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TALLINN 17 October – 20 December 2020 May you be loved and protected Dénes Farkas, Tõnis Saadoja and Jevgeni Zolotko Tallinn Art Hall The current exhibition in the main gallery at Tallinn Art Hall is a pure and unadulterated wonder. There are many different ways that a curator can approach the process of assembling an exhibition, whether it involves a single artist or a group. Since the 1980s, it has been increasingly common for curators working in major institutions – be the

TALLINN 14 October – 2 November 2020 Hobusepea Gallery Paint story August Sai Paint story by August Sai at Hobusepea Gallery is the second exhibition worth visiting in the Old Town this week. This is very definitely a painter’s exhibition in the sense that everyone that has trained as a painter or fallen for the medium can relate to the physical painterly nature of Sai’s explorations. This is an exhibition that not only engages the viewer in terms of the image and what the ar

TALLINN 13 – 31 October Draakon Gallery Demiurge Tupperware Lauri Koppel There are at least two good reasons to wander down to the cluster of Estonian Artist Association galleries on Pikk and Hobusepea streets. Read this and the next Northeast post to see why. The title of the exhibition currently at Draakon Gallery in Pikk Street, while not immediately attractive, nevertheless piqued my curiosity. Why has the artist Lauri Koppel used these two words ‘demiurge’ and ‘Tupperwar

TALLINN 6 October 2020 After posting my top 5 coffees in Tallinn last week, I have since experienced a coffee that blows all five out of the water. This cannot be compared with the five from that list but has to be placed in a super class of its own – coffee royalty. The disappointment I was experiencing after having returned from the coffee excellence that can be quite easily found in Sydney and Melbourne (after a year downunder) sent me in search of a decent coffee in Talli

TALLINN Outlook – 40 Years of Street Photography in Estonia Until 11 October Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre There is just time to catch this extraordinary exhibition of photography at the Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre in Telliskivi before it closes this Sunday. This is a super gem of an exhibition and although the venue is small compared to its richer (and more expensive) neighbour across the courtyard, you will find the entry fee of 5 euros (3 euros for concession