EKA Back-to-School Sale

EKA Back-to-School Sale will take place on 1–2 September in the EKA lobby. You can find EKA merch, including sustainably produced sweatshirts, T-shirts, socks, erasers, pens and pencils, but also professional art supplies, such as paints, pens, sketching paper etc. from Gallery-G and Skizze Vunder shops.

The EKA Back-to-School Sale is open on Monday and Tuesday from 12pm to 4pm.

Opening hours:
Thu, Fri, Sat 13:00 – 18:00
Sun 13:00 – 17:00

EKA invites you from September 29 to October 5 on a journey through different layers of young design.

The exhibition and event program bring together the heritage of EKA’s design past, the diversity of the present, and future directions, opening doors to fresh ideas and creative courage.

During EKA Design Week, a variety of events will take place:

Public lectures and discussion evenings – inspiring meetings where designers, faculty, and students discuss the role and meaning of design in today’s world.

Design workshops – our students and faculty offer the opportunity to experience the design creation process firsthand and explore new knowledge and skills in various fields. Workshops are open to all interested in contemporary design thinking and practical experimentation.

Pop-up shop – The pop-up shop offers visitors a rare chance to purchase unique products, support the journey of young designers, and take home a piece of EKA’s creative energy. Get young and fresh design directly from the creators.

Come and experience the vibrant and ever-changing landscape of young design – look back, be present, and peek into the future.

The EKA Design Week schedule:

September 29 – October 5 – Exhibition “Lines of the Past, Directions for the Future”
Open Mon–Fri 10:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 10:00–15:00 at EKA White House, Kotzebue 10.
Exhibition opening: September 29 at 16:00.

September 29 – October 5 – Design & Innovation Program 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Open Mon–Fri 10:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 10:00–15:00 at EKA White House, Kotzebue 10.

September 30 – October 1 – Two-day social design workshop “Designing Our Future for All”
Day 1: 09:45–13:00, Day 2: 14:00–17:15 + independent work between the two days.
Location: EKA White House, Kotzebue 10.

Workshop will be held in English.
Detailed description and schedule of the workshop.
REGISTER HERE.

September 30 at 17:30 – ERKI Fashion Show Discussion Evening
The discussion evening brings together the organizers, designers, and alumni of the ERKI Fashion Show to discuss the significance of the runway, behind-the-scenes stories of the creative process, and ERKI’s role in the Estonian design landscape. This is an opportunity to hear inspiring experiences, ask questions, and see how young fashion designers bring their ideas to life.
Location: EKA Main Building Foyer, Põhja pst 10.

The event will be in Estonian.

September 30, 14:00–16:00 – Open Workshop “Gardenly Slowness”
Instructors: Marta Põldma and Jane Remm (places are full).
Location: EKA White House Monumental Studio, Kotzebue 10.
(Join the waiting list, the event will be in Estonian.)

October 1 at 17:30 – Open Lecture “Creative Design Research: Body-Inclusive Play for Children and Their Grandparents Living Far Away”
Lecturer: Kristi Kuusk.
Location: EKA Foyer, Põhja pst 7
The lecture will be held in English.

October 2 at 18:00 – LEIDA Article Collection Presentation
Introduction of a new edition gathering reflections and analyses in the field of design.
Location: EKA Foyer, Põhja pst 7
(Please RSVP)

October 7 at 19:00 – Design and Innovation Program 10th Anniversary Celebration
Location: EKA White House Monumental Studio (invitation only)

EKA Design Week Facebook event here.

The Erasmus BIP workshop “Navigating Through the Complexities of the Digital Jungle” will be held on 25–29 August 2025, organized by the Department of Ceramics of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

19 students from five partner schools will participate: Aalto University, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Latvian Academy of Arts, Saarland University of the Arts and Estonian Academy of Arts.

The course will be supervised by Dries Verbruggen (Belgium), Lauri Kilusk, Kaiko Kivi and Martin Melioranski.

The workshop will focus on the application of 3D design and printing in design. Students will be tasked with identifying spatial conditions in the human living environment where biological diversity and coexistence are limited. They will then use 3D design to create site-specific interventions aimed at increasing species diversity and/or the circulation of energy and matter, while trying to respect the architecture and other specificities of the place.

