How to Reframe Monuments (Estonian Ministry of Culture grant, 2024–2026)
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered debates about the Russian and Soviet heritage both globally and in Estonia. This has been accompanied by the toppling of monuments, as well as social conflicts and polarisation. The aim of ...
Art Historical Contact Zones (EKA Research Grant, 2023–2024)
The project “Art Historical Contact Zones: Popular and Fictional Mediations of Art History in Estonia” explores the relationship between art history and the public sphere – the non-academic forms that art writing can take: various fiction and ...
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 ...