Exhibitions

The EKA Graduation Show Festival TASE ’26 opens on May 27, 2026 at 17:00.

At the graduation festival, the faculties of architecture, design, art culture, and fine arts will present this year’s final projects.

TASE ’26 will take place on the EKA campus in Kalamaja – in the EKA main building (Põhja pst 7 / Kotzebue 1), as well as in the buildings at Kotzebue 4 and 10, and on the Kotzebue 2 plot.

At the opening event, the Young Artist, Young Applied Artist, and Young Designer awards will be presented to bachelor’s and master’s level students.

The TASE ’26 exhibition will remain open from May 28 to June 19, daily from 13:00 to 19:00.

Find the detailed programme and the list of graduates on the website https://tase.artun.ee/

PROGRAMME

TASE ’26 Opening on Wed 27.05. at 17–23

• 17.00 opening ceremony on Kotzebue Street, speeches, announcement of the Young Designer, Young Artist, and Young Applied Artist awards
• 18.00 Puuluup concert on the Kotzebue Street stage
• 19.00–22.00 DJ duo Danger from Estonia on the roof of the PAKK pavilion
• 23.00 end of the party
• 23.00–… official afterparty and karaoke at Balta Chill

Additionally, Hulkur Baar and the ÖKU food truck will be present.

TASE Day on Saturday, 6 June:

• 13.00–21.00 TASE exhibition open
• 13.00–15.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Faculty of Design
• 15.00–15.30 presentation of graduation projects from the Faculty of Art and Culture
• 15.45–16.30 Jaak Juske’s historical tour around the EKA area
• 17.00 screening of TASE Anima ‘26 at Sõprus Cinema
• 19.00 TASE Anima ‘26 discussion in the lobby of the EKA main building, in English

Keithy Kuuspu endurance performance

• “Active Performativity”, Monday, 25 May at 19.00 in the courtyard of Kotzebue 4
• “Indirect Performativity”, Wednesday, 17 June at 19.00 in the courtyard of Kotzebue 4

Margaret Tilga’s learning club “Girls, in Theory”

• Tuesday, 9 June at 18.00 in the EKA Gallery, with pre-registration, in Estonian

GUIDED TOURS
All tours begin in the lobby of the EKA main building and participation is free.

Historical tour

• Saturday, 6 June at 15.45–16.30 historical tour around the EKA area, guided by Jaak Juske, in Estonian, donations are welcome

Faculty of Architecture tours

• Thursday, 11 June at 14.00–15.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Department of Interior Architecture, in Estonian
• Thursday, 11 June at 15.30–17.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Departments of Architecture and Urban Studies, in Estonian
• Monday, 15 June at 17.00–18.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Faculty of Architecture, in Estonian
• Tuesday, 16 June at 13.00–14.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Department of Interior Architecture, in Estonian

Faculty of Design tours

• Saturday, 6 June at 13.00–15.00, in Estonian
• Sunday, 14 June at 13.00–15.00, in Estonian

Faculty of Art and Culture tours

• Saturday, 6 June at 15.00–15.30, in Estonian
• Sunday, 14 June at 15.00–15.30, in Estonian

Faculty of Fine Arts tours

• Saturday, 30 May at 16.00–17.00, in Estonian
• Sunday, 14 June at 16.00–17.00, in Estonian

General TASE tour

• Friday, 29 May at 17.30–18.30, in English

SPONSORS
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn City

PARTNERS
Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Funrent, mirai™, Punch Club, Puumarket, Sadolin Estonia, Tallinn Circular Economy Center

TASE chief organizer:
Kaisa Maasik-Koplimets, kaisa.maasik@artun.ee

Nordic and Baltic comics exhibition “Mythbústers”
In the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts 03.09.–04.10.2026
Open Mon–Sun 8–23, admission free

Opening: Thu 3.09.26 at 5 pm in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts
Artist talk with Emmi Valve, Joonas Sildre and David Schilter: Thu 3.09.26 at 5.30 pm
Emmi Valve’s workshop: Fri 4.09. at 2–4 pm

When thinking about the Nordic and Baltic countries, the first associations that come to mind might be trolls and Vikings, the midnight sun and the polar night, saunas and winter swimming, hygge and fika, Nokia and IKEA. Perhaps you have also heard of these countries’ excellent school systems and strong social welfare models? But what is behind these myths? 16 comic artists from all over the Nordic and Baltic countries created works that reflect their own unique perspectives on life in the region.

The Baltic comic magazine “š!”, issue 57 “Mythbústers” which includes all these works and is distributed worldwide, was published in connection to the exhibition.

As part of the exhibition, a comic drawing workshop for students will be held on Friday, September 4, at 2–4 pm, led by Emmi Valve. Participation is free, but places are limited. The workshop will be held in English and all students are welcome to participate. Register here.

