TMW’s art programme presents exhibitions by artists from Estonia and beyond, including the festival’s signature gallery tour curated by the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC).
TMW 2025 takes place on 3 – 6 April. Till then take a look below at what we did in 2024.
ECADC Gallery Tour
Sat, April 6 12:30 – 16:00
Various galleries
As part of TMW, The Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) hosts a special gallery tour. The participating galleries are Poco Art Museum, Okapi gallery, Kai Art Center, Tütar Gallery, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Gallery Positiiv gallery, Juhan Kuus Documentary Photography Centre and Telliskivi Creative City. The programme includes exhibitions introducing new works by both Estonian and foreign artists as well as meetups with the gallerists and artists.
A dedicated bus makes moving from gallery to gallery easier during the gallery tour. Entry to the bus at every stop is based on a first-come-first-served policy. Free entrance.
Schedule:
12:30 PoCo – Pop and Contemporary Art Museum
Rotermanni 2
The exhibition brings together artists and themes from different eras, places and histories to illuminate the different approaches to Pop art and the web of references and icons that it generates. Pieces range from the height of the Pop art movement in New York to the underground art in the USSR; from the streets of Bristol to the global digital community of today. The exposition guides the viewer to read and decrypt the symbolic code of the everyday. Both from the everyday of decades past to the here and now of the visual overload that we call normality.
Max capacity: 30 people
13:00 Okapi gallery
Niguliste 2
Erki Kannus “Glass Bodies”
The exhibition presents 9 glass interactive sound objects “Evening milking” and 9 female nude sketches drawn with glass “Nameless – time after”. When drawing with flowing liquid glass the artist tries to quickly capture the ductile movement of the body – before everything sets. The burning mark on the paper marks that moment. The exhibition deals with changing the intimate body to a sterile glass object.
13:30 Kai Art Center
Peetri 12
Tuomas A. Laitinen and Kristina Õllek “Cyanoceans”
A duo exhibition is an exploration into the realms of marine ecology, climate change, and species adaptation. The artists have created a synergistic installation supported by steam and ultrasonic sound which serves as a metaphorical underwater journey. This thought-provoking narrative that invites us to reflect on our responsibility for the planet which is part of us, undivided from our bodies, and to question whether humans as a species are ready to adapt to the challenges of climate conditions in the near future.
13:50 Temnikova & Kasela gallery
Peetri 12
Alice Kask “Five Views”
Alice Kask’s exhibition “Five views” is a continuation of her previous exhibition together with Neeme Külm “Something Righter in This” in Tartu Art House last year.
The unmistakable Alice Kask, dares only to speak about herself, transforms her paintings into the attributes of femininity, concentrating on a lone figure, on a single item, but full of tension and on a grandiose scale. Ruthlessly precise in what she is trying to show, straightforward in concealing what deserves to be hidden. Only nature is left outside Alice’s penetrating gaze: she looks at it from a distance and sees it as something bigger than herself. The dark and dreary elements can only be captured vaguely, recorded only from a distance. So complicated and, at the same time, also so simple. As sincere as possible.
14:10 Tütar gallery
Vesilennuki 24
Kärt Hammer’s personal exhibition “Dirty White”
The exhibition project deals with the intimate encounter between the divine and the secular in heaven on earth. Hammer analyses the longing of human nature to be moral and pure and gives her thoughts an expressive dirty white shape. Kärt Hammer’s works lead to a poetic journey of thought from the ideas of demigods, discarding the excessive explanation and definition of art.
14:40 Postiiv gallery
Roo 21a
Matias Costa’s “Alien Skin”
Matias Costa’s personal exhibition Alien Skin in Positiiv gallery has been completed in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain in Estonia. The series completed at the Narva Art Residency is an important chapter of the photographer’s larger project, mapping the changes that have taken place in recent European history.
Matias Costa, who lives and works in Madrid, is a documentary photographer whose photo series are studies of the functioning of communities that are on the margins of society or have been forgotten. Costa is not a neutral observer. The questions he is interested in have developed and been felt through the twists and turns of his own life story as recorded in his memory.
15:10 Telliskivi Creative City’s outdoor galleries
Telliskivi 60a/8
Small outdoor exhibitions in the centre of the Telliskivi Creative City’s part of the tour are
Telliskivi Creative City Gallery
Santa Zukker “The Game”
Martin Siplane “Fassaadid”
Three Tree Gallery
“A Cry for Change – the Life of Caged Hens in Estonia”
Outdoor Gallery
Ave Palm “Drunken Time Under the Floorboards.”
Dome Gallery
Origami creatures by Vivita creativity accelerator
Street Gallery
Nika Kutsia “Gomi Mountain”
15:30 Juhan Kuusi Documentary Photo Centre (Telliskivi 60a/5)
“Juhan Kuus — Portraits. Up Close & Personal”
“Juhan Kuus — Portraits. Up Close & Personal” exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of one of Estonia’s most renowned photographers. Although classical portrait photography was not Juhan’s primary focus, his skill, sensitive eye, and courage to get up close and personal tell universal stories of humanity, history and human dignity as reflected through close-ups and intimate camera contact.
