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The traditional EKA Christmas Fair is happening again on Sunday, December 14, 2025, from 12:00 to 18:00.

One of Estonia’s most popular Christmas markets once again invites all art and design enthusiasts to discover and buy memorable gifts. When you buy presents at the EKA Christmas Market, you support the work of current and future Estonian artists and designers, as every item sold is created by EKA students and alumni. Those who have attended before know: the cozy atmosphere is always guaranteed.

More information on our social media channels: Instagram, Facebook event
Or via email: jouluturg@artun.ee

2025 VENDORS

JEWELRY & BLACKSMITHING:

• A6925
• Agnes Veski Jewelry
• Bianca Toots
• Celestialvirgin
• ERLE NEMVALTS
• Esox Lures OÜ
• fredtruus
• GOHARA
• Hvitolg
• Janika Mägi
• Kadi Veesaar Jewellery
• Katrin Veegen Jewellery
• Keiu Koppel Autoriehted
• Kelly Engelbrecht x ICEICEGEMZ
• killud
• Kuttenberg Knives
• Ljóf Jewelry
• Lyly x Nada x Sylvi
• Margus Elizarov
• Metashika
• Mirjam Aun
• MUSTKIVI
• Nils Hint
• PATRICK SOOME
• Paul
• Robert Idvani
• Sile Luik
• TELLISKIVI.
• Varm Country X Franky
• xensyl
• ZYLELY

CERAMICS & GLASS ART:

• 1001tassi
• BBABSxBBABS
• Craft Studies / Taidestuudium
• Elize Hiiop Jewellery
• Ethel Ütsmüts keraamika
• HYTI
• iamoffeveryday
• johannatammceramics
• kadri
• Kateriin Rikken
• Kay Shek
• Kuu keraamika
• KÄRT SEPPEL
• Lauri Kilusk
• Lilian Maasik
• Loora & Sarahi keraamika
• Maarja Sildvee
• Mari-Liis Makus Glass Design
• MEELI
• MONA SOFIA TAHK
• MSK Glass
• Palmik ceramics
• PUHU
• Sigrid Luitsalu glass
• Stuudio Raili Keiv
• SUME
• Tikrimoos
• Tilt Collection
• Triini Ceramics
• Umi
• Vakinay Glass

GRAPHICS & PAINTING:

• 35&36
• ART by TBA
• Anastasija Šteinle
• Annamaria Bereczki
• Antenninimene OÜ ja Kuraditosin OÜ
• Catherine Zarip
• EKA Graphic Design Master
• Ella-Mai Matsina
• ENKKL
• Hurray Mail
• ICIKICI collective
• Illustrations STUDIO
• Irmakmiz
• Joonas Sildre ja Elina Sildre illustratsioonid
• Katariin Mudist
• KERAAFIKA
• Kirjastus Hunt
• Kristino Rav
• Krõõt Kukkur Illustrations
• Laura Verte Illustrations
• Leore Klõšeiko
• Lucky Laika
• Lígia Fernandes
• Mania Grandiosa
• Marjamaitse / Pampel
• Marten Prei
• mesimagus
• Natalia Mirzoyan
• Nurr x UIK
• Paul Rannik
• Sandra Puusepp
• Selene Taur
• Triin Mänd

LEATHER PRODUCTS & ACCESSORIES:

• Aliisi lambad
• Annreal
• Carmen Kremm
• Ifku
• Karen Milistver
• Koa Concept Store
• LUKS
• MIRGOODS
• Mystique Art & Design
• MÄRG
• Piibe Tomp Stuudio
• SIUG

FASHION & TEXTILE:

• barbed
• B.MOR STUDIO
• carolxott
• Christoph
• ELLEN RICHARD
• Eve Hanson
• Hanna Tiina Pekk
• HANNES RÜÜTEL
• Jaagup Kaiv
• k4m4t3
• KAIRI GETMAN
• Karl Korsar
• Kirill Safonov
• Kristina Oja
• multistab.
• Poeet Design
• sask: design
• Siim Oja
• Tilda Knitwear
• Vivian Vuks

PRODUCT DESIGN:

• behäppi
• EstWallArt
• GISAIN reflectors
• Katahana
• kollektiir
• KOOSdisain
• Oliver Kanniste
• Ringdisaini sfäärid
• Sviiter
• Unzelm
• WindlaStudio

We warmly welcome you to the opening of the group exhibition 

“The Hay Season. A Longing for Eternity” on 11 November at 6:30 PM, 

at Manufaktuuri 7/2, Tallinn.

