Alo Valge
Alo Valge (born 1991) holds a bachelor’s degree in painting from the University of Tartu and a master’s degree in painting from the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2017, he was selected as a finalist for the Baltic “Young Painter Prize.” His works can be found in private collections around the world.
Jeroen van der Most
Jeroen van der Most is an Amsterdam-based artist who has been combining traditional art with algorithms, data and artificial intelligence for over 10 years. His works have been featured in numerous international publications. Previously, PoCo has exhibited his work “Vegetable Vendetta”, which, in a curious and technologically clever way, uses artificial intelligence to enable a potato to market itself.
About the artist: jeroenvandermost.com
Katja Tukiainen
Visual artist and painter, Katja Tukiainen was born in 1969 in Pori, Finland. She started to draw and paint autofictional girls during her teenage years. Tukiainen has combined experimental comics and narrative painting since the beginning of her artistic expression, and her shakedown of the tradition was enthusiastic and even avantgardistic in the Finnish field of visual art of 1990’s.
In the mid of 1990s Katja studied painting at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia), graduated in 1996 with the Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and year 2009 with Master of Fine Arts from Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, where she continued directly to the doctorate of fine arts and defended her artistic doctoral thesis called The Girl Army –Narrative painting in space in the spring of 2022. Tukiainen has held several solo exhibitions, participated in numerous group exhibitions and published artist’s monographs and comic books in Finland and abroad. Her exhibitions and painting installations have been exhibited in both galleries and museums. Her works are included in several public and private art collections.
“With my paintings, sculptures and installations I lead the audience to the world where cute and minor creatures have an opinion and the power. When I am reading daily news I cannot always believe in goodness, but in the world of my art good wins bad 6-0. People say my works are provocative and they speak out, but still they are sensitive. It is more than ok to say that,” Tukiainen says.
Tommy Cash, Martin Saar, Antti Eklund
The exhibition poses the question “What next, Tommy?” contemplating what is the final destination for an unpredictable, boundary-pushing artist whose creative expression is ever-evolving. To quote another iconic figure frequently portrayed in pop art, Winston Churchill: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” The exhibition lays out portraits by Estonian artist Martin Saar and Finnish artist Antti Eklund.
Overseeing the exhibition is the hungry yet distant gaze of Andy Warhol, captured in a 1981 performance video of him eating a hamburger. For those new to pop art and curious about its web of references, here’s a fun fact worth dropping into a conversation: Tommy Cash’s video “Espresso Macchiato Winner of Eesti Laul 2025 (and Eurovision 2025)” is a playful tribute to this very Warhol burger video.
Tommy Cash’s works “Hotwheels”, “Demon” and “Mona Lisa” are on loan from the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia and were previously featured in the 2019 exhibition “Tommy Cash & Rick Owens. The Pure and the Damned.”
Kostabi & Kostabi
The joint art exhibition unites the works of two Estonian-American artists, brothers Kalev Mark Kostabi and Indrek Paul Kostabi.
Mark Kostabi, an internationally renowned pop artist, has established himself as a recognizable brand in the art world with his iconic style and faceless, expressive figures. His work is strongly inspired by Andy Warhol, where art, image and marketing become one.
Indrek Paul Kostabi has made a name for himselt as a visual artist, producer and musician, being a founding member of bands such as Youth Gone Mad, White Zombie and Psychotica. He brings his own unique visual style to the exhibition.
The exhibition is curated by Jaan Heinsoo and Greesi Desiree Langovits and all artwork is available for purchase on artner.ee platform.
Robin Nõgisto
Robin Nõgisto (b. 1992) is an artist from Tallinn. Having graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in painting, he also works in film and music. He likes to combine painting with moving images and images with sound, but says that painting is still the ultimate art form for him. He has also said that many things in his art come from dreams. Yes, it is a psychedelic fantasy world that draws inspiration from the endless reservoir of popular culture, where Count Dracula could easily find himself on board a yellow submarine jamming with the Beatles, and he wouldn’t even be surprised by that fact.
Antti Eklund
Antti Eklund’s career spans multiple disciplines. As an architect, professor of graphic design, and strategic business coach, he has collaborated with renowned companies like Marimekko and Alessi, and has launched several international brands, including VEEN spring water. Despite his diverse career, Eklund’s true passion has always been painting, a passion he has pursued full-time for the past 16 years.
The exhibit consists of original silk-screened portrait series of seven world impacting individuals. Eklund´s goal is to revive, and renew, the traditions of portrait painting.
Pop art has its roots in the art movements from the beginning of the 20th century. Movements such as Surrealism and Dadaism were the first to draw the attention of the public to the mundane – the way that the everyday has both inherent weirdness and our own unconscious urges woven into its fabric. Through artists like Man Ray or Marcel Duchamp, these tears in our day to day become apparent.
Celebrities, beautiful women and once in a lifetime kind of events — the world around us knows how to capture both our attention and imagination and not let them go. Pop art finds itself inherently on the crossing between reality and the fantasy image we create around it. Whether through cheeky references or stylised language of art, Pop art introduces ways of seeing that help us discover ourselves at the same cross-roads.
Pop art as a historical phenomenon was wider than the tight circle knit around Andy Warhol and his studio The Factory in New York. The referential, tongue in cheek, colourful movement found different expressions all around the world. In PoCo Pop art from around the world finds a home. From the collages of Mimmo Rotella (IT) to the one of Ismo Kajander (FIN).
PoCo has two floors filled with temporary and permanent exhibitions.
It is possible to book museum rooms, the whole museum or a separate event space PoCo Lab.
In the heart of Tallinn. Rotermanni district. Short walk from the Harbour. Surrounded by dining and shopping options.
- Last entry 19:00, +372 507 0177
Adults
18€
Seniors
10€
Children
6€
Pupil (13-18yrs)
10€
Student, teacher
13€
Family
36€
Request a guided tour: book@poco.art
75€
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In the heart of Tallinn. Rotermanni district. Short walk from the Harbour. Surrounded by dining and shopping options.
- Last entry 19:00, +372 507 0177
