Interview with Lorna Phillips
Lorna Phillips (1999), had her exhibition “100 cups” at Vent Space from 13th till 19th of November 2019. She is a girl from Scotland and she is doing her Erasmus exchange studies in sculpture at EKA. We met up on a ...
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Design students of the Estonian Academy of Arts reach out to the international markets
On 13th December, the MA-students from fashion, textile, accessories’ and jewellery design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) will get a rare chance to pitch their newly refined brands and concepts to influential Scandinavian ...
Mark Fisher “Kapitalistlik realism: kas alternatiivi ei ole”
Mark Fisher's book is a revelatory description of the social and cultural atmosphere of the past few decades, which the author refers to as "capitalist realism" and which represents the "broad recognition that capitalism is not only not the only ...
Specialty studio “Living room + wool” 2019 / student work: Linda Zupping
What is a home and what makes be a good living space if the starting point and unit for the space is an ascetic, ubiquitous sea container? And so that the task given to 2nd year undergraduate students would not be too simple: ...
Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu
A lake and a port. Summer housing and mass housing. Metal, steel, automobiles, and the not-so distant memories of phosphorus mining. Beyond the towers of Vanalinn and the limestone of Lasnamäe exists this municipal assemblage that over 15,000 ...
Bernt Notke: The Research and Conservation of the Retable of the Church of the Holy Spirit
The late medieval retable of the High Altar of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn, is an outstanding masterpiece of woodcarving and painting of international renown, completed in 1483 in the workshop of Bernt Notke, a prominent master of ...
Katrin Aasmaa victorious at VIRUS FASHION’24 competition
MA-students Katrin Aasmaa and Cärol Ott have once again brought a great deal of pride to Estonia and the Estonian Academy of Arts by presenting their ERKI 2019 collections to an esteemed international panel at an ...
Estonia Diagonal
Urban studies 1st year students are taking a critical look at both the term and the process of urbanisation. The so called urban is investigated in their semester-long studio by searching for the traces of the gradual spread of Tallinn over time ...
A month-long power-program in the Fashion Design Department in the Estonian Academy of Arts
An intense month of experimenting, forecasting, designing and strategizing in the fashion department at the Estonian Academy of Arts was powered with international superstars leading the students to new heights in their professional ...
Master’s studio “Healthy space”, 2019 / student work: Lilian Männikust
The effects of space on human health have been known since the 1980s, when the first scientific study proved that patients in a ward with a window recover better from surgery than in a ward without a window (E.M. Sternberg, ...