Events
30.01.2023
Exhibition Histories and the Roles of Documentation: Writing Ukrainian Art History from Scratch
This event will bring together current research on writing Ukrainian art history of the 20th century from scratch, since an art historical canon has not yet been produced for this period. Focusing on the Soviet and post-soviet eras, art historians Lizaveta German, Olga Balashova and Svitlana Biedarieva will present their ongoing research and reflect on how museums, exhibitions and artists have conceptualized these periods in art history writing until now. How has the National Art Museum of Ukraine—which is currently closed due to war—written and presented 20th-century Ukrainian art history? What can we learn from histories of exhibitions? What could parallels with other former post-Soviet countries, such as the Baltic States, contribute to revisiting this period? How is Ukraine to rewrite its art history after the war? Artist and researcher Andrij Bojarov will act as a respondent and Margaret Tali will moderate.This hybrid event will be hosted by the Institute of Art History in the Estonian Academy of Arts.
(Not) permanent exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine
Olga Balashova
At the time of the gallery’s closure, the exhibition on the second floor of the National Art Museum in Kyiv was dedicated to 20th-century Ukrainian art. In the absence of a written history of art, we were always referring to this second floor for an up-to-date understanding of this history. Despite this influential role, however, the second-floor exhibition responded to the influence of external contexts, with the core museum team changing it three times during the past 20 years. The first non-Soviet exhibition had a strong national idea behind it, with a central narrative built around the Ukrainian Academy of Art, created in 1917 in the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and artists who were looking for peculiarities of the “Ukrainian style.” In the second exhibition, created after the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the narration was more open for international interpretation, with a central focus on the avant-garde. The most recent change took place in 2020, just months before Covid-19 hit, with the narration dedicated to the idea of Modernism. The exhibition contained not only positive storytelling but also critical views of historical events and related art movements. After the war, the second-floor exhibition should change again. So far, it is difficult to say in which direction it will unfold, but it needs to include expertise from previous exhibitions and to consider the new post-war context.
We learn what we exhibit what we learn: Looking at art history from the perspective of exhibitions
Lizaveta German
Offering another perspective on how a particular art historical narrative can be (re)written, this presentation will focus on exhibition history as a method and elaborate on cases from two periods in Ukraine: the 1960s and the 1990s. Based on long-term research on both periods, Lizaveta will discuss how one can navigate through gaps in knowledge and lack of physical material, as well as how (and if) apocrypha can stimulate an alternative view of art history.
From this perspective, the former period—namely, the unofficial art of the so-called Ukrainian Sixtiers generation—can be roughly described as a period known through works which could never have been exhibited under the political circumstances of their time. Nor could they have been acquired for museum collections or entered the private art market, which generally didn’t exist in the USSR. As a result, monographic collections of the works of a number of the generation’s key artists have been well preserved in family estates and can be accessed for research. Yet, they have never been seen as subjects of a shared public discourse and have never been viewed as particles of the same space of artistic thought and vision by an external audience. While a good number of artworks from the 1990s—the period inaugurating the recent history of state independence—have long been scattered across anonymous public collections inside and outside Ukraine, others have physically disappeared due to their ephemeral nature or have remained beyond public and scholarly physical reach. Yet, there are somewhat chaotic but curious private documentary archives that cover the first curatorial endeavors to exhibit 1990s art in various non-institutional contexts. Today, this period can be interpreted through the way the art was presented rather than through the actual works.
Documenting Russia’s war on Ukraine in art, 2014–2022
Svitlana Biedarieva
The tensions related to the political changes and the war in Ukraine have provided an important background for a shift towards documentary practices in Ukrainian art after 2014, including film, video work, reportage, artist’s diaries and photography. The presentation will focus on the processes of documentation and creation of artistic archives following the beginning of the war through the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia from 2014. The presentation explores the changes in documentation practices with the recent escalation of violence and the simultaneous transformation of artists’ perspectives on war atrocities, historical memory, trauma and decoloniality. The presentation draws on the interdisciplinary approaches of the film researcher Erika Balsom, the curator Okwui Enwezor and the artist Hito Steyerl to analyze the transformative role of documentary art as a form that emerges in a state of war-related violence and mirrors the effects of the political and economic crisis. It is based on research conducted for the book Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021, edited by Biedarieva (ibidem Press, 2021). This recently published text is the first comparative volume to focus on the reflections of postcolonial transformation, contested history and resistance in Ukraine and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), examining how these topics have been documented and interpreted in the art of these countries.
