Events

EKA Animation MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Monday, January 27, 2025 at 18:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the programme and to meet and ask questions directly from the people of animation department – both the teaching staff and the current students.

The online info session will be hosted online over Zoom and the link will be e-mailed out to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.

Register HERE

More information about the Animation MA programme:

• https://www.artun.ee/animation
• https://www.facebook.com/EKAanimatsioon
• https://vimeo.com/ekaanima

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.

https://artun.ee/admissions

EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions from the people behind the programme.

The online info session will be hosted online over Zoom and the link will be e-mailed out to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.

Register HERE

More information about the Craft Studies MA programme: https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/craft-studies/overview/

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.

https://artun.ee/admissions

On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., open debate of EKA rector candidates will take place.

EKA rector candidate programs (in Estonian):

Rector candidate Hilkka Hiiop’s program
Rector candidate Kirke Kangro’s program

Hilkka Hiiop is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Arts and Culture from 2021. Hiiop is a professor in the Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation. Hiiop’s candidacy was submitted by the members of the EKA Council.

Kirke Kangro is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Fine Arts from 2016. She is a professor at the Department of Installation and Sculpture. Kangro was nominated by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Design of EKA.

The EKA rector’s elections will take place in auditorium A-101 on Friday, January 31, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

At the election meeting, the members of the electoral board will vote by secret ballot. The rector candidate who receives more than half of the votes will be elected.

Information related to the rector’s elections can be found at artun.ee/rektori-valimised.

The term of office of the new EKA Rector will begin on April 4, 2025.

EKA Doctoral School will be hosting an online info session about doctoral studies at EKA on February 4, 2025, at 15:00-16:30 EET (local Estonian time) . 

Info session provides a good opportunity to hear more about doctoral studies at EKA, available programmes, admission requirements and procedure, etc; also meet and ask questions directly from people behind the Doctoral School and the programmes. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.

REGISTER HERE

The Estonian Academy of Arts offers following PhD level programmes for international applicants:

• Architecture and Urban Planning
• Art and Design
• Art History and Visual Culture
• Cultural Heritage and Conservation

Admission period for international PhD applicants for 2025/2026 starts on February 1st, 2025. Deadline for submitting application is March 31st, 2025.

Admission requirements for PhD programmes can be found HERE.

More information:
Irene Hütsi
Doctoral School coordinator
irene.hutsi@artun.ee

EKA Design Showcase will take place on January 23, 2025.

For the eighth year, we are celebrating the best collaboration projects of Estonian Academy of Arts students with companies and public sector organizations. All EKA cooperation partners and future design enthusiasts are welcome.

Register for the event here

The presentation will feature innovative product and service concepts, prototypes and ready-made solutions created by EKA Faculty of Design students over the past year for companies and organizations such as Bank of Estonia, Ministry of Finance, Granitop, City of Tallinn, etc.

The projects to be presented have grown out of the EKA Faculty of Design’s entrepreneurial collaboration program LAETUS, which brings together fresh ideas from a new generation of designers and challenges from companies and public organizations.

The most impactful and innovative projects will also be awarded.

You are welcome to the Design Showcase and gain new knowledge and inspiration on how to take your organization’s products or services to the next level in cooperation with EKA through new generation design and open innovation.

PROGRAM
(The exact program will be announced soon)

The approximate schedule is as follows:

14:00 EKA house tour (pre-registration)

15:00 Exhibition opening in the lobby

16:00 Presentations of collaboration projects

19:00 Approximate end of the event

The presentations will be in Estonian and English, without translation.

It is possible to participate both on site at EKA (room A101) and watch the broadcast at EKA TV.

Video reminder from last year’s Design Sowcase gala

In December, studio work reviews of the architecture and urban planning curriculum will take place:

Wed, Thu, 11. – 12.12 at 9.00–16.00 room A-400
Interim reviews of master’s studios.

Mon, 16.12 at 10.00-18.00 room A-400
2nd/3rd year “Hotel”.

Instructors Leonard Ma, Tuomas Toivonen, Markus Lähteenmäki (theory and history course).

Tue, 17.12 at 10.00-18.00 room A-400
4th year of Architecture and Urban Planning and 2nd year of Urban Studies MA “(Sub)urban Planning Futures along the Rail – VOL 2: Rail Baltica”.
Instructors Milla Kallio, Efe Ogbeide, Andres Ojari, Sean Tyler, Jonathan Woodroffe.

Wed, 18.12 at 10:00-18:00 room A-400
2nd/3rd year “Shrinking Schools”.
Instructors Kertu Johanna Jõeste, Tristan Krevald, Ra Martin Puhkan, Siim Tanel Tõnisson.

Thu, 19.12 at 10:00-18:00 room A-400
1st year “Shelter”.
Instructors Helena Rummo, Elina Liiva. Graphics section co-instructors Paco Ulman, Madli Kaljuste.

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Friday, 20.12 evening will end with the traditional LONG TABLE PARTY taking place in room C400 from 19:00-02:00!
Registration and ticket information is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMN60trsa00Et57n7yEcEpsnf5GHJtG-X1WU6urqBbiae3nQ/viewform

Looking for an exciting international study experience? Estonia’s top universities — Tallinn University, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Business School, and Estonian University of Life Sciences — invite you to an online info session!

