The most popular exhibition in The Finnish Museum of Photographic Art's history is Pentti Sammallahti's "The Two of Us", opened a few months ago. By the turn of the year, it had already been visited by more than 34,000 people.
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Just a while ago, Agata Orlovska, a graduate of Vilnius Art Academy was rewarded with the Grand Prix of Nordic Baltic Young Artist Award, among the 142 promising talents who entered the competition. Orlovska participated at the event with three mixed media art works “Because It’s Worse When You Get…
The international jury of the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award competition decided to hand out this year’s Grand Prix along with the 2000-euro prize to Lithuanian artist Agata Orlovska. The Young Painter Award and a 1000-euro prize were awarded to Katrina Laura Biksone, who recently completed her bachelor's studies…
On Friday 10 November 2023, the Young Painter’s Prize art competition (YPP) has marked its fifteenth anniversary and held the award ceremony which was followed by the opening of the YPP finalists’ group show in the Museum of Applied Art and Design. This year, the main prize went to the…
Altogether, 142 young artists from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland are participating in the 8th edition of the international competition, the Nordic-Baltic Young Artist Award (NOBA Award). Until 26 November, all 256 artworks are contesting for the Public Choice Award - the award is handed out to the author whose…
Until the end of the year Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń presents an international exhibition SERENISSIMA EAST, highlighting Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian art from 1990 to today.
The international contemporary art fair ArtVilnius'23 kicks off this Friday, taking over the halls of LITEXPO between 13–15 October. The fair celebrates its 14th edition with an extended programme of galleries, individual projects, artists, meetings, talks and tours.
For the fifteenth time this year, the young artists from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia took part in the Young Painter’s Prize (YPP) competition. Just like in the previous year, YPP has remained open to the submissions by the young Ukrainian artists currently residing in the Baltic States. Besides giving the…
One of the largest contemporary art events in Estonia, Tallinn Photomonth takes place from 6 October to 26 November. The main programme of the biennial consists of the international main exhibition Trance held at the Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion, as well as an artists’ film programme in cinema Sõprus,…
Sequences Biennial is delighted to announce the full list of participating artists for its 11th edition, which will open to the public from 13–22 October in Reykjavík, Iceland. Titled Can’t See, the Biennial explores the ever-growing threat of ecological destruction by delving into spaces that cannot be perceived by the human…
On August 24-25, documentary and aesthetic photography festival – On the Edge Fest – will open in Tallinn, this time focused on Georgia. The locations of the festival are Telliskivi Creative City Outdoor Gallery, Baltic Station Art Street and OKAPI Gallery – last of them hosting the main opening event…
The board of the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Foundation decided to extend the term of office of the current director of the CCA, Maria Arusoo for another cycle until 2027.
On June 10, 2023 the 12th edition of Momentum–The Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art opened to the public at Galleri F15. For the first time in this biennial’s 25-year history, it has been curated by an artist collective — Tenthaus — currently comprising 15 artists and cultural practitioners based in…
The review of Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT 2023 Diāna Tamane’s solo exhibition ‘Half-Love’ at the Latvian Museum of Photography
Maria Lind has been appointed the new director of Konstmuseet i Norr in Kiruna. She is currently the Counsellor of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow.
