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International Workshop on Cleaning Stone Objects and Wall Paintings

The workshop which took place in Tallinn and Koeru from 29.08 – 02.09.2021 was dedicated to different methods and approaches in cleaning of stone objects and wall paintings. In the theoretical part both ethical and philosophical ...

8 September 2021

Cultural Heritage and Conservation

Dear student, a grand ambitious cooperation project is waiting for you!

Come on, let’s make mobility more convenient! EKA will start mapping in autumn how the university interacts with Erasmus students as part of the Transform4Europe project. We ...

31 March 2021

Doctoral School Faculty of Architecture Faculty of Art and Culture

“Studies on Art and Architecture” 2020, ed 29/3-4 is out

The recent issue of

4 February 2021

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture International Office

Editing and publishing The History of Estonian Urban Planning vol. 2 (1918–2020)

"The History of Estonian Urban Design 1918-2020" provides an overview of urban planning in the 20th and early 21st centuries through the different periods of power in Estonia, covering both the ideas that remained on paper and those that were ...

1 January 2021

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Style and Meaning: Disciplinary Conversions in Estonian Art History (EKA Research Grant, 2021–2022)

The purpose of the project is to concentrate on the critical concepts in Estonian art history, their role in the vocabulary and meaning making within the field over the course of the two last centuries. Our focus is on the concept of style that ...

30 December 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

Ingrid Ruudi “Spaces of the Interregnum. Transformations in Estonian Architecture and Art, 1986–1994” (Dissertationes 31)

Ingrid Ruudi, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Art History and Visual Culture, defended her thesis Spaces of the Interregnum. Transformations in Estonian Architecture and Art, 1986–1994 („Ruumiline ...

17 December 2020

Doctoral School Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Kristina Jõekalda “German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the “Long Nineteenth Century”” (Dissertationes 30)

Kristina Jõekalda defended her thesis "German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the "Long Nineteenth Century"" in the curriculum of Art History and Visual Culture on the ...

12 November 2020

Doctoral School Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Exhibition at Niguliste Museum: Christian Ackermann. Tallinn’s Phidias, Arrogant and Talented

This exhibition introduces the life and work of Christian Ackermann (active in Tallinn ca 1674‒1707/1710), the most scandalous and gifted sculptor of the Estonian baroque era, and the first Estonian freelance ...

7 November 2020

Cultural Heritage and Conservation

Course on Understanding Soviet Modernism

The course, dedicated to the heritage of late Soviet modernism, took place at the Estonian Academy of Arts Cultural Heritage and Conservation Department in 19.-22.10.20. The invited lecturers of the course were an art historian, curator and ...

29 October 2020

Cultural Heritage and Conservation

Training Course „Heritage Communities and Human Rights”

ICOMOS Estonia and Estonian Academy of Arts hosted 2.-5.09.2020 in Tallinn and in the web the „Our Common Dignity “ working group training course „Heritage Communities and Human Rights “. Training course was held together with IUCN and ...

14 September 2020

Cultural Heritage and Conservation