{"id":161082,"date":"2026-07-28T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=161082"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:37:54","slug":"kumus-20th-anniversary-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/kumus-20th-anniversary-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumu\u2019s 20th Anniversary Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year, Kumu Art Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary. Over the past two decades, visitors to the Grand Hall of Estonia\u2019s striking angular museum building, designed by architect Pekka Vapaavuori<\/b>, have enjoyed a series of major international exhibitions. This summer, however, Kumu has, for the first time, entrusted the Grand Hall to an Estonian contemporary artist. The result is an unprecedented celebration of colour.<\/p>\n

One of the defining elements of painter Kristi Kongi<\/b>\u2019s work is colour, and it is at the heart of her new solo exhibition, \u201cChromatic Drift\u201d, for which she has created a number of new works. The exhibition offers visitors a fully immersive sensory and spatial experience. Kongi\u2019s colours and motifs have escaped the canvas, spreading across the floor, walls, windows and even beyond the gallery space. It is colour therapy in the truest sense.<\/p>\n

New exhibitions can also be found on Kumu\u2019s other floors. On display until the end of summer are paintings and drawings created during the travels of Karin Luts<\/b>, one of the leading figures of classical Estonian women\u2019s art. Visitors can recognise scenes from Venice, Paris, as well as places in Spain and Sweden. On the fifth floor, the contemporary art exhibition \u201cThe Triumph of Galatea: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence\u201d explores thought-provoking questions about art in the era of AI.<\/p>\n

There is plenty to look forward to this autumn as well. In September, Kumu will open two new exhibitions: one focusing on S\u00e1mi contemporary art, and another exploring the cultural heritage of the Finno-Ugric peoples and the Indigenous peoples of the Nordic region. There is much to anticipate.<\/p>\n

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Kristi Kongi\u2019s works are often brightly coloured, site-specific spatial installations created especially for the exhibition venue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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