EXHIBITION // "Under My Skin" by Tiiu Kirsipuu, Heeyoung Noh, Liisa Nurklik & Marleen Suvi

Under My Skin
Tiiu Kirsipuu, Heeyoung Noh, Liisa Nurklik, Marleen Suvi
Curated by Kaisa Maasik
31.10.2026 — 16.1.2027

 We open the exhibition Under My Skin on 30 October at 18.00 at Kogo Gallery.
Find the Facebook event for the opening here!

The exhibition Under My Skin explores the body through the female gaze. Here, the body does not appear as a static or closed form but as a constantly changing, responsive surface through which the world intrudes – getting under the skin. The skin acts simultaneously as a shield, a boundary and a vulnerable point of contact – a site where fear, violence and intimacy leave their marks. The female gaze here is not merely about who is looking but also about how they look. It creates a space for presence, recognition and vulnerability, though not necessarily a comfortable one.

The subject who reveals themselves allows the viewer to come close but does not pose for them. They exist, experience and feel. Here, the body is not an erotic object but a space that invites observation without the need to possess or judge – a space where the personal and the collective, the familiar and the alien, the figurative and the dreamlike, the visible and the hidden converge. It is precisely in this in-between state that the uncanny can emerge: as the familiar suddenly becomes strange, even in the absence of any direct threat. It arises when the safe distance between observer and observed dissolves, and the subject begins to look back.
Read the artists’ and curator’s biographies on the exhibition website:
https://www.kogogallery.ee/en/exhibitions/under-my-skin/
The exhibition is funded by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the City of Tartu.

Kogo Gallery
Kastani 42, Tartu
Wed–Fri 12–18, Sat 12–16
www.kogogallery.ee/en/