Exhibition Views 2021

14.12.2021 - 29.05.2022
Erna Elisabeth Kreischmann (neé Montiner, 1885–1929) was an innovative Baltic German artist who spent most of her life in the Estonian town of Pärnu. The exhibition introduces the oeuvre of this little-known woman artist, whose intimate interiors and portraits tell us about her life and reflect the artist’s own space.

Curators: Eha Komissarov, Mari-Liis Krautmann
Exhibition design and graphic design: Liina Siib

12.11.2021 - 09.10.2022
The exhibition, based primarily on the contemporary art collections of the Art Museum of Estonia and the Tartu Art Museum, offers insights into the art of the noughties; it also sheds light on some less widely known works and ideas that were fully manifested only in the teens. The display is laid out in the form of dialogues between different topics, keywords and motifs, with the purpose of conveying the sensibilities, artists’ positions and viewpoints characteristic of the art of the decade.

Curators: Eha Komissarov and Triin Tulgiste
Exhibition designer: Kaarel Eelma
Graphic designer: Jaan Evart

26.03.2021 - 17.10.2021. Kumu Art Museum
The exhibition explores the political potential and poetic wholeness of rave 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.

Curator: Kati Ilves
Co-curator: Vanina Saracino
Exhibition design: Tõnu Narro
Graphic design: Ott Metusala

22.10.2021 – 10.04.2022. Kumu Art Museum
The exhibition explores the period from the end of the 19th century to the end of World War II. Besides a general definition of national and political consciousness, at that time the creation of regional identities also took place, including in southern Estonia.

Curator: Liis Pählapuu
Exhibition design: Kaisa Sööt
Graphic design: Tuuli Aule

May 7 - October 3, 2021, Kumu Art Museum
This exhibition explores the interconnections between art and design in the late Soviet period: how a designer’s approach and method manifested itself in conceptual artworks and how art was used to raise awareness of, and seek solutions to, design-related problems. It is divided into six thematic sections: geometry, the city, the relationship between the natural and the artificial, everyday life, bodily experience and visual culture. Although these artworks were created in a very different political and economic context, the questions they evoke – who has designed the environment that surrounds us?, what role is played by everyday objects in our lives? and how do we feel in different rooms? – continue to have relevance today.

Curators: Eda Tuulberg, Karin Vicente
Exhibition designer: Katrin Koov

May 14–September, 2021, Kumu Art Museum 
Janis Rozentāls (1866–1916) is probably the most beloved and versatile artist in Latvian art history, as well as one of the founders of Latvian national art. In his homeland, he is considered to be the most influential cultural figure of his time and a symbol of Latvian culture. As an enthusiastic experimenter, he introduced fresh art trends from Western Europe to the art landscape of Riga and the Baltics more generally. These included Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Symbolism, which he advanced in his work, as well as in his critiques and writings on art theory.

Curator: Aija Brasliņa (Latvian National Museum of Art)
Designer: Mari Kurismaa
Graphic designer: Tuuli Aule