Programme
LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS
INSTALLATION
ATLASE PUU
Teemu Määttänen
In Atlas Tree, slowly shifting animations move across the surface of a tree. The changing patterns intertwine with the texture of the tree, forming an intricate web reminiscent of traffic reports, migration patterns, and weather maps. As the animations unfold, the tree becomes part of these shifting maps, at times creating the illusion that it is the tree itself that is moving rather than the images projected onto it.
INSTALLATION
MAJAHALDJAS
Rasmus Puksmann
The light installation "House Spirit" is a temporary space created in a grove of trees that acts as a beacon, inviting the viewer to come closer, to search, and to discover. The work offers an opportunity to experience the alternation of light and darkness while becoming conscious of the presence of space or its dissipation.
INSTALLATION
HUMAN TRACE & DIGITAL WAVE
Michaël Verlinden
Utilizing real-time motion capture technology, each gesture generates evolving particles, intricate forms, and luminous landscapes. This installation facilitates a dialogue between the human body and digital space, wherein every movement leaves a transient visual imprint. Each participant acts as both performer and creator, producing a unique visual experience that evolves and dissipates with each subsequent interaction.
INSTALLATION
KOTERMANN
Emer Värk
Vee ja öö piiril seilab üksik paat läbi sügavuste, kus miski ei maga. Igal rahval on olnud oma meri ja oma koletis. Põhjala kraken, Jaapani kummitusvaal, Filipiinide madu, kes neelab kuu. Eesti näkid, kes kutsuvad laulma. Kõik need tõusevad veest, haaravad ja vajuvad tagasi pimedusse. Looduse vägi on vana ega küsi luba.
INSTALLATION
JUHUSLIKU VALGUSE ORKESTER & KOSMILINE KÖÖK
Erik Alalooga & Janno Bergmann
This joint exhibition places Janno Bergmann’s work “Cosmic Kitchen” and Erik Alalooga’s “Orchestra of Random Light” into dialogue. The backlight of the photographs printed on the surface of Janno Bergmann’s lightboxes reacts to the rhythmic patterns of Alalooga’s mechanical sound machines.
INSTALLATION
空 KŪ, TÜHJUS
Ran Ancor (IT/GER)
“空 Kū (most often translated as “Void”, but also meaning “Sky” or “Heaven”) represents those things beyond our everyday experience, particularly those things composed of pure energy. It is of particular importance as the highest of the five elements.
INSTALLATION
VALGUSKODA
Aivi Kukk & Triin Taberland
At the heart of this installation is the *püstkoda* (tepee/tent) as a material object. Its antithesis is a primal memory – an intangible element stored within us, spreading through the space like smoke. This combination does not lead to annihilation, but creates a new quality.
INSTALLATION
SA LEBAD KÕIGE ALL
Evelyn Grzinich
Our lives depend on soil, yet we rarely think of it as something valuable that needs to be cared for and nourished. In contemporary thinking, soil has been reduced to little more than a place from which to harvest crops, to trample and plough endlessly, and into which to pour waste and debris, because soil seems to tolerate everything.
INSTALLATION
PUTUKATE ORG
Tartu Lastekunstikool & Hämeenlinna Aimokoulu
In the Perennial Valley of the University of Tartu Botanical Garden, in the autumn darkness a mysterious microworld comes to life. The joint installation, created by the young artists of Tartu and Hämeenlinna art schools, explores biodiversity and metamorphoses, revealing the secret lives of both utopian and realistic insects to the viewer. It is an installation environment where new energy is born from the dark.
INSTALLATION
PRAGUDES PEITUB ALGUS
Students of Estonian Academy of Arts
Every crack is simultaneously an end and a beginning – a place where a fading and old story meets something new. This crumbling may appear to be an abrupt and silencing end, like a quiet form of death that halts the existing flow. But it is not emptiness. Right from this deep and jagged rupture, where everything seemingly stops, a new vitality begins to emerge.
INSTALLATION
VOX RADICUM (VOICES OF THE ROOTS)
Raul Telliskivi
When the crisp autumn air and fading light take over, life in the botanical garden slows down and waits. People are drawn then toward fire and light, to tell stories and sing songs. Together, we create an experience that belongs only to that one moment. Sometimes it breathes calmly, sometimes it rushes along it’s digital roots. Vox radicum amplifies our music and song through modern technology across the landscape of the alpine garden, creating a shared flow between music, people and light.
INSTALLATION
PESA
KREAT MINDS
What happens when you truly take a moment to slow down and focus on something? "Nest" is a counter-balance to the endless rushing and the dark autumn season, when there is always a lot to do and the sunnier times are still far away. The light-playing polyhedrons create an otherworldly and multi-layered labyrinth of reflections. The circular floor plan forms a kind of light-nest, which draws the viewer in and creates a solemn atmosphere in which time and thoughts pause for a moment.
TICKET PRICE
Choose a suitable evening on Fienta. Come and be a part of a world of light, where autumn nature, wondrous light art, lighting design, and good music come together.
Single admission to the Light Biennale area at the Botanical Garden on an evening of your choice.
10€
Discounted ticket for a member of a large family (with a Family Card)
8€
For preschool-aged children and the accompanying person of a visitor with special needs
FREE
3-day ticket
25€

TIME AND PLACE
22.10 – 24.11.2026
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