The Tartu Art Museum is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Verbarium” by Krista Leesi. Visitors will be greeted by a world of patterns inspired mainly by Tartu but also by Paris and Tallinn. As the title suggests, the author uses nuanced wordplay to offer new interpretations to the Leaning…

The central artwork and conceptual starting point of the exhibition “In Isolation” is Ilya Kabakov’s visual narrative “The Looking-out-the-Window Arkhipov”, which is about a character named Arkhipov who is hospitalised; isolation and loneliness have an increasingly devastating effect on his mental condition.

The 1990s introduced the liberation of social life and a free-market economy, and both had a huge influence on Estonian culture. Artists challenged the norms of aesthetic expression and tested the limits of art. While in Estonia the 1990s were a time of youthful bravado, energy and new opportunities, in…

The Tartu Art Museum, in cooperation with the Tuglas Society, is very pleased to present to the audience the collection of works by Eduard Wiiralt (1898–1954) by the Finnish composer and private collector Juhani Komulainen. The collector and the collectible are connected by connections with France and Paris, where both…

The show focuses on depictions of the body and physical contact. The bodies depicted in the multilayered and thickly painted works of Jüris fall somewhere in the in-between: at times they are realistic and figurative but sometimes abstract and non-figurative, forcing the viewer’s gaze to penetrate various layers.

The ground floor of the museum will be filled with Eplik’s sculptures and installations, which can be viewed as the natural or psychological landscapes that surround people and that we all sometimes visit. What is the environment that we live in like and do we think about those we share…

The exhibition “Stories of Love, Bloom, Lust and Loss” at the Tartu Art Museum assembles Alan Proosa’s photos taken in South-East Asia. Over the last five years Proosa has mostly lived in and experienced Thailand and has been interested in the numerous transsexual women of that country: the kathoey. The…

Tartu Art Museum will host the extensive and definitely colourful retrospective exhibition “Nostalgialess”. The two floors of the exhibition introduce the works of one of the best Estonian colourists from the 1960s to the present day. Pääsuke’s oeuvre conveys classic painting traditions through a contemporary prism, transcending times and trends.

The exhibition will take place in the project room of the 3rd floor of Tartu Art Museum between 12.02. – 28.03.2021. The exhibition series started in 2017 and its goal is to popularize and support the work of young artists related to Tartu. Earlier, the works of Sten Eltermaa, Keiu …

The exhibition “Silent”, that takes place on the first two floors of the Tartu Art Museum, explores suppression and existential and political ideas. Jevgeni Zolotko’s spatial and video installation focuses on one act of falling silent and its traces in memories and objects. The work is accompanied by paintings, prints …

Retouching, the manipulation of photographic images to enhance the result, has been a significant part of photography since its early days. Due to its use in propaganda, mass media and especially in the fashion industry, retouching has become infamous and is criticised for distorting the reality. This kind of criticism…

The Project Space exhibition “FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! Volume 2” focuses on the similarly titled video installation of the Finnish artist Martta Tuomaala. The installation consists of a video and training bikes that the visitors can use. The hour-long video looks at topical, social and ecological themes from Finland and shows them in …

The exhibition “Silence”, that takes place on the first two floors of the Tartu Art Museum, explores suppression and existential and political ideas. Jevgeni Zolotko’s spatial and video installation focuses on one act of falling silent and its traces in memories and objects. The work is accompanied by paintings, prints …

Jewellery is one of the most wide-ranging areas of the applied arts: despite the small size of most pieces of jewellery, they are intimately close to people. This exhibition highlights art jewellery as a means of individual self-expression that values people in diverse ways, offering them new visions and contexts,…

The exhibition Pallas in Estonian Homes introduces a selection of works by Pallas artists belonging to individuals; the works are accompanied by interesting personal stories. It is a side exhibition of Pallas 100. The Art School and Its Legend and takes place in two parts: the first from May to August and the second…