Kristiina Uslar in National Glass Centre Glass Prize Exhibition

Glass artist, Kristiina Uslar, associate professor at EKA glass department, is participating in the National Glass Center Glass Prize. 

From 16 October 2021 to 13 March 2022, the Glass Prize, an exhibition organized by the International Glass Center (NGC), will take place in Sunderland, England.

The exhibition will feature 40 artists selected by a jury of Sandra Blach (Glasmuseet Ebeltoft), Reino Liefkes (Victoria and Albert Museum) ja Julia Stephenson (National Glass Center). 

NGC Glass Prize is a European glass prize delivered by the National Glass Centre which features the work of over 40 artists who work in Europe. The selected artworks on display were selected by a panel of judges including Sandra Blach, from Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Reino Liefkes, from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Julia Stephenson from National Glass Centre. Supported by the Weston Culture Fund, the exhibition includes work by artists from England, Scotland, Wales, France, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Romania, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Estonia and Belgium. It showcases techniques and approaches including using found and mixed media, casting, hot glass, kiln forming, engraving, neon, pâte de verre, and video. The exhibition includes artists working at all career stages from internationally acknowledged masters to relative newcomers.

NGC Glass Prize on the web

Chun Au Yeung (Contemporary Art, MA), opens the exhibition “Don’t Think That I Am Pushing You Away” on November 11, 6 pm, at Vent Space.

The exhibition is describing the dormitory situation and experiences during the 14 days quarantine. In the exhibition, the artist will explore a wide variety of mediums such as performances, video installation, drawings, sound and photographs.

Chun Au Yeung:
The theme of “Don’t Think that I am Pushing You Away” is about reading myself and my dormitory situation. Experiencing the quarantine in the dormitory, I was forced to stay inside for 14 days and it led me towards new perspectives of myself and my roommate who was a complete stranger to me. With this experience of distancing and suspension, it brought me a little closer to myself and to look at myself differently. In this exhibition, I will explore a wide variety of ways of negotiating closeness and distance in a dormitory, and try to find myself in relation between safe and dangerous space.

Exhibition will be open until November 19, 2021

On Tuesday, 26 October at 17:30 Charlotte Rohde will give a lecture at EKA hall.

Typedesigner and artist Charlotte Rohde will talk about her latest project “HOT MESS 2021”, which she will contextualise within her practice. In her work “HOT MESS 2021”, Rohde explores the idea of 2021 womanhood through niche internet culture, thinking about Naomi Osaka and Britney Spears, who dared to become human under the public eye. Machine-produced and hand-treated, “HOT MESS 2021” performs a self-fetishisation to reclaim its body and emotionality from the public gaze.

Charlotte Rohde is a (type-)designer and artist researching letters as an extension of the body and dealing with hyper-femininity, pop culture and (self-)control. Her work manifests somewhere between contemporary art, niche internet culture and type design as a tool of écriture féminine.

You are invited to join the CITYA Tallinn Screening “City as a Medium” on Wednesday, 28 October at 18.00–20.00 at EKA, Põhja pst. 7, in the main auditorium next to the lobby.

CITYA is an international urban art event that takes place every three years as a platform for city-to-city art sharing and as a new form of collaboration. The first CITYA edition is themed “City as a Medium”. The event is organised in partnership with Hong Kong Baptist University (initiator), the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, the University of California Berkeley, the Belle Arti di Roma Academy and the University of Macao.

The CITYA Tallinn Screening brings together films — from Tallinn, Hong Kong, Macao, Rome and San Francisco — that have been created during the last year. The participating artists from the different cities are:

Tallinn

Martinus Daane Klemet – Face Recognition (6:45)
Iti Oja – Partial Victory (4:04)
Stina Isabel Gavrilin – My Body is a Cage (5:20)
Katariin Mudist – The Hesitator (4:32)
Mark Hiir – Fade out (6:50)
Piibe Kolka – Forte Fortissimo (1:35)

Hong Kong

Lee Wing Ki Kalen – A City, Two Worlds, Four Views (1:12)

Peter Nelson – A Book of Trees (1:00)

Leung Mei Ping – Out of Place (5:00)

Macao

Li Lin – Shape of Water (1:00)

Lampo Leong – Blossom (5:22)

San Francisco

Robin Lopez – #Richmondsspeak: Urban Murals of Richmond (0:50)

Kevin Tracy – Fever Dream (7:59)

Jenny Balisle – Air (3:38)

Rome

Chiara Passa – Null Void 0 (1:41)

Maria Giovanna Sodero – Accordatura (Tuning) (6:40)

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/756550422400612

More information about CITYA and the films: www.citya.space 

Contact information: Reds Cheung, king.cheung@artun.ee 

Alphabetizing the Matrix of Discomfort. The Open Lecture Series presents: Matteo Cainer

As part of the Open Lectures series of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design of EKA, practising architect, curator and educator Matteo Cainer will take the stage in the hall of EKA on November 4th, 6 pm with lecture “Alphabetizing the Matrix of Discomfort”.