Telliskivi Creative City exhibitions
Telliskivi Creative City’s gallery
Telliskivi 60a/1
Telliskivi 60a/2, 1st floor
Entrance: free, Mon-Fri 11:00 – 19:00; Sat-Sun 11:00 – 17:00
Santa Zukker “The Game”
Martin Siplane “Facades”
Three Tree Gallery
Telliskivi Creative City outdoor area
Entrance: free, 24/7
“A Cry for Change – the Life of Caged Hens in Estonia”
Outdoor Gallery
Telliskivi 60a
Entrance: free, 24/7
Ave Palm “Drunken Time Under the Floorboards.”
Dome Gallery
Telliskivi 60a
Entrance: free, 24/7
Origami creatures by Vivita creativity accelerator
Container Gallery
Telliskivi Creative City outdoor area opposite the playground
Entrance: free, 24/7
Art Up Street Gallery
Telliskivi 60a/1, next to Fika cafe
Entrance: free, 24/7
Nika Kutsia “Gomi Mountain”
Fotgrafiska Tallinn
Telliskivi 60a/8
Wed – Fri 9:00 – 20:00
Sat 10:00 – 20:00
Sun 10:00 – 18:00
Discounted price of €12 with a TMW pass or ticket
Elizaveta Porodina “Un/Masked”
A rising star in fashion photography, Elizaveta works with leading fashion houses such as Dior, Moncler and Carolina Herrera. Her imagery is surreal, dreamy and intimate.
Peter Lindbergh “Lightness of Being”
Lindbergh is recognised as one of the world’s most influential photographers, transforming the perception of fashion photography and the individuals captured through his lens.
Simen Johan “Until the kingdom comes”
Simen drew attention in the early 90s by merging digital manipulation with traditional darkroom techniques. Johan’simagesreveal poetic and often unexpected relationships, the illusory and multifaceted nature of existence.
Juhan Kuusi Documentary Photo Centre
Telliskivi 60a/5
Wed – Fri 14:00 – 18:00
Sat – Sun 12:00 – 18:00
Entrance €7, discount ticket €5
For free to the visitors under 18 yrs
Photo exhibition “Juhan Kuus portraits. Up Close & Personal”
“When they write the real story of South Africa, they’ll need the pictures of Juhan Kuus to illustrate it.”, Chris Marais, one of the straightest, bluntest, take-no-prisoners journalists of South Africa.
The exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of one of Estonia’s most renowned photographers and focuses on his portraits. Although classical portrait photography was not Juhan’s primary focus, his skill, sensitive eye, and courage to get up close and personal tell universal stories of humanity, history and human dignity as reflected through close-ups and intimate camera contact.
Exhibition and the second expanded edition of the book “Juhan Kuus, the Measure of Humanity” contains, in addition to his best works, 37 new photographs, most of which have not been publicly presented before. Most were selected from an earlier period of Juhan Kuus’s work, from 1970 to 1986. The photographs have been chosen from Juhan’s collection of negatives, which is now in the care of the Juhan Kuus Foundation.
The exhibition remains open until May.4.
Vaal Gallery
Telliskivi 60a/5
Tue – Fri 12:00 – 18:00
Sat 12:00 -16:00
Entrance: free
PoCo – Pop and Contemporary Art Museum
Rotermanni 2
Mon – Sun 10:00 – 20:00
For free with TMW Artist and PRO Pass; 50% discount with TMW Festival Pass
Vaal Gallery is a space and intermediary link between Estonian artists and art-loving people. Vaal Gallery’s exhibitions create high-level images of both Estonian contemporary and classical art. The 2024 spring auction takes place on April 25 and 27.
Welcome to PoCo AI LAB, where artificial intelligence and creativity merge to create a world of exploration. Our lab features a main screen presenting a remarkable collection of AI-generated artworks, music videos, and short films. In addition, our smaller room showcases AI-generated artworks and short films curated by Daily.xyz and the works of the talented alumni of Curious Refuge. Don’t miss the VR glasses station for immersive experiences and gaming. Exclusive AI-generated artworks by Roope Rainisto are displayed on our smaller screens. For tranquility or unique photo opportunities, visit our immersive mirror room. PoCo AI LAB offers a blend of technological marvels and artistic expressions, inviting you to discover and enjoy its offerings.
Martin Recker and Paul Hauptmeier: “Time Lines”
Corridor of the B building (Telliskivi 60a)
Fri. April 5 16-22
Sat, April 6 12-22
Free entrance
The 60-meter sound art installation Time Lines by German artist duo Martin Recker and Paul Hauptmeier explores the fleeting nature of events and the passage of moments within the context of a multidimensional perception of time. It touches upon the impending tipping points of global climate change as well as personal experiences of disorientation in time. The audience embarks on a journey through a dreamlike corridor of sound, rhythm, light, and water. The elements create a surreal, dystopian rainforest, where water drips onto metal plates from a height of six meters, lights stretch and reverse the perception of time and sounds pass you as musical shadows.
Paul Hauptmeier caught the attention of the festival organisers’ in 2022 at the Venice Biennale, where he participated with the site-specific work Diaphanous Sound. Both Recker and Hauptmeier are co-founders of ZiMMT, a music and technology center in Leipzig.
A2022 at the Venice Biennale, where he participated with the site-specific work Diaphanous Sound. Both Recker and Hauptmeier are co-founders of ZiMMT, a music and technology center in Leipzig.
Check out photos from previous years:
TMW Art 2024
TMW Art 2023
TMW Art 2022
TMW Art 2021
TMW Art 2020
TMW Art 2019
TMW Art 2018
