Abandoned Landscapes 2026: Tallinn City Hall
The Estonian Academy of Arts will organize its 2026 workshop “Abandoned Landscapes” in Tallinn from 19 to 22 January, with the City Hall as the focus. The aim of the ...
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How to write a more inclusive, transnational and polyphonic history of the visual arts on a European scale today?
The EKA Institute of Art History and Visual Culture is part of the Visual Arts in Europe: An Open History (EVA) project that brings together more than 150 art and heritage historians representing the 46 member countries of the Council ...
Five awards from the 2025 national student research competition go to EKA
On 10 December, the best student research projects of 2025 were recognised at a festive award ceremony held at the National Library. This year, 531 competition entries were submitted, which is roughly ...
Conference on researching Baltic German (art) history in Riga
EKA with Yale University, University of Latvia and Latvian Academy of Culture is organising a conference “From Empire to Minority: Baltic Germans from Late Nineteenth Century to the 1930s”. The event takes place on 23-24 January 2026, ...
Fall edition of Journal of Studies in Art and Architecture (3-4/2025) is out
The autumn issue (3–4/2025) of the Studies in Art and Acrhitecture (Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi) has been published, bringing ...
KVI research seminar: Lily Song “Reckoning, Reimagining, Rebuilding: Case study of the Estonian National Museum”
This research-in-progress examines the Estonian National Museum (ERM) as a critical and emblematic case of reparative planning and design. Reparative, rooted in the word repair, refers to mending or fixing what is broken, restoring to a sound ...
EKA announces the Calls for Research Grants and EKA LOOVKÄRG+ Mini Development Grants for 2026!
The aim of the EKA Research Grant is to support the establishment and development of research topics and groups of importance to the academy, promote knowledge transfer, ...
MA students study trip to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
At the beginning of this academic year, from August 31 to September 8, master’s students and faculty members from the Faculty of Art and Culture, specializing in art history and visual culture studies as well as heritage protection and ...
KVI study trip to Tartu
During the Estonian art history study trip on June 6-7, instead of touring the counties, we explored the city of Tartu. Of course, there is a lot to see in Tartu and a wealth of different historical layers. On this trip, certain topics stood ...