From 12. November to 18. December 2025, artists Martin Mikson, Anna-Liisa Pärt, Paul Aadam Mikson, and Juulia Aleksandra Mikson present a joint exhibition “The Hay Season. A Longing for Eternity” at Manufaktuuri Quarter, Tallinn.

“The Hay Season. A Longing for Eternity” is an exhibition that reflects on the relationship between humans and nature, the passage of time, and the rhythms of survival. Once, haytime signified a period of anxious waiting and dependence on the weather – today, it has become a poetic metaphor for the longing for peace and balance in an ever-changing world.

The exhibition mirrors the artists’ personal and shared connection to familiar landscapes that are in constant transformation. “The Hay Season. A Longing for Eternity” invites the viewer to notice the rhythm of nature and reminds us how fragile our bond with it has become.

Martin Mikson is a scenographer and painter who has created numerous stage designs for Estonian theatres.
Anna-Liisa Pärt is a scenographer and painter.
Paul Aadam Mikson is a metal artist. Who works with large scale forgings.  
Juulia Aleksandra Mikson is a textile artist exploring the boundaries between materials.

All the artists are graduates of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Graphic design: Juulia A. Mikson

Supported by: Hepsor, Põhjala Pruulikoda, Õllenaut.

The winter assessment marathon is here! For three weeks, you can once again experience works produced by students in the Faculty of Fine Arts as their term projects are presented: every day there will be a fresh showcase of university students’ works on display.

Works in animation, contemporary art, installation and sculpture, painting, photography, graphic art and scenography curricula will be on display. On almost each evening of the marathon, a new exhibition will be installed and in the following evening the exhibit will give way to the next one. Hopefully, viewers will be able to keep up with the pace of the young artists.

The assessments will take place in the main building of EKA Gallery (Kotzebue 1, Tallinn) and the new EKA monumental studio (1st floor of Kotzebue 1, Tallinn).

On the assessment day(s), the exhibitions are open from 2 pm to 6 pm, on Sundays the exhibitions are open from 12 pm to 4 pm.

SCHEDULE

Mon 1.12. Drawing, Fine Arts BA I, supervisor Matti Pärk (EKA Gallery)
Tue 2.12. Drawing, Fine Arts BA II, supervisor Eero Alev (EKA Gallery)
Wed 3.12. Drawing, Fine Arts BA III, supervisor Tea Lemberpuu (EKA Gallery)
Thu 4.12. Sculpture, Fine Arts BA I, supervisors Laura Põld, Taavi Talve (EKA Gallery)
Thu 4.12. – Fri 5.12. Scenography BA III, supervisor  Mark Raidpere (Kotzebue 10)
Fri 5.12. – Sat 6.12. Contemporary Art MA I & II, supervisors Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Merike Estna, Viktor Gurov, Tuukka Kaila, Eve Kask, Kristi Kongi, Karel Koplimets, Paul Kuimet, Camille Laurelli, Holger Loodus, Laura Põld, Sten Saarits, Liina Siib, Taavi Talve, Jaan Toomik, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo (EKA Gallery)
Sun 7.12. – Mon 8.12. Contemporary Art MA I & II, supervisors Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Merike Estna, Viktor Gurov, Tuukka Kaila, Eve Kask, Kristi Kongi, Karel Koplimets, Paul Kuimet, Camille Laurelli, Holger Loodus, Laura Põld, Sten Saarits, Liina Siib, Taavi Talve, Jaan Toomik, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo (EKA Gallery & Kotzebue 10)
Tue 9.12. Contemporary Art MA I & II, supervisors Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Merike Estna, Viktor Gurov, Tuukka Kaila, Eve Kask, Kristi Kongi, Karel Koplimets, Paul Kuimet, Camille Laurelli, Holger Loodus, Laura Põld, Sten Saarits, Liina Siib, Taavi Talve, Jaan Toomik, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo (EKA Gallery & Kotzebue 10)
Wed 10.12. Painting, Fine Arts BA I, supervisors Karl-Kristjan Nagel, Tõnis Saadoja (EKA Gallery)
Thu 11.12. Graphic Art, Fine Arts BA II & III, supervisors Britta Benno, Charlotte Biszewski, Liisi Grünberg, Viktor Gurov, Eve Kask, Liina Siib (EKA Gallery)
Thu 11.12. Graphic Art, Fine Arts BA II & III, supervisors Charlotte Biszewski, Viktor Gurov,Eve Kaaret, Madis Kaasik, Eve Kask, Pawel Schulz (Kotzebue 10)
Fri 12.12. Graphic Art, Fine Arts BA II & III, supervisors Kadi Kurema, Marten Prei, Paul Rannik (EKA Gallery)
Sat 13.12. Drawing, animation BA I & photography BA II, supervisor Lilli-Krõõt Repnau (EKA Gallery)
Sun 14.12. – Mon 15.12. Photography BA I, supervisor Annika Haas (EKA Gallery)
Tue 16.12. Painting, Fine Arts BA III, supervisors Angela Maasalu, Jaan Toomik, Mart Vainre (EKA Gallery)
Tue 16.12. Photography, BA II, supervisor Kalle Veesaar (Kotzebue 10)
Wed 17.12. Painting, Fine Arts BA II, supervisors Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Holger Loodus, Tõnis Saadoja (EKA Gallery)
Thu 18.12. Animation BA I, supervisor Lilli-Krõõt Repnau (EKA Gallery)

