Linda Kaljundi

Linda Kaljundi is a historian and curator, Professor of Cultural history and Vice Rector for Research at Estonian Academy of Arts. She holds a PhD from the University of Helsinki. Kaljundi has published on Baltic and Nordic history and historiography, collective memory and nation-building, as well as the entangled histories of environment, colonialism, and science. She has also co-curated a number of interdisciplinary exhibitions, including The Conqueror’s Eye (2019), Landscapes of Identities: Estonian Art 1700–1945 (2021, ongoing), Art or Science (2022), and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (2023), all at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia. She has co-edited a number of article collections and exhibition catalogues, as well as published a monograph on visual culture as a medium of cultural memory (History in Images – Image in History: National and Transnational Past in Estonian Art, with Tiina-Mall Kreem, 2018).