Whether you’re seeking a bachelor’s or master’s programmes, this event is your gateway to world-class education and vibrant student life in Estonia.

• Insights into studying in Estonia and our international programmes
• General information, accommodation and student life
• Scholarships to support your studies

• 17:00: Studying and living in Estonia
• 17:20: Universities presentations
• 18:40: Q&A and wrap-up

DREAM | LAND | FILL
December 9 2024, 9:00–16:00
Starting point Maleva 2A.

Join us for a day in Paljassaare to dive into the  dreams and actualities tied to the plenteous lands of the peninsula. DREAM | LAND | FILL is a collage of 13 individual projects by Estonian Academy of Arts Urban studies master students, sharing stories, insights and imaginaries from Paljassaare.

As the sea is filled to be ready for use and development, a pressing question remains: ready to build on it, but for whom? What kind of dreams are projected onto this “dreamland” and whose dreams are they? Which dreams are being put aside? We will shed light on investors and explorers, land-fillings and floodings and both human and non-human actors changing the peninsula.

Through our diverse projects and approaches, we aim to grasp the complexities of experimentation and speculation, of gambling and playing, of desire and urbanising and ruralising.

What might possible futures look like for both communities and ecosystems, humans and more-than-humans?

Be ready for an exciting pilgrimage of seven hours and eight kilometres on varied terrain! Please bring along headphones and power banks, snacks and warm beverages, and dress warm! 

Join us for a day in Paljassaare to dive into the  dreams and actualities tied to the plenteous lands of the peninsula. DREAM | LAND | FILL is a collage of 13 individual projects by Estonian Academy of Arts Urban studies master students, sharing stories, insights and imaginaries from Paljassaare.

As the sea is filled to be ready for use and development, a pressing question remains: ready to build on it, but for whom? What kind of dreams are projected onto this “dreamland” and whose dreams are they? Which dreams are being put aside? We will shed light on investors and explorers, land-fillings and floodings and both human and non-human actors changing the peninsula. 

Through our diverse projects and approaches, we aim to grasp the complexities of experimentation and speculation, of gambling and playing, of desire and urbanising and ruralising.

What might possible futures look like for both communities and ecosystems, humans and more-than-humans?

Be ready for an exciting pilgrimage of seven hours and eight kilometres on varied terrain! Please bring along headphones and power banks, snacks and warm beverages, and dress warm! 

Paula Schüler | land_fill_wastescape | audio walk on Kopli hill 

Anna Dzebliuk | Hope(less/full) place | audio-installation Garage town

Ləman Məmmədli | Retracing Legacy | tour of Paljassaare Recycling Centre 

Paula Fischer | How to build a community? | presentation at Hundipea 

Annabel Pops | Wolf-leap | presentation at Hundipea 

Melissa Lee | Breathing in Density | audio ride to Special Conservation Area 

Timmo Mahlke | Seaside desires | self-guided walking tour on Paljassaare board walk 

Antónia Stretavská | Cattle Trails | exploration between Saartevahe wetlands       

Yiğithan Akçay | Ruin Park | Immersive installation in a ruin

Verdha Anjum | Urban Development Meets Nature | VR display at Väike Haak beach meadow

Paulina Gilsbach | Water(’s) Pressure | audio walk on the grounds of Tallinna Vesi

Adeolu Afolabi | Green Trails on Steel Rails: Adaptive Reuse in Motion | placemaking on the railroad

Anna Böhmová | Paljassaare attracts dreamers | video installation on Liivamadala street

Studio is supervised by Andra Aaloe and Keiti Kljavin.

On Friday, December 6th at 11:00, a symposium on postmodernism “Lost in Time Like Tears in the Rain” will take place at the Tartu Elektriteater.

The transition period from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of independence Estonia can be considered in many ways an unique and exceptional period. It was a time of historical openness, where one way of doing things had ceased to exist, but another was just taking off. It was a time of intellectual and artistic possibilities, in spite of the fact that means and possibilities were scarce. And it was at this time that the new postmodernism as a new cultural logic, promising perhaps another kind of diversity, plurality and freedom. A confused thing arrived in a confused time and began to resonate in its own way. What it was or much of it was there at all? That is what Estonia’s leading cultural figures and researchers will give their own perspective on what was in the air and what it was like for them, what postmodernism meant to them then and what it means now.

SCHEDULE

11–12:30 Session I
Peeter Laurits / Ene-Liis Semper / Janek Kraavi / Kiwa / Tõnis Kahu /
Barbi Pilvre

12:30–13 Coffee break

13–14:30 Session II
Hanno Soans / Virve Sarapik / Luule Epner / Andrus Laansalu / Piret
Viires / Marju Lauristin

14:30–15:30 Lunch break

15:30–17 Session III
Hasso Krull / Märt Väljataga / Valle-Sten Maiste / Epp Annus / Raili
Marling / Aare Pilv

17–20 Reception (Lossi 3 lobby)

The event is organized by the Institute of Cultural Studies of the University of Tartu and the Interuniversity Research Group of Contemporary Estonian Culture

The event is supported by the Estonian Science Foundation grant PRG636 “Patterns of development in Estonian culture of transition period 1986–1998)”.