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Starting on 28 May, the exhibition Enno Hallek: Portable Sunset will showcase works by one of Estonia’s most significant artists in exile. The exhibition is being curated by Liisa Kaljula.

In connection with Kumu’s 20th anniversary summer, Kristi Kongi’s exhibition Chromatic Drift and the museum’s inner courtyard will also be open on Mondays, when the rest of the museum is closed, from 25 May through 30 September. From the beginning of May through the end of September, two of the Art Museum of Estonia’s branches – the Kadriorg Art Museum and the Niguliste Museum – will also be open on Mondays.

Kristi Kongi’s (b. 1985) solo exhibition Chromatic Drift, opening in the Great Hall of the Kumu Art Museum on 22 May, creates an immersive sensory and spatial experience. Central to this experience is colour, a hallmark of Kristi Kongi’s oeuvre. Extending beyond the canvas, colours and motifs have spilled onto the museum’s floor, walls, windows and into the outdoor space. The exhibition, curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla, is one of the highlights of the Kumu Art Museum’s anniversary year.

In keeping with the motto of the Kumu Art Museum’s 20th anniversary, Kumu Brings People Together, the artist Pankaj Tiwari’s TENT: School for Performative Practices will take place in Kumu’s courtyard from 9–20 May. The programme Rehearsals for Solidarity, taking place in and around the tent school, teaches participants about togetherness and collaboration.

The Conservation Department of the Art Museum of Estonia is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the triple exhibition From Restorer to Conservator. Two of these exhibitions will open on 10 April: the one in the Niguliste Museum will focus on the restoration of mediaeval and contemporary art, and the one in the Kadriorg Art Museum will take a look at the work of conservators of paintings. The third exhibition has been open in the Adamson-Eric Museum since 6 March and focuses on works of art on delicate and fragile paper. 

The exhibition Estonian Realities (“Réalités estoniennes”), in collaboration between the Art Museum of Estonia and the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art (Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, MAM), opens on 3 April. The exhibition introduces French audiences to post-World War II Estonian art through the work of three outstanding women from different generations.

The Supervisory Board of the Art Museum of Estonia Foundation decided by consensus that Sirje Helme will continue as Chief Executive Officer of the Art Museum of Estonia Foundation for a further two years, in line with the candidate’s preferred contract length.

On 28 March, the Mikkel Museum will open the exhibition Delft Blue: Ceramic Treasures from a Private Collection, offering a unique glimpse into the ceramic world of the collector Heikki Pauts.

The Art Museum of Estonia is the main partner of the major retrospective exhibition of Konrad Mägi’s works opening on 24 March at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, featuring more than 60 works. This is the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to one of Estonia’s most renowned modernists. The contemporary artist Kristina Õllek has also been invited to participate in the exhibition.

The exhibition Pictures from Travels, introducing the works of one of the most prominent Estonian artists of the early 20th century, Karin Luts (1904–1993), opens at the Kumu Art Museum on 20 March. The exhibition focuses on watercolours and sketches from Luts’s trips to Italy, Spain and France, as well as the artist’s final homeland, Sweden. The exhibition at Kumu is a further development of the exhibition of the same name that took place at the Tartu Art Museum.

On 26 February, Enno Hallek’s daughter Camilla Hallek and Sirje Helme, Director General of the Art Museum of Estonia, signed a donation agreement in Stockholm, according to which thirteen works by Enno Hallek from the years 1990–2010 will be added to the museum’s collection.

The exhibition From Restorer to Conservator will open in the Adamson-Eric Museum on 6 March, celebrating the golden jubilee of the Conservation Department of the Art Museum of Estonia.