Olga Balashova is an art historian, curator and critic and the head of the Museum of Contemporary Art NGO in Kyiv.
Lizaveta German is a curator and art historian as well as a co-founder of The Naked Room, Kyiv, and co-curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennial.
Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian with a focus on contemporary Ukrainian art, decoloniality and Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is the editor of Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021(2021) and At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019 (2020).
Andrij Bojarov is a Ukrainian Estonian visual artist, independent curator and researcher who has, from the early 2000s, focused on exploring neglected histories of avant-garde art in the central European context, expanding and blending artistic and curatorial work with research practices.
Margaret Tali is an art historian and co-initiator of the project Communicating Difficult Pasts, which has brought together scholars and artists to revisit the 20th-century past in the broader Baltic region.
Lizaveta German and Olga Balashova are currently visiting researchers at EKA with support of the Estonian Research Council.
Exhibition Histories and the Roles of Documentation: Writing Ukrainian Art History from Scratch
Monday 30 January, 2023
This event will bring together current research on writing Ukrainian art history of the 20th century from scratch, since an art historical canon has not yet been produced for this period. Focusing on the Soviet and post-soviet eras, art historians Lizaveta German, Olga Balashova and Svitlana Biedarieva will present their ongoing research and reflect on how museums, exhibitions and artists have conceptualized these periods in art history writing until now. How has the National Art Museum of Ukraine—which is currently closed due to war—written and presented 20th-century Ukrainian art history? What can we learn from histories of exhibitions? What could parallels with other former post-Soviet countries, such as the Baltic States, contribute to revisiting this period? How is Ukraine to rewrite its art history after the war? Artist and researcher Andrij Bojarov will act as a respondent and Margaret Tali will moderate.This hybrid event will be hosted by the Institute of Art History in the Estonian Academy of Arts.
(Not) permanent exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine
Olga Balashova
At the time of the gallery’s closure, the exhibition on the second floor of the National Art Museum in Kyiv was dedicated to 20th-century Ukrainian art. In the absence of a written history of art, we were always referring to this second floor for an up-to-date understanding of this history. Despite this influential role, however, the second-floor exhibition responded to the influence of external contexts, with the core museum team changing it three times during the past 20 years. The first non-Soviet exhibition had a strong national idea behind it, with a central narrative built around the Ukrainian Academy of Art, created in 1917 in the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and artists who were looking for peculiarities of the “Ukrainian style.” In the second exhibition, created after the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the narration was more open for international interpretation, with a central focus on the avant-garde. The most recent change took place in 2020, just months before Covid-19 hit, with the narration dedicated to the idea of Modernism. The exhibition contained not only positive storytelling but also critical views of historical events and related art movements. After the war, the second-floor exhibition should change again. So far, it is difficult to say in which direction it will unfold, but it needs to include expertise from previous exhibitions and to consider the new post-war context.
We learn what we exhibit what we learn: Looking at art history from the perspective of exhibitions
Lizaveta German
Offering another perspective on how a particular art historical narrative can be (re)written, this presentation will focus on exhibition history as a method and elaborate on cases from two periods in Ukraine: the 1960s and the 1990s. Based on long-term research on both periods, Lizaveta will discuss how one can navigate through gaps in knowledge and lack of physical material, as well as how (and if) apocrypha can stimulate an alternative view of art history.
From this perspective, the former period—namely, the unofficial art of the so-called Ukrainian Sixtiers generation—can be roughly described as a period known through works which could never have been exhibited under the political circumstances of their time. Nor could they have been acquired for museum collections or entered the private art market, which generally didn’t exist in the USSR. As a result, monographic collections of the works of a number of the generation’s key artists have been well preserved in family estates and can be accessed for research. Yet, they have never been seen as subjects of a shared public discourse and have never been viewed as particles of the same space of artistic thought and vision by an external audience. While a good number of artworks from the 1990s—the period inaugurating the recent history of state independence—have long been scattered across anonymous public collections inside and outside Ukraine, others have physically disappeared due to their ephemeral nature or have remained beyond public and scholarly physical reach. Yet, there are somewhat chaotic but curious private documentary archives that cover the first curatorial endeavors to exhibit 1990s art in various non-institutional contexts. Today, this period can be interpreted through the way the art was presented rather than through the actual works.
