Category: Faculty of Art and Culture

21.02.2025

Republic of Estonia 107 Ceremony

REpublic of Estonia 107 EN3

Dear EKA members!

I invite you all to the celebrations of the 107th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on Friday, February 21st at 13.00 on the lobby steps.

The keynote speaker will be Signe Kivi, EKA’s Rector Emerita, textile artist and member of the Riigikogu. Among many other activities, Signe Kivi has a solo exhibition “Signature” running until the first Sunday in March at the Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design.

The event will end as tradition dictates with a shot of vodka, kissel and sprat sandwich.

Long live Estonia!

Mart Kalm
Rector

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Republic of Estonia 107 Ceremony

Friday 21 February, 2025

REpublic of Estonia 107 EN3

Dear EKA members!

I invite you all to the celebrations of the 107th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on Friday, February 21st at 13.00 on the lobby steps.

The keynote speaker will be Signe Kivi, EKA’s Rector Emerita, textile artist and member of the Riigikogu. Among many other activities, Signe Kivi has a solo exhibition “Signature” running until the first Sunday in March at the Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design.

The event will end as tradition dictates with a shot of vodka, kissel and sprat sandwich.

Long live Estonia!

Mart Kalm
Rector

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12.02.2025

Orit Gat’s open lecture on art criticism: Being Personal

London-based art critic Orit Gat will be giving an open lecture on 12 February at 18.00 at the Estonian Academy of Arts (room A202) on the subject of being personal in (art) writing. She will be exploring different ways of bringing personal experiences to writing and making space for experiences that are often not reflected in culture. Gat also considers the importance of developing a writing practice as a social space and writing with others in mind.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion led by art critic and educator Maarin Ektermann.
Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London. She has written about
contemporary art, books, digital culture, and football for numerous magazines including The White Review, frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Camera Austria, and Cultured, among others.

Orit Gat’s lecture in Tallinn is organized jointly by the Estonian Centre of Contemporary Art and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
The lecture will be held in English.

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Orit Gat’s open lecture on art criticism: Being Personal

Wednesday 12 February, 2025

London-based art critic Orit Gat will be giving an open lecture on 12 February at 18.00 at the Estonian Academy of Arts (room A202) on the subject of being personal in (art) writing. She will be exploring different ways of bringing personal experiences to writing and making space for experiences that are often not reflected in culture. Gat also considers the importance of developing a writing practice as a social space and writing with others in mind.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion led by art critic and educator Maarin Ektermann.
Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London. She has written about
contemporary art, books, digital culture, and football for numerous magazines including The White Review, frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Camera Austria, and Cultured, among others.

Orit Gat’s lecture in Tallinn is organized jointly by the Estonian Centre of Contemporary Art and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
The lecture will be held in English.

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07.02.2025 — 08.02.2025

Seminar on Baltic Germans at Yale

The Estonian Academy of Arts (Associate Prof. Kristina Jõekalda) together with Yale University (Prof. Bradley Woodworth) is organizing a history seminar on the Baltic Germans on February 7-8 2025:

Bulwark against the East or Imperial Outpost? Baltic Germans in the Russian Empire“.

Among the speakers is also EKA’s junior researcher Ragne Soosalu.

The seminar takes place at Yale University in USA, but can be followed via Zoom.

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Seminar on Baltic Germans at Yale

Friday 07 February, 2025 — Saturday 08 February, 2025

The Estonian Academy of Arts (Associate Prof. Kristina Jõekalda) together with Yale University (Prof. Bradley Woodworth) is organizing a history seminar on the Baltic Germans on February 7-8 2025:

Bulwark against the East or Imperial Outpost? Baltic Germans in the Russian Empire“.

Among the speakers is also EKA’s junior researcher Ragne Soosalu.

The seminar takes place at Yale University in USA, but can be followed via Zoom.