The workshop will include lectures, presentations, discussions and practical activities. Technical sessions will cover various slicing software and parametric modeling techniques, placing the practice of 3D printing within a broader theoretical framework.

The project will end with a pop-up exhibition on August 29th and a roundtable discussion with participants and teachers.

Coordinator: Kersti Laanmaa

On Wednesday, 27th of August 2025 at 6 PM, the exhibition Anatomy of Dust, by Juss Heinsalu and Kim Morgan, opens at Hobusepea Gallery.

Anatomy of Dust brings together two artistic practices that meet at the intersection of material investigation, scientific inquiry, and narrative building. Through intricate objects, experimental processes and installations, the gallery transforms into a cohesive spatial experience, a hybrid lab–studio environment, exploring the physical and conceptual forms of matter – from dust and dirt to blood, skin, and ash.

The viewer encounters “material bodies,” human and non-human, and the complex systems and cycles that connect and sustain them – presented in a range of altered micro-macro scales, amplified textures, scientific and medical imaging technologies, archive research and poetic interventions. The gallery’s large front window is used as a living interface between interior and exterior, offering passersby glimpses into the ongoing dialogue between organic and inorganic, life and death, matter and meaning.

“Informed by the experience of vibrant matter at the microscopic level these works offer new forms of body representation and an opportunity to bridge the gap between science, medicine, and art. Equally important to these installations are my propositions for the work to be situated in public space.” – Kim Morgan

“My recent work focuses on meteoritic origins, petrification and speculative conditions that present alternative mineral-based lifeforms. I have been curiously exploring ways to combine metal and ceramic compounds. Additionally, some older lines are included, such as optical devices and breathing clay-lungs animated by air pumps.” – Juss Heinsalu

The project extends beyond the visual: Kim Morgan will be using the gallery space as a studio/lab/research space to discuss her work within the context of her doctoral research, which includes situating the work in public space. A panel for public discussion (presenters TBA) is organised to engage with the scientific, artistic, and speculative ideas underpinning the works.

Artist tour: Saturday 13.09.2025 at 15 PM in ENG and 16:30 in EST
Panel discussion: Thursday 18.09.2025 at 18 PM (discussion will be held in ENG)

The exhibition will remain open until the 22nd of September.

Juss Heinsalu is an Estonian artist based in Tallinn. His autonomous research-creation process explores the embodiment of life in clay, merging scientific hypothesis, mythological and ethnographic knowledge with material-led studio practice. Heinsalu holds a degree in ceramics from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and received his MFA at NSCAD University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Currently, he is an associate professor and the head of the Craft Studies MA programme at EKA.

Kim Morgan is a Canadian visual artist working in multi-media installation and public space. Her work explores the impact of technology on people’s perceptions of time, space, and the body, and the shifting boundaries between the private and the public. Morgan is a professor at NSCAD University, Canada, and a PhD candidate at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Graphic designer: Aimur Takk

Many thanks to: Estonian Academy of Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, The Dalhousie Art Gallery, Heron Vrubel, Eric-Olivier Theriault Raymond, Gary Markle, Bruce Anderson, Kärt Ojavee, Katherine Diemert, friends and family members.

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

The Estonian Academy of Arts has been training architects for 75 years!

We will celebrate this at the Faculty of Architecture throughout the upcoming academic year.

You are invited to the opening of the anniversary year on August 28, 2025 in the EKA auditorium:

at 6:00 PM, with opening remarks and speeches, we will open the new newspaper of the Faculty of Architecture “c400”. Editors-in-chief Diana Drobot and Linda Li Arro.

at 6:30 PM, we will take a look at the longest-established architectural subject “30 x 30”, of which the curators of the exhibition, doctoral student Paco Ernest Ulman and Madli Kaljuste, will provide a historical overview.

at 7:00 PM, we will open the exhibition “30 x 30. Exhibition from the graphic arts archive of the EKA Department of Architecture” in the EKA Gallery.

You are welcome to join us!