Documenting Russia’s war on Ukraine in art, 2014–2022
Svitlana Biedarieva
The tensions related to the political changes and the war in Ukraine have provided an important background for a shift towards documentary practices in Ukrainian art after 2014, including film, video work, reportage, artist’s diaries and photography. The presentation will focus on the processes of documentation and creation of artistic archives following the beginning of the war through the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia from 2014. The presentation explores the changes in documentation practices with the recent escalation of violence and the simultaneous transformation of artists’ perspectives on war atrocities, historical memory, trauma and decoloniality. The presentation draws on the interdisciplinary approaches of the film researcher Erika Balsom, the curator Okwui Enwezor and the artist Hito Steyerl to analyze the transformative role of documentary art as a form that emerges in a state of war-related violence and mirrors the effects of the political and economic crisis. It is based on research conducted for the book Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021, edited by Biedarieva (ibidem Press, 2021). This recently published text is the first comparative volume to focus on the reflections of postcolonial transformation, contested history and resistance in Ukraine and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), examining how these topics have been documented and interpreted in the art of these countries.
Olga Balashova is an art historian, curator and critic and the head of the Museum of Contemporary Art NGO in Kyiv.
Lizaveta German is a curator and art historian as well as a co-founder of The Naked Room, Kyiv, and co-curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennial.
Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian with a focus on contemporary Ukrainian art, decoloniality and Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is the editor of Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021(2021) and At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013–2019 (2020).
Andrij Bojarov is a Ukrainian Estonian visual artist, independent curator and researcher who has, from the early 2000s, focused on exploring neglected histories of avant-garde art in the central European context, expanding and blending artistic and curatorial work with research practices.
Margaret Tali is an art historian and co-initiator of the project Communicating Difficult Pasts, which has brought together scholars and artists to revisit the 20th-century past in the broader Baltic region.
Lizaveta German and Olga Balashova are currently visiting researchers at EKA with support of the Estonian Research Council.
17.01.2023 — 12.01.2023
Presentation of artists books and artist talk by Tuukka Kaila (Rooftop Press), Jessie Bullivant and James Prevett
Welcome to the presentation of two newly released Rooftop Press artists’ books with Jessie Bullivant and James Prevett. Please join us at the Estonian Academy of Arts, room A-501, on Tuesday 17.1. at 5-6.30pm for a conversation with the artists and publisher, Tuukka Kaila about the books and the processes behind them. The discussion will be in English, followed by a reading.
NB! Both books are available for purchase at the presentation (“Attached” 18 eur ja “Things for Homes/Homes for Things” 27 eur – cash only).
Attached by Jessie Bullivant
Attached is a collection of texts that document a diverse range of artworks made by Jessie Bullivant (AU/FI) over the past decade. By replacing the default photographic documentation with written accounts, the artist raises questions about how immaterial artworks are preserved, accessed and ultimately remembered, allowing space for nuances often lost in photographic documentation. As an incomplete survey of the artists’ work, the book blurs the boundaries between art and its documentation, between a conventional monograph and an experimental artist’s book. It gives an exciting glimpse into a committed artistic practice tackling a variety of issues from representation, power and access to subtle social interactions.
Contributing writers: Brendan Barnett, Yvonne Billimore, David Bullivant, Freja Bäckman, Christo Crocker, Mitchel Cumming, Eric Demetriou, Paul Doornbusch, Beau Emmet, Mark Friedlander, Max Hannus, Tim Holmes, Lou Hubbard, Anthony Johnson, Mikko Kuorinki, Katie Lenanton, Minna Miettilä, Even Minn, Paul Moses, Anna Parlane, James Prevett, Georgia Robenstone, Geoff Robinson, Ainslie Templeton.
Things for Homes / Homes for Things by James Prevett, co-published with TACO!
