We warmly invite you to join us for the exhibition opening on July 4 and experience this unique installation while meeting the artists.

From 4 July, Zuzeum Greenhouse will present “our hands meet, please stay”, an exhibition created especially for the space by US-based artists Gints Virgilijs Tilks and Jamieson Edson.

📅 Saturday, 4 July, 18:00–22:00
📍 Zuzeum Greenhouse and Rooftop Terrace
🎟️ Free admission to the exhibition and event.

We warmly invite you to join us for the exhibition opening on July 4 and experience this unique installation while meeting the artists. Following the opening, the evening will continue on the Zuzeum rooftop terrace with DJ sets by Zody Burke and Gert Gutmann. Visitors will also have the opportunity to enjoy cocktails at the Zuzeum Bar, while fresh artisanal pizzas will be served throughout the evening by Weekend Artisan Pizza.

PROGRAMME:

🔸 18:00 Exhibition opening. Available to view until 20:00. 
🔸 19:00–22:00 DJ set by Zody Burke and Gert Gutmann
🔸 12:00–21:00 Weekend Artisan Pizza on the Zuzeum Rooftop Terrace
🔸 22:00 Afterparty at Laska V21 with Daydream Jazz

Zody Burke and Gert Gutmann

For this b2b set, Zody Burke (Sapphogeist, DJ Sulk Rodeo on IDA Radio) and Gert Gutmann (Holy Motors) move between the emotional wreckage and unlikely dancefloor currents of the late aughts underground. Expect hypnagogic dream-pop, witchhouse, post-punk, freak Americana, bootgaze, rainbow rock, and more from the golden era of indie sleaze and beyond. In Tallinn, the two usually perform together as Cold Blooded Country, a project exploring the dark underside of post-Americana and its warped geographies. Equal parts haze and propulsion, the set drifts between lo-fi nostalgia and steady, body-moving rhythm.

Afterparty at Laska V21

If you’re not quite ready to let go after our hands meet, please, hold on at Zuzeum, don’t. The evening continues with the official afterparty at Laska V21 in collaboration with Daydream Jazz, where hands find each other once again.

Daydream Jazz is a series of live listening events that connects and engages people with the beautiful world of contemporary jazz music. Laska V21 provides the perfect setting: an industrial venue with a spacious terrace, cold drinks, warm summer air, and plenty of room for conversations to unfold. Alongside live music, exhibitions, listening sessions, and club nights, the bar offers a carefully curated selection of signature drinks.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

In collaboration, Jamieson Edson and Virgilijs Tilks move through the space between closeness and distance, beginning with the charged possibility of connection and the hesitation that often accompanies it. The desire to reach toward another person is met by an equally strong instinct to preserve one’s own boundaries. 

The work emerges from this tension, exploring how intimacy can be both an act of approach and a form of resistance. Coming from different visual and cultural backgrounds, artists bring distinct sensibilities into dialogue. One practice leans toward structure, weight, and architectural form; the other toward photography, fleeting gestures, and emotional immediacy. Rather than dissolving these differences, artists allow them to remain visible, shaping the work through exchange, friction, and mutual transformation. 

Throughout the installation, images of hands, touch, and suspended gestures appear as recurring traces of contact—moments that feel both intimate and uncertain, as if they are about to happen or have already slipped away. Materials behave in similar ways. Modular structures can assemble into larger environments or separate into individual forms. Laser-engraved textiles, layered plywood panels, exposed bolts, and fragmented surfaces function both as connectors and as barriers, holding together what also threatens to come apart. 

*By attending this event, you agree to have photos or videos of you or your children taken for Zuzeum marketing purposes. You can refuse to be photographed or filmed by informing the photographer or camera person.