Art News

The 8th Artishok Biennial "Botanical Witnesses" will take place from September 29th to October 30th, 2022. The subject matter of this event, dedicated to contemporary art, has been inspired by this year's location, Tallinn Botanic Garden. While bringing together artists and writers from the fields of visual art, performing arts…

22-30 July 2022 the summer capital of Estonia welcomes  Art Week again. This year the week-long festival takes a closer look at Nordic art through the eyes of Norwegian curator Marita Isobel Solberg (MaRa) – to see who we really are and the time we live in.

The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) launches the 13th edition of its annual contemporary art festival Survival Kit, one of its key endeavours and a major art event in the Baltics by announcing the curator, the concept and the list of participating artists.

“I feel as if everything has been given to me on a silver platter – I’m just sometimes not sure if I can take it all,” says Jānis Šneiders, one of the brightest Latvian painters of the young generation, who presented an exhibition at Vilnius gallery Meno Niša. The Book…

Kaupo Kikkas's exhibition "Inner Cosmos”, open in Fotografiska Tallinn until mid-May, tells visual stories about nature and man and their relationship. But how are such captivating displays created, and what does a photographer's everyday life look like?

Today, two new exhibitions are opened at Fotografiska Tallinn: multidisciplinary American artist Carla Gannis’ new-media work ‘The Garden of Emoji Delights’ and Chinese photographic artist Pixy Liao’s ‘Your Gaze Belongs to Me’. The artists are linked by a certain social criticism and a bystander’s view of themselves and the norms…

The organisers of the most significant contemporary art exhibition RIBOCA have announced that RIBOCA 3, curated by René Block and titled ‘Exercises in Respect’ that was supposed to be launched in July 2022, will be postponed until the next year. “In response to the war in our region, we do…

Tallinn Art Hall will host a memorial exhibition at the Art Hall Gallery, Leo, dedicated to Leonhard Lapin, an important figure in Estonian art. The exhibition was compiled by Sirje Helme, director of the Art Museum of Estonia, and Tamara Luuk, curator at Tallinn Art Hall.

Helsinki Biennial has announced the appointment of Joasia Krysa as curator of its second edition, taking place 12 June – 18 September 2023. Celebrating the synthesis of art and the environment, the biennial will return to the unique surroundings of Vallisaari Island in the Helsinki archipelago, whilst building upon its…

At this year's La Biennale di Venezia, launched already in April 23, Estonian artists Kristina Norman and Bita Razavi, in close dialogue with curator Corina L. Apostol, will present "Orchidelirium. An Appetite for Abundance", inspired by the overlooked story of the Estonian nineteenth-century artist and world traveller Emilie Rosalie Saal.

The artist name PUSA belongs to a master painter Piret Bergmann, who is well known for her colourful works with distinctive, almost psychedelic patterns. She has taken part in various exhibitions and the last one, "Colours don't lie" with Robin Nõgisto is opened in Pärnu, in the Museum of New…