Can a sculpture survive in the home without being domesticated into just another object—a door stop or something you hang your hat on? What are the civic duties we assign to sculpture today, in comparison to the post-war nation-building and reassertion of civilisation? At the heart of Things for Homes / Homes for Things are conversations about our social relationship to objects and the spatial relations these depend on. Prevett’s enquiry is intimate and gentle, occurring as it does on a domestic scale in the homes of people who don’t own art, and perhaps have never cared for it that much before. Without the expectations and politics that grand publicness entails, it embraces instead the potential for social connection through making and giving of sculpture to strangers.
Contributors: Annie May Demozay, Mat Jenner, Jennifer Powell, Vidha Saumya, Eetu Viren, Vilma Pimenoff, Henni Alava, Sven Claes, Deborah Frimpong, Michael Pleasance, Paul Seymour, Dani Tagen, Riordan Tyson, Karstein Volle, Leena Ylä-Lyly
Jessie Bullivant (they/them) is a Helsinki-based artist, writer and cultural worker originally from so-called Australia. They make work with and about institutions and relationships. They completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2020, where their Master’s thesis work was a durational series of 26 emails, sent from their mother, excusing Jessie from presenting work in their graduate exhibition that day. Their current artistic research is funded by the Kone Foundation (2022-25).
Tuukka Kaila is a Helsinki-based artist operating in the expanded fields of photography and publishing. He is a co-founder of the artist-run publishing initiative Rooftop Press and founder of the nomadic artist’s book gathering Bookies. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries across Europe, USA and China and belong to the public collections of the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma), the National Libraries of Finland and Estonia and the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) among others.
James Prevett makes things to gather around – objects, events, text, video, often combined together as sculpture. He is interested in sculpture as a means to explore the limits of minds and bodies, both personal and collective. He has exhibited widely, including in the UK, Finland, Thailand, USA, Austria and Brazil, and was part of a team that represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2006. In 2021 he was awarded the inaugural Linnamo Prize, by the Olga and Vilho Linnamo Foundation. His works are in the Kiasma Finnish National Gallery collection as well as numerous private collections. James lives and works in Helsinki, Finland, where he is a Sculpture Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki.
Presentation of artists books and artist talk by Tuukka Kaila (Rooftop Press), Jessie Bullivant and James Prevett
Tuesday 17 January, 2023 — Thursday 12 January, 2023
Welcome to the presentation of two newly released Rooftop Press artists’ books with Jessie Bullivant and James Prevett. Please join us at the Estonian Academy of Arts, room A-501, on Tuesday 17.1. at 5-6.30pm for a conversation with the artists and publisher, Tuukka Kaila about the books and the processes behind them. The discussion will be in English, followed by a reading.
NB! Both books are available for purchase at the presentation (“Attached” 18 eur ja “Things for Homes/Homes for Things” 27 eur – cash only).
Attached by Jessie Bullivant
Attached is a collection of texts that document a diverse range of artworks made by Jessie Bullivant (AU/FI) over the past decade. By replacing the default photographic documentation with written accounts, the artist raises questions about how immaterial artworks are preserved, accessed and ultimately remembered, allowing space for nuances often lost in photographic documentation. As an incomplete survey of the artists’ work, the book blurs the boundaries between art and its documentation, between a conventional monograph and an experimental artist’s book. It gives an exciting glimpse into a committed artistic practice tackling a variety of issues from representation, power and access to subtle social interactions.
Contributing writers: Brendan Barnett, Yvonne Billimore, David Bullivant, Freja Bäckman, Christo Crocker, Mitchel Cumming, Eric Demetriou, Paul Doornbusch, Beau Emmet, Mark Friedlander, Max Hannus, Tim Holmes, Lou Hubbard, Anthony Johnson, Mikko Kuorinki, Katie Lenanton, Minna Miettilä, Even Minn, Paul Moses, Anna Parlane, James Prevett, Georgia Robenstone, Geoff Robinson, Ainslie Templeton.
Things for Homes / Homes for Things by James Prevett, co-published with TACO!
Can a sculpture survive in the home without being domesticated into just another object—a door stop or something you hang your hat on? What are the civic duties we assign to sculpture today, in comparison to the post-war nation-building and reassertion of civilisation? At the heart of Things for Homes / Homes for Things are conversations about our social relationship to objects and the spatial relations these depend on. Prevett’s enquiry is intimate and gentle, occurring as it does on a domestic scale in the homes of people who don’t own art, and perhaps have never cared for it that much before. Without the expectations and politics that grand publicness entails, it embraces instead the potential for social connection through making and giving of sculpture to strangers.
