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Ukraine Solidarity ONLINE Screening #9 / “Heat Singers” on elektron.art
21.03.2022
Ukraine Solidarity ONLINE Screening #9 / “Heat Singers” on elektron.art
Screening #9 / “Heat Singers”, Nadia Parfan
On Monday, 21.03 at 20:00 (EET) we warmly invite you for the ninth online screening of the documentary “Heat Singers” by Ukrainian filmmaker Nadia Parfan. All the raised funds are transferred directly to the film team who are currently helping on the ground in Ukraine.
For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements, but is also keen to point out that “the heating comes first – and only then do we sing!”. The rehearsal schedule must be organised around the “heating season”. As the collective is trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hot-line service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?
Nadia Parfan was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine. She graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv and the Central European University in Budapest. She is a curator and co-founder of “86” Festival of Film and Urbanism. She is also a producer of the independent documentary “Love Me” (2014) by Jonathon Narducci. In 2014-2015, she studied documentary directing at the Andrzej Wajda School. “Heat Singers” is a director’s debut and was world-premiered at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel.
Tickets (put your own price, min 5 EUR; all of the funds will be redirected directly to the film team who are currently helping on the ground in Ukraine): https://fienta.com/parfan
Link for a Facebook-event – https://www.facebook.com/events/3062516497324364
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Ukraine Solidarity ONLINE Screening #9 / “Heat Singers” on elektron.art
Monday 21 March, 2022
Screening #9 / “Heat Singers”, Nadia Parfan
On Monday, 21.03 at 20:00 (EET) we warmly invite you for the ninth online screening of the documentary “Heat Singers” by Ukrainian filmmaker Nadia Parfan. All the raised funds are transferred directly to the film team who are currently helping on the ground in Ukraine.
For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements, but is also keen to point out that “the heating comes first – and only then do we sing!”. The rehearsal schedule must be organised around the “heating season”. As the collective is trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hot-line service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?
Nadia Parfan was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine. She graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv and the Central European University in Budapest. She is a curator and co-founder of “86” Festival of Film and Urbanism. She is also a producer of the independent documentary “Love Me” (2014) by Jonathon Narducci. In 2014-2015, she studied documentary directing at the Andrzej Wajda School. “Heat Singers” is a director’s debut and was world-premiered at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel.
Tickets (put your own price, min 5 EUR; all of the funds will be redirected directly to the film team who are currently helping on the ground in Ukraine): https://fienta.com/parfan
Link for a Facebook-event – https://www.facebook.com/events/3062516497324364
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25.03.2022 — 31.03.2022
Maarja Tõnisson’s Exhibition-performance “Sula”
Vent Space
Maarja Tõnisson’s exhibition-performance “Sula” on Friday, March 25, 2022 at 6 pm.
Maarja Tõnisson’s exhibition-performance “Sula” touches upon the areas between human, matter and the environment and reveals itself in the form of photography, video and performing arts. For a week Vent Space becomes a research station, where the artist performs procedural and ritual activities on a daily basis to capture Sula.
The theme is inspired by a science-fiction approach and Stanisław Lem’s science fiction novel “Solaris” (1961), in which a research object in outer space, a strange ocean, replicates humans and elements known to the earth. An undefined and constantly transforming unknown substance becomes a distorted mirror of man’s own absurd ambitions.
The theme is inspired by a science-fiction approach and Stanisław Lem’s science fiction novel “Solaris” (1961), in which a research object in outer space, a strange ocean, replicates humans and elements known to the earth. An undefined and constantly transforming unknown substance becomes a distorted mirror of man’s own absurd ambitions.
The central performer of “Sula” is the material and the environment, reflecting the processes of self-image, representation and perspective. Sula is clear and changeable. In contact with Sula you may feel recognition and alienation. Sula can take any shape or yours. Your gaze follows Sula and Sula looks back. Sula forms on the retina of your eye, which itself melts into Sula.
The shells the artist is wearing have been created by fashion designer Kadi Adrikorn and spatial design by artist Mihkel Ilus.
Thank you: Estonian Academy of Arts, ArtSmart, Vent Space, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Kristaps Ancans, Taavi Piibemann, Anu Vahtra, Hans-Gunter Lock, Marko Odar
Maarja Tõnisson (1989) is an artist and choreographer living and working in Tallinn. She has BA in dance art from the Viljandi Academy of Culture, UT, and is currently studying Master of Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has created both performing and visual arts works Insula (Roots to Routes, Marseille, 2020) Under the Skin (group exhibition “Out of Self”, ARS, 2020); bodyWORKbody (group exhibition “Museum Choreography”, Tartu Art Museum, 2017); bodyIMAGEbody (group exhibition “(In) visible dreams and streams”, CAC, 2016); bodyBUILDINGbody (Tallinn Architecture Biennale, 2015); bodySHIFTbody (STL, nominated for the Estonian Dance Award, 2015). She is a member of the Olmeulmad collective and has participated as a performer in various projects. In her work she explores incarnation, materiality, and transformativeness by combining choreographic and installation practices.
The exhibition will be open 26.03–31.03.2022 every day at 3–8 pm.