In 2027, it will be 100 years since the birth of Vello Asi (1927–2016), an important figure of Estonian interior architecture and a long-time lecturer at the Department of Interior Architecture. In this regard, the Department of Interior Architecture is planning an anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design. This fall semester, we began researching and interpreting Asi’s legacy in the first-year master’s course Creative Research (supervisors Gregor Taul, Merilin Tee). Ten students were divided into five pairs, working on one specific aspect of Asi’s life’s work: his home in Merivälja, his work as a graphic designer; his contribution as a teacher, artifacts and archive materials, interiors, and exhibition designs. As a final result, the students present their creative research through three formats: object, visual interpretation and narrative. In the case of an object, it is a three-dimensional work that interprets the chosen theme. The visual interpretation is a graphic art, and as an (interior) architectural narrative, the students have added an extension in any text format that presents one specific aspect of Vello Asi’s work.

Participating artists: Marleen Armulik, Kadi Berens, Lauri Eltermaa, Katariina Kivi, Anni Kärmik, Roger Matthias Laas, Laura Movits, Kairi Mändla, Sven Samyn, Maarja Varkki.

Sven Mantsik, a master’s student in Contemporary Art, has explored various disciplines such as installation, printmaking, self-publishing, animation and video games, while always nurturing his primary passion: drawing.

Sometimes fictional, sometimes autobiographical, his drawings present a social satire of an all-too-common daily life, blending melancholy, dreamlike elements, sharpness and humour. His exhibition “Timeline”, offers an in-depth look at his narrative and visual approach. The EKA Library’s showcase space features a selection of his graphic works.

The exhibition is open until December 19.

From 21 November to 4 January, the Palm Hall of the Tallinn Botanical Garden will present the exhibition “BOTEXSEMANTIC GARDEN / HORTUS BOTEXEMANTICUS” by Kadi Kibbermann and Piret Valk, lecturers from the Department of Textile Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The exhibition presents experimental textile installations that tell the story of the role and meaning of plants in the lives of the artists – about the materials obtained from plants and their survival strategies.

The exhibition responds to the challenge of adapting to a world in which intergenerational memory is being replaced by instructions and rules; great stories have become impoverished language abbreviations and direct contacts have become virtual. Algorithms have become landmarks in plant-blind artificial landscapes.

The support-root of artists of maintaining balance with the real world are their contact with nature and relationships with other species. They explore what could be learned from plants through practical interest, poetic interpretations and artistic practice based on them. The inspiration is the diversity, essential and distinctiveness of the plant world – forms, patterns and textures; their necessity for people and the environment; their ability to adapt to change and survive even in very difficult conditions. The works combine knowledge and practical experience to show the importance of plants as an endless source of resources – as fertilizer, providing role models and seeds of ideas, as fibers and natural colors; and as communication with plants, health and balance. Plants help to remember and depict stories that affirm identity.

To adapt to today’s world, a new language of communication – BOTEX has been created in the context of the exhibition. Botany + textile + poetry + meanings = BOTEX semantics.

There are BOTEXophies growing in the BOTEXemantic garden.

BOTEXophies are synthesized from plants and textiles.

BOTEX is spoken by plant-loving BOTEXegees, to translate plants and their strategies through BOTEXophies.

BOTEXophies are named and organized into the BOTEXonomic system: INDEX BOTEXEMANTICUM.

The exhibition is open until the 4th of January 2026.

More information about the opening hours of the Palm House and greenhouses can be found at: https://botaanikaaed.ee/en/opening-hours/

On October 16, Narva Art Residency will host the largest international fashion exhibition in Narva to date, “Hõimulõim (Tribal Thread),” led by the Fashion Design Department. The exhibition will open as part of the official program of “Narva Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture 2025” and will take place during the most important week of the tribal peoples’ calendar year, Tribal Week.

“Hõimulõim” is an exhibition that weaves Finno-Ugric tradition into contemporary fashion design. It is a tribute to a rich heritage, the survival of which depends on how skillfully we can bring it into our lives today. Tradition does not remain in a closet or archive – it only lives if we let it grow with time, wear it and love it.

