Rendezvous: Evi Tihemets and Kaupo Kikkas

Rendezvous: Evi Tihemets and Kaupo Kikkas
19 September – 18 October 2025

For the first time in Tartu: a joint exhibition by graphic artist Evi Tihemets and photographer Kaupo Kikkas

From 19 September, Gallery Pallas will host the exhibition “Rendezvous: Evi Tihemets and Kaupo Kikkas”, continuing a collaboration that began a year ago.

Since the 1950s, Evi Tihemets (b. 1932) has been capturing the Estonian landscape and the traces of human presence within it. Nearly 60 years later, Kaupo Kikkas (b. 1983) embarked on similar journeys, resulting in the audiovisual work “Traces” (in collaboration with musician Erki Pärnoja). Tihemets was among the first to recognise in Kikkas’s work a shared sensibility – an artistic and existential perception that connects two people not only here and now, but across generations. Thus began both a friendship and a shared path of exhibitions.

In autumn 2024, their first joint exhibition took place at the Krull Quarter in Tallinn. It quickly became clear that this was not a one-off project, but only the beginning. Now the artists come together in Tartu, where the spacious rooms of Gallery Pallas have made it possible to expand the exhibition and present a wider selection of works.

“Working with Evi and Kaupo has deepened my understanding of the monumental power of art – generations may change, yet as human beings we continue to return to the same questions, and we are closer to one another than we might think,” said curator Kadri Asmer.

In addition to graphic art and photography, the exhibition features sound and video projections based on the works of both Tihemets and Kikkas.

The exhibition runs until 18 October. Artist and curator tours will take place on 24 September at 5 pm (Kaupo Kikkas) and on 11 October at 3 pm (Kadri Asmer).

Supported by: Estonian Cultural Endowment, Pallas University of Applied Sciences

Further information:
Kadri Asmer
Curator
kadri.asmer@gmail.com,
+372 529 9994

Gallery Pallas
Galerii@pallasart.ee
Riia 11, Tartu
Tue-Sat 11-18

Facebook.com/GaleriiPallas

Coverphoto: Evi Tihemets and Kaupo Kikkas, summer 2024 (photo: Kaupo Kikkas)