{"id":152044,"date":"2025-10-22T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=152044"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:18:02","slug":"new-exhibition-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/new-exhibition-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibition Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On 24 October, the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design will open the exhibition Neanderthal Beauty Clinic. This gallery installation, created by Madlen Hirtentreu<\/b> and Darja Popolitova<\/b>, is a speculative beauty installation in which the artists explore how beauty treatments have become rapidly consumable commodities. At the same time, they reveal how practices marketed as self-care can conceal mechanisms of bodily control and subjugation.<\/p>\n

Hirtentreu and Popolitova\u2019s installation presents an aesthetic laboratory with an undefined temporal origin\u2014part sanctuary, part clinic\u2014where medical and cosmetic objects intertwine. Together, they form an attempt to reinvent yet another absurd beauty ritual that promises the body eternal youth.<\/p>\n

For Neanderthals and modern humans alike, appearance has been closely tied to a sense of belonging. Archaeological findings suggest that Neanderthals adorned themselves with natural materials such as stone beads, bird claws, and red ochre. Beyond decoration, these practices likely expressed community bonds, status, or hierarchy within their groups.<\/p>\n

Whereas ancient beauty rituals were connected to nature, environment, and community, today\u2019s beauty ideals demand that the body continuously adapt to ever-changing trends. This constant pressure to conform alienates people increasingly from their own bodies.<\/p>\n

Neanderthal Beauty Clinic juxtaposes the technological and the natural, the ancient and the contemporary, and asks under what conditions belonging is possible in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201cNeanderthal Beauty Clinic\u201d will be open until 22 February 22, 2026.
Read more about the exhibition here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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