performance by SASHAPASHA.

Six unfired clay bricks spelling INGRIA are lowered into the water on ropes as anchors. As the clay dissolves, the boat returns to shore, where the flag is raised above the pavilion. The performance reflects on migration, memory, and the impossibility of permanently anchoring a place, a language, or an identity.

Pori Biennale VII takes place alongside Station Narva, the music and city festival that since 2018 has filled Estonia’s easternmost city with music, art, communal gatherings and cross-sector initiatives.

Address: Remmelga 8, Narva

Kindly supported by and in collaboration with: Narva Art Residency (NART), Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finnish Institute in Estonia, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Kone Foundation and Station Narva.

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The music and city festival Station Narva returns for its 9th edition to the easternmost Estonian city of Narva on 3-6 September 2026. Get ready for music from near and far, sightseeing, art experiments and new discoveries across Narva.
Station Narva 2026 tickets are on sale → shop.tmw.ee
More info https://stationnarva.ee/en

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From Sketch to Printed Fabric, opening at Narva Art Residency (NART), brings together archival materials from Kreenholm textile artists and contemporary printed fabrics by students of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). The exhibition focuses on the “backstage” of printed textiles: the rules and working steps that turn a motif into a production-ready fabric, how the repeat (rapport) and pattern rhythm are constructed, and how colour separation and registration shape the final result. The archive presents sketches, repeats, colour studies and print proofs, while large-scale digital prints by EKA students carry the same logic into a contemporary context – reflecting themes relevant to a younger generation and the Estonian consumer landscape, anchored in the proportions of the Kreenholm rapport.

An installative printing table with technical samples introduces key steps of the screen-printing process, and a playful work table invites visitors to create their own patterns and see them instantly repeated.

Exhibition duration: Saturday, 6 September 2026 – 10 January 2027
Opening event: Saturday, 5 September 2026 at 16:00
Location: Narva Art Residency (NART)
Exhibition team: Alyona Movko-Mägi, Eva Reiska, Piret Valk, Krista Leesi
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia

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Join the NART resident artists for an evening dedicated to the artistic side/perspectives of Narva. The event is held at Narva Artist Residency (Joala 18, 20103, Narva, Estonia).

Programme all evening:

⎆ Installation “Firewall” – Vitalli Shupliak
⎆ Virtual installation “If These Walls Could Speak” – Bart Kuipers

17:00 Welcome with soup, bread, and snacks!

17:15 Tour of the installation “Firewall” by Vitalii Shupliak
Vitalli Shupliak works primarily with video installation, painting, and performance and will present video work and an installation based on his modular spatial installation “Firewall”, that is scheduled to be built in Narva later this year.

Liso Stec (BY) is a curator and researcher exploring the context of Narva and the artistic potential of NART.

18:00 Workshop “Writing the Poetry of Narva” by Bart Kuipers
Bart Kuipers is a poet and multimedia artist and is looking to write the poetry of Narva together with people who know Narva the best!

19:00: Artist talk “Artistic Unlearning in Narva” and discussion by Yulia Krivich
Yulia Krivich is a visual artist and scholar. In her artist talk, she will present her research on how visual culture shapes identity, memory, and belonging in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union space, inviting us to unlearn inherited ways of seeing and imagine different futures.

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“It Always Seems Impossible”, Irma Holm and Sonja Sutt trace a Journey from Suffering to Hope.

“Why does it seem more believable that suffering must have a deeper meaning than that it could simply end? And why do we try, even in the hardest moments, to give the impression that we’re coping?”
Irma and Sonja

From 28th of August till 6th of September 2026, OUJEA Gallery presents “It Always Seems Impossible”, the first duo exhibition by Irma Holm and Sonja Sutt. Bringing together video, installation, and sculptural objects, the exhibition follows an attempt to find a way out of the trial of suffering.

The exhibition begins with the artists’ observation that suffering is not merely a personal experience but often a role that people learn to perform. At times, this performance becomes absurd, leaving a person appearing both tragic and comic at once.

Divided into five spaces, the exhibition unfolds as a simplified narrative. Its protagonists do not inhabit a fairy tale, yet their world follows a similar logic – every trial is expected to end in redemption, and every hardship should ultimately lead to something better. Along this journey, everyday activities become an artist’s portfolio, amateur sword fighting transforms into a heroic epic, and a makeshift hut built at home becomes a castle.

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Opening: 27 August 2026, 6:00 pm
Exhibition: 28 August – 6 September 2026
Opening Hours: Daily, 12:00–19:00
Venue: OUJEA Gallery, Laboratooriumi 14, Tallinn, Estonia
Artists: Irma Holm and Sonja Sutt
Gallery: Hanna Samoson and Genius loci OUJEA
Graphic design: Kadri-Ann Kivisild

OUJEA GALLERY

Some places are born from a finished plan. Others are born out of a need. OUJEA belongs to the latter.

It is a gallery in Tallinn’s Old Town, but above all, it is a space for thinking, experimenting and coming together. A place where art does not have to justify its existence before it has had time to breathe.

OUJEA believes that meaning is not something an artist hides inside a work for the viewer to find. Meaning emerges through the encounter between people, time, space and attention. Sometimes it happens immediately. Sometimes much later. Sometimes only when, for a moment, everything seems impossible.

For this reason, OUJEA sees itself not simply as a gallery, but as a living process. A place where one can get things wrong, change one’s mind, start again, and trust that uncertainty, too, can be a creative material.

The gallery opens its programme with a duo exhibition by Irma Holm and Sonja Sutt, It Always Seems Impossible.

Everyone is welcome.

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