Participating artists: Akvile Magicdusté (LT), Cecilia Vårhed (SE), Clara Jetsmark (DK), Disa Wallander (SE), Elín Elísabet (IS), Emmi Valve (FI), Ida Neverdahl (NO), Joonas Sildre (EE), Jurijs Tatarkins (LV), Laura Ķeniņš (CA), Liisa Kruusmägi (EE), Mari Ahokoivu (FI), Ona Kvašytė (LT), Søren Glosimodt Mosdal (DK), Tim Ng Tvedt (NO), Tommi Musturi (FI)

Curator: David Schilter (LV)

The exhibition is organised by Kuš! in cooperation with the Nordic Council of Ministers’ offices in Latvia and Estonia.
The exhibition was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Latvia, the Nordic Council of Ministers’ offices in Latvia and Estonia, the Danish Cultural Institute and the 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

On Thursday, 14 May at 6 PM, Viktoria Martjanova’s first solo exhibition Biomaterial will open at the Hobusepea Gallery.

Working with installation, video and photography, the artist regards the body as a resource: a currency that can be optimised, controlled, used and categorised according to political, military and economic interests.

At the centre of the exhibition is a large-scale installation made of hair, transforming this intimate and personal material into a spatial experience. From this enchanting, yet repellent approach to material and form, Martjanova moves on to the media of photography and video, creating a more direct link between organic matter and human life. The exhibited bodies and materials have lost their autonomy and function rather as units in a broader socio-political system, where their value is determined by their usability and purpose.

Viktoria Martjanova is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes video, installation, sound, text and performativity. Her work focuses on the formation of identity in conditions where the personal experience is inextricably linked to social and political mechanisms, perceiving the body as a tension field where these power dynamics are manifested.

Martjanova uses bodily experience, memory and language as materials to examine how personal tension and social structures intertwine in the body and how these relationships become perceivable. Her works move along the axis of tension and interruption, looking at identity as an unstable construct that is constantly rewritten. Martjanova highlights the human and young author’s position in conditions shaped by external pressure, visibility and the requirement to create one’s self-image.

Her works have been shown at the Performa Biennial in New York, the Riga Art Week’s (RAW) opening event, the Alma Gallery in Riga and the Vilnius Art Week. She is the laureate of the 2025 Young Artist Award granted by the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Curator: Lilian Hiob-Küttis

Graphic design: Maxim Nikanorov

Installation of the exhibition: Polina Kaaiko, Tõnis Tallermaa, Madis Eek, Hans-Otto Ojaste

Metalwork: Märt Vaidla

Special gratitude to Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kunsti Aakadeemia, Valge Kuup Studio, Anita Kremm, Ksenia Verbeštšuk, Juri Krutii, Todd Richter, Dmitry Gubin, Aksel Haagesen, Viktoria Arapina, juuste doonorid, kunstniku perekond, Villem Varik, Liisi Kõuhkna, Kaisa Maasik-Koplimets, Anna Mari Liivrand, Jordi Hin, Andrei Kazakov, Meraki Testa Dell’Acqua, Compose.

PS! The celebration of the exhibition opening will continue at Paavli Culture Factory starting from 8:30pm.

Exhibitions in the Hobusepea Gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Ministry of Culture and Liviko AS.

The gallery is managed by the Estonian Artists’ Association.

On Friday, May 15 at 1:00 PM, the Patarei Sea Fortress will host the opening of an exhibition titled “Alone Together” curated by the second-year students of the Estonian Academy of Arts Jewellery and Blacksmithing department. The exhibition will present works of contemporary metal and jewelry art which examine the inner world of a person, exploring how the desire to belong shapes our choices, ideologies, and prejudices. 

As humans, we are frightened by loneliness – the need for communication, touch, and a sense of belonging is natural. Although it is easier to make new connections today than ever before, reality seems to indicate the opposite – people are experiencing increasing loneliness. 

Participating students: Alexander Matthias Saage, Karl-Erik Eeriksoo, Barbara Põldmaa, Kirsika Kaljuste, Stiina Marie Sarevet, Johanna Maria Maripuu

The student’s work was supervised by Eve Margus and Nils Hint.

Graphic designer: Mattias E. Tiik

Patarei Sea Fortress

Kalaranna tn 28

May 15 – 24, 2026

Mon-Sun, 13-19p.m.

We are happy to announce the Urban Studies Exhibition at 18.04 in Logi Sauna. 

Exhibition “Ebbs and Flows, Perspectives on Baltic Sea and Beyond”
Opening: May 18, 6pm
Open: May 19–20, 12am–7pm
Location: Logi Saun  

This exhibition presents work from Urban Studies Studio 2, developed through a semester-long inquiry into the Baltic Sea and its wider urban, socio-political and ecological relations. Rather than treating the sea as a blank blue void beyond the urban, the works invite us to look again at what remains unseen: the seabed and the inbetween, the information and goods that travels across, the ruins, the privatised territories and the labour. What appears distant or abstract becomes close, material and lived.

The exhibition brings together works by Catherine Lavrik, Claudia Jung, Emely Bobsien, Giacomo Alberto Rescia, Kadri Haugas, Mihkel Uku Karindi, Muhamudul Hasan, Nabid Hasan Shovon, Nika Khalus, Shariful Islam and Zsofia Helka Molnar, developed within the studio led by Miina Pohjolainen and Nabeel Imtiaz.