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Maarja Tõnisson’s Exhibition-performance “Sula”
Friday 25 March, 2022 — Thursday 31 March, 2022
Vent Space
Maarja Tõnisson’s exhibition-performance “Sula” on Friday, March 25, 2022 at 6 pm.
Maarja Tõnisson’s exhibition-performance “Sula” touches upon the areas between human, matter and the environment and reveals itself in the form of photography, video and performing arts. For a week Vent Space becomes a research station, where the artist performs procedural and ritual activities on a daily basis to capture Sula.
The theme is inspired by a science-fiction approach and Stanisław Lem’s science fiction novel “Solaris” (1961), in which a research object in outer space, a strange ocean, replicates humans and elements known to the earth. An undefined and constantly transforming unknown substance becomes a distorted mirror of man’s own absurd ambitions.
The theme is inspired by a science-fiction approach and Stanisław Lem’s science fiction novel “Solaris” (1961), in which a research object in outer space, a strange ocean, replicates humans and elements known to the earth. An undefined and constantly transforming unknown substance becomes a distorted mirror of man’s own absurd ambitions.
The central performer of “Sula” is the material and the environment, reflecting the processes of self-image, representation and perspective. Sula is clear and changeable. In contact with Sula you may feel recognition and alienation. Sula can take any shape or yours. Your gaze follows Sula and Sula looks back. Sula forms on the retina of your eye, which itself melts into Sula.
The shells the artist is wearing have been created by fashion designer Kadi Adrikorn and spatial design by artist Mihkel Ilus.
Thank you: Estonian Academy of Arts, ArtSmart, Vent Space, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Kristaps Ancans, Taavi Piibemann, Anu Vahtra, Hans-Gunter Lock, Marko Odar
Maarja Tõnisson (1989) is an artist and choreographer living and working in Tallinn. She has BA in dance art from the Viljandi Academy of Culture, UT, and is currently studying Master of Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has created both performing and visual arts works Insula (Roots to Routes, Marseille, 2020) Under the Skin (group exhibition “Out of Self”, ARS, 2020); bodyWORKbody (group exhibition “Museum Choreography”, Tartu Art Museum, 2017); bodyIMAGEbody (group exhibition “(In) visible dreams and streams”, CAC, 2016); bodyBUILDINGbody (Tallinn Architecture Biennale, 2015); bodySHIFTbody (STL, nominated for the Estonian Dance Award, 2015). She is a member of the Olmeulmad collective and has participated as a performer in various projects. In her work she explores incarnation, materiality, and transformativeness by combining choreographic and installation practices.
The exhibition will be open 26.03–31.03.2022 every day at 3–8 pm.
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24.03.2022 — 15.04.2022
Collaborative exhibition “Where is the body?”
Faculty of Fine Arts
Collaborative exhibition of EKA and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna “Where is the body?” is the first part opens in Vienna on Thursday, March 24, at 4 pm, Lehargasse 8, Mehrzwecksaal (2nd floor).
This is a collaborative exhibition between Daniel Richter and Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, students of the Chair of Painting at EKA and the instructors of the extended painting course at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The curators of the exhibition are Lilian Hiob from Estonia and Julius Pristauz from Austria.
Artists: Eero Alev, Ina Ebenberger, Daniel Silva Flandez, Yigit Gönlügür, Loora Kaubi, Jakob Kolb, Olev Kuma, Lisette Lepik, Sigrid Mau, Amar Priganica, Brenda Purtsak, Ramsko, Alfred Rottensteiner, Denisa Stefanigova, Magdalena Schwaiger, Mattias Veller Curated Lilian Hiob ja Julius Pristauz
The group exhibition Where is the body? arises from a collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Estonian Academy of Arts, bringing together a variety of emerging artists, currently studying in the painting departments of the two academies.
Where is the body? gathers assumptions, statements and questions regarding different forms of (self-)embodiment. Questions as to how the body is currently situated in terms of its representation in the students’ practices are central to the curatorial concept of the exhibition. The exhibition presents different depictions and notions of the body in an ever quickly spinning world, opening up space for discussions surrounding it.
Depictions of fantastical bodies fuse into questions about hierarchies between different species. Loosening up borders, tissues, and deadlocked positions, we find a variety of expressions ranging from more playful approaches to very serious and intense dissections towards the topic.
Sketches for possible skeletons of the medium of painting and thoughts about material manifestations of bodily gestures within it go alongside introspections and reflections on the anatomy of the self. The artists comment on bodies in use, their capabilities and boundaries, extreme situations and the body as a tool for manipulation and power play.
The works negotiate body politics and within those relationships of gender, identity and representation.
Themes such as deconstruction and decay, performance, dependency and co-dependency can be found as opposed to abstract and hybrid images with transformational potential.
From traditional depiction to the changing stance of the body over time the works can help to position and define how and where the body finds a home in young contemporary artists’ practice.
The display and architecture of the exhibition expand on these ideas further, with its rhizomatic structure making for a spatial experience with different stations.
Examining matters connected to belonging, visibility, and desire, Where is the body? helps us to map various narratives that are socially, historically and culturally interwoven and take bodies, in a broader sense, as their starting point.
The exhibition takes place in two chapters.
