Open Lectures

KVI open lectures 2024–2025
Talking decolonisation – practices in dialogue

This academic year, the open lecture series of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts focuses on decolonial practitioners and practices. The series departs from a new wave of decolonisation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, strongly influenced by Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine.

The lecturers include prominent researchers and curators who are invited to share their perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonisation in different fields and parts of the world. The series aims to create new comparisons between different decolonising contexts and to contribute to a dialogue between Eastern Europe and Central Asia and other regions.

We want to contribute to the decolonisation processes in Eastern Europe by helping the region to position and vocalise itself in relation to other and often older decolonisation traditions, and at the same time also emphasise the importance of solidarity.

Decolonisation challenges and dismantles grand dominant discourses about history, culture and art. Equally in need of a decolonising perspective are museum and exhibition practices, whose choices have also depended on the colonisers’ view of what is valuable in art and why it is valuable. In addition to students and faculty from the Estonian Academy of Arts, other universities and schools, we therefore invite art, museum and cultural professionals – and anyone else interested – to join us.

The lectures are held in English, free of charge and open to everyone interested.

Programme in 2024/2025:

  • 14th October 17:30 in A-501 Klara Kemp-Welch: “Free Movement? Tracking Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe since the early 2000s” – in cooperation with Estonian Doctoral School for Humanities and Arts

Public lecture – Klara Kemp-Welch

14th October at 17:30 in the room A-501 Klara Kemp-Welch will give an open lecture Free Movement? Tracking Migration and Mobility in Eastern Europe since the early 2000s Klara Kemp-Welch is Reader in 20th ...

Open lecture: Frédéric Ogée

English landscape design, landscape art and the Anthropo(s)cenic (1750–1850) On October 26th, the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture is hosting an open lecture by Frédéric Ogée. The growing ...

Open Lecture: Cecilia Alemani

Cecilia Alemani “The Milk of Dreams. A journey through the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale” Cecilia Alemani is one of the most influential curators in the ...

Dan Karlholm’s lecture “The Climate of Art History”

On November 25th at 5.30 pm, Dan Karlholm from Södertörn University will give a lecture “The Climate of Art History” at the Estonian Academy of Arts (room A-501). Drawing on ...

Ruth Sargent Noyes’ Lecture

On Thursday, October 28th at 4pm, Ruth Sargent Noyes will give an open lecture “Globalizing art histories of North-eastern Europe before modernity: a view from the Baltic” as part of the Open Lectures’ series of the ...

Open lecture: Kate Brown (MIT) “The Self-Provisioning City: Urban gardening in Europe and North-America”

Open lecture of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts, in cooperation with and the Estonian Centre for Environmental History at Tallinn University on September 17 at ...

International Inspiration #3: The White Pube

On March 26th, the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts will host their next guest in the open lecture series ‘International Inspiration’: The White ...

International Inspiration #3: Anna Novikov

The series of open lectures titled “International Inspiration”, co-organized by the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts, is proud to host our next guest, dr ...

International Inspiration #8: Antonia Alampi

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia and Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of Estonian Academy of Arts present: Lecture series “International Inspiration” 2017/2018 Antonia Alampi (Berlin) 31.05 at 18 lecture (Kohtu 6) 01.06 ...

Open lecture: International Inspiration #7 Andrew Berardini

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia and Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of Estonian Academy of Arts present: Lecture series “International Inspiration” 2017/2018 ANDREW BERARDINI (Los Angeles) 12.04 at 18 lecture (Kohtu ...

Video: International Inspiration #6 Lumi Tan

Lumi Tan “Survival strategies” This lecture will reflect on the shifting role of small-scale non-profit organizations in the ecosystem of the contemporary art world, particularly in the market–driven context of New York City. ...

Public lecture: Nora Sternfield “Some Thoughts About Learning Together. Strategies of Art Education as Critical Practices of Knowledge Production”

You are cordially invited to a public lecture by Nora Sternfeld, Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University on Tuesday, February 21 at 18.30 at The institute of Art History and Visual Culture (Suur-Kloostri 11, ...

Open Lecture: Jörg Heiser will give a public lecture “Double Lives: Art and Pop Music”

Estonian Academy of Arts Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and CCA, Estonia invite: On Thursday, May 26 at 6 PM co-editor of frieze magazine, co-publisher of frieze d/e Jörg Heiser will give a public lecture "Double Lives: Art and Pop ...

Dorothea von Hantelmann public lecture „Why exhibitions became a modern ritual (and what they tell us about the society in which they take place) “

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia present public lecture on April 20, 18.00 at Arhitektuurikeskus (Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn) Dorothea von Hantelmann „Why exhibitions became a modern ritual ...

Prof Kenneth Frampton open lecture on October 14th

Estonian Academy of Arts, Institute of Art History is delighted to present a public lecture of Prof Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University, New York) on Wednesday, October 14th 6PM at the Museum of Estonian Architecture. Kenneth Frampton is an ...

Eric Kluitenberg public lecture “Returning to Earth. Beyond the Network Society: A Plea for Ecological Design”

The Institute of Art History open lectures series Space, Media, Mediation will continue on Friday, April 17th at 5PM with the lecture of Eric Kluitenberg. The lecture entitled Returning to Earth. Beyong the Network Society: A Plea for ...

Rhiannon Pickles public lecture on art communication

On Monday, February 16th, 4pm, the leading international specialist in art communication Rhiannon Pickles will hold a public lecture at the Institute of Art History, Suur-Kloostri 11, room 103. Rhiannon Pickles PR has co-operated with various ...

Michael Zinganel’s lecture on recreational architecture of socialist croatia on feb 20th, 6PM

On Thursday, February 12th at 6PM dr Michael Zinganel from Academy of Fine Arts Vienna will hold a lecture about the heritage of Croatian socialist ...

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