EKA Gallery

February 15 and 16, at 6–8PM in EKA Gallery

Kaspar Aus: “On two days I will pass on what I know about body, mind and movement. We listen, catch up and let life through ourselves. For example just like you could place one small seed cell into a human anus and from there grows the plant through and out of us. That the body becomes non-existent and the manifestation of everything that is.”

To get involved, you need comfortable clothes, shoes for running and dancing around, an effort to be opened and together. You do not need to have any specific skills in dance and body movement beforehand. There are a changing room and a shower. Everyone is welcome regardless of previous experience. Free of charge!

About the artist: kasparaus.wixsite.com/artist

“We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the Estonian Association of Interior Architects exhibition called 80 Years of Interior Architecture Studies on Tuesday, November 20^th at 6 p.m at EKA Gallery.

The exhibition curated by Karin Paulus tells the story of eighty years of interior architecture studies in Estonia. The exhibition will feature exciting student projects and furniture designs, the department’s faculty members as well as academic events and fun undertakings. The designer of the exhibition is Toivo Raidmets, the longtime director of the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design Department.

A seminar will take place in the Estonian Academy of Arts auditorium on November 23^rd. More information available soon.
The exhibition will be open until 5 January 2019.

Curator: Karin Paulus
Contact: karinpaulus@gmail.com

Join us for the opening of the Young Sculptor Award 2018 exhibition “Prediction and Preservation” on October 3 at 6 pm. This is the first show at the gallery’s new location in the Estonian Academy of Arts, Põhja pst 7.

The exhibition focuses on the present, or maybe even different quests for the present. The present should be a place where the decisions about the past and the future are born. Therefore, the present itself is the most uncharted and unstable space-time. The future may seem like it has been before—a conventional, predictable and unchanging product of imagination and fiction. The real world is the place where unforeseen events are happening. It presents ethical problems that are more vexing than reminisces of the past or projections for the future. Welcome to the present moment, where the instruments are real space and active time units!

Artists who work with space and object fix their minds on the time dimension and the temporary; they ask how and what we perceive in our current space, and how it will be seen as it changes into the past. How the environment designs the future? How can we design ourselves for being present in the present? How values are created by things that happened or were perceived to happen in this space? Can the space become outdated or postponed?

The 2018 Young Sculptor Award show is the seventh in this series. The main goal of the show and its award is to highlight young sculptors and installation artists, support their creative production and open it to a wider public. Works are accepted to the show through open call for the sculpture and installation students, works have to be produced during the ongoing academic year. The grand prix and the second and third prize are awarded by an international jury. The awards are travels to important art events around the world.

Participating artists: Darja Krasnopevtseva, Izabella Neff, Johannes Luik, Katrin Enni, LAURi, Nele Tiidelepp, Olesja Semenkova, Richard Engel, Valetto Alexandre

Exhibition is organised by installation and sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tutors: Taavi Talve, Taavi Piibemann, Kirke Kangro, Art Allmägi. Technical assistance: Sander Haugas. Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio.

Exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

On Wednesday, 5 September at 17.00 EKA Gallery and the Faculty of Fine arts invite you to a public lecture on radical digital art by visiting artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder (USA). The lecture is in English and takes place in room A302.

Lecture “Radical Digital Painting” groups and presents several ideas and artifacts related to contemporary painting and contextualizes its connection to historical processes and digital technology. It is inspired by and is a continuation of Radical Computer Music. Through demonstrative, interactive performance lectures, American artist and educator Jeffrey Alan Scudder presents homegrown software inventions and new theories about painting and picture making. A Google search for “digital painting” today mostly brings up Photoshop tutorials related to translating age old representational painting techniques to computational media, but the topic of digital painting has much more to offer fine arts in terms of poetry and theory. Jeffrey has created several programs that highlight abstract expressivity, play, and improvisation over production quality and technical control.

In addition to software demos, new theoretical models of image resolution, computer literacy, and picture making are presented and described, and connected to the history of abstraction in drawing and painting. He presently spends all his time traveling, performing, and continuing to develop his software and media performances.