Contributors: Annie May Demozay, Mat Jenner, Jennifer Powell, Vidha Saumya, Eetu Viren, Vilma Pimenoff, Henni Alava, Sven Claes, Deborah Frimpong, Michael Pleasance, Paul Seymour, Dani Tagen, Riordan Tyson, Karstein Volle, Leena Ylä-Lyly
Jessie Bullivant (they/them) is a Helsinki-based artist, writer and cultural worker originally from so-called Australia. They make work with and about institutions and relationships. They completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2020, where their Master’s thesis work was a durational series of 26 emails, sent from their mother, excusing Jessie from presenting work in their graduate exhibition that day. Their current artistic research is funded by the Kone Foundation (2022-25).
Tuukka Kaila is a Helsinki-based artist operating in the expanded fields of photography and publishing. He is a co-founder of the artist-run publishing initiative Rooftop Press and founder of the nomadic artist’s book gathering Bookies. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries across Europe, USA and China and belong to the public collections of the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma), the National Libraries of Finland and Estonia and the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) among others.
James Prevett makes things to gather around – objects, events, text, video, often combined together as sculpture. He is interested in sculpture as a means to explore the limits of minds and bodies, both personal and collective. He has exhibited widely, including in the UK, Finland, Thailand, USA, Austria and Brazil, and was part of a team that represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2006. In 2021 he was awarded the inaugural Linnamo Prize, by the Olga and Vilho Linnamo Foundation. His works are in the Kiasma Finnish National Gallery collection as well as numerous private collections. James lives and works in Helsinki, Finland, where he is a Sculpture Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki.
30.01.2023
Contemporary Art MA Online Open House 2023
EKA Contemporary Art MA program invites prospective students to join the Online Open House on Monday, January 30, 2023 at 18.00 EET (local Estonian time). This will be an opportunity to hear more about the program, to meet and ask questions directly from the faculty.
The Online Open House will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be e-mailed 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 Contemporary Art MA programme:
Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
Contemporary Art MA Online Open House 2023
Monday 30 January, 2023
EKA Contemporary Art MA program invites prospective students to join the Online Open House on Monday, January 30, 2023 at 18.00 EET (local Estonian time). This will be an opportunity to hear more about the program, to meet and ask questions directly from the faculty.
The Online Open House will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be e-mailed 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 Contemporary Art MA programme:
Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
08.02.2023
Online info session: doctoral studies at EKA
EKA Doctoral School is hosting an online info session about doctoral studies at EKA on February 8, 2023, at 15:00 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.
RECORDING OF THE INFO SESSION 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 2023/2024 starts on February 1st, 2023. Deadline for submitting application is March 31st, 2023.
Admission requirements for PhD programmes can be found HERE.
More information:
Irene Hütsi
Doctoral School coordinator
irene.hutsi@artun.ee
Online info session: doctoral studies at EKA
Wednesday 08 February, 2023
EKA Doctoral School is hosting an online info session about doctoral studies at EKA on February 8, 2023, at 15:00 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.
RECORDING OF THE INFO SESSION 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 2023/2024 starts on February 1st, 2023. Deadline for submitting application is March 31st, 2023.
Admission requirements for PhD programmes can be found HERE.
More information:
Irene Hütsi
Doctoral School coordinator
irene.hutsi@artun.ee
03.02.2023
Interaction Design MA programme online info session 2023
EKA Interaction Design MA programme invites prospective Master’s students to join the online info session on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).
Register HERE.
More information about the Interaction Design MA (IxD.ma) programme:
Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
Interaction Design MA programme online info session 2023
Friday 03 February, 2023
EKA Interaction Design MA programme invites prospective Master’s students to join the online info session on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).
Register HERE.
More information about the Interaction Design MA (IxD.ma) programme:
Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
18.12.2022
art and the city
“Art and the City” – a live action play in Telliskivi Creative City – is inviting you to come and enquire what art and creativity do in a modern capitalist city. How is creativity and art used to make cities of today, who is the creative class and how can one enter the creative city?