The exhibition features the work of designers from nine Finno-Ugric peoples. The works of Sami, Khanty, Udmurt, Mari, Komi, Hungarian, Karelian, Finnish (including Ingrian) and Estonian (including Seto and Võro) creators highlight that clothing can be both a practical object and a carrier of identity and collective memory. Each author asks in their own way what it means to be a Finno-Ugric designer in the 21st century – how to weave one’s tradition into a modern form and what to tell the world about its multi-layered field of meaning. These works also open up ethical choices: what material to use, how to preserve local skills and how to tell the story of one’s people in a way that creates a dialogue even for those who were not born into this cultural space.

The “tribal thread” (hõimulõim) is an invisible but tenacious bond between Finno-Ugric peoples. It does not ask for national borders or political sentiment, but runs deep in the undercurrents – in language, patterns, songs, dance and beliefs”, says the exhibition curator Piret Puppart and adds: “In today’s world, where the song of some peoples is quieter than ever before and the weavers of many patterns have become isolated, this thread between tribal peoples is particularly fragile.”

Various social tensions are increasingly testing the survival of traditions and forcing us to look for ways to keep them alive for future generations. “Hõimulõim” invites us to notice that preserving culture is not only about preserving the past, but also about creating the future. It is an invitation to wear our heritage on a daily basis – be it a piece of jewelry, an object or an ornament – ​​and to understand that every such choice strengthens the thread that connects us across borders and eras.

The exhibition’s interactive, technologically innovative experiences are also exciting. Visitors can discover patterns hidden in dresses created by Piret Puppart using magnets, as well as experience a hologram waterfall dedicated to the world of Votian patterns designed by artist Alyona Movko-Mägi. Hologram art is a little-known technique in the world of conjuring visual elements that cannot be touched with the hand, but can be touched virtually and with the eye. This is the first time this medium is coming to Narva in such a volume.

Finno-Ugric roots also have a wider international reach in the world of design and art than one might think. The Komi compass pattern has found its way into Kandinsky’s paintings, and Udmurt mannerisms into Tchaikovsky’s music. However, only recently was a designer with Karelian roots awarded the Diesel Design Award, while Izhor blood has dressed Estonian Olympic athletes in Athens. The representative of the Mari nationality was behind the knitting collections of the legendary Estonian brand Mosaic for years, and when wearing Adidas shoes, you can feel the Udmurt heart. The Diesel Design Award-winning collection and the best pieces from Helsinki Design Week are also coming to the exhibition that will open soon. The exhibition can be visited until January 11.

Curator: Piret Puppart

Artists: Antrea Kantakoski, vainio.seitonen (Johanna Vainio & Merja Seitsonen), Sigrid Kuusk, Ramona Salo, Dina Andreeva, Natalja Lill, Darali Leli, Eneken Johanson, Stella Tukia, Kaia Kuusmann, Zsófia Papp, Zsófia Papp, Maria Roosiaas, Hanna-Tiina Pekk, Anneliis Reili, Kertu Kivisik, Nadežda Kasatkina, Lana Vakhovska, Karl Joonas Alamaa, Piret Puppart and Alyona Movko-Mägi 

Graphic design: Eva Sepping

Many thanks: Anna Kuznetsova, Muš Nadii, Nikolai Anisimov, Nikolay Kuznetsov, Barbi Pilvre, Jaak Prozes, Žanna Toht, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Helena Schilf, Natalia Ermakov

Supporters: Estonian Academy of Arts, Fashion Design Department, Tribal Peoples Program, Cultural Endowment, NGO Fenno-Ugria, NART, Narva Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture 2025

This exhibition features handmade books by EKA students as the culmination of a course in which they worked with photographs in book format. They explored the similarities and differences between artist books, self-publishing, and book dummies. In addition to creating and editing visual materials, students tried their hand at design, pre-press, and binding by hand. 

The books contain both analog and digital photos in the form of collages, typologies, narratives, and archival materials. The subjects explored include personal themes such as hometown, friendship, family, and childhood, as well as everyday life, the inexpressibility of feelings and perceptions, and mundane architecture.

Artists participating in the exhibition: Mikk Keis, Olesja Prants, Gleb Volodtšenko, Mari Karjus, Viktoria Weiszova, Tobias Tikenberg, Jana Mätas (MACA), Kristiina Aarna (DKT).

Supervisor Mirjam Varik.

The UNESCO Chair at the Estonian Academy of Arts is opening the exhibition “Estonian Heritage on the World Map” at Valga Railway Station.