Chapter One in Vienna:
24.03 – 15.04
Academy of Fine Arts, Lehargasse 8, Mehrzwecksaal (2nd floor)
The second part of the exhibition will open on May 6 at the Narva Art Residency (NART) Gallery.
07-28.05
Art Residency, Joala 18, Narva
Curators: Lilian Hiob and Julius Pristauz
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Collaborative exhibition “Where is the body?”
Thursday 24 March, 2022 — Friday 15 April, 2022
Faculty of Fine Arts
Collaborative exhibition of EKA and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna “Where is the body?” is the first part opens in Vienna on Thursday, March 24, at 4 pm, Lehargasse 8, Mehrzwecksaal (2nd floor).
This is a collaborative exhibition between Daniel Richter and Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, students of the Chair of Painting at EKA and the instructors of the extended painting course at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The curators of the exhibition are Lilian Hiob from Estonia and Julius Pristauz from Austria.
Artists: Eero Alev, Ina Ebenberger, Daniel Silva Flandez, Yigit Gönlügür, Loora Kaubi, Jakob Kolb, Olev Kuma, Lisette Lepik, Sigrid Mau, Amar Priganica, Brenda Purtsak, Ramsko, Alfred Rottensteiner, Denisa Stefanigova, Magdalena Schwaiger, Mattias Veller Curated Lilian Hiob ja Julius Pristauz
The group exhibition Where is the body? arises from a collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Estonian Academy of Arts, bringing together a variety of emerging artists, currently studying in the painting departments of the two academies.
Where is the body? gathers assumptions, statements and questions regarding different forms of (self-)embodiment. Questions as to how the body is currently situated in terms of its representation in the students’ practices are central to the curatorial concept of the exhibition. The exhibition presents different depictions and notions of the body in an ever quickly spinning world, opening up space for discussions surrounding it.
Depictions of fantastical bodies fuse into questions about hierarchies between different species. Loosening up borders, tissues, and deadlocked positions, we find a variety of expressions ranging from more playful approaches to very serious and intense dissections towards the topic.
Sketches for possible skeletons of the medium of painting and thoughts about material manifestations of bodily gestures within it go alongside introspections and reflections on the anatomy of the self. The artists comment on bodies in use, their capabilities and boundaries, extreme situations and the body as a tool for manipulation and power play.
The works negotiate body politics and within those relationships of gender, identity and representation.
Themes such as deconstruction and decay, performance, dependency and co-dependency can be found as opposed to abstract and hybrid images with transformational potential.
From traditional depiction to the changing stance of the body over time the works can help to position and define how and where the body finds a home in young contemporary artists’ practice.
The display and architecture of the exhibition expand on these ideas further, with its rhizomatic structure making for a spatial experience with different stations.
Examining matters connected to belonging, visibility, and desire, Where is the body? helps us to map various narratives that are socially, historically and culturally interwoven and take bodies, in a broader sense, as their starting point.
The exhibition takes place in two chapters.
Chapter One in Vienna:
24.03 – 15.04
Academy of Fine Arts, Lehargasse 8, Mehrzwecksaal (2nd floor)
The second part of the exhibition will open on May 6 at the Narva Art Residency (NART) Gallery.
07-28.05
Art Residency, Joala 18, Narva
Curators: Lilian Hiob and Julius Pristauz
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22.03.2022 — 31.03.2022
Guide Tours at the Jubilee Exhibition “Perspectives” in the gallery at Põhjala Factory
Accessory Design
Guided tours at the Jubilee Exhibition of the Department of Accessory Design “Perspectives” in the gallery of Põhjala Factory with Stella Runnel.
22.03 Tuesday 5.30–7 pm
24.03 Thursday 4.30–6 pm
25.03 Friday 5 –7 pm
30.03 Wednesday 6–7 pm
31.03 Thursday 5–7 pm
Please register first
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Guide Tours at the Jubilee Exhibition “Perspectives” in the gallery at Põhjala Factory
Tuesday 22 March, 2022 — Thursday 31 March, 2022
Accessory Design
Guided tours at the Jubilee Exhibition of the Department of Accessory Design “Perspectives” in the gallery of Põhjala Factory with Stella Runnel.
22.03 Tuesday 5.30–7 pm
24.03 Thursday 4.30–6 pm
25.03 Friday 5 –7 pm
30.03 Wednesday 6–7 pm
31.03 Thursday 5–7 pm
Please register first
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23.03.2022
Fine Arts Movie Night 1
Faculty of Fine Arts
On Wednesday, March 23, at 4 pm, a Fine Arts Movie Night will take place in the EKA main auditorium A101, where we will show two films in two hours.
Ane Hjort Guttu’s film “Manifest” talks about how, after a small art academy became part of a large and prestigious university, the students and staff start to secretly organize themselves into an independent art school.
The second very timely movie called “and suddenly it all blossoms”, produced by RIBOCA2 and filmed in Latvia is like a meditation through complex global issues, looking at everything through the Baltic context and the perspective of centuries of occupations, wars and upheavals.