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11.02.2025

KVI Open lecture – Charis Gullickson “Decolonisation of Nordic museums”

Dr. Charis Gullickson is a senior curator at the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (Norway).

In her PhD project, Charis Gullickson examined public art museums in Norway as social actors. In her abstract she states: “The aim of this dissertation is to question status quo art museum practices and the predisposition to regard state-funded art museums in Norway as ‘neutral’ institutions.” Museum neutrality prevents institutions from “seeing” their potential transformative social power. Out of her research project grew the activist group Museer er ikke nøytrale / Museat eai leat neutrálat. For Charis, it is about learning to see (understanding systems of power and hierarchical structures). If museum practitioners cannot see the structural and systemic problems that exist, they cannot begin to fix them. Hence art museum professionals tend to maintain status quo and function within prevailing uncontroversial frameworks.

This lecture discusses Norwegian art museums as settler institutions in a historical perspective. I will consider how coloniality shapes the present within the context of art museums and curatorial practices. Analyzing the historical trajectory of the art museum from this standpoint might help demonstrate why art museums and curators operate the way they do today.

Links to case studies:

https://www.idunn.no/doi/full/10.18261/kk.105.1.4

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161063

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cura.12580

 

Lecture is held in cooperation with KUMU Art Museum and is connected to the exhibition “They Began to Talk” at the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Kumu Art Museum which invites us to reflect on environmental changes resulting from human activity through the lens of colonial history and its lasting impact. The exhibition brings together the practices of artists working in this region with those from Indigenous communities in the Nordic countries, exploring the possibility of recovering and cultivating a sense of connection.

Lecture is funded by:

 

@nordnorskkunstmuseum

@ikkenoytrale

 

Lecture’s recording at EKA TV.

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KVI Open lecture – Charis Gullickson “Decolonisation of Nordic museums”

Tuesday 11 February, 2025

Dr. Charis Gullickson is a senior curator at the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (Norway).

In her PhD project, Charis Gullickson examined public art museums in Norway as social actors. In her abstract she states: “The aim of this dissertation is to question status quo art museum practices and the predisposition to regard state-funded art museums in Norway as ‘neutral’ institutions.” Museum neutrality prevents institutions from “seeing” their potential transformative social power. Out of her research project grew the activist group Museer er ikke nøytrale / Museat eai leat neutrálat. For Charis, it is about learning to see (understanding systems of power and hierarchical structures). If museum practitioners cannot see the structural and systemic problems that exist, they cannot begin to fix them. Hence art museum professionals tend to maintain status quo and function within prevailing uncontroversial frameworks.

This lecture discusses Norwegian art museums as settler institutions in a historical perspective. I will consider how coloniality shapes the present within the context of art museums and curatorial practices. Analyzing the historical trajectory of the art museum from this standpoint might help demonstrate why art museums and curators operate the way they do today.

Links to case studies:

https://www.idunn.no/doi/full/10.18261/kk.105.1.4

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161063

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cura.12580

 

Lecture is held in cooperation with KUMU Art Museum and is connected to the exhibition “They Began to Talk” at the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Kumu Art Museum which invites us to reflect on environmental changes resulting from human activity through the lens of colonial history and its lasting impact. The exhibition brings together the practices of artists working in this region with those from Indigenous communities in the Nordic countries, exploring the possibility of recovering and cultivating a sense of connection.

Lecture is funded by:

 

@nordnorskkunstmuseum

@ikkenoytrale

 

Lecture’s recording at EKA TV.

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23.01.2025

KVI Research Seminar: Anneli Porri

Anneli Porri is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture from 2023.

She graduated from the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture  of the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA in Art History and VIsual Culture Studies, 2002) and the Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University (MA in Cultural Theory, 2012) and works as a lecturer in art education and as a leader of the joint art teacher training programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Porri has written art criticism for the cultural media, curated exhibitions of Estonian and international contemporary art, edited art publications, and compiled teaching materials for both general and higher education.