We are proud of our heritage and confident that it also speaks to the wider world. Yet we know surprisingly little about what from Estonia is actually considered remarkable internationally, and what opportunities the presentation of our heritage together with others in shared networks can offer.
The exhibition by the Estonian Academy of Arts presents what from Estonia has been included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the Intangible Cultural Heritage List, and the Memory of the World Register. It also highlights which places have been awarded the European Heritage Label. Several European Cultural Routes run through Estonia. Over the years, Estonian works have also been recognized with Europa Nostra awards. We usually talk about such places one by one. With this exhibition, EKA aims to create a bigger picture, to inspire owners and local governments, and to remind everyone that by working together we can achieve more. Cultural heritage offers endless opportunities for presenting ourselves and for finding like-minded partners.
EKA will open the exhibition on “Heritage Sunday,” 7 December at 12:15 at Valga Railway Station, in cooperation with the Valga Museum and ICOMOS Estonia. The exhibition will be introduced by Riin Alatalu, holder of the EKA UNESCO Chair and vice-president of the international expert organization for heritage conservation.

For more information, please contact:

Riin Alatalu
riin.alatalu@artun.ee
+372 511 9439

“How to Reframe Monuments”
EKA Billboard Gallery 1.12.2025–15.02.2026
Open 24/7, free admission

The Past as Artistic Material
We live in a time when monuments cannot be ignored. Around the world, debates rage over their meaning and over whether – and how – contested monuments should be displayed in public space. Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine has brought one of the epicentres of monumental conflict to Eastern Europe. To date, a large number of Soviet-era monuments in Estonia, particularly World War II memorials, have been removed. 

The project “How to Reframe Monuments” is based on the premise that removing a monument does not resolve the problem – complex heritage cannot simply be bypassed, but must be worked through. By bringing together knowledge and expertise from multiple fields, we have developed solutions that, through academic research, heritage conservation and digitisation practices, as well as artistic interventions, enable dissonant heritage not to be demolished but to be reframed within a new critical context. 

At the heart of the outdoor exhibition is the potential of art in addressing memory conflicts in public space – and, through this, the social role of contemporary art. Three design competitions carried out in the frame- work of this project illustrate ways of reframing different types of dissonant heritage – memori- als, paintings and sculptures. To date, already one of the artistic interventions has been realised: the reframing of the Tehumardi memorial by Neeme Külm. 

Between 2024 and 2025, a total of 17 artists took part in the art competitions. The conceptualisation of the Tehumardi memorial complex on Saaremaa—now partially dismantled—involved Kirke Kangro, Neeme Külm, Anna Mari Liivrand, Johannes Säre, Kristina Norman, and Taavi Piibemann.

Anna Škodenko, Hanna Piksarv, Jevgeni Zolotko, Kati Saarits, and Sigrid Viir proposed their own solutions for redesigning the monumental paintings, completed in 1955, in the old passenger terminal of Tallinn Airport.

Trevor Kinna, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Hasso Krull, Camille Laurelli, Samuel Lehikoinen, Ülo Pikkov, and Yiyang Sun created digital artworks based on the monument “Vyatchko and Meelis Defending Tartu” (1950/1956) located in Tartu. These works are shown as part of the exhibition “The Monument and the Fairy Tale” in the EKA foyer during 1.–12.12.2025.

Exhibition team: Linda Kaljundi, Kirke Kangro, Annika Tiko, Maris Veeremäe
Design: Kristjan Mändmaa
Language editing: Hille Saluäär, Jason Finch
“How to reframe monuments” is a collaborative project between the Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University, funded by the Estonian Ministry of Culture. 

The project’s follow-up exhibition will open in February 2026 at EKA Gallery.

We are opening the exhibition “Abandoned Landscapes. Joaveski Paper Factory” on October 31st at 3:00 PM at the Joaveski Community Center, at Lahemaa.

The exhibition presents projects and models by students of the EKA Architecture and Urban Design curriculum, which explore how to value and revitalize the historic Joaveski paper factory.

The Estonian Academy of Arts’ Faculty of Architecture and the Department of Heritage Protection and Conservation organized the interdisciplinary “Abandoned Landscapes” workshop for the fourteenth time at the beginning of this year, where efforts are being made to find modern solutions for disused building complexes. This year’s workshop, professional studio and exhibition were created in collaboration with the Joaveski Village NPO, which has taken it upon itself to value the abandoned paper factory as a landmark.

The authors of the completed projects are now 3rd year architecture and urban design students: Maria Johanna Ahtijainen, Oskar Toomet-Björck, Elisabeth Ersling, Nele Lisette Hera, Heidi Jagus, Katariina Klammer, Eliis Kurvits, Lilian Källo, Lisandra Lipp, Marie Elle Melioranski, Mark Metsa, Mart Nael, Joonas Ott, Elenor Pihlak, Harriet Piirmets, Robin Pints, Elisabeth Tomingas, Katariina Vaher, Aliis Vatku, Martin Vatku.

