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A new exhibition entitled \u201cUnframed: Leis, Tabaka, Ro\u017eanskait\u0117<\/span>\u201d focusing on the works of three female Baltic artists has opened at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn. The artists, Malle Leis<\/strong>, Maija Tabaka<\/strong> and Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 <\/strong><\/span>challenged the conventional approaches during the Soviet era.<\/p>\n For Malle Leis (1940\u20132017), Maija Tabaka (1939) and Marija Teres\u0117 Ro\u017eanskait\u0117 (1933\u20132007)<\/span>, the education they received from the art institutes in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius in the 1950s and 1960s was similar. Both in terms of the ideology and aesthetic principles. However, all three artists soon began to shift these principles.<\/p>\n \u201cThe title Unframed refers to the boundaries that all three artists crossed in their works. Moreover, all three artists produced a significant number of images in which the (female) protagonist steps out of the picture or turns her back on the viewer, creating visual metaphors of leaving or moving on to a new territory,\u201d explained curators Anu Allas<\/strong> and Laima Kreivyt\u0117<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n The exhibition, which will remain on display until February 25, 2024, is part of the museum\u2019s research and exhibition programme that aims to find interconnections between the art histories of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.<\/p>\n