Porri’s academic research interests are related to art education, teaching methods for the analysis of artworks and the didactics of art mediation. Her doctoral research focuses on teaching methods and strategies that support the development of visual competence, particularly in the interpretation of artworks.

About the seminar:

Conscious and deliberate looking is the basis of visual literacy and the interpretation of visual images is based on both our vision and our knowledge. Thus, image reading requires conscious learning. But how does the learning process establish contact with art and develop the skills that allow the viewer to interpret a work of art?

At the research seminar I will present a study in progress on the teaching of art history in Estonia since the establishment of the first chair of art history at the University of Tartu. I will offer a perspective on Estonian art history and art history studies that focuses primarily on the didactics of the subject, a view on the study and teaching of art history, an additional layer to the study of the science of Estonian art history, which has also been addressed in recent articles by Krista Kodres and Eero Kangor.

The aim of the study is to problematise the choice of traditional teaching methods and strategies in art history in both higher and general education and to clarify attitudes towards them according to art history and educational thought and practice.

I will focus on the following research questions:

1. What are the institutional and educational policy conditions of art history teaching in Estonian higher and general education 1920-1990(?)?
2. How is the teaching of the history of art and the relationship with art aimed at, what competences is it aimed at developing?
3. What are the traditional methods and strategies of teaching art history that have developed and are used in the teaching process?

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KVI Research Seminar: Anneli Porri

Thursday 23 January, 2025

Anneli Porri is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture from 2023.

She graduated from the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture  of the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA in Art History and VIsual Culture Studies, 2002) and the Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University (MA in Cultural Theory, 2012) and works as a lecturer in art education and as a leader of the joint art teacher training programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Porri has written art criticism for the cultural media, curated exhibitions of Estonian and international contemporary art, edited art publications, and compiled teaching materials for both general and higher education.

Porri’s academic research interests are related to art education, teaching methods for the analysis of artworks and the didactics of art mediation. Her doctoral research focuses on teaching methods and strategies that support the development of visual competence, particularly in the interpretation of artworks.

About the seminar:

Conscious and deliberate looking is the basis of visual literacy and the interpretation of visual images is based on both our vision and our knowledge. Thus, image reading requires conscious learning. But how does the learning process establish contact with art and develop the skills that allow the viewer to interpret a work of art?

At the research seminar I will present a study in progress on the teaching of art history in Estonia since the establishment of the first chair of art history at the University of Tartu. I will offer a perspective on Estonian art history and art history studies that focuses primarily on the didactics of the subject, a view on the study and teaching of art history, an additional layer to the study of the science of Estonian art history, which has also been addressed in recent articles by Krista Kodres and Eero Kangor.

The aim of the study is to problematise the choice of traditional teaching methods and strategies in art history in both higher and general education and to clarify attitudes towards them according to art history and educational thought and practice.

I will focus on the following research questions:

1. What are the institutional and educational policy conditions of art history teaching in Estonian higher and general education 1920-1990(?)?
2. How is the teaching of the history of art and the relationship with art aimed at, what competences is it aimed at developing?
3. What are the traditional methods and strategies of teaching art history that have developed and are used in the teaching process?

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28.01.2025

Open Debate of EKA Rector Candidates

On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., open debate of EKA rector candidates will take place.

EKA rector candidate programs (in Estonian):

Rector candidate Hilkka Hiiop’s program
Rector candidate Kirke Kangro’s program

Hilkka Hiiop is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Arts and Culture from 2021. Hiiop is a professor in the Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation. Hiiop’s candidacy was submitted by the members of the EKA Council.

Kirke Kangro is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Fine Arts from 2016. She is a professor at the Department of Installation and Sculpture. Kangro was nominated by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Design of EKA.

The EKA rector’s elections will take place in auditorium A-101 on Friday, January 31, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

At the election meeting, the members of the electoral board will vote by secret ballot. The rector candidate who receives more than half of the votes will be elected.

