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This exhibition offers speculation on the spaces, objects and images that the Estonian middle class have chosen to surround themselves with and through which they have defined themselves.

Jevgeni Zolotko (b. 1983) is one of the most original Estonian contemporary artists. The exhibition showcases the artist’s recent works. It also features some brand new works created specifically for the exhibition.

The Kumu project space features seven paintings by Leonora Carrington from her Mexican period, which are characterised by her unique style and fanciful, symbolic imagery.

This is the first major exhibition of Latin American art in Estonia, featuring art from the Spanish Colonial period, as well as works by 20th-century artists from Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Mexico and Cuba.

The exhibition brings together the works of Elisàr von Kupffer (1872–1942), an artist with a Baltic-German background, and of the Estonian artist Jaanus Samma (1982).

The exhibition combines Jaan Toomik’s video installation Waterfall (2005) with Baltic German artists’ 19th-century Romantic landscape paintings.

This exhibition explores how Estonian artists have portrayed sex work, how their works reflect the attitudes of society, and whether these representations may have contributed to shaping these attitudes.

The exhibition brings together three different, yet equally sensitive artistic visions. Their photographic series exemplify how the camera may amplify the distance from the surrounding environment, lend voices to stones, plants and water, and make the intrinsic interlacing of natural and artificial environments visible.

The exhibition focuses on the dialogue that emerged between the Italian Transavantgarde movement and the Estonian artists who founded the group Rühm T in the mid-1980s. At the core of this dialogue are opposition and the art of painting.

melanie bonajo’s exhibition is a research into the current status of intimacy in our increasingly alienating, commodity-driven world.

Konrad Mägi in Close-up is based on Darja Jefimova’s master’s thesis, which includes documentation on approximately thirty Konrad Mägi paintings and which she defended at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2023.

The exhibition focuses on the work of the Baltic artists Malle Leis, Maija Tabaka and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė in the late Soviet context of the 1970s and 1980s.

The exhibition offers a contemporary perspective on the work of Estonian women printmakers in the 1960s and 1980s.

The exhibition offers an eco-critical perspective on Estonian art history and contemporary art. Is art necessary, or even possible, in the era of environmental crises?

The painter Tõnis Saadoja’s solo exhibition Height Above Sea Level is part of the museum’s environmental programme Art in the Age of the Anthropocene in summer 2023.

A revealing insight into radical dreams of Ukrainian avant-garde art that aspired to modernise society.

teamLab is a manifestation of an art movement that celebrates early 21st century technology and its potential to create harmony between the human body and mind, and between man and nature.

This exhibition features one of the most exciting art collections in the Baltic states today, focusing on Central and Eastern European contemporary art.

This project space examines the mutual influences of geology and landscape painting.

This exhibition centres on the entanglements and interactions between art and science in the past and in the present.

This interactive exhibition project invites people to contribute to the multilayered historical memories of Estonia by identifying and sharing stories of people who they recognise in the exhibited photographs.

This work by the multidisciplinary Finnish artist Jonna Kina is about creation, destruction and the role of museums in preserving art.

This solo exhibition of the oeuvre of Lembit Sarapuu (b. 1930) charts the artist’s creative path through six decades.

This exhibition focuses on the dialogue between the Baltic and Russian conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s.

Phase Shifting Index is a large immersive video, sound and light installation by the Berlin-residing artist Jeremy Shaw that takes the visitor to a post-human time in the distant future.

The exhibition deals with this powerful phenomenon by displaying works from the Meccas of the heyday of rave, England and Belgium, and provides insight into rave culture today in the Berlin nightclub Berghain, as well as in many other locations.

This is the first exhibition of ancient Egyptian art in Estonia. It includes archaeological findings that are thousands of years old and that belong to one of the most prominent ancient Egyptian art collections in the world: the Museo Egizio in Italy.

The exhibition of the works of one of the most renowned Estonian avant-gardists, Ado Vabbe (1892–1961), focusses on the variegated stages of his creative career.

This exhibition brings to the viewer interpretations by artists of the complex and intriguing field of particle physics.

The rooms of permanent exhibition are filled with the early classics of Estonian art from the 18th century until the end of the Second World War.

The artist Flo Kasearu enters into dialogue with the circumstances, looks at the changes in the operation of the museum and documents the new daily routine of its custodians.

Ando Keskküla’s (1950–2008) retrospective solo exhibition covers the creatively most active period of his career, from the end of the 1960s to the end of the 1990s.

The exhibition brings together three artists whose work deals with the topics of materiality and storytelling.

This large-scale exhibition focuses on the changes in women’s self-awareness and social position that started in the early 19th century, and that are reflected in the work of female artists and in the way women are depicted. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Ateneum Art Museum.

The works of artists of two different generations are used to address topical women’s issues. Women are viewed against the background of social blows and in the context of real and grim stories.

Maire Männik (1922–2003) was a sculptor who lived and worked in Paris for decades after World War II and studied with the famous Russian-French artist Ossip Zadkine. In her work, she combined motifs of nature with abstract elements. In 2004, her son donated most of her studio legacy to the Republic of Estonia.

The exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn displays both the individual works of Tommy Cash and Rick Owens, as well as their jointly executed artworks for the show.

The exhibition Sots Art and Fashion brings together two original art movements that emerged in the region and that have generated considerable international interest: the Sots Art of the 1970s and 1980s in visual arts and the post-Soviet aesthetic of the 2010s in fashion.