The Museum Night’s theme, The Night is Filled with Dreams, invites visitors to reflect on the issues that communities and people associated with the museum dream about, and what the museum of our dreams would look like.
This exhibition presents a fascinating story of the handbag over the last 100 years, highlighting the impact of pop culture and celebrities on handbag trends and styles.
This exhibition highlights the use of innovative materials, new technologies and principles of sustainability in contemporary Estonian art and design. The artworks on display give us hope that a shift towards a more ethical world with a new aesthetic is indeed possible.
The new permanent exhibition highlights the versatility of the artist as a delicate painter, as well as a renowned creator of applied art who revealed the richness of his ideas and dynamic movement between various fields of art.
After his deportation and imprisonment in Siberia from 1949 to 1957, Olev Subbi (1930–2013) returned to Estonia and resumed his art studies. During the 1960s–1980s his art was exceptional under the strict Soviet Estonian regime.
Kaljo Põllu (1934–2010) is one of the most distinguished Estonian artists and a visual interpreter of the world-view of Finno-Ugric and Nordic peoples and their ancient myths.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Eero Järnefelt (1863–1937) and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt (1863–1945), two classics from the Golden Age of Finnish art, worked in the well-known Finnish artist community at Lake Tuusula. The works included in the exhibition – colourful landscapes, portraits of the artist’s community and compositions focused on everyday life – come from the rich collection of the Järvenpää Art Museum.
In the late 1980s, Siim-Tanel Annus (1960) appeared on the international scene as a performance artist. Today, the artist has moved on from performances to pictorial art, and the exhibition juxtaposes the documentation of his performances with his graphic art.