Information related to the rector’s elections can be found at artun.ee/rektori-valimised.

The term of office of the new EKA Rector will begin on April 4, 2025.

 

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Open Debate of EKA Rector Candidates

Tuesday 28 January, 2025

On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., open debate of EKA rector candidates will take place.

EKA rector candidate programs (in Estonian):

Rector candidate Hilkka Hiiop’s program
Rector candidate Kirke Kangro’s program

Hilkka Hiiop is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Arts and Culture from 2021. Hiiop is a professor in the Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation. Hiiop’s candidacy was submitted by the members of the EKA Council.

Kirke Kangro is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Fine Arts from 2016. She is a professor at the Department of Installation and Sculpture. Kangro was nominated by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Design of EKA.

The EKA rector’s elections will take place in auditorium A-101 on Friday, January 31, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

At the election meeting, the members of the electoral board will vote by secret ballot. The rector candidate who receives more than half of the votes will be elected.

Information related to the rector’s elections can be found at artun.ee/rektori-valimised.

The term of office of the new EKA Rector will begin on April 4, 2025.

 

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03.01.2025 — 17.01.2025

International Group Exhibition “Abundance” in T1 Shopping Center

On Friday, January 3rd 2025 at 17:00 the group exhibition “Abundance” opens on the second floor of T1 shopping center (next to the central atrium).

The exhibition includes works by Emily Greenwood, Ulvi Haagensen, Cecile Hübner, Heleliis Hõim, Erki Kasemets, Sandra Kosorotova, Gary Markle and Sigrid Viir.

“Abundance” delves into the themes of invisible systems in the age of consumerism. By organizing an exhibition in a shopping center, a question of dealing with the existing surrounding arises. How do we work both with and against the overwhelming presence of consumerism and capitalism? The exhibition acts as a space to take time, observe and briefly escape from the sea of information. It aims to slow down visitors and make them reflect on their surroundings.

The exhibition is curated by Piret Arukaevu, Sylvia Burgess, Maia Hellman, Kaur Järve, Marite Kuus and Mariam Mestvirishvili as part of the Curatorial Studies Seminar, led by Brigit Arop, at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Exhibition is open from 03.01–17.01.2025.

Open hours:
Tue–Fri 16:00–20:00,
Sat–Sun 12:00–20:00

Finissage event on Friday, January 17th at 17:00, programming will begin at 17:30.

Information about public programming during the exhibition will be announced on the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/2404807066531874

Graphic design by Andrew Hill.

The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Academy of Arts, department of Art History and Visual Culture and Craft Studies.

Special thanks to T1 Mall of Tallinn and SUHE bar.

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International Group Exhibition “Abundance” in T1 Shopping Center

Friday 03 January, 2025 — Friday 17 January, 2025

On Friday, January 3rd 2025 at 17:00 the group exhibition “Abundance” opens on the second floor of T1 shopping center (next to the central atrium).

The exhibition includes works by Emily Greenwood, Ulvi Haagensen, Cecile Hübner, Heleliis Hõim, Erki Kasemets, Sandra Kosorotova, Gary Markle and Sigrid Viir.

“Abundance” delves into the themes of invisible systems in the age of consumerism. By organizing an exhibition in a shopping center, a question of dealing with the existing surrounding arises. How do we work both with and against the overwhelming presence of consumerism and capitalism? The exhibition acts as a space to take time, observe and briefly escape from the sea of information. It aims to slow down visitors and make them reflect on their surroundings.

The exhibition is curated by Piret Arukaevu, Sylvia Burgess, Maia Hellman, Kaur Järve, Marite Kuus and Mariam Mestvirishvili as part of the Curatorial Studies Seminar, led by Brigit Arop, at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Exhibition is open from 03.01–17.01.2025.

Open hours:
Tue–Fri 16:00–20:00,
Sat–Sun 12:00–20:00

Finissage event on Friday, January 17th at 17:00, programming will begin at 17:30.

