On 5 September, the most comprehensive survey exhibition ever of the oeuvre of the feminist artist and activist Anna-Stina Treumund (1982–2017), How to Recognise a Lesbian?, will open to the public in the Kumu Art Museum. The exhibition and the accompanying book map her activities as a photographer, artist and activist. The curators of the exhibition are Piret Karro-Arrak, Magdaleena Maasik and Triin Tulgiste-Toss (1987–2024).

This autumn, the Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn presents Garden of Delights: The Seventeenth Century in Bloom, a major exhibition organised in collaboration with The Phoebus Foundation (Antwerp). From 30 August 2025, more than 300 works from the Foundation’s collection will be on view in Tallinn, offering an unprecedented exploration of nature and flowers in seventeenth-century art of both the Northern and Southern Netherlands.

22 July marks the 307th anniversary of the founding of Kadriorg Palace and its park and the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Kadriorg Art Museum as a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia dedicated to foreign art. Since the Kadriorg Park Flower Garden is also celebrating the same anniversary, festive events dedicated to all of the anniversaries will take place both in the palace and in the park, offering guests a rich and diverse programme.

The Art Museum of Estonia is marking the Song and Dance Celebration week with special guided tours across all five of its branches: Kumu Art Museum, Niguliste Museum, Kadriorg Art Museum, Mikkel Museum, and Adamson-Eric. On July 2–4, each museum will host two special short tours daily: at 1 p.m. in English and at 3 p.m. in Estonian.

On Friday, 13 June, renovation work began in the Kumu atrium, the central lobby of the Kumu Art Museum. The renovation will continue through the end of the year, with the most intensive construction activity scheduled for the summer months. Despite the ongoing work, the museum will remain open to visitors as usual.

On Saturday, 7 June the inner courtyard of Kumu will be filled with artists and performers with links to Iceland. There will be workshops inspired by Iceland and the Nordic countries, exhibitions tours, live music and delicious Nordic food. This Kumu Courtyard Festival is inspired by A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird, the solo exhibition of the Icelandic video artist and painter Ragnar Kjartansson.

The exhibition Art Addiction: Reigo Kuivjõgi’s Art Collection will open at the Mikkel Museum on 24 May, presenting a summary of Reigo Kuivjõgi’s long-term collecting process. The exhibition offers the joy of meeting many Estonian artists: both luminaries and classics, as well as representatives of the youngest generation of painters.

The first Estonian solo exhibition of the works of the Icelandic video artist and painter Ragnar Kjartansson will open in the Kumu Art Museum on 16 May. The display will include six large-scale works from 2004–2025.

From 8 May the exhibition Spiegel im Spiegel: Encounters Between Estonian and German Art from Lucas Cranach to Arvo Pärt and Gerhard Richter will be open in the magnificent exhibition hall of the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden. This is the largest ever display of Estonian art in Germany. The exhibition was organised in cooperation between the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunststammlungen Dresden, SKD) and the Art Museum of Estonia, and it is being curated by Marion Ackermann, Sergey Fofanov and Kadi Polli.

Under the leadership of the choreographer and director Teet Kask, a series of dance events will begin at the Niguliste Museum this spring, during which dance artists will reveal their visions of the Dance of Death, painted in the workshop of the Lübeck master Bernt Notke at the end of the 15th century.

The exhibition Existentialism, showcasing contemporary Ukrainian art, will take place in the Mikkel Museum in Tallinn from 9 to 11 May 2025, as a part of the Ukrainian Art Festival UKU. At the end of the pop-up exhibition, on 11 May at 6 pm, an art auction will be held in the Kadriorg Art Museum in order to support Ukrainian artists and raise money for medical equipment for war victims.

2025 marks 500 years from the publication of the first book in Estonian. Marking the Year of the Estonian Book, an exhibition opens on Friday, 25 April at the Niguliste Museum which presents the rarest relics of the history of Estonian books and provides an overview of the development of the written language and published materials from the 16th to the 19th century.