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5th Semester Presentation – Uncalced City

PRESENTATION VIDEO: Take a look at the public presentation of the results of the 5th semester of the Unfinished City research project at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Heads of the research group for this semester Renee Puusepp, Damiano Cerrone ...

31 March 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture Urban Planning

EKA opened exchange studies’ application round

As of April 1, we are again accepting exchange studies applications for fall and academic year of 2020/21. Application deadline for autumn and full academic year: May 1, 2020. All information is available

31 March 2020

Forecast and Fantasy in Late Soviet Architecture (PSG, 2020–2024)

The research project proposes to write a history of fantasy in Late-Soviet architecture, focusing on its mediating role in the transformative effects of postwar modernisation. From the 1960s onwards several architects realigned their work ...

31 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Patterns of Development in Estonian Culture of the Transition Period (1986–1998) (PRG, 2020–2024)

The research project sets out to investigate the cultural processes at work in Estonia between 1986 and 1998, a time-frame known as the transition period, corresponding to the disintegration of socialist systems in Eastern Europe and subsequent ...

30 March 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

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