TAB 2026 Curatorial Competition

The aim of the competition is to find a curatorial team with a strong vision to develop the central concept of TAB 2026 and curate the festival's Core Programme, which includes the Curatorial Exhibition, the Symposium, the Tallinn Vision Competition, and the TAB catalogue.

Category Project Competition
Type International, Project, Open, Two-Stage, Anonymous
Genre Architecture
Country Tallinn, Estonia
RegDeadline 8 Seprember 2025 GoogleCal iCal
8 Seprember 2025 (via Online)
Eligibility Architects, interior architects, landscape architects, urban architects, designers, curators, and scholars of architecture and art history—as well as those who work across and between these disciplines—are warmly encouraged to submit proposals. At least one of the team members must be an architect, landscape architect, urban planner, or interior architect.

Description
The Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA) invites proposals for the curatorial concept of the eighth edition of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2026.
Founded in 2011, Tallinn Architecture Biennale is Estonia's foremost international festival dedicated to architecture and the built environment. The TAB is organized by the Estonian Centre for Architecture.
The appointed curatorial team will be entrusted with formulating a central concept for TAB 2026. The TAB 2026 must engage spatial and architectural possibilities, with a clear connection to the Estonian context--broadly defined to include regional linkages, such as those with the Baltic or Nordic countries. The theme should possess conceptual clarity and topical urgency, with the potential to resonate with broader national and international architectural and cultural discourse.

Jury
Sille Pihlak - Architect at PART Architects; Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts
Aet Ader - Architect at B210; President of the Estonian Association of Architects
Kristiina Reidolv - Head of the Estonian Centre for Architecture
Jaan Kuusemets - Architect at DAGOpen OÜ; Associate Professor at TalTech University; member of the TAB 2024 curatorial team
Roland Reemaa - Architect at LLRRLLRR; Visiting Lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts and Central Saint Martins (London, UK)
Moderator/Advisors:
Maria Helena Luiga - Architect, Producer at the Estonian Centre for Architecture
Mariann Drell - Interior Architect, Strategist at the Estonian Centre for Architecture

Prize
Winning Proposal - €3,000
The Remaining Teams Selected for Stage II (4 teams) - €1,000 each
Curatorial Fee - €22,000

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
17 September 2025 - Announcement of Stage I results and shortlisted teams
26 September 2025 - Deadline for Stage II: presentations and jury interviews with selected teams
13 October 2025 - Public announcement of results and winning curatorial team
9-13 September 2026 - Opening Week of TAB 2026

Organizer
The Estonian Centre for Architecture

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