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and suddenly it all blossoms | Synopsis
The film “and suddenly it all blossoms” is a journey through the complexities of our time, shifting between hopes, desires, and doubts around our present moment. It follows a voice whose perspective on our disconcerting global situation unfolds as a meditation, guided and prompted by the exhibition’s artworks. The set itself – a Tarkovskian ecosystem of a decommissioned power station, an abandoned paintball field, warehouses, bird colonies, cruise ships and railway lines amongst empty lots and wastelands – exists as a metaphor for the ruptures of Soviet ideals and capitalist hopes. Presented as one continuous shot, the film is a reflection of standing on thresholds in a world suspended between old and new times. The drifting narrative remains tied closely to its setting, learning and growing from the Latvian and Baltic context, where ‘worlds have ended’ many times over through centuries of occupations, wars and economical upheavals, rebirths, and reinventions.
and suddenly it all blossoms, 2021, Latvia, 1 h 14 min
Directors: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Dāvis Sīmanis
Director of photography: Andrejs Rudzāts
Script: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Sound: LAFAWNDAH
Language: English (with English, Latvian, Russian, French or German subtitles)
Produced by Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.
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Fine Arts Movie Night 1
Wednesday 23 March, 2022
Faculty of Fine Arts
On Wednesday, March 23, at 4 pm, a Fine Arts Movie Night will take place in the EKA main auditorium A101, where we will show two films in two hours.
Ane Hjort Guttu’s film “Manifest” talks about how, after a small art academy became part of a large and prestigious university, the students and staff start to secretly organize themselves into an independent art school.
The second very timely movie called “and suddenly it all blossoms”, produced by RIBOCA2 and filmed in Latvia is like a meditation through complex global issues, looking at everything through the Baltic context and the perspective of centuries of occupations, wars and upheavals.
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and suddenly it all blossoms | Synopsis
The film “and suddenly it all blossoms” is a journey through the complexities of our time, shifting between hopes, desires, and doubts around our present moment. It follows a voice whose perspective on our disconcerting global situation unfolds as a meditation, guided and prompted by the exhibition’s artworks. The set itself – a Tarkovskian ecosystem of a decommissioned power station, an abandoned paintball field, warehouses, bird colonies, cruise ships and railway lines amongst empty lots and wastelands – exists as a metaphor for the ruptures of Soviet ideals and capitalist hopes. Presented as one continuous shot, the film is a reflection of standing on thresholds in a world suspended between old and new times. The drifting narrative remains tied closely to its setting, learning and growing from the Latvian and Baltic context, where ‘worlds have ended’ many times over through centuries of occupations, wars and economical upheavals, rebirths, and reinventions.
and suddenly it all blossoms, 2021, Latvia, 1 h 14 min
Directors: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Dāvis Sīmanis
Director of photography: Andrejs Rudzāts
Script: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Sound: LAFAWNDAH
Language: English (with English, Latvian, Russian, French or German subtitles)
Produced by Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.
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07.04.2022
Conference of Doctoral School
Doctoral School
The annual Conference of EKA Doctoral School will take place on April 7th, 2022.
Please register by April 4th at the latest.
The conference will also be broadcast on EKA TV https://tv.artun.ee/eka
Conference is supported by European Regional Development Fund
TIMETABLE
09.45 Registration
10.00 Opening words, Dr. Anu Allas, Vice-Rector for Research, Head of Doctoral School
10.15 Lecture, EKA visiting Prof. Maarit Mäkelä (Aalto University) „In dialogue with the environment: creativity, materials and making“
11.05 Coffee break
Cultural Heritage and Conservation
Moderator Dr. Anneli Randla
11.20 Ulla Kadakas „About protection of archaeological heritage in Estonia from 1945 to 1965“ (supervisors Dr. Riin Alatalu, Dr. Erki Russow). Discussant Kristiina Ribelus.
12.00 Kadri Kallast „Heritage Values in Urban Planning: the Authorized Heritage Discourse and Community Engagement“ (supervisors Dr. Anneli Randla, Prof. Kurmo Konsa). Discussant Sean Tyler.
12.40 Kristiina Ribelus „Digitizing cultural heritage by citizen participation: creating a historic interior finishes and features database in Estonia“ (supervisors Prof. Hilkka Hiiop, Dr. Epi Tohvri). Discussant Ulla Kadakas.
13.20 Break
Architecture and Urban Planning
Moderator Dr Jüri Soolep
14.20 Sean Thomas Tyler „Revisiting Landscape Architecture’s relationship to Stewardship: British Woodlands, Forests and Estates“ (supervisor Prof. Maroš Krivy). Discussant Kadri Kallast.
Art history and visual culture
Moderator Prof. Krista Kodres
15.00 Hanno Soans „On the „Zarathustra-Cycle“ by Raoul Kurvits’’ (supervisor Dr. Katrin Kivimaa). Discussant Liisa-Helena Lumberg.
15.40 Mariliis Elizabeth Holzmann „Monstrous Ideas: The Repression and Obsession with Traumatic Experiences in Horror Films Directed by Women“ (supervisors Dr. Barbi Pilvre-Storgard, Dr. Regina-Nino Mion). Discussant Tõnis Jürgens.
16.20 Liisa-Helena Lumberg „Immediate and mediated experiences. Baltic German writings on art in the first decades of the 19th century“ (supervisor Prof. Krista Kodres). Discussant Hanno Soans.
