EST art foundation

The essence and the aim of the project
In 2024, the team at 3 7 Gallery decided to organize an international traveling exhibition of women's art by bringing in partners from abroad so they could work together more effectively in the global effort to improve the social status and recognition of women artists. The partners wanted to create new opportunities for the wider presentation and recognition of women's artistic achievements, thereby contributing more effectively to the re-evaluation of 20th-century and contemporary art and to the expansion of professional literature and documentation related to women artists in the archives of art museums.

Curatorial Concept
What emerges when different artistic positions are placed alongside one another? What new relationships, interpretative possibilities and forms of knowledge arise when diverse artistic approaches are brought together within a shared space? And what does “layering” mean in a curatorial context? In the Layering exhibition, layering does not simply mean presenting women artists from different nationalities, generations and historical backgrounds alongside one another. At the heart of the concept lies a shared visual and intellectual foundation offered by the broader fields of geometric abstraction and Concrete art. The exhibition’s curatorial approach is based on four closely interconnected dimensions of layering. That is, the visual Layering of the artworks, the Layering of artistic positions, the Layering of cultural and historical contexts and Layering as an evolving project.