Loor. Connecting inner landscapes

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. ARS Project Space is located at Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn, Estonia. The exhibition is open for visits from 18 July to 8 August, Monday–Friday from 12.00–18.00 and Saturday from 12.00–16.00.

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

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

Coordination and production: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo

Communication: Karin Kahre

Editing and translation: Karin Kahre

Public programme: Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo