How to Recognise a Lesbian?

05.09.2025 – 04.01.2026

Artists:
Anna-Stina Treumund, Maria Izabella Lehtsaar, Janina Sabaliauskaitė, Elo Vahtrik, Kai Kaljo, Marju Mutsu, Joosep Kivimäe, Piibe Kolka.

Curators: Piret Karro-Arrak, Magdaleena Maasik, Triin Tulgiste-Toss (1987–2024).

Open: Tue–Wed, Fri–Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu 10:00–20:00
Tickets: 16/9 €
Wheelchair accessible

Public Programme:

06.09, 13.00–17.00 Opening events (in Estonian and English)

11.09, 18.00 Curators’ tour (in Estonian)

23.09, 18:00 Activism School: How to use photography to be political? (in Estonian)

More here: kumu.ekm.ee

Kumu Art Museum (Valge 1)

Treumund, Anna-Stina (1982-2017). Rehearsal For My Wedding. Pigment print, 2009. Art Museum of Estonia

Anna-Stina Treumund (1982–2017) was a feminist artist and activist. She was the first in Estonia to clearly integrate her artist’s position with the experience of being a lesbian. Her art projects of the 2000s and 2010s were seminal in the Estonian art scene and the feminist movement. Her oeuvre is still impactful today, although she never received wider recognition during her lifetime. In an attempt to rectify that mistake, the Kumu Art Museum is holding the largest-ever exhibition of Anna-Stina Treumund’s works and mapping her activities as a photographer, a contemporary artist and an activist. The exhibition also features works by artists who influenced her the most, such as Marju Mutsu and Kai Kaljo, and sets up dialogues between her oeuvre and that of the young artists Janina Sabaliauskaitė from Lithuania and Elo Vahtrik and Maria Izabella Lehtsaar from Estonia, who continue exploring queer and feminist topics in their art practices.