Graphic design by Anna-Liisa Sääsk

RUA 2024: Elva municipality

From the 27th of May until the 1st of June RUA street art festival took place in Elva town and the surrounding regions: Puhja, Aakre, Annikoru, Valguta, and Rõngu. 

The 7th edition of the RUA festival brought together ten local and international artists to create wall paintings and brighten up the everyday surroundings of the local people of Elva municipality. The artists came from eight different countries and filled the walls in Elva and the surrounding villages with the freshness and positivity of their magnificent artwork.

The styles of the paintings ranged from pure graffiti to portraits to psychedelic landscapes to the UNESCO-listed 18th century Ukrainian painting technique of Petrykivka. The local habitants of Elva's villages greeted the artists with the utmost care, providing them with treats and kind words. In Annikoru village, where Lily Brick painted, the locals held a folklore dance performance in the artist's honour.

Artists and locations of the artworks:
Greete Okas (Estonia) · Rõngu Care Center, Valga mnt 9, Rõngu
Robin Nõgisto (Estonia) · Elva Library, Tartu mnt 9, Elva
Lily Brick (Spain) · Annikoru tee 8, Annikoru
Viv Magia & Ruusa Art (Finland) · Kesk 32, Elva
Viktoria Berezina (Ukraina) · Valguta bus stop, Valguta
Karolis Dezuteje & Tadas Vincaitis (Lithuania) · A building of the Rõngu School complex, Rõngu
Pablito Zago (France) · Puhja Youth Center, Viljandi tee 28/2, Puhja
Raphe (France) · Substation next to Annikoru skate park, Annikoru
Ola Kalnins (Sweden) · Aakre Community House, Mõisa tee 12, Aakre
Lauri Täht & Viktor Gurov (Estonia) · Instructors of the youth camp, fence in front of Rõngu Care Center, Valga mnt 9, Rõngu

Sponsors:
Akzo Nobel Baltics AS / Sadolin, Montana Colors, Elva vald, Color Expert, Fere OÜ, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Institut français d'Estonie , Embassy of Spain in Estonia, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Estonia, MTÜ Mondo.

Partners:
Andersoni Pruulikoda, Viinamärdi Talu & Meierei, Birch Lagoon, Ramirent, Spekter - Montana Colors Estonia, Kanarbiku Veinitalu, Verevi Motel, Pub Üksteist.

The youth camp was carried out in cooperation with MTÜ Mondo with financial support from the US government.  

Photos: Andrea Margó Rothenberg

Sponsors / Partners of 2024