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.
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.