The projects were supervised by architects Joel Kopli, Koit Ojaliiv and Juhan Rohtla from the architectural office KUU, advised by LCA consultant Anni Oviir, and the landscape architecture section was supervised by Katrin Koov and Arvi Anderson. Andres Õis welcomed and introduced the history of Joaveski.

The exhibition is supported by MTÜ Joaveski küla and AS Maru.

The exhibition will remain open at the Joaveski community center during library opening hours until April 1, 2026. Open Monday and Friday 9:00 – 16:00 and Wednesday 11:00 – 15:00.

About the history of the Joaveski factory

The construction of the Joaveski cardboard factory began in 1899 and is a vivid example of how the feudal Loobu manor adapted to the new capitalist economic environment at the end of the 19th century, which resulted in the establishment of an industrial enterprise. Joaveski developed into a small industrial village in a place of natural beauty. Today, a hydroelectric power plant operates at the heart of the factory, but most of the rooms have lost their purpose.

The traditional EKA Christmas Fair is happening again on Sunday, December 14, 2025, from 12:00 to 18:00.

One of Estonia’s most popular Christmas markets once again invites all art and design enthusiasts to discover and buy memorable gifts. When you buy presents at the EKA Christmas Market, you support the work of current and future Estonian artists and designers, as every item sold is created by EKA students and alumni. Those who have attended before know: the cozy atmosphere is always guaranteed.

More information on our social media channels: Instagram, Facebook event
Or via email: jouluturg@artun.ee

2025 VENDORS

JEWELRY & BLACKSMITHING:

• A6925
• Agnes Veski Jewelry
• Bianca Toots
• Celestialvirgin
• ERLE NEMVALTS
• Esox Lures OÜ
• fredtruus
• GOHARA
• Hvitolg
• Janika Mägi
• Kadi Veesaar Jewellery
• Katrin Veegen Jewellery
• Keiu Koppel Autoriehted
• Kelly Engelbrecht x ICEICEGEMZ
• killud
• Kuttenberg Knives
• Ljóf Jewelry
• Lyly x Nada x Sylvi
• Margus Elizarov
• Metashika
• Mirjam Aun
• MUSTKIVI
• Nils Hint
• PATRICK SOOME
• Paul
• Robert Idvani
• Sile Luik
• TELLISKIVI.
• Varm Country X Franky
• xensyl
• ZYLELY

CERAMICS & GLASS ART:

• 1001tassi
• BBABSxBBABS
• Craft Studies / Taidestuudium
• Elize Hiiop Jewellery
• Ethel Ütsmüts keraamika
• HYTI
• iamoffeveryday
• johannatammceramics
• kadri
• Kateriin Rikken
• Kay Shek
• Kuu keraamika
• KÄRT SEPPEL
• Lauri Kilusk
• Lilian Maasik
• Loora & Sarahi keraamika
• Maarja Sildvee
• Mari-Liis Makus Glass Design
• MEELI
• MONA SOFIA TAHK
• MSK Glass
• Palmik ceramics
• PUHU
• Sigrid Luitsalu glass
• Stuudio Raili Keiv
• SUME
• Tikrimoos
• Tilt Collection
• Triini Ceramics
• Umi
• Vakinay Glass

GRAPHICS & PAINTING:

• 35&36
• ART by TBA
• Anastasija Šteinle
• Annamaria Bereczki
• Antenninimene OÜ ja Kuraditosin OÜ
• Catherine Zarip
• EKA Graphic Design Master
• Ella-Mai Matsina
• ENKKL
• Hurray Mail
• ICIKICI collective
• Illustrations STUDIO
• Irmakmiz
• Joonas Sildre ja Elina Sildre illustratsioonid
• Katariin Mudist
• KERAAFIKA
• Kirjastus Hunt
• Kristino Rav
• Krõõt Kukkur Illustrations
• Laura Verte Illustrations
• Leore Klõšeiko
• Lucky Laika
• Lígia Fernandes
• Mania Grandiosa
• Marjamaitse / Pampel
• Marten Prei
• mesimagus
• Natalia Mirzoyan
• Nurr x UIK
• Paul Rannik
• Sandra Puusepp
• Selene Taur
• Triin Mänd

LEATHER PRODUCTS & ACCESSORIES:

• Aliisi lambad
• Annreal
• Carmen Kremm
• Ifku
• Karen Milistver
• Koa Concept Store
• LUKS
• MIRGOODS
• Mystique Art & Design
• MÄRG
• Piibe Tomp Stuudio
• SIUG