Information about public programming during the exhibition will be announced on the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/2404807066531874

Graphic design by Andrew Hill.

The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Academy of Arts, department of Art History and Visual Culture and Craft Studies.

Special thanks to T1 Mall of Tallinn and SUHE bar.

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16.12.2024

KVI Open Lecture Inga Lāce – Making a Museum, Being a Guest

Inga Lāce’s research specialises in modern and contemporary art across Soviet and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia as well as its diaspora, with a particular focus on migration and transnational connections. She was C-MAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow at MoMA, New York (2020-2023) and has an extensive history of curating internationally, with previous projects including the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019); Survival Kit (2017-23); Portable Landscapes at Villa Vassilieff, the Latvian National Art Museum and James Gallery at CUNY (2018); Riga Notebook at Muzeum Sztuki (2020); It Won’t Be Long Now, Comrades! at Framer Framed (2017); Performing the Fringe at Konsthall C (2020) and Pori Art Museum (2021).

 

Making a Museum Being a Guest

In this talk Inga Lāce will talk about her experience and work as Chief Curator at the Almaty Museum of Arts, a new private museum opening in summer of 2025 in Almaty.

She will particularly speak about

Qonaqtar, a group exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection which explores the connections and tensions between hospitality and migration, with a focus on Kazakhstan, Central Asia and neighbouring regions.

The title of the exhibition Qonaqtar (Konaktar) originates from the Kazakh qонаq (qonaq), meaning ‘guest’, derived from the Turkic root kon- (to ‘land’ or ‘descend’). It embodies the deep-rooted tradition of welcoming guests with warmth and respect, reflecting nomadic customs where hosting travellers was essential for survival in vast, often harsh landscapes. Guests can also be of a different nature of course, and hospitality can be abused, which is where the exhibition nods at the often forced migration campaigns of the Soviet Union where the act of hosting for Kazakhstan and Central Asia wasn’t a choice. Most notably, the Russian settlement in Central Asia in the nineteenth century, or the displacement of Koreans to Central Asia in the 1930s, and sending Soviet dissidents to Karaganda, stories that also, in one way or another, contributed to the society and art scenes of Kazakhstan.

Guests becoming locals and hosts and locals becoming guests somewhere because of fleeing or displacement is an endless theme of migration yet here it opens up a highly region-specific prism.

 

Co-funded by:

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KVI Open Lecture Inga Lāce – Making a Museum, Being a Guest

Monday 16 December, 2024

Inga Lāce’s research specialises in modern and contemporary art across Soviet and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia as well as its diaspora, with a particular focus on migration and transnational connections. She was C-MAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow at MoMA, New York (2020-2023) and has an extensive history of curating internationally, with previous projects including the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019); Survival Kit (2017-23); Portable Landscapes at Villa Vassilieff, the Latvian National Art Museum and James Gallery at CUNY (2018); Riga Notebook at Muzeum Sztuki (2020); It Won’t Be Long Now, Comrades! at Framer Framed (2017); Performing the Fringe at Konsthall C (2020) and Pori Art Museum (2021).

 

Making a Museum Being a Guest

In this talk Inga Lāce will talk about her experience and work as Chief Curator at the Almaty Museum of Arts, a new private museum opening in summer of 2025 in Almaty.

She will particularly speak about

Qonaqtar, a group exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection which explores the connections and tensions between hospitality and migration, with a focus on Kazakhstan, Central Asia and neighbouring regions.

The title of the exhibition Qonaqtar (Konaktar) originates from the Kazakh qонаq (qonaq), meaning ‘guest’, derived from the Turkic root kon- (to ‘land’ or ‘descend’). It embodies the deep-rooted tradition of welcoming guests with warmth and respect, reflecting nomadic customs where hosting travellers was essential for survival in vast, often harsh landscapes. Guests can also be of a different nature of course, and hospitality can be abused, which is where the exhibition nods at the often forced migration campaigns of the Soviet Union where the act of hosting for Kazakhstan and Central Asia wasn’t a choice. Most notably, the Russian settlement in Central Asia in the nineteenth century, or the displacement of Koreans to Central Asia in the 1930s, and sending Soviet dissidents to Karaganda, stories that also, in one way or another, contributed to the society and art scenes of Kazakhstan.

