Events

On September 10, the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) will host a spectacular finale of the iron casting course at the Raja Street outdoor studio, where metal will be cast and creative and technological experiments completed during the course will be presented. Over 40 students and professionals from Estonia and abroad will participate in the international course.

Iron casting is primarily common in heavy industry, but despite its complexity, artists and designers are also involved in it. In the pursuit of efficiency and clear definitions, such areas between the highly standardized and the creative-experimental tend to disappear, but in order to maintain cultural integrity, it is important to keep these spaces – to maintain existing competencies and at the same time strengthen diversity.

The course, which will take place from August 31 to September 11, will explore iron casting technologies at different levels – starting with learning about iron casting as a basic metalworking technology and its various processes, and moving on to metal alloys, technological possibilities and creative experiments on different scales.

The course is attended by students from EKA and other higher education institutions, as well as professionals from Estonia and abroad. Among the participants are students from Germany, Sweden, Norway and Japan, as well as students from EKA’s jewellery and blacksmithing, craft studies and contemporary art departments, and Erasmus students. Professionals have come to the course from, among others, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany and the United States.

The course is supervised by Nils Hint (EKA) and David Snoo Wilson (UK). The technological research is being conducted by lecturers from Ostrova University of Technology and Riga Academy of Arts, artist Peter Bauhuis from Germany and members of the international iron casting organization ICCCIA.

On Thursday, September 10 at 6:00 PM, the public final of the course will take place at the EKA’s Raja Street outdoor studio.

The iron casting course has been held at EKA since 2016. Over the past ten years, Estonian iron casting practice has become increasingly visible in Estonia, Europe and internationally. As a next important step, the EKA Department of Jewelry and Blacksmithing, in cooperation with ICCCIA, will organize an international iron casting symposium in Tallinn in 2028.

On 2 October from 13.00–15.00, the Disainiöö programme at Põhjala Factory will host “Sustainable Textile Counselor: A New Learning Opportunity in the Textile Sector”, introducing a new international educational initiative focused on supporting sustainable transformation in the textile sector.

The textile industry faces an urgent need for new knowledge, skills and approaches to make production and consumption more sustainable. The Sustainable Textile Counselor (STC) project offers a practical learning pathway for professionals who want to support companies and organisations in developing more sustainable textile practices.

The event will introduce the STC project and its independent learning opportunities, while also exploring what it means to work as a sustainable textile counselor. The event will also celebrate the completion of Estonia’s first STC pilot programme, with diplomas presented to the newly trained counselors.

The programme will conclude with a hands-on workshop led by the new sustainable textile counselors. Participants will have the opportunity to explore practical approaches, knowledge and methods developed during the pilot programme.

The event is free and open to everyone interested in sustainable textiles.

Põhjala Factory
2 October
13.00–15.00

More information: https://www.sustainabletextilecounselor.com/

The event is organised by DiMa, EKA’s Circular Design and Materials Research Group.

The summer school season is coming to an end, and we’re bringing the Summer School Reader to Tallinn! 

Join us on 9 September at 6PM at Logi Saun for an evening of readings, conversation and sauna.

Trojan Horse is an autonomous educational platform based in Helsinki, working across architecture, design and art. It organises summer schools, workshops, reading circles and live action role-plays, creating spaces for learning and exchange outside more conventional educational settings. The Trojan Horse Summer Schools bring together participants from different backgrounds for an intensive week on an island, where they read and discuss together, share their own interests and research, organise workshops, and take part in the everyday routines of living together, from cooking and cleaning to swimming and going to the sauna.

The A Week on An Island With Trojan Horse – The Summer School Reader grew out of these experiences. Rather than documenting the themes, workshops and events of the summer schools, the publication gathers personal memories, reflections and interpretations of what happens around and in between them. It is a collection of different perspectives on those intense weeks of living, working, talking, learning and being together, and on what remains after everyone returns home.

During the launch, we’ll introduce the publication and hear some of the texts from the book. After the introduction and reading session, the warm sauna will be waiting for us. 

9 September · 6PM
Logi saun, Tallinn

Come say goodbye to the summer with us! 

Edited by: Ott Kagovere, Hanan Mahbouba, Arlene Tucker, Jaroslav Toussaint, Andre Vicentini, and Tommi Vasko

Texts by: Hanan Mahbouba, Marianna Maruyama and Arlene Tucker, Jaroslav Toussaint, Andre Vicentini, and Tommi Vasko

Graphic design: Ott Kagovere and Kert Viiart-Õllek.

Join us for the opening of the Nordic and Baltic Comics Exhibition “Mythbústers” on Thursday, September 3 at 5 pm in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts!

The opening will be followed by an artist talk on the stairs of the lobby at 5.30 pm, where the artists participating in the exhibition Emmi Valve and Joonas Sildre will talk with the exhibition curator David Schilter. The talk will take place in English.

Read more about the exhibition here.

As part of the exhibition “Mythbústers”, a comic-themed workshop for students will be held on Friday, September 4 from 2 to 4 pm, led by Emmi Valve. The workshop will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but places are limited (up to 20 participants). Please register here.

More information about the exhibition “Mythbústers”.

In September, the nomadic Pori Biennale takes place in the striking post-industrial Narva Venice (Kulgu), imagining what a biennale could be when shaped by local history, architecture and communities.

Continuing Porin Kulttuurisäätö collective’s long-term research into the biennial format, the project examines how a biennale might function as a site for co-existence, collaboration, activation and event. Art does not always need grandiose exhibition halls – rather, it needs people who come together.

Artists: Baran Caginli (TR/FI), Kristin Wiking (SE/FI), Jonas Palekas (LT), Sashapasha: Pavel and Sasha Rotts (FI), Aksel Haagensen (EE), Ulvi Haagensen (EE/AU).

Cotyledon project: Helena Atkin (UK/EE) and Daria Titova (UA/EE).
Cotyledon project workshop takes place on 25.,26., 27., ja 28.08. More info here.

Curators: Anna Jensen & Eliisa Suvanto, Porin kulttuurisäätö

Exhibition opening times: Thursday at 12:00–19:00; 3.09, Friday, 4.09 at 12:00–19:00; Saturday 5.09 at 12:00–19:00, Sunday 6.09 at 12:00–16:00.

Friday 4.09. at 16:30
Exhibition opening

Ingrian Pavilion: Clay. A durational performance by Pavel Rotts

Throughout the opening, the artist hand-builds clay bricks bearing the letters of INGRIA. Gradually, the repeated act of writing transforms language into architecture, assembling the Ingrian Pavilion brick by brick.

Saturday 5.09. at 14:00–16:00

Serving food and baking books. Food event by Jonas Palekas & Baran Caginli

16:00–

Ingrian Pavilion: Boat. A performance by SASHAPASHA.

Six unfired clay bricks spelling INGRIA are lowered into the water on ropes as anchors. As the clay dissolves, the boat returns to shore, where the flag is raised above the pavilion. The performance reflects on migration, memory, and the impossibility of permanently anchoring a place, a language, or an identity.

Pori Biennale VII takes place alongside Station Narva, the music and city festival that since 2018 has filled Estonia’s easternmost city with music, art, communal gatherings and cross-sector initiatives.

Address: Remmelga 8, Narva

Kindly supported by and in collaboration with: Narva Art Residency (NART), Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finnish Institute in Estonia, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Kone Foundation and Station Narva.

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The music and city festival Station Narva returns for its 9th edition to the easternmost Estonian city of Narva on 3-6 September 2026. Get ready for music from near and far, sightseeing, art experiments and new discoveries across Narva.
Station Narva 2026 tickets are on sale → shop.tmw.ee
More info https://stationnarva.ee/en

From Sketch to Printed Fabric, opening at Narva Art Residency (NART), brings together archival materials from Kreenholm textile artists and contemporary printed fabrics by students of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). The exhibition focuses on the “backstage” of printed textiles: the rules and working steps that turn a motif into a production-ready fabric, how the repeat (rapport) and pattern rhythm are constructed, and how colour separation and registration shape the final result. The archive presents sketches, repeats, colour studies and print proofs, while large-scale digital prints by EKA students carry the same logic into a contemporary context – reflecting themes relevant to a younger generation and the Estonian consumer landscape, anchored in the proportions of the Kreenholm rapport.

An installative printing table with technical samples introduces key steps of the screen-printing process, and a playful work table invites visitors to create their own patterns and see them instantly repeated.

Exhibition duration: Saturday, 6 September 2026 – 10 January 2027
Opening event: Saturday, 5 September 2026 at 16:00
Location: Narva Art Residency (NART)
Exhibition team: Alyona Movko-Mägi, Eva Reiska, Piret Valk, Krista Leesi
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Join the NART resident artists for an evening dedicated to the artistic side/perspectives of Narva. The event is held at Narva Artist Residency (Joala 18, 20103, Narva, Estonia).

Programme all evening:

⎆ Installation “Firewall” – Vitalli Shupliak
⎆ Virtual installation “If These Walls Could Speak” – Bart Kuipers

17:00 Welcome with soup, bread, and snacks!

17:15 Tour of the installation “Firewall” by Vitalii Shupliak
Vitalli Shupliak works primarily with video installation, painting, and performance and will present video work and an installation based on his modular spatial installation “Firewall”, that is scheduled to be built in Narva later this year.

Liso Stec (BY) is a curator and researcher exploring the context of Narva and the artistic potential of NART.

18:00 Workshop “Writing the Poetry of Narva” by Bart Kuipers
Bart Kuipers is a poet and multimedia artist and is looking to write the poetry of Narva together with people who know Narva the best!

19:00: Artist talk “Artistic Unlearning in Narva” and discussion by Yulia Krivich
Yulia Krivich is a visual artist and scholar. In her artist talk, she will present her research on how visual culture shapes identity, memory, and belonging in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union space, inviting us to unlearn inherited ways of seeing and imagine different futures.

On Wednesday, September 2 at 4–6 pm, as part of the exhibition “The Island of Girls” at EKA Gallery, artist and designer Katya Lesiv (@katya.lesiv) will share her practice and work over tea. During the conversation, we will drink tea together, sit around the table, and talk.

The event is free, but places are limited (up to 20 participants). Please register in advance here.

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Katya Lesiv currently lives and works between Ukraine and Finland. Her practice explores cyclicality, physicality, emotional and sensitive experience, and motherhood. She works across photography, artist books, installation, objects, text, graphics, and moving image. Performative methods, often rooted in everyday rituals, allow her to encapsulate and share intimate experiences while safeguarding personal space. The body of the book often serves as the final form of her work.

Lesiv’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Ukraine, Finland, and the Netherlands, as well as in curated group exhibitions internationally. Her photobook Lullaby 1 was included among the top 100 photobooks in How We See: Photobooks by Women, selected by 10×10 Photobooks. Her book I Love You was shortlisted for the Aperture PhotoBook Awards in 2022. In 2024, she was nominated by ISSP to join the FUTURES Photography Platform. Lesiv is a member of the Association of Photographic Artists in Finland and the Finnish Darkroom Association.

Read more about the exhibition here.

On Friday, August 28th, starting at 12:00, the opening ceremony of the 2026/27 academic year will be held. The ceremony takes place in the main hall (A101) and lasts approximately 1.5 hours.