FASHION & TEXTILE:

• barbed
• B.MOR STUDIO
• carolxott
• Christoph
• ELLEN RICHARD
• Eve Hanson
• Hanna Tiina Pekk
• HANNES RÜÜTEL
• Jaagup Kaiv
• k4m4t3
• KAIRI GETMAN
• Karl Korsar
• Kirill Safonov
• Kristina Oja
• multistab.
• Poeet Design
• sask: design
• Siim Oja
• Tilda Knitwear
• Vivian Vuks

PRODUCT DESIGN:

• behäppi
• EstWallArt
• GISAIN reflectors
• Katahana
• kollektiir
• KOOSdisain
• Oliver Kanniste
• Ringdisaini sfäärid
• Sviiter
• Unzelm
• WindlaStudio

A public peer-review of knowledge transfer PhD student Liisi Tamm’s first case study will be held on December 17th at 16:00–17:30 at the Estonian Academy of Arts, room A202. The case study is part of a creative doctoral thesis analyzing design practice and methods of working with wool to determine its influence on design decisions and the designer’s role in meaning making. The knowledge transfer partner for the doctoral project is Pallas University of Applied Sciences.

Supervisors: Jaana Päeva PhD (EKA) and prof. Aet Ollisaar (Pallas)
The peer-reviewers are Ave Matsin and Nithikul Nimkulrat PhD (OCAD University)

The first case study focuses on the process of creating the material – making wool yarn. It examines how working directly with wool – from sorting and washing to hand- and machine-spinning – shapes textile students’ experience with the material, influencing their design process, aesthetic choices, and attitudes toward the value of local wool.

Students of EVA Lab, the Experimental Video Games in Art laboratory of the Estonian Academy of Arts New Media Department, present their exhibition in a new gallery space inside the National Library of Estonia. Although the National Library or RaRa building itself will only reopen to the general public in 2027, this exhibition offers an early glimpse into a yet unnamed art space that has not previously existed and is being opened temporarily for this occasion.

*Important! Visits are only possible with a guide. Gathering takes place at the main entrance of RARA at the following times:

17.12 at 17:00, 17:30, 18:00 and 18:30

During the autumn semester, EVA Lab students explore video game and interactive art theory, engaged in conversations with artists and game makers, and were given an optional workshop for learning a game engine to support their development. Through these encounters, students were questioning how video games occupy an enormous role in global popular culture, yet discussions of “games” can still meet a complicated reception within the field of visual arts.

Within art education, students are expected to devote themselves to understanding and critically navigating visual culture. Meanwhile, their personal experiences with gaming often belong to the realms of leisure, hobbies, and everyday play. Activities not always granted the same artistic legitimacy. This tension informs the exhibition’s title, “I’m not playing games, I swear”, a statement that is both slightly defensive and quietly humorous, acknowledging how the vocabulary of games can feel out of place in certain art discourse.

For this exhibition, the supervisors invited students to articulate their own relationships with gaming and game culture. The works on display, spanning interactive and non-interactive formats, transform personal memories, play habits, aesthetic intuitions, and critical reflections into artistic responses that reimagine what games can mean within contemporary art. From introspective narratives to speculative systems, the exhibition presents a variery of approaches to thinking through games as more than pastime.

Rather than insisting that we are not playing, the exhibition asks what becomes possible when play, experimentation, and game culture are allowed to enter artistic practice on their own terms.

Participating artists: Lotta Karoliina Räsänen, Maria Cecilie Wrang-Rasmussen, Irmak Semiz, Sarah Riley, Robert Kapanen, Kimathi Agbanu, Filémon Aufort, Paul Rannik, Triin Mänd, Edward Mcgeorge Allport-Bryson, Rover Indigo Bertels

Supervisors: Camille Laurelli, Sten Saarits

Exhibition is supported by RaRa, EKA, EVA Lab, LVLup! Museum

EKA Urban Studies MSc programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Monday, January 12, 2026 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This online info session will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind the Urban Studies programme. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

REGISTER HERE

More information about Urban Studies MSc programme:

• https://www.artun.ee/urban-studies
• https://www.facebook.com/urbantallinn
• https://www.instagram.com/ekaurbanstudies

Next admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2026 and application deadline is 2nd of March 2026 at 3pm EET (local Estonian time).

Admissions information here

EKA Animation MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the programme and to meet and ask questions directly from the people of animation department – both the teaching staff and the current students.

The online info session will be hosted online over Zoom and the link will be e-mailed out to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.

