This cooperative project between the University of Tartu Museum, the Art Museum of Estonia and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts centres on the entanglements and interactions between art and science in the past and in the present.
One of its outputs is a research-based exhibition focusing on the interconnections between art and natural sciences mainly in the 19th and the early 20th centuries: the interactions between artists and scientists in researching and representing botany and zoology, medicine, climatology, palaeontology etc. in Estonian and Livonian Provinces of the Russian Empire, and the Estonian Republic of the interwar period. The broader goal of the project is to acknowledge the significant role of visual culture not only in conveying scientific ideas but also in creating, shaping and controlling knowledge.
Exhibition at Kumu Art Museum (14.10.2023–19.03.2023)
Exhibition at University of Tartu Museum 17.11.2023–19.05.2024
Principal investigator: Linda Kaljundi
Curators / researchers: Jaanika Anderson and Ken Ird (University of Tartu Museum), Kadi Polli and Kristiina Tiideberg (Art Museum of Estonia ‒ Kumu Art Museum) and Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Researchers: Lea Leppik, Ingrid Sahk and Anu Rae (University of Tartu Museum)
Artist: Kristina Norman
Graphic and exhibition design: Jaanus Samma
Funders: University of Tartu, Area of Director of Development, University of Tartu Museum, Art Museum of Estonia Foundation
