Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn opens Who is Afraid of Motherhood? on 6 November, a group exhibition that runs until 25 April 2027. Curated by Eda Tuulberg, the show brings together more than 40 artists from across Europe and beyond, with works made largely from their own experience of parenthood.

The starting point is the idea that motherhood, while deeply personal, is also an institution shaped by a world that operates on unequal terms. Fear is the show's framing motif: the artists point to, analyse and confront the fears attached to parenthood, from social attitudes, contradictions and ideologies to a lack of solidarity and care. Rather than stopping at anxiety, the exhibition sets out to turn private experience into shared scenarios for change, offering comfort and hope in coping with those fears.

The artist list spans generations and media, including Renate Bertlmann, Miriam Cahn, Elina Brotherus, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Kris Lemsalu, Ahlam Shibli and Del LaGrace Volcano, alongside the international collective MATERNAL FANTASIES and Estonian artists such as Flo Kasearu, who also designed the show, Maria Kapajeva and Edith Karlson. Paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations fill the museum's galleries.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual book edited by Tuulberg, with contributions from writers including Maarja Kangro and Katerina Olivova, and by a conference titled Entangled Motherhoods: Care, Politics and Intimacies, held on 8 and 9 April 2027 with the Estonian Academy of Arts and Riga Stradins University. The conference extends the show's questions to Central and Eastern European perspectives on care, politics and intimacy.