Category: Scenography

Between 28.02–6.3 an international master class “Expedition to Narva” will take place under the leadership of Ene-Liis Semper, Professor of Scenography at EKA, which will end with a pop-up exhibition on March 4.

The workshop will take place in cooperation with the good partners of EKA: Paris ENSAD, Helsinki Uniarts and Vilnius Academy of Arts. In addition to Ene-Liis Semper, the course will be supervised by Patrick Laffont de Lojo from ENSAD, in addition, the workshop will also be assisted by Maria Hansar, PhD students at EKA and Madlen Hirtentreu.

Ene-Liis Semper has commented the upcoming workshop as follows: “Narva is a town with a strange time shift. We are going to Narva, we are researching local conditions, we are working on site-specific installations or videos, we are making summaries and a pop-up exhibition at the Narva Estonian House.

The exhibition “Open Windows” will reopen on the windows of the Library of EKA on February 21, at 4 pm.

Through the exhibition of EKA windows, different specialities of EKA introduce their most outstanding projects and the latest creations of students. The exhibition can be viewed on the windows of the EKA Library on Põhja pst and Kotzebue streets and will remain open until March 14.

Specialities represented: Installation and Sculpture, Room Design, Product and Environmental design, Visual Communication, Photography, Jewellery and Blacksmithing, Scenography, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Accessory Design, Graphics, Graphic Design, Animation, Ceramics, Industrial and Digital Product Design, Glass, Architecture, Interior Design, Painting, Art and Visual Culture, Cultural Heritage and Conservation

The exhibition of open windows of EKA made its debut in 2021 and received a warm welcome from those interested in art and art education. The Estonian Academy of Arts, located on the edge of Kalamaja, will once again enliven the city’s cultural landscape at street level. Get with it! 

Kristel Zimmer, Linda Mai Kari, Liisamari Viik, Estookin, Anita Kremm
Curator: Ene-Liis Semper

The project is a result of one and a half year studies of EKA Scenography department students. Dassemperdepot consists of five investigators of metaphorical thought: “We sense, create meaning and space, reflect the world and search for poetry. Our mentors are wise and creative people, including Ene-Liis Semper. Study of Deconstruction is a presentation of creative research about metaphorical thought through deconstruction, body, and space.”.

Durational performances: 10–14.02 at 4–8 PM
Exhibition: 16–20.02 at 12–6 PM
The entrance is from Kotzebue street! Please wear a mask and keep a safe distance!

30.11.–18.12.2020
Open Monday–Saturday, 15:00–18:00
Entrance from Kotzebue street. Please wear a mask!

December brings an opportunity to experience, in an exhibition format, works produced by the students of the Faculty of Fine Arts: every day there will be a fresh crop of university students’ works on display at the gallery. Works of the students studying contemporary art, graphic art, installation, sculpture, photography, and painting will be on display. Each morning, an exhibition will be installed, and each evening it will give way to the next one. We hope that viewers will be able to keep up with the pace of the young artists.

