Exhibition Views 2008

December 12, 2008 – February 15, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, Contemporary art gallery 
Lauri Astala's artistic production is comprised mainly of sculptures, videos and computer-aided video installations, which deal with the topics of concepts and experience of space, and the cultural structures that form and frame them.

December 5, 2008 – February 15, 2009, Kumu Art Museum, Contemporary art gallery 
The Swedbank Art Award was founded in 2000, when Hansapank, in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary Art in Estonia, first issued the Hansapank Art Award. The first prize winner in 2000 was Marko Laimre, in 2001 the prize was awarded to Ene-Liis Semper, and in 2002 to Marko Mäetamm. In 2003 the award was extended to Latvian and Lithuanian artists and the same year the winner of the award was the Lithuanian artist Artūras Raila. The winners of the award were Gints Gabrins from Latvia in 2004, Mark Raidpere from Estonia in 2005 and Valdas Ozarinskas from Lithuania in 2006.

November 28, 2008 – February 1, 2009, Kumu Art Museum, Staircase, A-wing 
Cooperative project between artist groups in Estonia, Lithuania and Denmark were displayed on monitors located in the stairways of Kumu.

October 31, 2008 – January 11, 2009, Kumu Art Museum, Grand Hall 
The exhibition has been put together from the collections of the Pompidou Centre and the display includes more than 150 works displaying different photo techniques. Among the most celebrated artists, the exhibition includes works by Man Ray, Dora Maar, Brassaï, Eli Lotar and Claude Cahun. The aim of the exhibition is to go far beyond the celebrated members of different schools of surrealism, and to try to discover the surreal spirit that is expressed in the works of other artists who were more or less influenced by the surrealists in Paris, the spirit that can also be traced to Germany and England in the same era.

Curator of the exhibition: Quentin Bajac (Centre Pompidou)

October 10, 2008 – February 22, 2009, Kumu Art Museum, 4th floor, B-wing 
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September 26, 2008 – April 5, 2009, Kumu Art Museum, 3rd floor, B-wing 
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September 5 – November 23, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, Contemporary art gallery 
Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic, international network with centres in the USA, Western Europe and Japan. But what about this "intermedia" art – encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events – beyond the "Iron Curtain"? What echo did Fluxus find in the states of the former Eastern Bloc, which contacts between Fluxus artists and local artists emerged, and what parallel developments existed there?

Curator of the exhibition: Petra Stegmann

July 11 – October 12, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, Great Hall 
The works expressing the nature and destiny of man in Eerik Haamer's homeland period became classics long ago. The beginning of the artist's creative work dates back about ten years before the war, but the normal development of his artistic life was disrupted by social devastation. In 1944, Estonians were faced with difficult choices that split up the small nation and its culture. The temporary departure of the people escaping over the sea from the Soviet occupation became an exile period lasting for more than half a century; most of the escapees did not see the end of the exile period. Leaving the country in 1944 on a boat, Haamer disappeared from the view of the local sphere of art, because during the following fifty years he was active as an artist in Sweden.

Curator of the exhibition: Reeli Kõiv

July 4 – September 28, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 4th floor, B-wing 
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June 20 – August 17, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 5th floor 
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June 6 – August 17, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 5th floor 
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April 11 – November 12, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 4th floor, A-wing 
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March 28 – June 6, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, The Great Hall 
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March 14 – May 18, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 5th floor 
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March 7 – May 25, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 4th floor, B-wing 
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February 22 – September 9, 2008, Kumu Art Museum, 3rd floor, B-wing 
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