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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.

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…

By envisioning various speculative futures, Helsinki Biennial: New Directions May Emerge brings together 29 international artists and collectives to explore alternative ways of living in, and understanding, the world. Curated by Joasia Krysa with five curatorial collaborators, the second edition engages with some of the pressing issues of our time,…

Estonian Art Week has been organized by the contemporary art center NOBA.ac for six years, this year due to financial difficulties it will be postponed to an uncertain future. The reason for postponing the art festival, which is popular among artists, art institutions and the audience, is the lack of…

This spring, for the first time Vilnius Academy of Arts presetned the public show of its students‘ final artworks. The VDA Graduation Show was the first opportunity to see the artworks of the entire VDA 2023 graduates’ cohort, scattered around the VDA spaces and various galleries in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda…

Until 4 June, University of the Arts Helsinki, Uniarts, hosted the annual MFA Degree Show of the Academy of Fine Arts called Kuvan Kevät. The exhibition presented new works by emerging artists from the Academy’s all four study areas (painting, printmaking, sculpture, time and space arts). In the year 2023,…

On 9 June the fifth Art Academy Diploma Candidate exhibition by the Art Academy of Latvia (LMA) was opened. The exhibition includes works by BA and MA students from all departments and everyone is welcome to see the works of new artists as the results of several years of studies.