30.11   Drawing: supervisor Eero Alev

01.12   Drawing: supervisor Tõnis Kenkmaa

02.12   Animation: semester overview

03.12   Scenography: supervisor Ene-Liis Semper

04.12   Scenography: supervisor Ene-Liis Semper

05.12   Installation and Sculpture: supervisors Kirke Kangro, Taavi Piibemann

07.12   Contemporary Art: supervisors Mark Dunhill, Kristaps Ancans

08.12   Contemporary Art: supervisors Mark Dunhill, Kristaps Ancans

09.12   Contemporary Art: supervisors Mark Dunhill, Kristaps Ancans

10.12 – Contemporary Art, supervisors Mark Dunhill & Kristaps Ancans

10.12 – Photography, supervisor Holger Kilumets

11.12   Painting: supervisors Mihkel Maripuu, Kristi Kongi, Merike Estna

12.12   Installation and Sculpture: supervisors Jaanus Samma, Deneš Farkas

14.12   Graphic Art: supervisors Kadi Kurema, Eve Kask

15.12   Graphic Art: supervisors John Grzinich, Jan Kaus, Urmas Lüüs

16.12   Graphic Art: supervisors Ann Pajuväli, Oliver Laas, Martiinus Daane Klemet

17.12   Painting: supervisors Holger Loodus, Raul Rajangu, Liisa Kruusmägi, Tõnis Saadoja

18.12   Painting: supervisors Jaan Toomik, Mihkel Maripuu, Mihkel Ilus, Heldur Lassi

On Thursday, 5 December, Tallinners will be invited to take part in TRAMWARM, a theatrical performance staged in Tallinn trams by Estonian Academy of Arts scenography students.

On Saturday, 7 December, EKA will host EXHUMATION, a play during which all audience members will be able to participate in an excavation. Both performances are free.

TRAMWARM
On Thursday, 5 December at 16.00, the performance will take place on trams running on line no. 1 and at the following stops: Põhja puiestee (15.30–16.00 and 17.02–17.22), Kadriorg (at 16.19–16.42) and Kopli (at 17.42–17.59).

TRAMWARM is inspired by the location of the new EKA building near the central train station and the tramway. Tram line no. 1 connects various districts, as well as three public universities. According to Aleksandra Ianchenko, who directed the play, the piece focuses on the topic of public space, privacy, home and cosiness, in addition to public transport. “Moving along the tram line, artists create a temporary home for themselves. They play gently but consciously, invisibly but at the same time traceably. Their strange behaviour, which still falls within the boundaries of the normal, invites us to look at the border between personal and public space, hospitality and hostility, and the ordinary and the special,” Ianchenko says, in describing the theme of the play.

EKA’s 1 st year scenography students: Milla Mona Andres, Linda Mai Kari, Anita Kremm, Liisamari Viik, Kristel Zimmer. The performers also include tram passengers, city dwellers and others.
Director: Aleksandra Ianchenko, junior researcher in PUTSPACE (a research project „Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities“, www.putspace.eu)
Stage manager / initiator: Erki Kasemets (Polygon Theatre)

EXHUMATION
On Saturday, 7 December at 16.00 at the third-floor public area (A300) at EKA, Põhja pst 7.

EXHUMATION is primarily about time and the preservation, prolongation and re-conceptualisation of material time stamps, including works of art, and everything that is directly touched upon by
conservators and restorers in their work. During the play, a mysterious dark plastic garbage bag is opened and its contents are explored following strict rules of procedure. Beforehand, it is only known that the bag contains remains of artefacts commemorating historic dates. In the course of delving into the bag, new and deeper layers of issues open up. From the realm of technical work, the journey continues to the philosophical vanishing point and finally finds its way back on the ground. The show ends with an inevitable decision – what will happen to the remnants that have come to light? What will become of them and how? All those present have the opportunity to actively participate in the excavation process.

Coordinator: prof. Hilkka Hiiop (Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation, EKA)
Organising manager: Taavi Tiidor (Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation, EKA)
Stage manager / initiator: Erki Kasemets (Polygon Theatre)

Polygon Theatre is a so-called environmental theatre that is open to immediate action; everything, including unplanned events, can become part of the performance. Polygon Theatre often mixes the roles of audience members and actors so that the viewer can become a performer and vice versa.

Have you ever  wondered how to make the most out of your art practice or projects?

How to functions public art field in Scandinavia?

Where and how to exhibit your work abroad?

Then OPEN ARS: CONNECTORIUM series of events are meant for you.

All professionals in the field of contemporary art interested in expanding their networks and learning more about art-related processes – this is for you!

OPEN ARS: CONNECTORIUM project warmly welcomes you to the 4-day event held in ARS Art Factory focusing on public art in Scandinavia. Lectures, studio visits, meetings and a workshop will be led by curator and art consultant TORUN EKSTRAND and artist JAN CHRISTENSEN.