Urban studies and architecture students of EKA address the questions revolving around the role of creativity in a city via an immersive role play, inviting the player to see Telliskivi Creative City through seven different characters’ eyes. How would a retired worker of the former factory see the place today, when the citadelle of a secret factory with its monotonous work has been opened up into a diverse creative village with no walls around? How is it to be an artist in a gallery that doesn’t any more represent the value of art space as a critical force or antithesis but rather acts as a tiny particle in a greater creative soup? Or how could a young designer who recently moved to Estonia enter the area as a creative workforce, not merely a consumer? Etc, etc.
If you’re ready to play, meet us in Telliskivi on Sunday, 18. December between 12 and 3 PM. Come and win with us: there will be wonderful prizes for the best players!
art and the city
Sunday 18 December, 2022
“Art and the City” – a live action play in Telliskivi Creative City – is inviting you to come and enquire what art and creativity do in a modern capitalist city. How is creativity and art used to make cities of today, who is the creative class and how can one enter the creative city?
Urban studies and architecture students of EKA address the questions revolving around the role of creativity in a city via an immersive role play, inviting the player to see Telliskivi Creative City through seven different characters’ eyes. How would a retired worker of the former factory see the place today, when the citadelle of a secret factory with its monotonous work has been opened up into a diverse creative village with no walls around? How is it to be an artist in a gallery that doesn’t any more represent the value of art space as a critical force or antithesis but rather acts as a tiny particle in a greater creative soup? Or how could a young designer who recently moved to Estonia enter the area as a creative workforce, not merely a consumer? Etc, etc.
If you’re ready to play, meet us in Telliskivi on Sunday, 18. December between 12 and 3 PM. Come and win with us: there will be wonderful prizes for the best players!
26.01.2023
EKA Design Showcase 2023
EKA Design Showcase gala once again brings to the audience the best cooperation projects of EKA students from the past year with companies and public sector organizations. We welcome all current and future cooperation partners of EKA and those interested in future design!
Concepts, prototypes and ready-to-go solutions for companies and organizations such as PERH (North Estonia Medical Centre), Thermory, Tallinn City, INVL Eesti, Saku Vald and others will be presented during the presentation by the students of the Faculty of Design of EKA and Design & Technology Futures (joint curriculum of TalTech and EKA). For the first time, the projects created within the framework of LAETUS, the new business cooperation program of the Faculty of Design of EKA, will be presented.
The Estonian Academy of Arts has accumulated a very strong wealth of experience in carrying out cooperation projects over the years. The LAETUS cooperation program launched in 2022 has further expanded this field of activity. The program brings together EKA’s design field courses and business challenges of companies, offering synergy and fruitful cooperation.
According to Agris Peedu, chairman of the board of the long-term cooperation partner PERH, the cooperation with EKA has been very effective: “Not only have we received fresh ideas and useful recommendations for some existing activities, but thanks to EKA students and their supervisors, we have also identified bottlenecks that we have grown too accustomed to. We recommend a similar cooperation to everyone. Not to mention the positive energy that comes with the students and stays with us for a long time.”
Come to EKA Design Showcase and find new knowledge and inspiration on how to take your organization’s products or services to the next level with the help of new generation design and open innovation in cooperation with EKA!
Please register for the event HERE.
PROGRAMME
16.00 Greetings and introduction. Moderators Urmas Lüüs and Karin Kiigemägi
16.05 – 16.20 Welcoming words by Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Dean of the Faculty of Design
16.20 – 17.30 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects:
– “Welcome: Easying Hard Times” – Interaction Design MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)
– “Journey: Colonoscopy” – Design & Technology Futures MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)
– “Patient Referral Pathway” – Design & Technology Futures MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)
– “For the Peace of Mind” – Interaction Design MA students and INVL Life Insurance
– “Look Down” – Interaction Design MA students and Tallinn Strategic Management Office
17.30 – 17.45 Coffee break
17.45 – 18.45 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects
– “Growing Area” – Product Design MA students and Thermory
– “BLOB” – Product Design MA students and Thermory
– “Estoplast Lighting Project” – Industrial Product Design BA students and Estoplast
18.45 – 19.00 Coffee break
19.00 – 19.50 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects:
– “Tallinn Quest” – Digital Product Design BA students and Visit Tallinn
– “Dopamine” – Digital Product Design BA students and Visit Tallinn
– “Development of a Pedestrian-Friendly Signage System for the Saku Sports Center” – Industrial Product Design BA students and Saku vald
– “Creation of the Concept of a Mobile Youth Center in the Municipality of Toila” – Product Design MA students and Toila Parish
– “Tallinn Children’s Home House Guide” – Product and Environment Design BA students and Tallinn Children’s Home
19.50 – 20.00 Conclusions and thank you
20.00 Networking, snacks
20.30 EKA building tour
Presentations are in Estonian and English, without translation.