17.00 Coffee break
Art and Design
Moderator Dr. Jaana Päeva
17.20 Gytis Dovydaitis „What is Space in Cyberspace? An Integrative Literature Analysis“ (new media art, exchange PhD student from Vytautas Magnus University). Discussant Mariliis Elizabeth Holzmann.
18.00 Tõnis Jürgens „Contours of Sleep“ (supervisor Dr. Rolf Hughes). Discussant Gytis Dovydaitis.
18.40 Katrin Kabun „Application possibilities of sheep wool according to the requirements of the circular economy system“ (supervisors Dr. Jüri Kermik, Prof. Andres Krumme). Discussant Dila Demir.
19.20 Arife Dila Demir „„Squeaky/Pain“: Cultivating Bodily Disturbing Experiences and Perspective Transition for Somaesthetic Interactions“ (supervisors Dr Kristi Kuusk, Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat). Discussant Katrin Kabun.
20.00 Conclusive comments, Dr. Anu Allas
For more information:
Kadri Kallast kadri.kallast@artun.ee
Janika Turu janika.turu@artun.ee
Conference is supported by European Regional Development Fund
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Conference of Doctoral School
Thursday 07 April, 2022
Doctoral School
The annual Conference of EKA Doctoral School will take place on April 7th, 2022.
Please register by April 4th at the latest.
The conference will also be broadcast on EKA TV https://tv.artun.ee/eka
Conference is supported by European Regional Development Fund
TIMETABLE
09.45 Registration
10.00 Opening words, Dr. Anu Allas, Vice-Rector for Research, Head of Doctoral School
10.15 Lecture, EKA visiting Prof. Maarit Mäkelä (Aalto University) „In dialogue with the environment: creativity, materials and making“
11.05 Coffee break
Cultural Heritage and Conservation
Moderator Dr. Anneli Randla
11.20 Ulla Kadakas „About protection of archaeological heritage in Estonia from 1945 to 1965“ (supervisors Dr. Riin Alatalu, Dr. Erki Russow). Discussant Kristiina Ribelus.
12.00 Kadri Kallast „Heritage Values in Urban Planning: the Authorized Heritage Discourse and Community Engagement“ (supervisors Dr. Anneli Randla, Prof. Kurmo Konsa). Discussant Sean Tyler.
12.40 Kristiina Ribelus „Digitizing cultural heritage by citizen participation: creating a historic interior finishes and features database in Estonia“ (supervisors Prof. Hilkka Hiiop, Dr. Epi Tohvri). Discussant Ulla Kadakas.
13.20 Break
Architecture and Urban Planning
Moderator Dr Jüri Soolep
14.20 Sean Thomas Tyler „Revisiting Landscape Architecture’s relationship to Stewardship: British Woodlands, Forests and Estates“ (supervisor Prof. Maroš Krivy). Discussant Kadri Kallast.
Art history and visual culture
Moderator Prof. Krista Kodres
15.00 Hanno Soans „On the „Zarathustra-Cycle“ by Raoul Kurvits’’ (supervisor Dr. Katrin Kivimaa). Discussant Liisa-Helena Lumberg.
15.40 Mariliis Elizabeth Holzmann „Monstrous Ideas: The Repression and Obsession with Traumatic Experiences in Horror Films Directed by Women“ (supervisors Dr. Barbi Pilvre-Storgard, Dr. Regina-Nino Mion). Discussant Tõnis Jürgens.
16.20 Liisa-Helena Lumberg „Immediate and mediated experiences. Baltic German writings on art in the first decades of the 19th century“ (supervisor Prof. Krista Kodres). Discussant Hanno Soans.
17.00 Coffee break
Art and Design
Moderator Dr. Jaana Päeva
17.20 Gytis Dovydaitis „What is Space in Cyberspace? An Integrative Literature Analysis“ (new media art, exchange PhD student from Vytautas Magnus University). Discussant Mariliis Elizabeth Holzmann.
18.00 Tõnis Jürgens „Contours of Sleep“ (supervisor Dr. Rolf Hughes). Discussant Gytis Dovydaitis.
18.40 Katrin Kabun „Application possibilities of sheep wool according to the requirements of the circular economy system“ (supervisors Dr. Jüri Kermik, Prof. Andres Krumme). Discussant Dila Demir.
19.20 Arife Dila Demir „„Squeaky/Pain“: Cultivating Bodily Disturbing Experiences and Perspective Transition for Somaesthetic Interactions“ (supervisors Dr Kristi Kuusk, Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat). Discussant Katrin Kabun.
20.00 Conclusive comments, Dr. Anu Allas
For more information:
Kadri Kallast kadri.kallast@artun.ee
Janika Turu janika.turu@artun.ee
Conference is supported by European Regional Development Fund
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25.03.2022
Pre-review of Matthias Sildnik’s exhibition “Development Fever”
Doctoral School
On Friday, March 25 at 17.00, a pre-review of Art and Design programme PhD student Matthias Sildnik’s exhibition „Development Fever“ will take place at EKA Gallery. Exhibition is part of the doctoral thesis of Matthias Sildnik.
The exhibition is open until 26 March, 2022.
