2018. Graduation Ceremonies

This year’s Graduation Ceremonies will be held on 21.06. in the large hall of the National Library (Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn).

12.00 o’clock – graduates of Faculties of Design and Art Culture

3 o’clock pm – graduates of Doctoral School and the faculties of Architecture and Fine Art

NB! Dear graduate, please come 10-15 minutes earlier, so we can lead you to your place.

The EKA Interior Architecture Department is happy to announce that on 18 June at 4 pm, we’ll be opening an exhibition at the headquarters of the Estonian Forest Management Centre RMK (Toompuiestee 24, Tallinn), giving the wider public a chance to see the project our 1st year Bachelor’s programme students have been working on since September 2017.

The task given to the students was to re-think a campingsite at Nikerjärve, Aegviidu – this is the fourth project in a line of our co-operation projects with the RMK, looking into how contemporary, context-driven spatial design could improve the forest infrastructure for hikers and wanderers of all types. The exhibition will showcase 12 ideas for the area from 12 students, with scaled models and explanations. Of the 12, three concepts were selected earlier in spring and developed as teamwork – and of those three, one has been selected to be worked on further with the whole team, and to be built by August 2018, when the area will open for users in its new shape and form.

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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

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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/

Sixteen young designers graduating with bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design present their final works in “GD18 SHOW” at EKA Gallery. The exhibition opens with a reception at 5PM on May 31st. The exhibition will feature publications, fonts, video and board games, interactive stories, sound projects and works for the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Exhibition runs through 19 June.

The projects address and deal with topic, such as attention economy, culture jamming, stereotypes, character play and creation, uncanny valley and more.

The starting point for the “GD18 SHOW” is the meeting place stuudioruum at Estonia pst 7, where the students have been working, studying and socializing for the past three years. The exhibition also reuses and gives another chance for the self-build and borrowed furniture.

Prior to the exhibition the graduating class will present their thesis projects May 30 from 10AM thorough 12.30PM at the gallery hall of Center of Architecture (Põhja pst 27a). Presentations will be in English.

Exhibiting designers: Kermo Aruoja, Allan Aug, Martina Gofman, Elis Kitt, Kaspar Kuldkepp, Vello Lutter, Oskar Mihhailov, Joosep Noorväli, Anselm Oja, Eva Rank, Johanna Ruukholm, Anastassia Tšepaikina, Nathan Tulve, Karl Uibo, Mathias Väärsi and Väino Õun.

Supervisors: Ranno Ait, Jaan Evart, Mikk Heinsoo, Ott Kagovere, Daniel Kotsjuba, Moonika Maidre, Sandra Nuut, Norman Orro, Brit Pavelson, Indrek Sirkel, Kert Viiart, and Kerli Virk.

GD18 SHOW programme:

June 1, 6PM – Presentation of the book BRNO GUIDE
(Vello Lutter & Mathias Väärsi)

June 5, 6PM – Presentation of the board game ALU
(Kermo Aruoja & Oskar Mihhailov)

June 8, 6PM – Bedtime Express II
(Eva Rank)

June 12, 6PM – Presentation of the video game Exquisite Corps
(Anastassia Tšepaikina)

June 15, 6PM – Social experiments and rave
(Anselm Oja)

June 19, 6PM – Bedtime Express III
(Eva Rank)

Since 1998, the Tallinn Print Triennial has been accompanied by young artists’ exhibitions. Spheres is the youth exhibition of the 17th Tallinn Print Triennial. Its aim is to study the contemporary human condition through the conceptual metaphor of a sphere. Philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk claims that spheres are hybrid and symbolic realities created by humans from whatever is ready to hand. They are spaces of coexistence that enable humans to exist as humans. All human life proceeds within membranes that provide meaning and immunity.

There are three types of spheres. Bubbles are microspheres and the smallest units of social existence. They are constituted by dyadic relationships between two entities. Globes are all-encompassing macrospheres that seek to unite all individual differences. Foam is the fragile and layered aggregate of vertically and horizontally contiguous bubbles that are characterized by co-fragility—if one bubble bursts, it affects all its neighbors.

The youth exhibition will take place in two parts. The second part will open at the Corridor Club of Kultuurikatel on the 31^st of May at 6 PM and will remain open until the 16^th of July. Participating artists— Valentin Alizer, Ann Pajuväli, Mark Antonius Puhkan, Irma Isabella Raabe, Kadi Reintamm, Elina Saat, Kristina Mirjam Villand and S3+A1 (Delija Thakur, Helga Aliis Saarlen, Elise Roos ja Patrik Olejňák). The exhibition is curated by Eve Kask and Oliver Laas. The exhibition designer is Delija Thakur, graphic designer is Kerli Virk.

