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.
PINK GIRLS
Katja Tukiainen
28.03 - 31.10.2025
Finnish artist Katja Tukiainen uses pink color scale from anarchic neon pink to sensitive rose to express all aspects of humanity. Her sassy pink girls have a lot to say. This is Katja Tukiainen´s first solo exhibition in Estonia.
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Tommy Cash, Antti Eklund, Martin Saar
10.04-31.10.2025
Eurovision is pop. As a prelude to Tommy Cash´s tour de force at the 2025 competition PoCo opened an exhibition to pose a question as to what is the next destination of this unpredictable, boundary-pushing artist whose creative expression is ever-evolving.
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Mark Kostabi, Paul Kostabi
29.05-31.09.2025
PoCo Museum’s satellite gallery in Ajamaja and the Manna La Roosa restaurant are hosting this unique joint exhibition, organized by the Artner.ee art platform. It brings together the works of two Estonian-American artists, brothers Mark Kostabi and Paul Kostabi.
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Robin Nõgisto
15.03-15.09.2025
Robin Nõgisto's colorful and detailed pop-psychedelics have found their place on the wall of the PoCo Pop Art Museum. Nõgisto's art is characterized by nostalgia for times that the artist, who was born in 1992, never really experienced: the hippie era of the late 1960s and the MTV heyday of the early 1990s.
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Antti Eklund
31.10.2024-25.03.2025
In a world long dominated by the same old structures, it is time to see the power that emerges from diversity. Antti Eklund’s series juxtaposes portraits of men representing traditional political power with women embodying socially conscious grassroots movements. The exhibit consists of original silk-screened portrait series of seven world impacting individuals.
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ICONS
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.
AROUND THE WORLD
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).
CONSUMPTION AND GLAMOUR
Speaking in the language of brands, consumer goods and trademarks, the position of Pop art pieces has often been precarious. Where does the critique end and where does simple advertising begin? When does advertising itself turn into a form of critique? PoCo invites our visitors to contemplate on this duality inherent to the art movement itself.
STREET ART
Street art has its origins in Pop art and the umbilical cord between the two can still be felt. Both from the “in your face” attitude that the images carry to the insolent jokes in the centre of the artworks themselves. Through contemporary masters of street art like Keith Haring (US) or Banksy (UK), PoCo presents contemporary art as something wider than what can be seen in the halls of art galleries.
DIGITAL ART
One of PoCos missions is documenting Pop art as it has both made its way into and shaped digital culture as we know it today. From NFTs to virtual- and augmented reality, the museum is focused on highlighting the trends of today as they become the future.
