The EAA School Supplies’ Sale!

The EAA School Supplies’ Sale will take place on 7-8 September from 11am – 4pm at the Estonia pst 7 foyer. The Skizze art supplies’ store will be selling high quality art supplies for drawing, painting, sketching etc. They will have a 10% discount on all products and distribute coupons for their store.

We will also be selling books from the EAA Press and T-shirts and other EAA gift items. Come by and have a chat!

Please bring cash!

September 21 – October 2, 2016
Application Deadline: September 12, 2016

Tallinn, Estonia
www.ecadc.ee

This fall the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) is presenting the third edition of its Gallerist Master Course in Tallinn, Estonia, offering training for both practicing and emerging gallerists.

The course is designed to introduce students to the dynamics of the art world infrastructure. Classes will discuss the various segments of today’s global art market (Alessia Zorloni, IULM); artist representation and the day-to-day operations of a commercial gallery (Sol Pochat, HILO Gallery); art journalism and writing for social media (Andrew M. Goldstein, Artspace, Phaidon); as well as more recent developments in exhibition-making and curating (Fatos Üstek, independent curator, fig2).

This eight-day intensive course will accept MA students with a demonstrated interest and/or experience in contemporary art as well as practicing gallerists, arts and culture managers, and artists. The entire course will be conducted in English.

September 21 – 22
Sol Pochat
Case Study of HILO Gallery

Established in 2015, HILO Galeria is an emerging gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a special focus on site- and context-specific artistic and curatorial practices. The seminar will take the form of a case study on how to develop a sustainable gallery model representing emerging artists.

September 23 – 24
Alessia Zorloni
Introduction to the International Art Market

The art market, like most major business sectors in the 21st century, operates in a global environment and is complex, dynamic, and often seemingly irrational. This seminar will give students an understanding of the various segments of today’s ever-evolving international art market.

September 29 – 30
Fatos Üstek
Introduction to Contemporary Curatorial Practices

The seminar will address curatorial positions and the significant role they play in today’s arts ecology. Visiting a plethora of voices that are shaping the practice of contemporary curating, it will concentrate on different modalities and sensitivities that a curator employs in order to engage with art, and, more significantly, to make art public.

October 1 – 2
Andrew Goldstein
How to Write About Art (and Actually Get People to Read It)

Beginning with the polemicists and publications of the postwar era and going through the rise of the October magazine style to today’s proliferation of TMZ-like art sites, the seminar will take the form of a discussion on how art writing has dramatically changed over the past 70-odd years.

For the full course schedule and to download the application form, please visit our website: http://www.ecadc.ee/call-for-applications-gallerist-master-course-2016/

Location: Estonian Academy of Arts, Institute of Art History

Tuition: Full program €500 / Single module €125
Participants will be responsible for their round-trip transport to and from Tallinn, accommodations, and living expenses during their stay.

Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center

The Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) is a nonprofit foundation focused both on fostering international exposure for artists from Estonia and on developing the contemporary art scene in Estonia. Functioning as an umbrella organization for Estonian partner institutions, the center is creating strategic international partnerships in the field of contemporary art. ECADC is supported by Enterprise Estonia from the European Regional Development Fund and its team members are based in New York and Tallinn, Estonia.

Acknowledgements

The Gallerist Master Course has been made possible with generous help from Enterprise Estonia through grants endowed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and the Ministry of Culture, Estonia.

For further information on the Gallerist Master Course 2016 please contact info@ecadc.ee

The Opening Ceremony of the new academic year of 2016/17 will take place on 2nd September at 2 pm at the Sõprus Cinema hall, Vana-Posti 8, Tallinn.
All students and staff are invited to greet the new members of the Estonian Academy of Arts!
Have a wonderful and interesting academic year!

What happens when you mix creative industries with IT!?

Come show off your skills at our 48 Hour creative hack. Meet people from all creative industries as well as IT sector and collect valuable tips from local and international mentors.

Win prizes from our partners but most of all start something up!

The event is free for students of all universities in Estonia. 

