Rebeka Kruus “Pink Cakes at the Market” at Keskpuur

Until February 2nd, Keskpuur Gallery hosts a solo exhibition by EKA animation master’s student Rebeka Kruus, titled “Pink Cakes at the Market.”

Priisle Market, which closed in 2014 symbolizes the bittersweet nature of change and the feeling of not recognizing the places where you once grew up. The pink-glazed cakes, with their vibrant, sugary tops, evoke a sense of a bygone era, a time that’s now faded but still carries a sense of longing.

Plans to rebuild the Central Market are set to begin in 2025. Now is your chance to savor a slice of nostalgia. Later, it just won’t feel the same.

Curator: Kaur Järve

Exhibitions at the Keskpuur Gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Keskpuur Gallery

Keldrimäe 9, 2nd Floor, Tallinn

Wed–Sun, 8 AM–3:30 PM

EKA Contemporary Art MA program invites prospective students to join the online info session on Monday, January 27, 2025 at 16:00 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.

Register HERE

EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, February 13, 2025 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/

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.

https://artun.ee/admissions

EKA Urban Studies MSc programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 18:00 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

Next admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.

https://artun.ee/admissions

EKA Interaction Design MA programme invites prospective Master’s students to join the online info session on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).

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

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.

https://artun.ee/admissions

On 16th of January at 6 pm Tallinn University Academic Library shall open the first substantial solo exhibition of painter Kati Müüripeal. The works presented within the exhibition have been created in 2020-2025 using mainly oil paints.

The works express a unique visual language of the artist that can be described as abstract, disunited with the focus on details and dialogue between specific color combinations. The artist is intrigued by the color blue and its occurrence within different cultures. Inspiration for works have been greatly derived by the nature surrounding the artist birth home. The Paris plant, the autumn smog, “Generation P” by Viktor pelevin (1999), “The Nightingale and the Rose” by O. Wilde (1888) and the time spent in Abisko within KUNO programme have been the main influence on the artists work so far.

The artist has graduated her bachelors programme in Faculty of Fine Arts and Master of Contemporary Arts (cum laude) at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Location Rävala pst 10, 15042 Tallinn

Opening 16.01 from 6pm

Open for visit 17.01.-07.03.2025

Curator: Liisi Kõuhkna

Anneli Porri is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture from 2023.

She graduated from the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture  of the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA in Art History and VIsual Culture Studies, 2002) and the Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University (MA in Cultural Theory, 2012) and works as a lecturer in art education and as a leader of the joint art teacher training programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Porri has written art criticism for the cultural media, curated exhibitions of Estonian and international contemporary art, edited art publications, and compiled teaching materials for both general and higher education.

Porri’s academic research interests are related to art education, teaching methods for the analysis of artworks and the didactics of art mediation. Her doctoral research focuses on teaching methods and strategies that support the development of visual competence, particularly in the interpretation of artworks.

About the seminar:

Conscious and deliberate looking is the basis of visual literacy and the interpretation of visual images is based on both our vision and our knowledge. Thus, image reading requires conscious learning. But how does the learning process establish contact with art and develop the skills that allow the viewer to interpret a work of art?

At the research seminar I will present a study in progress on the teaching of art history in Estonia since the establishment of the first chair of art history at the University of Tartu. I will offer a perspective on Estonian art history and art history studies that focuses primarily on the didactics of the subject, a view on the study and teaching of art history, an additional layer to the study of the science of Estonian art history, which has also been addressed in recent articles by Krista Kodres and Eero Kangor.

The aim of the study is to problematise the choice of traditional teaching methods and strategies in art history in both higher and general education and to clarify attitudes towards them according to art history and educational thought and practice.

I will focus on the following research questions:

1. What are the institutional and educational policy conditions of art history teaching in Estonian higher and general education 1920-1990(?)?
2. How is the teaching of the history of art and the relationship with art aimed at, what competences is it aimed at developing?
3. What are the traditional methods and strategies of teaching art history that have developed and are used in the teaching process?

On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., open debate of EKA rector candidates will take place.

EKA rector candidate programs (in Estonian):

Rector candidate Hilkka Hiiop’s program
Rector candidate Kirke Kangro’s program

Hilkka Hiiop is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Arts and Culture from 2021. Hiiop is a professor in the Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation. Hiiop’s candidacy was submitted by the members of the EKA Council.

Kirke Kangro is the dean of EKA’s Faculty of Fine Arts from 2016. She is a professor at the Department of Installation and Sculpture. Kangro was nominated by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Design of EKA.

The EKA rector’s elections will take place in auditorium A-101 on Friday, January 31, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

At the election meeting, the members of the electoral board will vote by secret ballot. The rector candidate who receives more than half of the votes will be elected.

Information related to the rector’s elections can be found at artun.ee/rektori-valimised.

The term of office of the new EKA Rector will begin on April 4, 2025.

The Estonian Cloud: Extraneous Tongue, Ulterior Print
January 16^th to 31^st
Monday – Saturday (12h – 18h)
ARS Showroom
Pärnu mnt. 154
Lara Brener

‘I am upside down here, as if looking at my own reflection. I am mirrored, how used I am to flipping myself. My tongue gets twisted all the time and people just do not seem to get it right. My friend told me I was not wrong. Clouds were different at a higher latitude. And suddenly there I was, looking for geographical specificity in a cloudy sky.’

The Estonian Cloud: Extraneous Tongue, Ulterior Print dwells on displacement and translation, presenting narratives taken from the artist’s experience of being a Brazilian immigrant in Estonia, and of communicating outside her mother tongue. Examining the Estonian sky through glycerin base prints and text (in English and Portuguese), her work embraces undefinition, while making analogies between the procedures of casting, printmaking, and translation.

The exhibition constitutes the artist’s thesis project for the Contemporary Art MA, from Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA).

Lara Brener is an artist and educator from São Paulo, Brazil, currently based in Tallinn. She holds a Bachelor’s and a teaching degree in Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, and has participated in exhibitions in Brazil, Estonia, Norway, and Lithuania. Lara works through breaches of media, translating and mixing processes, building ambiguous, cavernous images, mostly with printmaking, texts, and photography, and presenting dissolving narratives that are formed with images boiling up, but never being fully uncovered. Recently, she has been exploring translation of language, media, and context through narratives of hybrid, displaced identities.