New Exhibitions in Tallinn

The Seaplane Harbour – Venice – The Queen of the Seas

The history of the world’s most famous and mighty marine city awaits your discovery! The exhibition gives an overview of the rise, the golden age and the fall of the Republic of Venice and the city’s fight with environmental issues and mass tourism.

The exhibition also explains the historical ties between Venice and Estonia from the beginning of the 20th century until today.

The exhibition is open from 25 March 2023 to 7 January 2024.

The Estonian History Museum’s Maarjamäe Palace - Poster Women. The Ideological Posters of Estonia, Denmark and China

The Danish Cultural Institute in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the Estonian History Museum have created a joint exhibition “Poster Women. The Ideological Posters of Estonia, Denmark and China” that follows the developments of women’s rights through poster art from the 1940s to the 1980s. The posters demonstrate the similarities and differences between three societies.

The exhibition is open from 28 October 2022 to 21 May 2023

The Balti Jaam Market (Kalamaja Museum) – The Taste of Kalamaja

The exhibition by Kalamaja Museum presents a collection of recipes from former and current residents of Kalamaja at the Balti Jaam Market. Many of the recipes are connected to childhood memories and grandmothers cooking in the kitchen, but some brand new Kalamaja recipes are introduced as well.

The exhibition will be open from 1 February 2023

Tallinn City Life Museum Everyday companions. Handbags from 1900–1950

The main motif of the solo exhibition of the architectural photographer Martin Siplane is the temporality of urban space – the photographer puts the focus on buildings at their weakest moments, when they are still unfinished and often hidden behind scaffolding. Taking photographs of buildings under construction allows us to see them from a different angle and the images created give the buildings an unprecedented look.

 

The exhibition will be open from 15 December to 2 April 2023.

Fotografiska Tallinn - Andres Serrano. The Infamous

The photo exhibition presents items found in online stores that normalise blackface. The exhibition shows how African Americans have been caricatured in the history of the United States and how racist imagery on everyday items have shaped attitudes towards them.

The exhibition is open from 20 January to 14 May 2023.

Fotografiska – Andy Warhol. Photo Factory

Korean photo artist and fashion photographer Cho Gi-Seok believes that everything around us is connected. Mankind, nature and even machines are designed to co-exist. Cho's works are characterised by a strong composition, where every depicted element is thought out in detail. His works often depict flowers, which symbolise unity and harmony with nature.

 

The exhibition will be open from 19 August 2022 to 12 February 2023

Tallinn Russian Museum – The Power of Woman

The exhibition examines the relationship between art and science in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Visitors are introduced to depictions by both scientists and artists of various scientific branches in Estonia and the Russian Empire, including botany, zoology, climate, paleontology and medicine. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the University of Tartu Museum, the Art Museum of Estonia and the Estonian Academy of Arts. The aim is to emphasise the importance of the image in creating, shaping and verifying knowledge.

 

The exhibition will be open from 14 October 2022 to 19 March 2023

TeamLab, an art group founded in 2001, focuses on spatial installations and is one of the most famous creators of digital art in the world. The exhibition, consisting of three works, depicts the eternal cycle of nature through floral motifs and flames. The interactive element makes the exhibition particularly exciting – the visitor can influence the displayed images through a mobile application.

 

The exhibition will be open from 11 November 2022 to 7 May 2023

In the contemporary art gallery of the Kumu Art Museum, you can get to know exciting authors of contemporary art from Central and Eastern Europe. The authors and collectors of the works presented in the exhibition are treated as archaeologists of memory who highlight connections between the past and the present through personal and collective memory. What we remember affects our nature, and our nature in turn affects what we choose to remember.

 

The exhibition will be open from 18 November 2022 to 9 April 2023

Yakov Rubinstein is one of the pioneering art collectors of the Soviet period, and the exhibition presenting the remaining works from his collection opens up a diverse view of Russian art of the first third of the 20th century. Several artists represented in the exhibition had to pay for their creations with their freedom or their lives. Rubinstein also has a close connection with Estonia – the first exhibition of his art collection was hosted in 1966 at the Estonian Art Museum.

 

The exhibition will be open from 1 October 2022 to 30 April 2023

At the exhibition, you can learn about the development of handbags over the past 100 years. In the history of women's fashion, the handbag has been one of the most enduring accessories, and the changes in the style of handbags reflect the changing role of women in society over time.

 

The exhibition will be open from 7 October 2022 to 12 March 2023

In the mischievous exhibition created in cooperation with the families who visited the health museum, visitors can read funny or thought-provoking questions heard from children about the human body and related processes. The Health Museum has also added popular scientific answers to the questions, and all of this is illustrated by artist Liisa Kruusimägi's drawings. The exhibition brings the joy of discovery to both curious children and adults.

 

The exhibition will be open until 19 March 2023.