Since 1998, the Tallinn Print Triennial has been accompanied by young artists’ exhibitions. Spheres is the youth exhibition of the 17th Tallinn Print Triennial. Its aim is to study the contemporary human condition through the conceptual metaphor of a sphere. Philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk claims that spheres are hybrid and symbolic realities created by humans from whatever is ready to hand. They are spaces of coexistence that enable humans to exist as humans. All human life proceeds within membranes that provide meaning and immunity.

There are three types of spheres. Bubbles are microspheres and the smallest units of social existence. They are constituted by dyadic relationships between two entities. Globes are all encompassing macrospheres that seek to unite all individual differences. Foam is the fragile and layered aggregate of vertically and horizontally contiguous bubbles that are characterized by co fragility—if one bubble bursts, it affects all its neighbors.

The youth exhibition will take place in two parts. The second part will open at the Corridor Club of Kultuurikatel on the 31 st of May at 6 PM and will remain open until the 16 th of July. Participating artists— Valentin Alizer, Ann Pajuväli, Mark Antonius Puhkan, Irma Isabella Raabe, Kadi Reintamm, Elina Saat, Kristina Mirjam Villand and S3+A1 (Delija Thakur, Helga Aliis Saarlen, Elise Roos ja Patrik Olejňák). The exhibition is curated by Eve Kask and Oliver Laas. The exhibition designer is Delija Thakur.

The graduating class at EKA Graphic Design will present their thesis projects on May 30th from 10AM through 12.30PM at the gallery hall of Center of Architecture (Põhja pst 27a). Presentations will be in English.

Schedule:
10.00 Nathan Tulve
10.10 Martina Gofman, Johanna Ruukholm, Nathan Tulve
10.20 Karl Uibo
10.30 Joosep Noorväli
10.40 Oskar Mihhailov, Kermo Aruoja
10.50 Allan Aug
11.00 Vello Lutter, Mathias Väärsi
11.10 Allan Aug, Vello Lutter
11.20 Mathias Väärsi, Eva Rank
11.30 Anastassia Tšepaikina
11.40 Väino Õun
11.50 Anselm Oja
12.00 Elis Kitt
12.10 Elis Kitt, Anselm Oja
12.20 Eva Rank
12.30 Kaspar Kuldkepp

Thesis projects will be reviewed and assessed by an international jury:
Kristina Ketola Bore, Nicole Killian, Liven Lahaye and Kristina Õllek.

Just before MIMStudio goes into hibernation, the space will be taken over by students from EKA and EMTA.
Doors open at 19.30 and the first performance will take place at 20.30.

Five students from EAA New Media department have composed audiovisual performances. There will be music, light show, video works and kinetic tricks.

EMTA students feature their first experiments with drone synthesizers and step sequencer instruments, outfitted with contact and magnetic microphones. All crafted under the guidance of Ekke Västrik.

Performers:
Peter Bajetta, Michael Fowler, Sébastien Grenat, Paul Klooren, Madis Kurss, Eugen Linde, Edgar Pacheca Ruiz, Gerta Raidma, Astra Susi, Aap Kaur Suvi, Ave Vellesalu, Helen Västrik

Vít Havránek’s “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror” is the opening exhibition of the Showcase Gallery of the EKA Department of Photography. The gallery is connected to the Lembitu 10 building and the exhibition will open with a performance on 4 June at 14:00.

The exhibition “Display Case: Enjoy the Mirror” reflects on the usage of latin verb reflexio (reflection) that from early middle ages as description of a body that is repulsed by a mechanical obstacle. In this sense Descartes develops the reflections as a process of thinking when the thought is returned as a subject of thought about itself and its conditions. In this connection mirror image in absence of thinking is a bare image.

Vít Havránek is an art theoretician and curator living in Prague. He has been working since 2002 as director of the contemporary art initiative Tranzit.org. He has previously worked as a curator at Prague City Gallery and National Gallery in Prague. Havránek is a lecturer of contemporary art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and he co-curated Manifesta 8 and the 15th Jakarta Biennale. In 1999, Vít Havránek was one of the founders of the PAS collective. The group was created as a unit for organizing and producing events that promote new models of mediation between the public and art. In 2000, as one of the first projects, PAS set up showcase galleries in various Czech cities.  The showcase galleries were based on the example of the Communist showcase galleries that were used in the 1980s by the Communist regime and local authorities for disseminating political propaganda.

ENGLISH// Estonian Academy of Arts second-course ceramic students invite you to the exhibition which explores different types of phenomenon entitled “Lie/Wrong”. The opening takes place on Thursday the 24’th of May at 6 p.m. at The Ruins of Pirita Monastery! See you there!