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EKA Science Publication Awards 2025 announced!

The Estonian Academy of Arts recognised the authors of outstanding scholarly and practice-based research publications that were published in 2025 – across three award categories, the Academy highlighted the diverse and high-level ...

5 January 2026

Research and Development Office

Leida Spring Issue Calls for Contribution

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS LEIDA: ISSUE No. 8 – COPY WORK The 2026 spring issue of the design ...

19 December 2025

Faculty of Design

Master’s studio “Creative Research” exhibition “ASITÖÖ” at EKA Library

ASITÖÖ Exhibition at EKA Library 11-18 December 2025 In 2027, it will be 100 years since the birth of Vello Asi (1927–2016), an important figure of Estonian interior architecture and a long-time lecturer at the Department ...

15 December 2025

Making Space

How to write a more inclusive, transnational and polyphonic history of the visual arts on a European scale today?

The EKA Institute of Art History and Visual Culture is part of the Visual Arts in Europe: An Open History (EVA) project that brings together more than 150 art and heritage historians representing the 46 member countries of the Council ...

15 December 2025

Faculty of Art and Culture

Five awards from the 2025 national student research competition go to EKA

On 10 December, the best student research projects of 2025 were recognised at a festive award ceremony held at the National Library. This year, 531 competition entries were submitted, which is roughly ...

11 December 2025

Architecture and Urban Design Cultural Heritage and Conservation Scenography

The 2026 EKA Gallery Graphic Design and Photography Internships have been announced!

Photographers: August Kilmi (Spring 2026) Marily Simenson-Plakso (Fall 2026) Graphic designers: Sunny Lei (Spring 2026) Simon Janson (Fall ...

10 December 2025

Gallery

EKA Leads First T4EU Artistic Research Roundtables

The Estonian Academy of Arts has coordinated the first set of artistic research roundtables within the Transform4Europe (T4EU) Alliance as part of Work Package 7 Transforming ...

10 December 2025

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Schedule for Interior Architecture assessments and project presentations

We welcome all interested parties to the December evaluations of the Interior Architecture Department, where both bachelor’s and master’s students will present projects completed during the fall ...

9 December 2025

Making Space

The EKA Gallery 2026 Year Programme is Set!

We received 117 project proposals and 31 portfolios part of EKA Gallery's Open Call for 2026. The jury for putting together the program included: gallerist Kaisa Maasik, gallery technician Erik Hõim and outside ...

8 December 2025

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Conference on researching Baltic German (art) history in Riga

EKA with Yale University, University of Latvia and Latvian Academy of Culture is organising a conference “From Empire to Minority: Baltic Germans from Late Nineteenth Century to the 1930s”. The event takes place on 23-24 January 2026, ...

8 December 2025

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture