Forthcoming:

They Began to Talk, an exhibition and publication at KUMU, February - August 2025

They Began to Talk, co-curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla and I, will open at the Kumu Art Museum, the national art museum of Estonia, in February 2025.

The exhibition takes the intertwinement of the body and the environment as its point of departure, and traces connections between art, craft, heritage, embodiment, displacement and environmental change. How do we remember, as the current generation, when what has been passed on to us is silence?

Artists: Pia Arke, Eglė Budvytytė, Merike Estna, Sofia Filippou & Eline Selgis, John Grzinich, Joanna Kalm, Johann Köler, Ruth Maclennan, Outi Pieski & Biret Haarla Pieski & Gáddjá Haarla Pieski, Mia Tamme, Sasha Tishkov and Vive Tolli.

A publication by the same name will include contributions by the Finnish environmental sociologist Outi Autti and the Estonian writer, translator and editor Mirjam Parve.