Register HERE

More information about the Animation MA programme:

• https://www.artun.ee/animation
• https://www.facebook.com/EKAanimatsioon
• https://vimeo.com/ekaanima

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2026 and application deadline is 2nd of March 2026 at 3pm EET (local Estonian time).

Admissions information here

On January 13 at 16:00 in room A101, Alison J. Clarke will give a public lecture titled “Design Anthropology: Its History and Its Discontents”. The lecture is part of the Faculty of Design’s public lecture series “Public Lectures in Design: Adjusting Perspectives,” curated by Stella Runnel and Taavi Hallimäe.

This talk explores the emergence of design anthropology as an approach that has gained popularity over the last two decades by melding social science and design practice. Clarke will argue the need to understand the phenomenon’s origins in the Cold War geopolitics of US expansionism, whereby it was applied as a political force to decolonized nations, in order to cast a critical eye over a contemporary practice that has come to operate as the invisible hand behind multiple facets of global life from health care provision, through to governance and data harnessing.

The public lectures are open to students, faculty, as well as anyone else interested in design!

​​Alison J. Clarke is a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the director of Papanek Foundation. As a design historian and social anthropologist, Clarke’s research deals with the intersection of these disciplines, specifically in terms of their shared focus on the politics of material culture and social relations. Her most recent monograph Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World (MIT Press, 2021) explores the controversial origins of social design, casting a critical perspective on the origins of a movement that has claimed to promote social justice through people-centred approaches. Her present book and research project Design Anthropology: Decolonizing and Recolonizing the Material World (MIT Press) explores the blurred historical boundaries between design practice and anthropology, and the social consequences of the uptake of this melding in the contemporary corporate sector. Clarke’s research has been supported by the Graham Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Austrian Science Fund and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, among others.

EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions from the people behind the programme.

The online info session will be hosted online over Zoom and the link will be e-mailed out to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.

Register HERE

More information about the Craft Studies MA programme: 

• https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/craft-studies/overview/
• https://www.instagram.com/eka_craftstudies

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2026 and application deadline is 2nd of March 2026 at 3pm EET (local Estonian time).

Admissions information here

EKA Contemporary Art MA program invites prospective students to join the online info session on Monday, January 19, 2026 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be an opportunity to hear more about the program, to meet and ask questions directly from the faculty.

The online info session will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be e-mailed to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.

Register HERE

More information about the Contemporary Art MA programme:

• https://www.artun.ee/maca
• https://www.instagram.com/macatallinn/

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2026 and application deadline is 2nd of March 2026 at 3pm EET (local Estonian time).

Admissions information here

EKA Interaction Design MA programme invites prospective Master’s students to join the online info session on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

You’ll have an opportunity to hear about the mission and philosophy of the programme, learn about student experiences and see their projects, take a virtual tour in our studios, and meet and ask questions directly from the faculty, students and alumni.

The info session will be hosted online over Zoom. If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

Register HERE

More information about the Interaction Design MA (IxD.ma) programme:

• https://www.ixd.ma
• https://www.artun.ee/ixd
• https://www.facebook.com/IxD.ma
• https://www.instagram.com/ixd.ma/

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2026 and application deadline is 2nd of March 2026 at 3pm EET (local Estonian time).

Admissions information here

EKA Graphic Design MA program invites prospective students to join the online info session on Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be an opportunity to hear more about the program, to meet and ask questions directly from the faculty.

The online info session will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be e-mailed to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.

Please register by Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 15:00h EET. A zoom-link will be e-mailed out to all registrants a few hours before the event starts.

Register HERE

More information about the Graphic Design MA programme:

• https://eka-gd-ma.ee/
• https://www.artun.ee/ma-gd/
• https://www.instagram.com/ekagd_ma/

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2026 and application deadline is 2nd of March 2026 at 3pm EET (local Estonian time).

Admissions information here

EKA Doctoral School will be hosting an online info session about doctoral studies at EKA on February 11, 2026, at 15:00-16:30 EET (local Estonian time). 

Info session provides a good opportunity to hear more about doctoral studies at EKA, available programmes, admission requirements and procedure, etc; also meet and ask questions directly from people behind the Doctoral School and the programmes. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom. A link to attend will be e-mailed to registered participants shortly before the event begins.

REGISTER HERE

The Estonian Academy of Arts offers following PhD level programmes for international applicants:

• Architecture and Urban Planning
• Art and Design
• Art History and Visual Culture
• Cultural Heritage and Conservation

Admission period for international PhD applicants for 2026/2027 starts on February 1st, 2026. Deadline for submitting application is March 31st, 2026, at 3pm (EET).

Admission requirements for PhD programmes can be found HERE.

More information:
Irene Hütsi
Doctoral School coordinator
irene.hutsi@artun.ee