Supervisor: Dr. Margus Ott
Pre-reviewers of the exhibition: Dr. Raivo Kelomees, Andrus Laansalu
About the exhibition: https://www.artun.ee/en/calendar/matthias-sildnik-development-fever-04-26-03-at-eka-gallery-2/
Previous projects and methodological overview can be further explored here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/721404/800739
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Pre-review of Matthias Sildnik’s exhibition “Development Fever”
Friday 25 March, 2022
Doctoral School
On Friday, March 25 at 17.00, a pre-review of Art and Design programme PhD student Matthias Sildnik’s exhibition „Development Fever“ will take place at EKA Gallery. Exhibition is part of the doctoral thesis of Matthias Sildnik.
The exhibition is open until 26 March, 2022.
Supervisor: Dr. Margus Ott
Pre-reviewers of the exhibition: Dr. Raivo Kelomees, Andrus Laansalu
About the exhibition: https://www.artun.ee/en/calendar/matthias-sildnik-development-fever-04-26-03-at-eka-gallery-2/
Previous projects and methodological overview can be further explored here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/721404/800739
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22.03.2022
Open Artist Talk: Sophie Thun and Karel Koplimets
Photography
Artists Sophie Thun and Karel Koplimets will hold an open artist talk at 17:00 on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 in Estonian Academy of Arts, room A-501. Karel Koplimets introduces his artistic practice; Sophie Thun will have a conversation with Marge Monko, professor of the department of photography in EKA.
On the same week, Sophie Thun and Karel Koplimets lead masterclasses in the department of photography.
Talk will be held in English.
Sophie Thun (b. 1985) works primarily with techniques of analogue photography, its spaces, processes as well as conditions of production and exhibition.
In her artistic practice, Thun is primarily concerned with the spaces and physicality of photography, more precisely with me as the technician and operator of the apparatus. The places and the process itself are made visible in the work, the work and exhibition space become part of each other. In her artistic work, Sophie pursues the question of how work can be created for a specific spatial situation, which decisions (can/must) be made regarding the location, format, process, and production.
https://www.sophietappeiner.com/artist/sophie-thun/
Raised in Warsaw, Sophie Thun lives and works in Vienna. She completed her master’s degrees at the Academies of Fine Art in Vienna (2017, Martin Guttmann and Daniel Richter) and Cracow (2010). Solo and duo exhibitions include: I Don’t Remember a Thing: Entering the Elusive Archive of Zenta Dzividzinska, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga; Merge Layers at Galerie Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (both 2021); Stolberggasse, Secession Vienna (2020). Group exhibitions include: FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER Songs of Experience, Museo MACRO, Rome; Smart to the Core: Medium / Image, SMART Museum, Chicago; Homesick, Shivers Only, Paris (all 2021); Elisabeth Wild, curated by Adam Szymczyk, Karma International, Zurich; Borderlinking, High Art, Paris (both 2020).
Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Verbund Collection Vienna, the SMART Museum Chicago, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, and the OÖ Landesmuseum Linz.
Karel Koplimets (b. 1986) is a photo, video and installation artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. The main keywords in his artistic practice are urban space, fear, paranoia, prejudice and criminality. With his recent projects, Koplimets has been observing the themes related to traveling and migration under various economical and geopolitical conditions, including shopping tourism and commuting. One of the most common features in Koplimets’ artwork is the psychological aspect – his large-scale installations influence the viewers’ spatial experience and perception.
He has an MA degree in Photography (Estonian Academy of Arts, 2013) and has finished two year postgraduate programme at HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Belgium, 2021). He has received the Estonian Artist Laureate Salary (2020) and he was nominated for the main art prize in Estonia (Köler Prize, 2013). Koplimets has participated in various exhibitions in Estonia and abroad. Recent exhibition projects include: Belonging (Hunt Museum, Ireland, 2022), Art in the Comfort Zone? The 2000s in Estonian Art (Kumu Art Museum, Estonia, 2021) and Sonsbeek´s Conjunctions programme (Park Sonsbeek, Netherlands, 2021). His works are included in various collections in Europe, e.g., Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Musée de l’Elysée and Art Museum of Estonia. Koplimets has also participated in different art residency programmes, e.g., EIB Institute’s Artists Development Programme (Luxembourg, 2019) and Helsinki International Artist Programme (Finland, 2015).
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Open Artist Talk: Sophie Thun and Karel Koplimets
Tuesday 22 March, 2022
Photography
Artists Sophie Thun and Karel Koplimets will hold an open artist talk at 17:00 on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 in Estonian Academy of Arts, room A-501. Karel Koplimets introduces his artistic practice; Sophie Thun will have a conversation with Marge Monko, professor of the department of photography in EKA.
On the same week, Sophie Thun and Karel Koplimets lead masterclasses in the department of photography.
Talk will be held in English.
Sophie Thun (b. 1985) works primarily with techniques of analogue photography, its spaces, processes as well as conditions of production and exhibition.
