About
The Pseudo Tours story
Pseudo Tours is the pioneer brand of street art tours in Estonia. The founder and guide Salme carried out her first street art tour in Tartu in 2014 and has been involved since with street art related events; today she is one of the organizers of Rural Urban Art, a street art festival for small towns. The street art tours are based on Salme’s experience gained through coordinating street art events and collaborating with artists, as well as thorough research on the Estonian and international street art scene from 2012 until today. The newest tours are created in collaboration with all Pseudo guides.
Our guides give these tours for a reason – from admiration for street art & graffiti and from a wish to share knowledge.
Our tour guides
Salme
In 2013 I took part of Berlin’s Alternative Tour and suddenly it became clear to me what was my calling. The sense of adventure, amazing artworks with fascinating stories and skilled tour guides were just too inspiring. Being deeply passionate about street art and graffiti, unexplored areas and traveling as well as enjoying communicating, I realized that I had always wanted to become a street art tour guide and therefore founded Pseudo Tours.
In 2016 I wrote my Master thesis on the history & development of street art; I’ve contributed to numerous street art related events and today co-organize the street art festival Rural Urban Art.
Kerly Ritval
I love travelling – conquering mountain tops and discovering the citys.
For one year I studied extreme sports and hiking in Norwegian folkhighschool and after that travelled for one year around Europe with a campervan. Back in Estonia I studied art science and visual culture in Estonian Academy of Arts. There I started to have deeper interest in public space and in street art. I love taggers for their rawness and mentality, stencil art for their critique about society and mural makers for their talent to fill the space with unique atmosphere. Every art piece has a story and I am more than happy to share these!