While care has been a staple in feminist theory, activism and policy, its translation into critical architectural practice and theory is quite recent. Only in the past few years have architects, curators, and scholars of architecture started to engage seriously with the implications of care as a design principle, an ethical stance, and a mode of practice. Drawing on a range of examples from the recent past, including architectural projects, legal changes, policy interventions, and urban practices, this lecture situates its analysis within contemporary contexts to highlight complexities and conflicts in the relationship between architecture, care, and justice. The aim is to demonstrate that architecture has the potential to support the right to care and advance care justice, while also critically interrogating its complicity in care violence and the undermining of care sovereignty

Elke Krasny is a Professor for Art and Education and Head of the Program Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author. Her scholarship addresses ecological and social justice at the globaal present with a focus on caring practices in architecture, urbanism, curatorial work and contemporary art. Together with Urska Jurman, she initiated Ecologies of Care. The 2019 exhibition and edited volume Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, curated and edited together with Angelika Fitz, was published by MIT Press and introduces a care perspective in architecture addressing the anthropogenic conditions of the global present.  Together with Angelika Fitz and Marvi Mazhar, she edited the book Yasmeen Lari. Architecture for the Future (MIT Press, 2023) Her book Living with an Infected Planet.  Covid-19, Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care introduces feminist worry and feminist hope in order then to develop a feminist cultural theory on pandemic frontline ontologies and feminist recovery plans.

2025/2026 open lecture series in held in collaboration of the Faculty of Architecture and the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture.

The Lecture series is supported by:

You are invited to Marta Konovalov’s home and garden. There you will have the possibility to investigate the development of the aesthetics of affect and promote emotional durability. To be engaged with my practice – to repair and to regenerate textiles. Or just to observe. I will also invite you for a walk in the landscape and my garden. To share some food together.

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Please bring some textile artefacts or a piece of clothing with you – something that has worn out or perhaps has stains or holes. I will appreciate it if you will bring your observations and ideas.
You will meet all sorts of critters there. Your kin and children are also welcome.
Hope to see you soon, at the periphery.
Marta

Location: Veisjärve Village; Viljandi County

Duration: 22.08.2025 12.00–17.30
Language: English and Estonian

Contact: marta.konovalov@artun.ee
+37256630717

Registration: https://forms.gle/hgA818TaHnjMv15o7

Marta Konovalov is a designer-researcher, craftivist and educator focusing on repair and regenerative textile design. She is a lecturer and doctoral student at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Photo: Kärt Petser

Welcome to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Narva Art Residency!

September 5, 2025:

12.00 – Arrival at NART (Joala 18), welcome coffee and snacks. We will introduce the current activities and future plans of the house and the art residency.

13.00 – Lunch and bus tour of Narva city. On the tour, we will see, for example, the newly completed sculpture by Ihor Tkachevkõi (Ukr) in Stockholm Square and the dedication of the NART boat in the Venice of Narva.

15.00 – Official anniversary program at the director’s villa, or NART: we will present the video made for the anniversary, offer cake and sparkling wine, discuss the social dimension of art and create a direct connection with former residents from around the world.

17.00 – Art tour at the Kreenholm factory.

19.00 … – Free time. Those who wish to attend can take part in the Station Narva festival concerts at Narva Museum or join the evening gathering at NART.

The anniversary coincides with the Station Narva music festival taking place on the same weekend. On Friday, there is Future Day, the program of which partly coincides with the anniversary program. During the weekend, guests will also be able to attend several events organized by NART, such as the Narva Venice Annuale or the Day of the Single-Tree Pilot with boat rides, the ceremonial opening of a work by a Ukrainian sculptor to the city’s residents, the Kreenholm Community Garden Harvest Party and house tours. In other words, there is a reason to stay longer.

Please register by September 1st by filling out the form here: https://forms.gle/zidoyoBbvjXMz4vK6.

In the form, you can indicate whether you want to come from Tallinn to Narva and/or back by shared bus. We cannot offer overnight accommodation to everyone, but if you plan to stay, let us know and we will try to find a solution.

If you have already confirmed your participation, we still ask you to fill out the registration form so that we can take into account your food and program preferences. The anniversary event is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the British Council.

On Friday, August 29th, starting at 12:00, the opening ceremony of the 2025/26 academic year will be held. The ceremony takes place in the main hall (A101) and lasts approximately 1.5 hours.