Summer 2025

What does a brushstroke made by artificial intelligence look like – while the brush is still held by a human hand? How do machines teach us to imagine worlds that don’t really exist? Why amass and stockpile capital, goods, objects, people and intellectual property when the planet already has more than enough of everything? Perhaps take a siesta instead? In this issue’s main section, Raivo Kelomees, Hasso Krull, Johannes Saar, Kaire Nurk, Mia Maria Rohumaa, Francisco Martínez and Konstantin Kuningas share their thoughts.

Our special supplement this time is dedicated to the renewed sense of unity emerging across the Baltic art scenes in recent years. Why has there been such a surge in regionally focused collaborative exhibitions? The climate crisis has brought an end to the continent-hopping, transatlantic internationalism once made easy by budget airlines; suddenly, we’re calculating the art world’s carbon footprint and no longer make it to every opening in a far-flung metropolis. The global Covid-19 pandemic further narrowed the imaginable flight paths of artists, curators and critics, with only a few routes left open amid financial strain. The war in Ukraine and the new geopolitical reality it ushered in gave a final push to better understand our neighbours. Countries bordering Russia, and America’s broader circle of allies, have all had to come to terms with a radically altered set of values.

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