Artists’ Tour: Anna-Stina Treumund: How to Recognise a Lesbian?
As a part of the opening programme of the exhibition Anna-Stina Treumund: How to Recognise a Lesbian?, the artists Janina Sabaliauskaitė, Elo Vahtrik and Maria Izabella Lehtsaar will lead a guided tour of the exhibition.
In addition to works by artists who influenced Anna-Stina Treumund the most, this largest-ever exhibition of Treumund’s works sets up dialogues between her oeuvre and that of young artists from Lithuania and Estonia, who continue exploring queer and feminist topics in their art practices.
Maria Izabella Lehtsaar is a non-binary freelance artist based in Tallinn who works primarily with the under-represented lesbian experience and narrative, distorting the familiar and creating multi-layered meanings through various media.
Janina Sabaliauskaitė is a photographer and independent curator based in the UK and Lithuania. Her work is intimate and feminist, and explores the body, queer relationships, identity, sexuality and disabilities. The artist works with analogue photography and queer feminist archives, besides building her own archive.
Elo Vahtrik is an artist based in Tallinn whose work combines photography, graphics, and installation. Her practice is driven by an interest in power structures, representation, and anomalies. At the boundaries of kitsch and irony meet respect and disbelief towards the photographic image.
This event is a part of the public programme of the exhibition Anna-Stina Treumund: How to Recognise a Lesbian?.
Anna-Stina Treumund: How to Recognise a Lesbian? is the largest-ever exhibition of Anna-Stina Treumund’s (1982–2017) works, mapping her activities as a photographer, a contemporary artist and an activist. Treumund was a feminist artist and activist, as well as the first in Estonia to clearly integrate her artist’s position with the experience of being a lesbian. Her art projects of the 2000s and 2010s were seminal in the Estonian art scene and the feminist movement. Although she never received wider recognition during her lifetime, her oeuvre is still impactful today.
