EKA Department of Photography’s new Showcase Gallery to launch with “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror”, an exhibition by Vít Havránek

Vít Havránek’s “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror” is the opening exhibition of the Showcase Gallery of the EKA Department of Photography. The gallery is connected to the Lembitu 10 building and the exhibition will open with a performance on 4 June at 14:00.

The exhibition “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror” reflects on the usage of latin verb reflexio (reflection) that from early middle ages as description of a body that is repulsed by a mechanical obstacle. In this sense Descartes develops the reflections as a process of thinking when the thought is returned as a subject of thought about itself and its conditions. In this connection mirror image in absence of thinking is a bare image.

Vít Havránek is an art theoretician and curator living in Prague. He has been working since 2002 as director of the contemporary art initiative Tranzit.org. He has previously worked as a curator at Prague City Gallery and National Gallery in Prague. Havránek is a lecturer of contemporary art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and he co-curated Manifesta 8 and the 15th Jakarta Biennale. In 1999, Vít Havránek was one of the founders of the PAS collective. The group was created as a unit for organizing and producing events that promote new models of mediation between the public and art. In 2000, as one of the first projects, PAS set up showcase galleries in various Czech cities.  The showcase galleries were based on the example of the Communist showcase galleries that were used in the 1980s by the Communist regime and local authorities for disseminating political propaganda.

ENGLISH// Estonian Academy of Arts second-course ceramic students invite you to the exhibition which explores different types of phenomenon entitled “Lie/Wrong”. The opening takes place on Thursday the 24’th of May at 6 p.m. at The Ruins of Pirita Monastery! See you there!

Open lecture by Samson Shafran: “Post-Digital Decadence:Les Fleurs du Mal”, on Monday, June the 4th at 11.00 Estonia Pst 7, room 429. The lecture will be concerned with addressing digital 3D modelling, Rapid prototyping (3D printing), their influence and augmentation of the creative process and the correlation between the artist / craftsman individual style and the aesthetical vocabulary derived from the digital making process.

This futuristic exhibition at Tallinn TV Tower tells a story of the planet Shift, through which the Estonian Academy of Arts students have moved the traditional boundaries of fashion. The exhibition will highlight 12 unique shifts that lack all practical connections with the world and are bound for the future instead.

Participating artists: Sandra Luks, Mari-Ly Kapp, Pamela Põld, Marleen Afanasjev, Elsbeth Tiisler, Kaia Kuusmann, Katrin Aasmaa, Kerttu Reinmaa and Aleksandra Tsusovljanova, Kirke Talu

Artists’ supervisors: Liisi Eesmaa, Anu Samarüütel-Long and Piret Puppart

Shift project manager: Sirli Pohlak

Graphic designer: Vahur Vogt

Photo material: Cärol Ott

Exhibition organisers: Hannes Rüütel, Külli-Triin Laanet and Edvard Hiietam

Course supervisor: Maiu Rõõmus

TASE is the annual spring graduation show of the Estonian Academy of Arts, with this year’s main exhibition taking place at the Faculty of Fine Arts building at Lembitu 10. The exhibition will open on 30 May at 17:00 and the final projects will remain on view until 13 June.

The exhibition can be considered a farewell ceremony to the temporary spaces EKA has been working on since its main academic building at Tartu mnt. 1 was demolished eight years ago. The Lembitu 10 building has hosted EKA’s academic and creative activities over the past four years and, with the TASE ’18 exhibition, students will have a chance, as a symbolic gesture, to show their final projects in a space that EKA will leave behind when it moves to the new building this summer.

The exhibition will feature the final projects of fine arts, architecture, design and art and culture master’s students with the additional final works of fine arts bachelor’s students.

Main organiser: Keiu Krikmann

Co-organisers: Fidelia Regina Randmäe, Solveig Jahnke, Mart Vainre, Maarja Pabut, Laura Kuusk, Kelli Turman and Ingela Heinaste

Exhibition design: Ulla Alla, Madli Kaljuste and Margus Tammik

Graphic design: Martina Gofman, Johanna Ruukholm, Nathan Tulve; supervisor: Indrek Sirkel

More info www.artun.ee/tase

Friday, 11 of May at 14, Kasper Bosmans will hold an artist talk at the department of Fine Arts of Estonian Academy of Arts. The talk will take place at Lembitu 12, room 101 and is open to everyone.

Kasper Bosmans (1990) is an artist based in Brussels and Amsterdam. He has studied in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and in Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Ghent. He’s recent solo shows have been a.o. in Gladstone Gallery New York City, in De Hallen, Haarlem, and in Witte de Wit, Rotterdam. Bosmans works across painting, drawing, performance and sculptural installations made up various components, such as milk, sand, marble, etc. He’s often using elements of folk art which he combines with decorative forms in an associative and playful way.

On Thursday, 6 pm will be an opening of the show ‘Kristi Kongi in Dialogue with Kasper Bosmans. Alchemists, Artists, Cleaners and Others’ curated by Kati Ilves in Kumu Art Museum https://kumu.ekm.ee/en/syndmus/kristi-kongi-ja-kasper-bosmans-dialoogis/

The last lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this spring semester will be Tobias Nolte, stepping on the stage of Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn) on 3rd of May at 6 pm to talk about new technologies and their application in architecture. Topics of his lecture range from machine vision to data processing and how to apply them in architecture for smarter and more sustainable future.