PROGRAM:

6th June at 5pm: lecture by Torun Ekstrand that shares her understanding and experience in public and contemporary art from the perspective of curator and commissioner. In her words: “this will be a talk about art in public space-processes, Baltic art projects, exhibitions and artists’ conditions – a variety of perspectives on contemporary art practises.”

Participation fee: 12 EUR

7th June: artist studio visits and meetings by request with Torun Ekstrand (the priority will be given to the ones, who participated in the lecture).

13th June at 5pm: artist talk by Jan Christensen. Jan will introduce his art practice, share his personal experience with public art projects and strategies how to survive from art practice.

Participation fee: 12 EUR (for the workshop participants the lecture is for FREE)

14th June 11am-7pm: workshop for artists by Jan Christensen. To the workshop are welcome all practicing artists, who wish to learn how to present their art project proposals in the best way. The participants will explore how to go from an idea to realization. Also, the workshop offers to learn from a successful artist how to survive and make a living from art practice.

Workshop program:

STRATEGY. Strategies for survival and notes on the general art world: Living and working as a contemporary artist today.

SAMPLE PROJECT. Comprehensive description of certain public art projects, from conception to construction.

PRESENTATION. Presenting tools and techniques with regards to the initial stages of compiling a presentation, discussing teamwork, software and advantages and disadvantages of technology.

Participation fee: 36 EUR (includes FREE entrance to the lecture of Jan Christensen)

The number of participants is limited. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedZ3Ccqnb2cqYeCBq-WGelaenFtcja33s7vLak46_ChzMQBA/viewform?usp=sf_link

The events take place at ARS Art Factory, Pärnu mnt 154 Tallinn, room 111.

In case of questions: Varvara Guljajeva, varvarag@gmail.com, telefon: 58178424

www.arsimaja.ee

Our first guest is an independent curator and art consultant Torun Ekstrand from Sweden. She is an expert on public art in Sweden and has a vast experience in establishing and managing the international network and collaborative projects. Torun has been working with international artists in different museums and art halls since 2002, the latest were Songlines for a New Atlas, Make a Change and Mare Balticum.

Art consultant in public art commissions, working with permanent and semi-permanent public art works and city development projects. Network curator. Project leader for the EU project Art Line, a platform for projects challenging the notion of public space in physical and digital space, together with 14 art institutions and academies in the Baltic Sea area. Leader for Think Tank Transbaltic, an interdisciplinary collaboration about around the Baltic Sea that use methods of participative art. Both of them got the Flagship award by the European Commission.

Regional art developer supporting art institutions, artists and art organization, and organizing A.I.R. Blekinge – Baltic One.

More about Torun and her projects: www.artland.se, www.artlinecatalogue.eu, www.artline-southbaltic.eu, www.thinktanktransbalticpilot.blogspot.com, www.konstiblekinge.se

The second guest is internationally recognized Norwegian artist Jan Christensen (Copenhagen, 1977), who lives and works in Oslo and Berlin. He has exhibited internationally since 2001. Institutional solo-exhibitions and projects include Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Artsonje Art Center, Seoul; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo; Galleri F15, Jeløya; Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; Viborg Kunsthalle, Viborg; Kubus Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich.

He has been an artist in resident at institutions such as IASPIS, Stockholm (2003); Villa Arson, Nice (2004); The International Studio Program of Changdong/The National Art Studio, Seoul (2004), The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin (2005); FRAC  des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou/Nantes (2005); The Yeonhee-Dong 195 Residency Project, The Art Council of Korea, Seoul (2007); Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA (2010); SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (SASG), Seoul (2012) and Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark (2014).

In addition to the rich trajectory of exhibitions, Jan has completed over 30 public art commissions in Norway, and other countries. His work is found in private collections internationally, from Seoul to New York and San Diego, and in the collections of the National Museum of Art and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Jan Christensen is a Board Member and advisory board member of several art institutions, like Ingerid Fegerstens Stiftelse, Oslo; Fellesverkstedet, Oslo; Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø; Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger; Billedkunst, Oslo; Sparebankstiftelsen DNB Art Award;

http://www.janchristensen.org/