School holiday special: guided tour for youth

Fotografiska offers a meaningful way to spend the school holidays, inviting young people to a unique photography tour. The museum’s guides dispel the myth that museums are dusty and boring places by engaging visitors with exciting details about the exhibitions and offering captivating tours. You'll always leave our tours with more than you came in with.

The tour will be led by Fotografiska’s first guide, Elo Aun. According to her colleagues, Elo has an enviably broad knowledge, is inspiring, empathetic, and loves to discover new and intriguing perspectives in the exhibitions.

During the autumn school break, Fotografiska will feature two major group exhibitions: "In Bloom" and "NUDE." Both exhibitions tackle fascinating and engaging topics that are best understood and explored with the help of a guide.

"NUDE"

Autumn kicked off powerfully at Fotografiska with the exhibition "NUDE," which presents 32 female artists' interpretations of the nude body. Through various creative approaches, the exhibition breaks away from traditional depictions of the nude body, presenting it in all its shameless honesty and glory, with contemporary freshness and freedom from constraints, all viewed through the female gaze. The result is an environment where expected roles no longer apply, habitual perspectives shift, and power hierarchies are overturned. Estonian artists Cloe Jancis and Marlen Kärema also participate in the exhibition.

"In Bloom"

The "In Bloom" exhibition showcases awe-inspiring fragility, where beauty meets danger, and the familiar collides with the unknown. Nature is a mystery—strong and sublime, yet fragile and fleeting. Tamed or wild, pruned or untouched, influenced and altered by humans. Bright and beautiful, yet dark and menacing at the same time. It’s a sacred refuge from which everything has evolved. This mix of contemporary photography, video, sculpture, and installations highlights the place of nature in modern art. Seventeen contemporary artists, all intrigued by understanding, discovering, and expressing themselves in this world, represent nature’s beauty, abundance, fragility, and diversity. Together, they create an inspiring and conceptual philosophical reflection on the cycle of life and death and the impermanence of time. Among the renowned international artists is acclaimed Estonian artist Heikki Leis.