On 6 November, the exhibition Who Is Afraid of Motherhood?, which focuses on contemporary art from the Baltic states and Central and Eastern Europe, opens in the Great Hall of the Kumu Art Museum. It is the first exhibition on such a scale in the Baltic states to address the subject of parenthood. The research project explores and broadens perspectives on motherhood and the family, bringing together a wide range of experiences and viewpoints. The exhibition is curated by Eda Tuulberg, and the exhibition design was created by Flo Kasearu as an artist-designer.
Kristi Kongi’s solo exhibition Chromatic Drift has become the most popular exhibition of the Kumu Art Museum’s anniversary year. The exhibition, which ran from 22 May to 11 October, attracted 50,000 visitors.
The Estonian artist Anu Põder’s first solo exhibition in Sweden opened in the Moderna Museet Malmö on Saturday, 24 October. The exhibition will move to the Moderna Museet Stockholm in the spring of 2027 and to the EMMA Art Museum in Finland in autumn 2028.
On 2 October, Kumu Art Museum will open the exhibition Expedition: Finno-Ugrians and the Power of Images. The exhibition explores Estonians’ relationship with Finno-Ugric Indigenous peoples, asking why ethnographic research into other Indigenous peoples became a form of self-exploration for Estonians in the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition is being curated by Linda Kaljundi, with Eha Komissarov and Bart Pushaw as curatorial consultants.
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Köler, the first professional artist of Estonian nationality, the exhibition Köler 200: Interpretations opened in the 3rd floor project space of the Kumu Art Museum. The exhibition is a further development of the show at the Rüki Gallery in Viljandi, where five artists – Mihkel Ilus, Jass Kaselaan, Marge Monko, Tõnis Saadoja and Johanna Ulfsak – offered contemporary interpretations of Köler’s work. This new version is being curated by Tiiu Saadoja.
