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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 ...

1 January 2021

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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 ...

30 December 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

ERASMUS Charter for 2021 – 2027 granted

On December 22, 2020 EKA received a confirmation of a positive result to our application for ERASMUS Charter for the period of 2021 - 2027. The letter from European Commission, signed by Vanessa Debiais-Sainton said: "Having completed the ...

22 December 2020

Siim Tuksam “Modulated Modularity – from mass customisation to custom mass production” (Dissertationes 33)

Siim Tuksam, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Architecture and Urban Planning, defended his thesis „Modulated Modularity – from mass customisation to custom mass production“ ...

22 December 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Doctoral School

K. Ritval on “Storytelling as a Survival Kit”

Christmas is a time of storytelling and there is a broad variety of different stories at the Vent Space gallery where 11 foreign students from EKA are telling stories through different mediums. The exhibition is an outcome of a course in EKA, ...

22 December 2020

Vent Space Blog

Sille Pihlak “Prototyping Protocols, Protocolling Prototypes: a methodological development of somatic modularity for algorithmic timber architecture in Estonian context” (Dissertationes 32)

Sille Pihlak, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Architecture and Urban Planning, defended her thesis “Prototyping Protocols, Protocolling Prototypes: A Methodological Development of Somatic ...

21 December 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Doctoral School

Ann Kristiin Entson – 3rd prize in the ERC research competition

Ann Kristiin Entson (EKA, architecture and urban design) won the 3rd prize (700 euros) in the field of Humanities and Arts at the level of the master’s thesis in the national competition for student research in 2020 with her ...

19 December 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture

EKA X-MAS SHOW 2020

Wishing the entire EKA family a safe holiday, we report on what has been done this year in our faculties and in the Open Academy.

19 December 2020

Communications Office International Office

Ingrid Ruudi “Spaces of the Interregnum. Transformations in Estonian Architecture and Art, 1986–1994” (Dissertationes 31)

Ingrid Ruudi, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Art History and Visual Culture, defended her thesis Spaces of the Interregnum. Transformations in Estonian Architecture and Art, 1986–1994 („Ruumiline ...

17 December 2020

Doctoral School Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Madli Kaljuste was awarded the EAA Student Award 2020

The Student Award 2020 of the Estonian Association of Architects was awarded to Madli Kaljuste, a master’s thesis in the field of architecture and urban design of EKA for the “Designers’ House” (Rävala 8, Tallinn). The winner of the student ...

15 December 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture