"Loor. Connecting Inner Landscapes"

ARS Project Space 18.07.–8.08.2026

E–R 12–18, L 12–16

Mon–Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16

Opening 17 July at 17.00

Following LOORE’s 2025–2026 residency programme in Estonia for Ukrainian creative professionals, eight participating artists will present their work in the group exhibition Loor. Connecting Inner Landscapes, on view at ARS Project Space in Tallinn from 18 July to 8 August 2026. The exhibition features works by artists Apl315 and Tania Bakum, land artists Bohdan Lokatyr and Marharyta Zhurunova, photographer and researcher Daryna Mamaisur, composer Anna Leonova, composer and musician Make Like a Tree and writer Olha Svyripa. The exhibition is curated by artist, curator and cultural organiser Viktoria Berezina based in Tartu, Estonia. During the programme, the artists were hosted by residencies across Estonia, including Pärnu Loovlinnak, Arvo Pärt Centre, EAA Muhu Art Residency, Kordon, TYPA, Massia, NART, Estonian Literary Society and Copper Leg Art Residency.

Throughout their residencies, the participating artists immersed themselves in local contexts, creating works shaped by encounters with Estonian landscapes, communities and cultural heritage. Spanning visual art, land art, sound and writing, the works reflect personal dialogues between Ukrainian cultural memory and Estonia’s contemporary environment. The exhibition brings these diverse voices together in a shared space.

Loor. Connecting Inner Landscapes unfolds through thematic zones: works engaging with nature, found objects and the tactile language of place (landscape and material); musical and sonic compositions emerging from residency encounters (sound and silence); and literary reflections shaped by displacement, observation and return (text and memory). Residencies are both journeys and places of arrival: they remove artists from familiar surroundings while offering a temporary home. As such, the residency becomes a site of slow observation, exchange and subtle transformation. This exhibition traces those transformations.

The exhibition Loor. Connecting Inner Landscapes opens on 17 July at 17.00. The show will be concluded by a discussion featuring the artists on 8 August, moderated by journalist and researcher Michael Cole.

The residency programme and exhibition are organised by LOORE – Estonian Creative Residencies Network. The residency programme is funded by Nordic Culture Point and the Estonian Ministry of Culture, while the Cultural Endowment of Estonia funds the exhibition. The exhibition is supported by ARS Art Factory and the Estonian Artists’ Association.

The participation of writer Olha Svyripa was co-supported by the Culture Moves Europe programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

Vegetable-led restaurant Klorofüll, located in ARS Art Factory, is collaborating with the opening on 17 July and the closing event on 8 August. Throughout the exhibition, Klorofüll will showcase a Ukrainian-themed menu, reinterpreting traditional flavours through hyper-local, micro-seasonal Estonian ingredients.

Artists: Apl315, Tania Bakum, Anna Leonova, Bohdan Lokatyr, Make Like a Tree, Daryna Mamaisur, Olha Svyripa, Marharyta Zhurunova

Curator: Viktoria Berezina

Text: Viktoria Berezina

Graphic design: Vahram Muradyan

Audiovisual installation: Sten Saarits

Photographer: Marlene Leppänen (opening)

Coordination and production: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo

Communication: Karin Kahre

Editing and translation: Karin Kahre

Public programme: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo