TASE

Portfolio Café is structured around one-on-one meetings that take place between local and international Fine Arts and Design professionals and graduate students of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Each meeting takes place about 50 minutes. During Portfolio Café sessions students introduce themselves and their work, and expert answer questions, provide recommendations, share contacts, etc. After the first scheduled conversation student moves on to the next selected expert they have signed up for.
All Portfolio Café meetings are in English.

Portfolio Café is a collaborative project between the Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Design.

Registration:
Portfolio Café invites all graduates from BA and MA levels to participate. Also, for the first time there are places available for EKA alumni and graduates from other Estonian higher education institutions.

To participate, please fill out this contact form and you will receive more information. 

his year’s Graduation Ceremonies will be held on June 20th in the EKA hall (room A101, Põhja puiestee 7, Tallinn).

12.00 o’clock – graduates of Faculties of Design and Art Culture

3 o’clock pm – graduates of Doctoral School and the faculties of Architecture and Fine Art

NB! Dear graduate, please come to the EKA gallery 15 minutes earlier, so we can lead you to your place.

In the event of Graduates Elevator pitch selected graduates of the Estonian Academy of Arts will present their final thesis to an expert panel in 7 minutes. The event is a part of the EKAs’ final thesis exhibition TASE. The idea of this event is to rise awareness of choosing the right final thesis subject and to help to interact the outcome of the work with real life in social and entrepreneurial fields.
First tree presentations will be in English and rest of them in Estonian.

Please register here:
https://forms.gle/C4yPVwxZ9detSs3SA

Timetable
15.00 Registration
15.15 Introducion
15.25 Pitching session
17.10 Expert panel
17.30 Closing words & networking

Graduates:
– Arife Dila Demiri “AURA-altering self-perception through interactive light emitting textiles” (textile design). In English
– Nesli Hazal Akbulut “Personal Touch – A Design Concept to Empower Connections” (interaction design). In English
– Mike Ramos “VR ambience experience” (interaction design). In English
– Linda Viikant “From Design – Ocarinas to whistling sculptures” (ceramics)
– Annamaria Rennel “Educational music development for kids” (product design)
– Epp Marta Tarvis “Sustainability of upholstered furniture” (product design)
– Kadi Adrikorn “TACIT PRESENCE. Looking into the Experience of Exclusive Headwear” (fashion design)
– Helmi Marie Langsepp “Not building. Mountains, mountain villages and guests” (architecture and urban design)
– Jaanika Sau “Creating an environment for blind and visually impaired people” (architecture and urban design)
– Varje Õunapuu “The Design and Evaluation of Injection Grouts for the Reattachment of Historic Plaster in St Mary’s Church, Pöide” (cultural heritage and conservation)

The event is funded by European Union Regional Fund.

Estonian Academy of Arts invites to the showing of student films – TASE FILM. The festival is going to take place on June 12 at 6 PM at EKA assembly hall.

The film festival is divided into two parts: the first one focuses on the films made in the cooperation of EKA and BFM students, where the main focus is on the importance of scenography in film. The second part of screening focuses on short films made by students and tries to discover if short films can be seen as portraits, or as a poem, carrying the unique voice and message within them. The program is curated by Mariliis Elizabeth Holzmann.

More information: mariliis.holzmann@artun.ee

Free entry!

Apply until 27.05.

In the framework of TASE ’19, graduate students from the Faculty of Design and Fine Arts once again have the opportunity to get feedback from an international group of experts. At the Portfolio Café, based on a series of one-on-one meetings, students can receive comments and advice on their already finished works and also projects still in progress. Those meetings are a great chance to improve one’s presentation skills, and can also a lead to new contacts and possible future collaborations.

The experts attending this year’s event are:

KATI ILVES (EST),

MISCHA KUBALL (DEU),

LIEVEN LAHAYE (NLD),

CHARLES MICHALSEN (DNK),

ALEX REYNOLDS (BEL),

SERGEJ TIMOFEJEV (LVA),

ANN MIRJAM VAIKLA (EST),

DANIELLE WILDE (NOR).

Applying and more information HERE:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVXDPniT8_tshs1vwExKBEVC1Kx4gaGx34mtuXhSEnOperew/viewform

NB!

The seats are limited! In case of a large number of applicants, a selection will be made by a committee faculty of members.

The MA graduates of the Faculty of Design and Fine Arts have a priority in applying.

In addition to the portfolio, it is also possible to present works exhibited at the graduation show.

The Portfolio Café meetings are mainly in English.

Portfolio Café is supported by the European Union European Regional Development Fund, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Goethe-Institut Estland and Erasmus +.

Lisainfo:

Kulla Laas ja Cloe Jancis
EKA fotograafia osakond

Tel. 616 4200, 5805 0009
portfolio.cafe@artun.ee

TASE is the annual spring graduation show of the Estonian Academy of Arts, with this year’s main exhibition taking place at the Faculty of Fine Arts building at Lembitu 10. The exhibition will open on 30 May at 17:00 and the final projects will remain on view until 13 June.

The exhibition can be considered a farewell ceremony to the temporary spaces EKA has been working on since its main academic building at Tartu mnt. 1 was demolished eight years ago. The Lembitu 10 building has hosted EKA’s academic and creative activities over the past four years and, with the TASE ’18 exhibition, students will have a chance, as a symbolic gesture, to show their final projects in a space that EKA will leave behind when it moves to the new building this summer.

The exhibition will feature the final projects of fine arts, architecture, design and art and culture master’s students with the additional final works of fine arts bachelor’s students.

Main organiser: Keiu Krikmann

Co-organisers: Fidelia Regina Randmäe, Solveig Jahnke, Mart Vainre, Maarja Pabut, Laura Kuusk, Kelli Turman and Ingela Heinaste

Exhibition design: Ulla Alla, Madli Kaljuste and Margus Tammik

Graphic design: Martina Gofman, Johanna Ruukholm, Nathan Tulve; supervisor: Indrek Sirkel

More info www.artun.ee/tase

Artist: Carla Castiajo
Sound: Paul Beaudoin
Where: Bathroom, Lembitu 3, Tallinn
Preliminary review: 3 June at 4 pm
Exhibition: 4 and 5 June, 4–7 pm
The bathroom is an intimate space where we execute contrasting actions and behaviors. We use this private space daily for cleaning ourselves of the impurity that accumulates by washing our bodies, hands and hair. In this space, we face the mirror where our hair can be combed and plaited or remove our unwanted hair. This intimate space is also the place where we expel our filth – our repugnant fluids and excrement.
In my recent works, my attention has focused on exploring the use and significance of human hair as a material in jewellery and art. The work’s purpose is to apply of the often ambiguous features present in hair and its potential to produce different and often opposing/contradictory meanings and reactions.
After washing your hands, you are welcome to touch the objects.
Carla Castiajo has studied and taught jewellery as a medium of expression. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden and is currently a doctoral student at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The subject of her research is Hair: Purity or Promiscuity? Exploring Hair as a Material and its Meaning in Jewellery and Art.
She has taught at the BNU in Pakistan, the Oakham School in Britain, the ESAD in Portugal and the EKA in Estonia. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Paul Beaudoin is an internationally recognized multimedia artist.
Many thanks to Ester Kruuse / Riigi Kinnisvara AS, Prof. Mart Kalm, Tiit Rammul, Virko Kuusk, Risto Tali, Andreas Kivisild, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and with special thank to Prof. Kadri Mälk.

ERKI Fashion Show this Saturday will take place in Noblessner Valukoda, start at 7 pm. Get tickets here: www.erki.artun.ee/2015/et/piletid