Guests becoming locals and hosts and locals becoming guests somewhere because of fleeing or displacement is an endless theme of migration yet here it opens up a highly region-specific prism.

 

Co-funded by:

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06.12.2024

Symposium on postmodernism “Lost in Time Like Tears in the Rain”

On Friday, December 6th at 11:00, a symposium on postmodernism “Lost in Time Like Tears in the Rain” will take place at the Tartu Elektriteater.

The transition period from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of independence Estonia can be considered in many ways an unique and exceptional period. It was a time of historical openness, where one way of doing things had ceased to exist, but another was just taking off. It was a time of intellectual and artistic possibilities, in spite of the fact that means and possibilities were scarce. And it was at this time that the new postmodernism as a new cultural logic, promising perhaps another kind of diversity, plurality and freedom. A confused thing arrived in a confused time and began to resonate in its own way. What it was or much of it was there at all? That is what Estonia’s leading cultural figures and researchers will give their own perspective on what was in the air and what it was like for them, what postmodernism meant to them then and what it means now.

SCHEDULE

11–12:30 Session I
Peeter Laurits / Ene-Liis Semper / Janek Kraavi / Kiwa / Tõnis Kahu /
Barbi Pilvre

12:30–13 Coffee break

13–14:30 Session II
Hanno Soans / Virve Sarapik / Luule Epner / Andrus Laansalu / Piret
Viires / Marju Lauristin

14:30–15:30 Lunch break

15:30–17 Session III
Hasso Krull / Märt Väljataga / Valle-Sten Maiste / Epp Annus / Raili
Marling / Aare Pilv

17–20 Reception (Lossi 3 lobby)

The event is organized by the Institute of Cultural Studies of the University of Tartu and the Interuniversity Research Group of Contemporary Estonian Culture

The event is supported by the Estonian Science Foundation grant PRG636 “Patterns of development in Estonian culture of transition period 1986–1998)”.

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Symposium on postmodernism “Lost in Time Like Tears in the Rain”

Friday 06 December, 2024

On Friday, December 6th at 11:00, a symposium on postmodernism “Lost in Time Like Tears in the Rain” will take place at the Tartu Elektriteater.

The transition period from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of independence Estonia can be considered in many ways an unique and exceptional period. It was a time of historical openness, where one way of doing things had ceased to exist, but another was just taking off. It was a time of intellectual and artistic possibilities, in spite of the fact that means and possibilities were scarce. And it was at this time that the new postmodernism as a new cultural logic, promising perhaps another kind of diversity, plurality and freedom. A confused thing arrived in a confused time and began to resonate in its own way. What it was or much of it was there at all? That is what Estonia’s leading cultural figures and researchers will give their own perspective on what was in the air and what it was like for them, what postmodernism meant to them then and what it means now.

SCHEDULE

11–12:30 Session I
Peeter Laurits / Ene-Liis Semper / Janek Kraavi / Kiwa / Tõnis Kahu /
Barbi Pilvre

12:30–13 Coffee break

13–14:30 Session II
Hanno Soans / Virve Sarapik / Luule Epner / Andrus Laansalu / Piret
Viires / Marju Lauristin

14:30–15:30 Lunch break

15:30–17 Session III
Hasso Krull / Märt Väljataga / Valle-Sten Maiste / Epp Annus / Raili
Marling / Aare Pilv

17–20 Reception (Lossi 3 lobby)

The event is organized by the Institute of Cultural Studies of the University of Tartu and the Interuniversity Research Group of Contemporary Estonian Culture

The event is supported by the Estonian Science Foundation grant PRG636 “Patterns of development in Estonian culture of transition period 1986–1998)”.