Friday 26 August
14:00 Start of registration
15:00 Event kick-off
16:00 Team forming & START
19:00 Dinner

Saturday 27 August
9:00 Breakfast & Coffee
9:00 Seminar 30 min
12:00 Mentor meetings
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Mentor meetings
19:00 Dinner

Sunday 28 August
9:00 Breakfast & Coffee
11:00 Mentor meetings
13:00 Lunch
15:00 48h milestone & PRESENTATIONS
17:00 Announcing winners

Use EAA code for free registrateion – 0816EKA

Register here: https://en.xing-events.com/loomehakk.html

We are welcoming applications for the MA program in Urban Studies.
The admission period for Estonian applicants starts on June 20, 2016 and documents must be submitted by July 1, 2016. Interviews will be held on July 6, 2016 at 14.00.
Application can be filled online https://www.sais.ee/
Please see more on the program at www.artun.ee/en/curricula/urban-studies and more on the admissions at www.artun.ee/en/admissions/masters
Contact: arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0072

The admission deadline for international applicants was May 1, 2016.

Between June 10 to 20, 2016 in Nida Art Colony stdents of glass and ceramics specialties from Estonian, Latvian and Vilnius (Lithuanian) Academies of Art are working with several media to research, visualize and find solutions to problems connected with WATER. In most approaches the issue of clean water, its endangered situation and several ecological and social problems have come up. The event will be concluded with an exhibition starting on June 17 in the Nida Art Colony.

Nicola Trezzi’s lecture “Central Peripheries and Peripheral Centers: The New Paradigm”
Friday, June 10, 5 pm
Rauaniidi building
Kotzebue 1/ Põhja pst 7, Tallinn
IN ENGLISH!!
The lecture is held in lieu of the programme of TASE 2016 Degree Show

The lecture will investigate certain developments within the field of contemporary art and its connection to globalization. Following a series of recent events, specific situations and the structure of certain institutions and private identities, this new paradigm reconsiders the dichotomy “center” versus “periphery.”

The lecture takes the field of visual art as a study case, as a way to understand phenomena that go beyond its specificity (art, artists, museums, etc.) allowing a deeper understanding of reality at large.

Nicola Trezzi (Magenta, Italy, 1982) is an educator, exhibition maker and writer based in Tel Aviv. Until 2014 he was US editor at Flash Art International, New York Desk editor at Flash Art Italia, associate editor at Flash Art CZ&SK and consulting editor at Flash Art HU. Beside Flash Art, his writings appeared in Il Sole 24 Ore, Monopol, Flatt, erev-rav.com, biweekly.pl, White Fungus, in catalogues such as Joshua Neustein: Drawing the Margins (Jerusalem: Israel Museum), Postmonument (Carrara: The 14th Sculpture Biennial), Michal Helfman: Change (Tel Aviv: CCA), Ylva Ogland: She, an Introduction (Stockholm: Bonniers Konsthall) and Ido Bar-El: Bagatelle, Paintings, 1986–2015 (Tel Aviv Museum of Art) and in exhibition texts for Vibha Galhotra (Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) and Johan Creten (Galerie Perrotin, New York) and Matteo Callegari (Carl Kostyál, London). A staff member of the Prague Biennale Foundation from 2007 to 2014, he co-organized the following exhibitions: Painting Overall at the Prague Biennale 5, Four Rooms at the CCA in Warsaw, Modern Talking at the Muzeul National de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Circa 1986 at HVCCA in Peekskill NY, Champs-Élysées at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Diagonal Histories—Imre Bak, Peter Halley—, at Art+Text in Budapest. He lectured at the Yale University School of Art (New Haven CT), SIAC (Chicago), iCI (New York), and at the Indonesian Institute of the Art (Yogyakarta). He is currently head of the MFA program at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and Flash Art International’s contributing editor.

In addition to the lecture, Trezzi will visit different art institutions and artists’ studios in Tallinn.

Nicola Trezzi’s visit to Estonia is supported by ERASMUS+ International Credit Mobility.

Additional information:
Laura Toots
laura.toots@artun.ee

Meil on hea meel teatada tänavused Eesti Kunstiakadeemia lõpuaktuste ajad:

17. juunil Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu saalis, Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn

Kell 12.00 – Arhitektuuriteaduskond, Disainiteaduskond ja Kunstikultuuri teaduskond
Kell 15.00 – Vabade kunstide teaduskond ja Avatud Akadeemia

Lõpuaktuseid kantakse üle videopildis EKA kodulehel www.artun.ee
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We are pleased to announce the times of the 2016 Graduation Ceremonies accordingly:

17 June at the Estonian National Library Main Hall, Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn

12.00 o’clock – Faculties of Architecture, Design, and Art and Culture
3 o’clock pm – Faculty of Fine Art and Open Academy