It is possible to participate both on site at EKA (room A101) and watch the broadcast at http://tv.artun.ee/ or on Facebook.
We look forward to hearing from all current and future cooperation partners of EKA and those interested in future design!
Additional information:
Karin Kiigemägi
Enterprise relations and project coordinator of EKA
karin.kiigemagi@artun.ee
Event is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
EKA Design Showcase 2023
Thursday 26 January, 2023
EKA Design Showcase gala once again brings to the audience the best cooperation projects of EKA students from the past year with companies and public sector organizations. We welcome all current and future cooperation partners of EKA and those interested in future design!
Concepts, prototypes and ready-to-go solutions for companies and organizations such as PERH (North Estonia Medical Centre), Thermory, Tallinn City, INVL Eesti, Saku Vald and others will be presented during the presentation by the students of the Faculty of Design of EKA and Design & Technology Futures (joint curriculum of TalTech and EKA). For the first time, the projects created within the framework of LAETUS, the new business cooperation program of the Faculty of Design of EKA, will be presented.
The Estonian Academy of Arts has accumulated a very strong wealth of experience in carrying out cooperation projects over the years. The LAETUS cooperation program launched in 2022 has further expanded this field of activity. The program brings together EKA’s design field courses and business challenges of companies, offering synergy and fruitful cooperation.
According to Agris Peedu, chairman of the board of the long-term cooperation partner PERH, the cooperation with EKA has been very effective: “Not only have we received fresh ideas and useful recommendations for some existing activities, but thanks to EKA students and their supervisors, we have also identified bottlenecks that we have grown too accustomed to. We recommend a similar cooperation to everyone. Not to mention the positive energy that comes with the students and stays with us for a long time.”
Come to EKA Design Showcase and find new knowledge and inspiration on how to take your organization’s products or services to the next level with the help of new generation design and open innovation in cooperation with EKA!
Please register for the event HERE.
PROGRAMME
16.00 Greetings and introduction. Moderators Urmas Lüüs and Karin Kiigemägi
16.05 – 16.20 Welcoming words by Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Dean of the Faculty of Design
16.20 – 17.30 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects:
– “Welcome: Easying Hard Times” – Interaction Design MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)
– “Journey: Colonoscopy” – Design & Technology Futures MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)
– “Patient Referral Pathway” – Design & Technology Futures MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)
– “For the Peace of Mind” – Interaction Design MA students and INVL Life Insurance
– “Look Down” – Interaction Design MA students and Tallinn Strategic Management Office
17.30 – 17.45 Coffee break
17.45 – 18.45 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects
– “Growing Area” – Product Design MA students and Thermory
– “BLOB” – Product Design MA students and Thermory
– “Estoplast Lighting Project” – Industrial Product Design BA students and Estoplast
18.45 – 19.00 Coffee break
19.00 – 19.50 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects:
– “Tallinn Quest” – Digital Product Design BA students and Visit Tallinn
– “Dopamine” – Digital Product Design BA students and Visit Tallinn
– “Development of a Pedestrian-Friendly Signage System for the Saku Sports Center” – Industrial Product Design BA students and Saku vald
– “Creation of the Concept of a Mobile Youth Center in the Municipality of Toila” – Product Design MA students and Toila Parish
– “Tallinn Children’s Home House Guide” – Product and Environment Design BA students and Tallinn Children’s Home
19.50 – 20.00 Conclusions and thank you
20.00 Networking, snacks
20.30 EKA building tour
Presentations are in Estonian and English, without translation.
It is possible to participate both on site at EKA (room A101) and watch the broadcast at http://tv.artun.ee/ or on Facebook.
We look forward to hearing from all current and future cooperation partners of EKA and those interested in future design!
Additional information:
Karin Kiigemägi
Enterprise relations and project coordinator of EKA
karin.kiigemagi@artun.ee
Event is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
30.01.2023
Urban Studies MSc programme online info session
EKA Urban Studies MSc programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Monday, January 30, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).
