Baltic Island: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania bring visual storytelling to Tokyo

The Baltic Island exhibition at Tokyo’s Spiral Gallery will bring together more than 150 works and over 50 animated films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. There are islands that can be found on maps, and islands that exist only in the imagination. Baltic Island , a new exhibition and animation programme opening in Tokyo in June 2026, belongs emphatically to the latter category – a place made of images, silences, shadows, forests, myths, children’s books, dark jokes, Soviet-era subtext and the peculiar northern talent for saying a great deal without raising one’s voice. From 1 to 14 June 2026, the Spiral Gallery in Tokyo will host what organisers describe as the first-ever showcase of Baltic animation and illustration in Japan. Continue reading Baltic Island: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania bring visual storytelling to Tokyo at Estonian World.