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Publishing the ‘History of Estonian Art’ (1999–2025)

Publishing the multi-volume History of Estonian Art was initiated in 1999. It is the longest-running research project of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture. The Estonian-language volumes are accompanied by lengthy English ...

29 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

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 ...

20 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

EKA lecturer diagnosed with coronavirus

An EKA ...

16 March 2020

Corona Corner

EKA building is closed for studies as of 13 March but instruction continues at distance

NB! As of 13 March, the Government of Estonia has declared a state of emergency. All schools and universities have closed and are conducting distance studies until 1 May, 2020, unless the situation ...

12 March 2020

Corona Corner

Important information regarding the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention

12 March update: EKA building will be closed for studies as of 13 March, but instruction continues at distance.

10 March 2020

Office of the Rectorate Rectorate

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 ...

10 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

Next two open lectures on architecture canceled

We are sad to say that the next two open lectures on architecture are canceled: March 26 Klaske Havik April 16 Petras Išora ja Ona Lozuraitytė Stay safe!

10 March 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture

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 ...

3 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture became a Member of RIHA

The International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) has accepted the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture as its new member in late 2019. RIHA was created in 1998 with objective to coordinate research and ...

3 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Erasmus+ Project Re/Forma Viva

One of the key factors in cultural heritage protection is education that would show the importance of using various tools for the promotion of shared values. As it was written in the DECISION (EU) 2017/864 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE ...

2 March 2020

Cultural Heritage and Conservation