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03.12.2024 — 05.12.2024

Open Lectures of Bernt Notke’s Seminar at the Niguliste Museum and the Church of the Holy Spirit

On December 3 and 5, open lectures will be held at the Niguliste Museum and the Church of the Holy Spirit as part of Bernt Notke’s seminar and workshop, and everyone is welcome to attend.

NIGULISTE MUSEUM:
Tuesday, December 3 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Beata Možejko ((University of Gdańsk) and Oskar Rojewski (University of Silesia in Katowice):
“A Happy accident for Poland…” – The Last Judgement of Hans Memling in Gdańsk

The Triptych of the Last Judgement is one of the earliest artworks by Hans Memling, and many researchers have discussed its story and style. The painting, currently in the National Museum of Gdańsk, was commissioned by Angelo di Jacopo Tani and was intended for the chapel of the Badia Fiesolana church near Florence. In 1473, due to the seizure of the ship carrying the painting by the privateer Paul Beneke, the artwork never arrived at its intended destiny. The triptych was placed in the Brotherhood of St. George Chapel in St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk.

This paper aims to explain the details of the seizure of the Triptych of the Last Judgement based on archival research, its place within Memling’s oeuvre, the reception of Memling’s work in the Pomeranian region and recent historiographical discussions about the artwork. The presentation provides not only the background of Notke’s time but also can serve as a comparative case study for the overseas visual culture reception. Additionally, this study explains the preventive conservation opportunities for Memling’s painting in Gdańsk and its Baltic contexts to be tackled in the future.

THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Thursday, December 5 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Anja Rasche ja Kerstin Petermann (Netzwerk Kunst und Kultur der Hansestädte):
Notke versus Rode – Reflections between Genius and Craftsman

Lectures are held in English.

Project “Cooperation between universities to promote doctoral studies” (2021-2027.4.04.24-0003) is co-funded by the European Union.

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Open Lectures of Bernt Notke’s Seminar at the Niguliste Museum and the Church of the Holy Spirit

Tuesday 03 December, 2024 — Thursday 05 December, 2024

On December 3 and 5, open lectures will be held at the Niguliste Museum and the Church of the Holy Spirit as part of Bernt Notke’s seminar and workshop, and everyone is welcome to attend.

NIGULISTE MUSEUM:
Tuesday, December 3 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Beata Možejko ((University of Gdańsk) and Oskar Rojewski (University of Silesia in Katowice):
“A Happy accident for Poland…” – The Last Judgement of Hans Memling in Gdańsk

The Triptych of the Last Judgement is one of the earliest artworks by Hans Memling, and many researchers have discussed its story and style. The painting, currently in the National Museum of Gdańsk, was commissioned by Angelo di Jacopo Tani and was intended for the chapel of the Badia Fiesolana church near Florence. In 1473, due to the seizure of the ship carrying the painting by the privateer Paul Beneke, the artwork never arrived at its intended destiny. The triptych was placed in the Brotherhood of St. George Chapel in St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk.

This paper aims to explain the details of the seizure of the Triptych of the Last Judgement based on archival research, its place within Memling’s oeuvre, the reception of Memling’s work in the Pomeranian region and recent historiographical discussions about the artwork. The presentation provides not only the background of Notke’s time but also can serve as a comparative case study for the overseas visual culture reception. Additionally, this study explains the preventive conservation opportunities for Memling’s painting in Gdańsk and its Baltic contexts to be tackled in the future.

THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Thursday, December 5 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Anja Rasche ja Kerstin Petermann (Netzwerk Kunst und Kultur der Hansestädte):
Notke versus Rode – Reflections between Genius and Craftsman

Lectures are held in English.

Project “Cooperation between universities to promote doctoral studies” (2021-2027.4.04.24-0003) is co-funded by the European Union.

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