This fall, all the lectures in the series revolve around the issue of healing in one way or another. Let’s look at whether architecture as a process can be therapeutic and in what way inhabiting space could be restorative – and simultaneously, whether and how architects can contribute to the healing of the construction world. On November 4th, we’ll kick off by discussing how to approach architecture in a now changing world – what kind of a vocabulary might architects need for the emerging future. Matteo Cainer will be walking us through three architectural / research projects, from their inception, in relation to their concept and environmental, architectural and social aims, as a means of proving a sort of evidence and support to the three lines of research/interests that he and his practice share: converging ecologies, resilient adaptive re-use and social weaving.

Prior to opening his own practice MCA in 2010 in London, Cainer worked and collaborated with a number of celebrated international practices including Eisenman Architects in New York City, Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna, and Arata Isozaki Associati in Milan. In 2004 he was Assistant Director for the 9th International Architecture Biennale METAMORPH, in 2006 Curator of the London Architecture Biennale CHANGE and in 2018 curator of the Dark Side Club in Venezia. 

In 2011, Cainer moved to Paris where he was Associate professor and HMONP director at the École Spéciale d’Architecture and it was there that he created and directed the “Pavillon Spéciale” series. It was also in Paris that he conceived and hosted “Architecture Whispers” and in 2013 co-founded and co-directed with Odile Decq the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture in Lyon. In 2018, Cainer moved back to London and was nominated curator for the 7th Edition of the Dark Side Club for the International Architecture Biennale in Venezia. Today, he remains a regular visiting critic at both Westminster and the AA. In March 2020, to respond to the pandemic, Cainer launched MCA Online, a free educational initiative to provide lectures, teaching, and support to home-bound students, and at the end of the year, he opened MCA in Milan, Italy.

The work of Matteo Cainer and his practice has won various awards and has been published in numerous books and international magazines; it has also been featured in various international exhibitions among which the Royal Academy in London and the Pisa Architecture Biennale. Matteo has also lectured and written and edited a number of books and articles in the field of architecture and design, and his studio featured in numerous books, international magazines and was selected as one of the 25 significant emerging international practices at the London Architecture Festival.

In order to minimize the risk of the virus spreading, we will broadcast the lecture on EKA TV

 and it can be viewed along with all previous lectures at www.avatudloengud.ee. However, the lecture can also be attended in-person – we do ask you to carry your COVID vaccination certificate or proof of having had COVID; there will be no on-site testing. Academy students are subject to the usual in-house rules. NB! You can’t ask questions via EKA TV, so it’s worth coming to the hall to participate in the discussion! The lecture is free and in English.

Curators: Sille Pihlak and Johan Tali.

The season of open lectures is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

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 Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Room: A-101

Through a series of queries and micro-historical case studies, Dr. Noyes takes up the questions of issues of globalizing Baltic art before modernity, from the perspective of an art historian focused on connecting Italy and the Baltic over the longue durée. Global approaches have been gaining momentum in recent years across fields dedicated to the study of art, architecture, and visual-material culture. An increasing number of scholars of North-Eastern Europe, including the Baltic sphere, have expanded the purview of research through the integration of comparative and transcultural methods. Elsewhere, the global turn has led to new transgeographical perspectives which have begun to challenge previous national paradigms in various art-historical traditions. This presentation examines these issues from a transregional, transcultural perspective, and also considers how integration of Baltic Europe’s art histories in the discipline’s ongoing explorations of cultural heterogeneity and global circulations of artefacts can be inflected through other fields.

Ruth Sargent Noyes took her BA (Harvard University) and MA and PhD (Johns Hopkins University) in Art History, and is presently Marie Skłodowska-Curie EU Senior Research Fellow at the National Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen). Author of a number of books and articles, her research takes up the intersection of art, religion, and science of the long Counter-Reformation (c. 1550-1800) in its global context, with special interest in cross-cultural perspectives between Italy and North-eastern Europe, including the Nordic-Baltic region. A 2014 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and recipient of a number of research grants and awards, she currently leads the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Union Individual Fellowship Project, The art of (re)moving relics and reforming holiness in Europe’s borderlands (TRANSLATIO).

Lecture will be held in English.

Covid certificates will be checked at the entrance of the lecture hall, masks are obligatory.

On November 3 at 3 pm, the results of the three-year Unfinished City research project will be presented in the form of a thorough 400-page publication of articles, interviews, maps and projects, titled “Unfinished City. Tallinn’s urban visions”. The parties who have contributed to the completion of both the research project and the book, will gather for event at the lobby of EKA, where you will also see a selection of scaled models and an animation which were prepared for the Unfinished City exhibition at the Estonian Museum of Architecture this spring. Both the research project and the book were completed with the support of the real estate company Kapitel.

