Aaron James Wendland

Aaron James Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College London. He recently edited a special issue of Studia Philosophica Estonica on the Russia-Ukraine war. His books include Wittgenstein and Heidegger, Heidegger on Technology and Heidegger’s Being and Time: A Critical Guide.

Anu Muiste, Green Gold (2023), acrylic and oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm.

Review: Anu Muiste’s surreal worlds leave nowhere to hide

By Aaron James Wendland / August 2, 2026 / 6 minutes of reading

At the Viinistu Art Museum on Estonia’s northern coast, Estonian painter Anu Muiste’s solo exhibition Form and Play uses surreal, dreamlike imagery to explore motherhood,

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Kristi Kongi, "I think all the world is made of glass", 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.

What is it like to climb into an artist’s mind?

By Aaron James Wendland / July 1, 2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Estonian artist Kristi Kongi’s Chromatic Drift turns the great hall of Kumu, Estonia’s leading art museum in Tallinn, into a luminous and unsettling journey through

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Aaron James Wendland’s restored Soviet-era Tallinn apartment, furnished with pieces collected from across Estonia. Photo: Aaron James Wendland.

Saving the Soviet aesthetic from the scrap bin

By Aaron James Wendland / June 13, 2026 / 14 minutes of reading

When Canadian philosopher Aaron James Wendland moved to Tallinn, he hoped to find a home that felt distinctly Estonian; instead, he found IKEA-fied interiors, discarded

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