Esileht esiletoodud ürituste ja näitustega

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 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.

The Art Museum of Estonia and the Tallinn Bus Station have brought reproductions of classic Estonian art works to six large stands on the bus platform, offering the joy of recognition to every Estonian. The selection includes works by the beloved classics Kristjan Raud, Eduard Wiiralt, Konrad Mägi, Nikolai Triik, Enn Põldroos and Elmar Kits.

On Wednesday, 19 March two valuable portraits by the Baltic German artist Gustav Adolf Hippius (1792‒1856) arrived in Estonia. The portraits of the Hageri pastor David Friedrich Ignatius and his wife Magdalena Christina belonged to the German-Baltic Society (Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft, DBGes). Because Hippius’s paintings are of great cultural and art historical importance for Estonia, it was decided to donate them to the Art Museum of Estonia.

The exhibition The Mei Sisters: Avant-Garde and the Everyday Life by the sisters Kristine (1895–1969), Lydia (1896–1965) and Natalie (1900–1975) Mei will open at the Kumu Art Museum on 14 March, bringing the creative legacy of three unique female artists to the public on a large scale for the first time. The exhibition is curated by Kai Stahl, Eha Komissarov and Ulrika Jõemägi.

With the aim of revitalising cross-disciplinary research on Estonian art of the first half of the 20th century and strengthening networks of researchers working in this field, the project brings together scholars from Estonia, Norway, Latvia, Denmark and other countries. The research project was initiated by the Art Museum of Estonia.

From 7 February, the Kumu Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Gallery will host the international group exhibition They Began to Talk. The exhibition brings together the practices of artists working in Estonia and other Baltic countries with those from Indigenous communities in the Nordic countries, exploring the possibility of recovering and cultivating a sense of reconnection between body and land.

Starting 21 January, the second part of Hilda Kamdron’s (1900–1972) Tartu-themed drawings will be on display in the project space of the Kumu Art Museum. Dating back to the 1960s, this collection depicts the construction of the modernist Annelinn district in Tartu.

In the year 2024, 349,004 art lovers visited the branches, exhibitions and audience programmes of the Art Museum of Estonia. Among them, over 25,100 students and adults took part in educational programmes.

On 6 December, the artist Enn Põldroos’s (b 1933) solo survey exhibition Museum of Obsessions will open in the Great Hall of the Kumu Art Museum. The exhibition includes Põldroos’s works from the 1950s to the 2020s. The curator of the exhibition is Anders Härm.

On 17 November, the Art Museum of Estonia celebrates its 105th birthday. According to Chief Executive Officer Sirje Helme, the Art Museum of Estonia, celebrating its 105th anniversary, is an organisation with long traditions, and with great potential for development and success.