This online info session will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind Urban Studies programme. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.
If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.
REGISTER HERE
More information about Urban Studies MSc programme:
Next admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
Urban Studies MSc programme online info session
Monday 30 January, 2023
EKA Urban Studies MSc programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Monday, January 30, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).
This online info session will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind Urban Studies programme. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.
If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.
REGISTER HERE
More information about Urban Studies MSc programme:
Next admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
19.01.2023
Craft Studies MA programme online info session
EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).
This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the brand new 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. (ZOOMI LINK: https://zoom.us/j/91482491834)
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 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
Craft Studies MA programme online info session
Thursday 19 January, 2023
EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).
This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the brand new 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. (ZOOMI LINK: https://zoom.us/j/91482491834)
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 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.
19.01.2023
The Art of Curriculum Planning: Introduction to the Curriculum Workshops
Dear curriculum leaders, lecturers, students and study specialists!
Teaching and study programs at EKA have received a very good evaluation from our graduates, but – keeping the curriculum at a very good level is a constant challenge. The curriculum in higher arts education is a comprehensive network of activities during which students shape their approach to creative practice. Designing learning paths and creating an inspiring learning environment in higher arts education is an art in itself. Questions like: what are the new approaches to the curriculum? How to create, find new and effective approaches to the formation of a creative practitioner? How to create a whole? Are waiting a response.
At EKA, we have conducted two curriculum analyses, from which we see the challenges at our curricula. Several curriculum teams have carried out systematic development in cooperation with the Department of Art Education, and based on this experience and in order to meet the challenges of curriculum quality, we have put together EKA curriculum development workshop program “The Art of Curriculum Planning”.
Therefore, we invite curriculum leaders, lecturers, students and curriculum support staff to participate in it.
The workshop will be supervised by Maria Jürimäe, lecturer in curriculum theory at the University of Tartu, and Anneli Porri, lecturer in art education at EKA.
The program will take place in two parts, it is important to join both of them:
1. introductory seminar – where we map the possibilities, educate the horizons;
2. practical curriculum workshops in faculties.
Participating in workshops provides practical help for curriculum management, curriculum development and analysis writing.
Let’s start with the introductory seminar “The Art of Designing a Curriculum” on Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 13.00-15.30, room A-501 (3 academic hours).
The aim of the seminar is to create a common understanding and find an agreement on the most important strategic learning goals of the ESA.
ENG will be provided if there is a need.
Please register to first seminar by January 10.
The Art of Curriculum Planning: Introduction to the Curriculum Workshops
Thursday 19 January, 2023
Dear curriculum leaders, lecturers, students and study specialists!
Teaching and study programs at EKA have received a very good evaluation from our graduates, but – keeping the curriculum at a very good level is a constant challenge. The curriculum in higher arts education is a comprehensive network of activities during which students shape their approach to creative practice. Designing learning paths and creating an inspiring learning environment in higher arts education is an art in itself. Questions like: what are the new approaches to the curriculum? How to create, find new and effective approaches to the formation of a creative practitioner? How to create a whole? Are waiting a response.
At EKA, we have conducted two curriculum analyses, from which we see the challenges at our curricula. Several curriculum teams have carried out systematic development in cooperation with the Department of Art Education, and based on this experience and in order to meet the challenges of curriculum quality, we have put together EKA curriculum development workshop program “The Art of Curriculum Planning”.
Therefore, we invite curriculum leaders, lecturers, students and curriculum support staff to participate in it.
The workshop will be supervised by Maria Jürimäe, lecturer in curriculum theory at the University of Tartu, and Anneli Porri, lecturer in art education at EKA.
The program will take place in two parts, it is important to join both of them:
1. introductory seminar – where we map the possibilities, educate the horizons;
2. practical curriculum workshops in faculties.
Participating in workshops provides practical help for curriculum management, curriculum development and analysis writing.
Let’s start with the introductory seminar “The Art of Designing a Curriculum” on Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 13.00-15.30, room A-501 (3 academic hours).
The aim of the seminar is to create a common understanding and find an agreement on the most important strategic learning goals of the ESA.
ENG will be provided if there is a need.
Please register to first seminar by January 10.