Estonian Human Development Report 2019/2020
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David Vseviov named professor emeritus
On May 19th, the Senate of the Estonian Academy of Arts named professor David ...
The Institute of Art History and Visual Culture offers more online content during the emergency
The Institute of Art History and Visual Culture updated their website in order to offer more online content and thus keep contributing to public discourse on art, architecture and design while the Institute’s usual activities aimed at the ...
Forecast and Fantasy in Late Soviet Architecture (PSG, 2020–2024)
The research project proposes to write a history of fantasy in Late-Soviet architecture, focusing on its mediating role in the transformative effects of postwar modernisation. From the 1960s onwards several architects realigned their work ...
Patterns of Development in Estonian Culture of the Transition Period (1986–1998) (PRG, 2020–2024)
The research project sets out to investigate the cultural processes at work in Estonia between 1986 and 1998, a time-frame known as the transition period, corresponding to the disintegration of socialist systems in Eastern Europe and subsequent ...
Publishing the ‘History of Estonian Art’ (1999–2025)
Publishing the multi-volume History of Estonian Art was initiated in 1999. It is the longest-running research project of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture. The Estonian-language volumes are accompanied by lengthy English ...
Image or Sign: A Phenomenological Study of Pictorial Representation (MOBJD, 2017–2020)
The aim of Regina-Nino Mion’s project is to defend the originality of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological account of pictorial ...
Readdressing Practices and Theories of Experimentation in the 20th- and 21st-Century Estonian Visual and Spatial Culture
The main aim of this project is to analyze experiment in Estonian visual and spatial culture, and to investigate its role in official economic and ...
Remembering Difficult Knowledge in the Baltic Visual Culture (MOBJD, 2019–2021)
This research program focuses on how difficult knowledge has been transmitted in the visual culture of the Baltic States, in works of visual art, documentary films and exhibitions about the Second World War and its aftermath. The analysis ...
Institute of Art History and Visual Culture became a Member of RIHA
The International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) has accepted the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture as its new member in late 2019. RIHA was created in 1998 with objective to coordinate research and ...