Editing and publishing The History of Estonian Urban Planning vol. 2 (1918–2020)
"The History of Estonian Urban Design 1918-2020" provides an overview of urban planning in the 20th and early 21st centuries through the different periods of power in Estonia, covering both the ideas that remained on paper and those that were ...
Art or Science (2021–2024)
This cooperative project between the University of Tartu Museum, the Art Museum of Estonia and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts centres on the entanglements and interactions between art and science ...
Style and Meaning: Disciplinary Conversions in Estonian Art History (EKA Research Grant, 2021–2022)
The purpose of the project is to concentrate on the critical concepts in Estonian art history, their role in the vocabulary and meaning making within the field over the course of the two last centuries. Our focus is on the concept of style that ...
Image or Sign: A Phenomenological Study of Pictorial Representation (MOBJD, 2017–2020)
The aim of Regina-Nino Mion’s project is to defend the originality of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological account of pictorial ...
Readdressing Practices and Theories of Experimentation in the 20th- and 21st-Century Estonian Visual and Spatial Culture
The main aim of this project is to analyze experiment in Estonian visual and spatial culture, and to investigate its role in official economic and ...
Remembering Difficult Knowledge in the Baltic Visual Culture (MOBJD, 2019–2021)
This research program focuses on how difficult knowledge has been transmitted in the visual culture of the Baltic States, in works of visual art, documentary films and exhibitions about the Second World War and its aftermath. The analysis ...
Baltic German Identity and Heritage in Estonian Art Historiography (EKA Personal Grant, 2019–2020)
This personal research grant allows Kristina Jõekalda to go deeper into the interdisciplinary topics with which she has been dealing with in her previous articles, MA (2010) and PhD thesis (2020) and during the Estonian Research Council-funded ...
Historicizing Art: Knowledge Production in Art History in Estonia amidst Changing Ideologies and Disciplinary Developments (PUT, 2015–2018)
The main objective of the research project is to examine the processes in art historiography and knowledge production (writing of art histories, exhibition practice etc.) in Estonia from the 19th to the 21st century in an international ...
Patterns of Development in Contemporary Estonian Culture (MOBERC 2016-2017)
The aims of the program are: (1) to prepare and present a grant application to European Research ...
Visualising the Nation: Institutional Critique of the Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture in Estonia
The general objective of the project is to study the dynamics of national identity in 20th century visual culture and built environment ...
Spatial Environment in Estonia as an Object of Art Historical Research
The aim of this research project is to analyse the spatial environment in the context of transformed methods of art history after the cultural turn, to focus on new interpretative possibilities of architecture and the built environment as well ...