The ceremonies will be broadcast via live video feed on the EAA website at www.artun.ee

NITHIKUL NIMKULRAT The White Forest
20. – 30.05. 2016
Hop Gallery
Tallinn
Hobusepea 2
On Thursday 19th May at 17.00, the opening of Nithikul Nimkulrat’s exhibition “White Forest” will be held.
The growing of “The White Forest” began in July 2008 in in Reykjavik, Iceland when Nithikul was an artist-in-residence at the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM). Travelling around the country and experiencing Iceland’s wonderful landscape to seek inspiration, a question occurred to her mind: Why is Iceland treeless? Unlike Iceland, Finland – a country locating in the same continent as Iceland – has prosperous forests that surround people’s everyday life. As a textile artist and a designer who had lived in Finland for over a decade at that time, Nithikul was fascinated by it. Having researched this topic further, she found that Iceland was trying to revive their forests, but due to strong wind and little sunshine, trees grew extremely slowly (only 5cm a year). To contribute to their mission conceptually, “The Birch Tree” was made using paper string, a product of Finnish forests, to represent the beginning stage of growing trees or the becomingness of Iceland’s forests. After two years spent to complete “The Birch Tree”, Nithikul has continued growing a forest.
Since then, “The White Forest” has kept growing slowly. The slow growing gives an environmental message – although the process of growing “The White Forest” requires tremendous time and patience, to grow an actual forest can take much longer time, greater efforts and collective contribution.
“The White Forest” has been exhibited in Berlin (2012) and London (2013). It is now shown in Tallinn, the city in which it is currently being grown.
Nithikul Nimkulrat is Professor of Textile Design and Head of Department of Textile Design at the Estonian Academy of Art. Nithikul received a Doctor of Arts (2009) and a Master of Arts (2002) from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Finland) and a Bachelor in Industrial Design (1997) from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). For over a decade, she has exhibited her worked internationally, and has worked as a researcher and an educator in universities in Finland, UK and now Estonia.
Thanks: Piret Valk.
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Hop Gallery exhibitions supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Raja Spring Show
May 6 – 8, 2016

Opening: May 6th, 6PM

Department of Installation and Sculpture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Raja 11A (bus 23, Trummi stop).

The periphery of EAA, the department of Installation and Sculpture, is opening its doors and studios to show, in addition to everything else that’s exciting, the freshest artworks. To add more to the excitement, another Young Sculptor’s Prize is given out.

Participating artists:

Art Nõukas
Billy Sassi
David Wittinghofer
Harry Maberly
Jakob Tyroller
Jenny Grönholm
Kadi-Maarja Võsu
Karl Johanson
Katrin Enni
Kristin Reiman
Laurien Bachmann
Madlen Hirtentreu
Marti Kikojan
Rosa-Violetta Grötsch
Triinu-Liis Rahe

The opening is followed up by a party at 10PM!
https://www.facebook.com/events/634991099990054/

How to get here on friday!
Take Bus 23: http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee/#bus/23/b-a/12402-1/map/en
or Bus 3: http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee/#trol/3/b-a/21206-3/map or
or Bus 36: http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee/#bus/36/b-a/map…
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RAJA SPRING PARTY
6TH OF MAY 22.00

We would like to invite you all to join us on FRIDAY for the installation- and sculpture department’s SPRING PARTY, wich is a followup to the previously opened Spring Exhibition.
We have a PING-PONG table!! And OPEN GRILL/fireplaces, where you can weather cook your food on or cook yourself beside it (vegetarian, and meat separately). We advise you to load your store-carts full as soon as possible, ’cause the evening promises to be long and fun! All your thirst needs, and dreams will be satisfied by our POP-UP BAR, where you can find everything you need for toasting, comforting, or celebrating!
Music is taken care of by:
Eleonora Šljanda
Mihkel Maripuu
Antti Mäss
Katja Adrikova
Ellen Vene
Nikolajev

The party starts at 10PM, but everyone who will be coming for the Spring Exhibition opening, will be entertained, don’t you worry! No need to run, we won’t bite!

The weather will be nice! We installed the Sun, just come!
Department of Installation and Sculpture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Raja 11A (bus 23, Trummi stop, 24A Raja stop, also trolley nr 3 Keemia stop). We added the map with links to the bus schedules in the discussion of the event. Go check it out if you’re confused!

More information about the Raja Spring Show here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1809848455903008/