Luues kvääre maailmu: Anna-Stina Treumundi visuaalsed arhiivid

The book, published in both Estonian and English, accompanied the exhibition Anna-Stina Treumund: How to Recognise a Lesbian? at the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia (05.09.2025–11.01.2026).

This book focuses on the oeuvre and activities of the artist and activist Anna-Stina Treumund (1982–2017). She was the first artist in Estonia to clearly link her artistic position to her lesbian experience. 2000. During her creative career, from the early 2000s until 2017, Treumund dealt with topics of gender, sexuality, family and self-discovery, through which she developed a mature queerfeminist visual language. She searched for her own community and foremothers, read Estonian (art) history with a queering eye and worked with such topics as BDSM and female sexuality. She included her friends, family members and lovers in her artworks, which has enabled researchers to map the networks of the Estonian queer communities of her time, while studying her legacy.

The contributors to this richly illustrated book are the researcher of Estonian feminism Piret Karro-Arrak, the artist and art critic Kaisa Eiche, and the most substantial academic research on Treumund has thus far been written by the gender studies scholar Redi Koobak in her 2013 doctoral thesis, which also served as the basis for her article published in this book.