In summer (24.07–27.09.2026), EKKM will turn the museum inside out to celebrate its anniversary outdoors with a collectively curated exhibition. The museum is more than its building; it is growing out of it, flowing into the courtyard, garden and urban space. The exhibition, which takes a look at both EKKM and its wider role as an art institution, is inspired by the image of a corn. An inconvenience that cannot be ignored, and which is at the same time a sign of the body’s defence mechanism, expressing resistance and care. Corns are in constant contact with the different points of the outer world, demonstrating their ability to react and adapt. Similarly to EKKM, the exhibition will take the form of an organism that is constantly deteriorating, renewing and changing and that is subject to the whims of seasons and weather while practising continued survival. Artists from Estonia, Finland, the USA and elsewhere are participating in the exhibition: Alexei Gordin, Bogna Luiza Wisniewska, Finnegan Shannon, Flo Kasearu, Mari Möldre and Margus Tammik, Taavi Piibemann, among others.
The jubilee exhibition turns the EKKM building into a temporary monument for the museum’s activities and the art it has accommodated for the last 20 years. During the exhibition, on 4 September EKKM will celebrate its 20th birthday with the launch of an extensive jubilee publication compiled by Evelyn Raudsepp, EKKM’s curator and project manager, together with Marten Esko, EKKM’s former manager, and designed by Ott Metusala. The book launch will culminate with a celebratory garden party worthy of the anniversary.
Opening: 23 July