In her artistic practice, Thun is primarily concerned with the spaces and physicality of photography, more precisely with me as the technician and operator of the apparatus. The places and the process itself are made visible in the work, the work and exhibition space become part of each other. In her artistic work, Sophie pursues the question of how work can be created for a specific spatial situation, which decisions (can/must) be made regarding the location, format, process, and production.
https://www.sophietappeiner.com/artist/sophie-thun/
Raised in Warsaw, Sophie Thun lives and works in Vienna. She completed her master’s degrees at the Academies of Fine Art in Vienna (2017, Martin Guttmann and Daniel Richter) and Cracow (2010). Solo and duo exhibitions include: I Don’t Remember a Thing: Entering the Elusive Archive of Zenta Dzividzinska, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga; Merge Layers at Galerie Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (both 2021); Stolberggasse, Secession Vienna (2020). Group exhibitions include: FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER Songs of Experience, Museo MACRO, Rome; Smart to the Core: Medium / Image, SMART Museum, Chicago; Homesick, Shivers Only, Paris (all 2021); Elisabeth Wild, curated by Adam Szymczyk, Karma International, Zurich; Borderlinking, High Art, Paris (both 2020).
Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Verbund Collection Vienna, the SMART Museum Chicago, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, and the OÖ Landesmuseum Linz.
Karel Koplimets (b. 1986) is a photo, video and installation artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. The main keywords in his artistic practice are urban space, fear, paranoia, prejudice and criminality. With his recent projects, Koplimets has been observing the themes related to traveling and migration under various economical and geopolitical conditions, including shopping tourism and commuting. One of the most common features in Koplimets’ artwork is the psychological aspect – his large-scale installations influence the viewers’ spatial experience and perception.
He has an MA degree in Photography (Estonian Academy of Arts, 2013) and has finished two year postgraduate programme at HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Belgium, 2021). He has received the Estonian Artist Laureate Salary (2020) and he was nominated for the main art prize in Estonia (Köler Prize, 2013). Koplimets has participated in various exhibitions in Estonia and abroad. Recent exhibition projects include: Belonging (Hunt Museum, Ireland, 2022), Art in the Comfort Zone? The 2000s in Estonian Art (Kumu Art Museum, Estonia, 2021) and Sonsbeek´s Conjunctions programme (Park Sonsbeek, Netherlands, 2021). His works are included in various collections in Europe, e.g., Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Musée de l’Elysée and Art Museum of Estonia. Koplimets has also participated in different art residency programmes, e.g., EIB Institute’s Artists Development Programme (Luxembourg, 2019) and Helsinki International Artist Programme (Finland, 2015).
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14.03.2022
Tour of the EKA Accessory Design Jubilee Exhibition “Perspectives”
Accessory Design
Today, on March 14, at 5 pm, a tour of the jubilee exhibition “Perspectives” of the Department of Accessory Design of EKA will take place with the artistic director of the exhibition, Helen Sirp, at Põhjala Factory Gallery.
The “Perspectives” exhibition focuses on works from the last 5 years, focusing on footwear, bags, gloves, headgear, artifacts, material experiments, bindings and mini-installations. In addition to the students and alumni of the Estonian Academy of Arts, students from three visiting universities: London College of Fashion, Kolding Design School and Detroit College for Creative Studies also play with the concept of paths and the idea of traveling.
The three-dimensional abstract accessory landscape of the competition-exhibition “Perspectives” of the students and alumni of the department has been created by internationally renowned creative designer and stylist Helen Sirp.
EAA accessory and volume
EAA accessory on Instagram
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Tour of the EKA Accessory Design Jubilee Exhibition “Perspectives”
Monday 14 March, 2022
Accessory Design
Today, on March 14, at 5 pm, a tour of the jubilee exhibition “Perspectives” of the Department of Accessory Design of EKA will take place with the artistic director of the exhibition, Helen Sirp, at Põhjala Factory Gallery.
The “Perspectives” exhibition focuses on works from the last 5 years, focusing on footwear, bags, gloves, headgear, artifacts, material experiments, bindings and mini-installations. In addition to the students and alumni of the Estonian Academy of Arts, students from three visiting universities: London College of Fashion, Kolding Design School and Detroit College for Creative Studies also play with the concept of paths and the idea of traveling.
The three-dimensional abstract accessory landscape of the competition-exhibition “Perspectives” of the students and alumni of the department has been created by internationally renowned creative designer and stylist Helen Sirp.
EAA accessory and volume
EAA accessory on Instagram
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18.03.2022 — 05.06.2022
“We’ll Be Right Back…” at Tallinn Art Hall
Tallinn Art Hall welcomes you to a cheerful last exhibition before the extensive renovation works of its main building. We’ll Be Right Back, You Just Keep Playing! brings together different generations of artists based in Estonia.
You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 18 March at 6 pm!
“While the renovation of its main building is taking place, Tallinn Art Hall will move from Freedom Square to Lasnamäe. We thought that the last show before we left should be a cheerful “See you soon!”. That is why the title We’ll Be Right Back is supplemented with You Just Keep Playing. No matter how crazy the world is around us, our children and the children within us need to be able to play; otherwise, they will not grow,” says Tamara Luuk, curator of the exhibition.