As of summer and fall 2018 he is traveling and lecturing with the Danish composer Goodiepal and his band throughout Europe. Jeffrey’s work Ten Minute Painting is now a part of the permanent Goodiepal collection at the SMK Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Interview with Jeffrey on Rhizome: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2017/dec/05/Artist-Profile-Jeffrey-Alan-Scudder/

The exhibition. My Body. My Face. I Sense, I Look, I Imagine.

Estonian Academy of Arts TASE ’17 Graduation Show sites and dates announced!
The Estonian Academy of Arts Graduation Show TASE ’17 and its satellite festivities will take place from 27 May – 12 June, 2017 at the historic Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11 and other venues in Tallinn.

Sat 27 May ERKI Fashion Show 30
The most scandalous fashion show of Estonia will present its 30th show in a last-chance-top-secret-site! Not to be missed!
Follow the lead

Tue 30 May 4pm TASE ’17 Opening Ceremony
Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11, Tallinn

TASE ’17 Graduation Show
Wed 31 May – Sat 12 June
Noblessner valukoda

TASE ’17 Portfolio Café
Fri 2 June and Sat 3 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

TASE ‘ 17 Graduation Works Lift Talks
Wed 2 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

SISU Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use 2017 “Naked Space”
7. – 8. 06. Luzern, Neubad, Switzerland and Mobile Classroom of the EAA Dept of Interior Architecture, in Tallinn

The SISU 2017 symposium will focus on re-use of interior space and community-driven redesign processes. The symposium will shed light on the question, how interior architecture is able to create an identity for naked space while ‘re-dressing’ it, and how this can contribute new value to the whole neighbourhood. What are our needs today and how does it influence the re-purposing process? How can we investigate the space inside the buildings of the past?

SISU will approach these questions across different disciplines including interior architects/designers, architects, filmmakers, academics and students from different cultures for the first time in parallel in Switzerland and in Estonia.

The Estonian Association of Interior Architects, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art / School of Engineering and Architecture, the Estonian Academy of Arts / Department of Interior Architecture and the Association of Swiss Interior Architects have the honour of inviting You to the 4th International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU
Read on and sign up at sisu.esl.ee

TASE FILM ’17
9. 06.
Sõpruse Cinema
Vana-Posti 8, Tallinn

The programme is developing, more info soon! Please save the dates and visit us!

Keiu Krikmann
TASE Head Coordinator
keiu.krikmann@artun.ee
Solveig Jahnke
Head of Communications
solveig.jahnke@artun.ee
Tel +372 6267 111
Mob +372 5626 4949
www.artun.ee

For the finissage of the “Place Oddity” exhibition, the curators Francisco Martínez and Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, and their guests, Liina Siib, Patrick Laviolette, Marika Agu, Flo Kasearu and Mihkel Kleis, will reflect about the communicating vessels between contemporary art, urban ethnography and material culture.
The event will take place in the EAA Gallery, the 1st of April at 17:00.

WELCOME TO THE SMALL FASHION ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITION
SCFI – SHORT COURSE FASHION ILLUSTRATION 2015.
THESE ARE CHOSEN WORKS OF FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS CREATED BY SECOND YEAR ESTONIAN ART ACADEMY FASHION STUDENTS. THE WORKS WERE CREATED THROUGHOUT A SHORT COURSE HELD INBETWEEN 1.09.2015 – 05.10.2015 BY A FASHION DESIGNER AND AN ILLUSTRATOR BRITT SAMOSON
THE PURPOSE OF THE COURSE WAS TO GIVE THESE NEW YOUNG FASHION DESIGNERS A NEW OUTPUT AT EXPRESSING THEIR DESIGNS OR CREATE NEW POSSIBILITIES IN THE FIELD AS A FASHION ILLUSTRATOR.
BY TRYING OUT DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND USING MULTIPLE TOOLS EACH YOUNG ILLUSTRATOR HAD THE ASSIGNMENT TO FIND A STYLE THAT IS MOST SUITABLE AND FLUENT FOR THE ARTIST AND THAT ALSO RESONATES WITH THE PUBLIC. IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT HAND IN HAND WITH DEVELOPING TECHNICAL SKILLS AN ILLUSTRATOR SHOULD ALSO GIVE PURPOSE FOR THEIR WORKS IN KNOWING WHETHER THEY ARE CREATING FOR A MAGAZINE OR A BRAND OR FOR AN ART BUYER.