Goodbye, East! Goodbye Narcissus!

The opening exhibition of the 17th season of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) centres around the current acute political situation in Europe, influenced by the full-scale attack of Ukraine by Russia. In his curatorial exhibition Goodbye, East! Goodbye Narcissus! Tanel Rander looks at East Europe as a collective consciousness and its complicated relationship with an aggressor state and the signs of narcissism and co-dependency it involves. The East European identity, only based in two short periods in history is no longer relevant, claims Rander, and, in fact, it might be dangerous for us, as it hinders healing from trauma and development. Artists of the exhibition approach changes in the self-image of East Europeans in a conceptual and sensitive manner. The opening of new season of EKKM and the exhibition takes place on the night of 14 April.