The publication summarizes the discussions held during the three-year research project and is intended for everyone interested in thinking about Tallinn’s potential as a city of the future – what we expect from Tallinn in the future, what the city needs and what problems it has to overcome in order to be attractive both as a place to live and work.

25 authors from Estonia and elsewhere look at Tallinn’s potential from the perspective of architects and urban planners, dissecting the city as a whole and paying attention to key places. Separate chapters deal with the spatial future of Lasnamäe and other similar residential areas of the Soviet era, the potential of the bastion belt area surrounding the Old Town, the green areas of Tallinn and the blue/water network. In more detail, it is examined in which background system of rules, permits and statistics urban planning in Tallinn takes place, in comparison with other cities in Europe with a similar profile and size – Vilnius, Helsinki, Zurich, Copenhagen, Prague and Riga. In addition, it is asked how we could plan a better Tallinn using all the numerical data that can be collected about the city today with the help of technology.

In cooperation with Garage48, EAA, TSENTER and the Estonian Science Council, the fifth Garage48 Future of Wood will take place in 2021. It calls for the development of innovative and climate-friendly solutions in architecture, wood processing and forestry.

In November 26-28, FoW will take place again in Väimela, TSENTER competence center, where Garage48 Future of Wood started.

The prize fund is over 10,000 €. In addition, catering, TSENTRI fleet and materials, mentor support and spacious workspaces that support intensive creative teamwork and prototyping for 48 hours. All this with the aim of bringing together the Estonian wood industry in one room and looking to the future. How to manage forests more sustainably? How to use production residues and value wood?

More information on the event website

Facebook event

Register HERE

See you in Väimela!

EKA Fox Party will take place on November 4, in EKA atrium, where this year’s crazier first-year students will perform.

Doors at 6 p.m.

Main act Arg Part

DJs are EKA’s own CT Venom and Alexandra BB (Karin Nahkur & Sandra Mäesepp team)

Performances at 7 p.m.

EKA Fox Party on Facebook

EKA Fox Party is organized by the Student Council of the Estonian Academy of Arts

Within the framework of the teachers’ seminar of the KUNO network, a large-scale international student program will take place at EKA: art exhibition KUNO EXPO, It Must Be My Dream and brainstorming sessions “General Art Sharing: Good Biennial”, accompanied by Norwegian artist Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto.

KUNO EXPO (THIS MUST BE MY DREAM / brings together a selection of recent works by students of Nordic and Baltic art universities. The works were created for art education in a difficult period, when the use of academy studios was difficult and the cooperation between students and lecturers was difficult. Assessing the contribution of all parties, the network’s faculty were challenged to recommend the students’ work that affected them and seemed important in the past. The works, often created in chamber conditions, bring to the viewer a new kind of new reality, where global self-irony, loneliness and sadness are perceived – as well as clarity of thought and a poetic imagination independent of the future horizon.

Official opening of KUNO EXPO on October 20 at 5 pm in the lobby of EKA. The exhibition runs through the intermediate floors of the EKA building on the first, second, third and fifth floors. KUNO EXPO will be open until November 19.

Participating artists: Barbora Matonyte (VAA), Jesper Dolgov (TUA), Vilde Rudjord (KiT), Anna Malicka (LMA), Helena Bratt (HDK Valand), Ali Ardalan (HDK Valand), Jonathan Lystbæk (HDK Valand), Anna Mari Liivrand (EKA), Chun Au Yeung (EKA), Muhammad Sufyan Baig (EKA), Marie Saure (UiT), Elise Nohr Nystad (KHiO), Joakim Svendsgård-Mathisen (KHiO), Jere Vainio (KHiO), Jonas Erboe Rasmussen Bergen, FFA), Frej Volander (FAA), Signe Maria Friis (FAA), Simon Ganshorn (FAA), María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir (FAA), Pernille Pedersen (FAA), Jeppe Østergaard Munk (FAA), Emmarosa Liebgen (FAA) ), Ferdinand Evaldsson (Konstfack), Nada Ali (Kungl.The Academy of Fine Arts), Renate Feizaka (LHI)

A new KUNO biennial concept will be developed using the think-tank method as part of the KUNO express course “General Art Sharing: A Good (d)) Biennale” on October 18-21, which will then be launched under the leadership of students.

ANE HJORT GUTTU “Manifest / Manifesto” 18.10–23.10 Design and Architecture Gallery

During the week, there is a rare opportunity to see Ane Hjort Guttu’s film “Manifest / Manifesto”. The author’s art film tells the story of the creation of a secret art academy operating autonomously within a prestigious university. The film also cunningly touches on the theme of the KUNO faculty seminar program, which is art education and its architecture.