Having a child means dedicating a large part of your life to them. And, if you happen to be an artist, the inner child sneaks into your creation in every possible way: as a co-creator, entrusting their fantasies to you or sublimating your own tenderness and care. But not only that. Although Estonian art usually tends to be rather serious, you can indeed find joyful play in it – not only in the subject matter of the works of art, but also in their structure and development, their lines, colours and volumes. It is also found in the artist’s idea, to which the viewer adds their own experience, because it is very important for an art lover to be willing to play along! Only then can we join Raul Meel, the most venerable and one of the oldest artists in this exhibition, in saying that “the precondition for eternal life is noticing the beauty in playing”. Before awaiting a happy reunion, we will play one last round in our good old Art Hall building, after which we will welcome you in the Lindakivi pavilion in Lasnamäe. Please keep playing! We’ll just be away for a little while.
Participating artists are Art Allmägi, Dénes Farkas and Neeme Külm, Edith Karlson, Jass Kaselaan, Alice Kask, Kaarel Kurismaa, August Künnapu, Camille Laurelli, Kris Lemsalu, Raul Meel, Marko Mäetamm, Robin Nõgisto, Kaido Ole, Villu Plink and Silja Saarepuu, Mark Raidpere, Taave Tuutma and Maria-Kristiina Ulas. The designer of the exhibition is Neeme Külm.
Curator’s tour with Tamara Luuk will take place on 19 March at 2 pm. The exhibition We’ll Be Right Back, You Just Keep Playing! will be open until 5 June 2022.
We would like to thank: Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, AS Vunder, PLATO gallery, Linda Looga, Einar Maarits, Aap Tepper, Kristina Õllek, Alexandra Galkina, Sveta Shuvaeva, David Ter-Oganyan, Ivars Gravlejs, private collectors.
Tallinn Art Hall (Vabaduse väljak 8, Tallinn) is open Wednesday to Sunday 11-6 pm, entrance fee €4 / €8 / €12.
The Tallinn Art Hall Foundation is a contemporary art establishment that presents exhibitions in three galleries on the central square of Tallinn – at Tallinn Art Hall and nearby at Tallinn City Gallery and the Art Hall Gallery. The exhibitions of Tallinn Art Hall are installed by Valge Kuup.
www.kunstihoone.ee
www.facebook.com/TallinnaKunstihoone/
www.instagram.com/tallinnarthall/
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“We’ll Be Right Back…” at Tallinn Art Hall
Friday 18 March, 2022 — Sunday 05 June, 2022
Tallinn Art Hall welcomes you to a cheerful last exhibition before the extensive renovation works of its main building. We’ll Be Right Back, You Just Keep Playing! brings together different generations of artists based in Estonia.
You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 18 March at 6 pm!
“While the renovation of its main building is taking place, Tallinn Art Hall will move from Freedom Square to Lasnamäe. We thought that the last show before we left should be a cheerful “See you soon!”. That is why the title We’ll Be Right Back is supplemented with You Just Keep Playing. No matter how crazy the world is around us, our children and the children within us need to be able to play; otherwise, they will not grow,” says Tamara Luuk, curator of the exhibition.
Having a child means dedicating a large part of your life to them. And, if you happen to be an artist, the inner child sneaks into your creation in every possible way: as a co-creator, entrusting their fantasies to you or sublimating your own tenderness and care. But not only that. Although Estonian art usually tends to be rather serious, you can indeed find joyful play in it – not only in the subject matter of the works of art, but also in their structure and development, their lines, colours and volumes. It is also found in the artist’s idea, to which the viewer adds their own experience, because it is very important for an art lover to be willing to play along! Only then can we join Raul Meel, the most venerable and one of the oldest artists in this exhibition, in saying that “the precondition for eternal life is noticing the beauty in playing”. Before awaiting a happy reunion, we will play one last round in our good old Art Hall building, after which we will welcome you in the Lindakivi pavilion in Lasnamäe. Please keep playing! We’ll just be away for a little while.
Participating artists are Art Allmägi, Dénes Farkas and Neeme Külm, Edith Karlson, Jass Kaselaan, Alice Kask, Kaarel Kurismaa, August Künnapu, Camille Laurelli, Kris Lemsalu, Raul Meel, Marko Mäetamm, Robin Nõgisto, Kaido Ole, Villu Plink and Silja Saarepuu, Mark Raidpere, Taave Tuutma and Maria-Kristiina Ulas. The designer of the exhibition is Neeme Külm.
Curator’s tour with Tamara Luuk will take place on 19 March at 2 pm. The exhibition We’ll Be Right Back, You Just Keep Playing! will be open until 5 June 2022.
We would like to thank: Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, AS Vunder, PLATO gallery, Linda Looga, Einar Maarits, Aap Tepper, Kristina Õllek, Alexandra Galkina, Sveta Shuvaeva, David Ter-Oganyan, Ivars Gravlejs, private collectors.
Tallinn Art Hall (Vabaduse väljak 8, Tallinn) is open Wednesday to Sunday 11-6 pm, entrance fee €4 / €8 / €12.
The Tallinn Art Hall Foundation is a contemporary art establishment that presents exhibitions in three galleries on the central square of Tallinn – at Tallinn Art Hall and nearby at Tallinn City Gallery and the Art Hall Gallery. The exhibitions of Tallinn Art Hall are installed by Valge Kuup.
www.kunstihoone.ee
www.facebook.com/TallinnaKunstihoone/
www.instagram.com/tallinnarthall/
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