Maria Wrang-Rasmussen “Gnaw” (2025)
We received 117 project proposals and 31 portfolios part of EKA Gallery’s Open Call for 2026. The jury for putting together the program included: gallerist Kaisa Maasik, gallery technician Erik Hõim and outside expert Laura De Jaeger. As part of the Open Call, we included a total of 8 exhibition projects, 2 short-term projects and 2 long-term side-projects set to take place at EKA Gallery and 2 exhibition projects set to take place at EKA Billboard Gallery in 2026.
EKA Gallery’s program for 2026
9.01.–15.02.26 group exhibition “We Need More Indoor Spaces” on the ground floor (curators Éric-Olivier Thériault and Jaagup Mägi)
9.01.–15.02.26 Liisa Nurklik’s solo exhibition “Wandering” on the second floor
20.02.–22.03.26 group exhibition “How to Reframe Monuments” (curators Linda Kaljundi and Kirke Kangro)
25.–28.03.26 musical “Carmen Electra” by ants1
4.–26.04.26 exhibition of EKA architecture studio-based studies (curators Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis and Eik Hermann)
28.04.–17.05.26 Assessment Marathon of the Faculty of Fine Arts
28.05.–19.06.26 graduation show TASE
3.07.–16.08.26 exhibition “Charge, Jaw, Babble, Faucet” by Ronja Siitonen, Maria Wrang-Rasmussen and Martina Zito on the ground floor
3.07.–16.08.26 Sofia Isupova’s solo exhibition on the second floor
22.08.–6.09.26 Daria Titova, Aly Sparkling Beveridge and guests in the project “The Island of Girls”
11.09.–11.10.26 curatorial project focusing on painting
16.10.–15.11.26 group exhibition dedicated to craft practices within the applied and material-based arts (curators Kati Saarits and Hannah Segerkrantz)
16.–22.11.26 performance by Maria Helena Seppik and Getriin Kotsar
24.11.–17.12.26 Assessment Marathon of the Faculty of Fine Arts
14.01.–14.02.27 joint exhibition of the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Uniarts Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts (curators Merike Estna, Kristi Kongi, Kaisa Maasik, Päivi Takala and Salla Tykkä)
Long-term side-projects in 2026 at EKA Gallery:
- Margaret Tilk‘s study club “Girls in Theory”
- Yiyang Sun‘s one-on-one puppetreat “Animated Somatic Treatment”
EKA Billboard Gallery’s program for 2026
24.11.–15.02.26 group exhibition “How to Reframe Monuments” (curators Linda Kaljundi and Kirke Kangro)
16.02.–19.04.26 Graphic Design 1st year typography class exhibition “Dancing with the Stars!”
20.04.–21.06.26. solo exhibition “Provisional Archiving” by Andrew Kuus-Hill
22.06.–13.09.26. group exhibition “Meedium. EKA Disainiteaduskond just nüüd”