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Exhibition: Let’s Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity
Time/Duration of Event: February 5 – April 25 2010
Place: Kumu Art Museum (5th floor)
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Additional information: The international exhibition of contemporary art has grown out of the "Public Preparation" event series, which has been focused on the problems of nationalism since 2008.
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Exhibition: Anton Starkopf. Legend of Estonian Sculpture
Time/Duration of Event: January 22 – May 30
Place: Kumu Art Museum (3rd floor)
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Additional information: Anton Starkopf's (1889–1966) oeuvre had a significant impact on the development of Modernist sculpture in Estonia in the 1920s and 1930s. Starkopf introduced novel subject matter and treatment of figure, influenced by German Expressionism, into Estonian sculpture. He was also one of the founders of the first national art school Pallas in Estonia in 1919. Starkopf made an enormous contribution to raising a whole generation of pre-war artists.
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Exhibition: POPkunst Forever!
Time/Duration of Event: November 27, 2009 – April 11, 2010
Place: Kumu Art Museum (Great Hall)
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Additional information: The exhibition POPkunst Forever! which gives an overview of the initial years of Pop Art in Estonia, is open in the Great Hall of Kumu. The works of art and other informative material displayed at the exhibition have been gathered from both the collections of the museum and private collections since 1966.
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Exhibition: Harro! A Classic of Finnish Pop Art
Time/Duration of Event: October 2, 2009 – March 28, 2010
Place: Kumu Art Museum
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Additional information: The exhibition introduces Harro Koskinen's (born in 1945 in Turku) work from his Pop Art period. Harro was one of the wittiest and most sharp-sighted artists in Finland in the 1960s and the 1970s, and his artistic production caused active opposition both by the conservative public and the bodies of power. Harro’s criticism aimed at the middle-class life style irritated censors and judges alike.
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Exhibition: Difficult Choices
Time/Duration of Event: Permanent exhibition
Place: Kumu Art Museum, 4th floor, A-wing
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Additional information: Estonian Art from the End of the Second World War until the Restoration of Estonia’s Independence
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Exhibition: Treasury
Time/Duration of Event: Permanent exhibition
Place: Kumu Art Museum, 3rd floor, A-wing
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Additional information: Classics of Estonian Art from the Early 18th Century until the End of the Second World War
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