In his lecture titled “Machine Vision and Design” Nolte will discuss the various projects his bureau deals with. One of the more exciting ones being Mine the Scrap, that focuses on the re-use of construction waste. They use machine vision to sort out pieces of various shapes and sizes from scrap materials and then use software to generate various shapes and layouts for generative re-use.

Tobias Nolte is a co-founder of Certain Measures. Prior to founding his own practice, he was a Director at Gehry Technologies in New York where he led a team of architects and engineers in the implementation of parametric and computational methods in design and construction. He was previously a director at the Europe office of Gehry Technologies in Paris where he has worked with a variety of leading international design firms including Gehry Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Snøhetta, UNStudio, Coop Himmelb(l)au and several others.

Certain Measures is an office for design science. They are a hypothesis-driven design practice that brings deeper insight to the design of experiences, systems, and spaces using mathematics, new technologies, refined intuition, and restless curiosity. They bring novel projects to life by building new software and hardware, tapping open-source tools, drawing on deep training and expertise in architecture, mathematics, robotics, and computer science, and embracing flexible collaboration with other owners, designers, and other experts. Their aim is to understand, enrich, and transform the human experience of space.

The Open Lecture Series brings to Tallinn a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

The architecture and urban planning department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam
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The opening event of the gallery, “Viewing and Reading Room”, will take place from 26 April to 5 May. It will present this year’s programme and introduce the gallery space and our artists. Participating artists are Alexei Gordin, Diana Tamane, Elīna Vītola, Kristi Kongi, Mari-Leen Kiipli and Eva Mustonen who will all have solo or duo exhibition in the gallery during 2018.

The artists will take over the new space in their own personal manner by creating either connections or headstrong opositions between each other. The gallery becomes a “viewing and reading room” where the visitors are invited to spend their time and to acquaint themselves with the works of the artists. Elīna Vītola and Kristi Kongi have different approaches and perspectives for working with abstractionism. While Kongi focuses on systematic research into light, colour and senses, Vītola presents the viewer with humorous observations about the connections that abstract art has with everyday life and politics. Social, personal and existential are represented in Alexei Gordin’s adventures in the art world but also in Diana Tamane’s sensitive approaches to the stories from her family history. Eva Mustonen and Mari-Leen Kiipli will work together to create an installation that will place the viewer face-to-face with bizarre found and invented objects.

Kogo’s programme will focus on artists’ solo projects, exhibitions born out of cooperation between artists and curatorial projects. The aim of the gallery is to help the represented artists with their international visibility and to introduce their artistic practices as widely as possible. Kogo represented already in October 2017 Diana Tamane at the Estonian Photographic Art Fair in Tallinn where the Outset Estonia purchasing committee selected her “Blood Pressure” as a gift to a foreign collection. Tamane was also invited by the Fotomuseum Winterthur to participate in the Pla(t)form project that represents young artists. Between 7 and 10 June, Kogo will participate in the ArtVilnius’18 art fair with works by Alexei Gordin, Elīna Vītola and Eva Mustonen.

Kogo has been supported by the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Tartu Town Government, Council of the Gambling Tax, Cultural Endowment of Tartu and European Regional Development Fund. Artists’ mobility is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

The gallery is opened: Wed – Sat, 12-18
Location: Widget Factory (Aparaaditehas, Kastani 42, Tartu, Estonia)

Call for residency!

Kanuti Gildi SAAL is looking for artist-in-residency at Püha Vaimu SAAL for september and december 2018. We have two one month residency vacancies, which are funded by Estonian Cultural Endowment and its very nature is to offer artist a chance to rather experiment than to work on a completed body of work.

We are waiting your idea descriptions, preferred period for residency and CVs to saal@saal.ee. Deadline is 21st of May.

This call is open for sharing.

Dates:  13-17 August 2018

Volume: 40 hours, 2 ECTS

Location:  Estonian Academy of Arts

Number of participants: max 13

Cost: FREE (Please note that this course is meant for higher education students only)

Registration deadline:  6th of May

In addition to the general required materials, candidates are expected to submit a letter of motivation explaining why they are applying and what is their experience with 3D printing so far (max A4).

The Department of Ceramics at the Estonian Academy of Arts invites you to participate in an international Clay 3D Printing workshop. Ceramics have properties that allow it to be used in the most disparate fields. We usually don’t consider that ceramics are all around us, not just in kitchenware, but also in bathrooms, swimming pools and public interiors, and that stoves and fireplaces, even houses, are made of fired clay. Top-quality ceramics can be found in medical equipment, audio technology and air and space industry. Clay is sensitive, flexible and versatile material with its’ own technological limits which the participants will learn during the workshop.

3D printing in clay allows us to print three-dimensional objects or models at lower cost and more easily. For ceramists, it represents a new technological possibility, while for others it gives a chance to convert digital sketches into real three-dimensional objects. During this course, participants will learn the technical skills of 3D printing and printing in clay: creating G-code and STL files, plus preparation of the clay and printing. The aim of the course is to use innovative thinking to discover new ways of printing, using clay and the printed ceramics. The end of the workshop will feature a pop-up exhibition of the objects created.

The workshop is aimed at ceramics, architecture and design students, but admission is open to all students who have had experience with 3D printing and know how to create 3D files. Every participant needs to bring their own laptop. All other materials are provided, and students may keep the objects they print.

Homework assignment for selectees:

1) students will be asked to bring one of their 3D-file, print ready

2) students will be asked to come up with a design they would like to execute in the workshop. They will be asked to give a presentation on the design in person. As in a hackathon, they will then set to work on the problem.

More information and link to registration form: https://www.artun.ee/summeracademy/clay-3d-printing/