TASE DAY on Saturday, June 6th:

1–9 pm TASE exhibition open
1–3 pm guided tours of the Faculty of Design, in Estonian
3–3.30pm guided tours of the Faculty of Art and Culture, in Estonian
3–6 pm burning ritual at Kail Timusk’s installation “Requiem Larium” on the sea terrace of the main building
3.45–4.30pm Jaak Juske’s historical tour around EKA, in Estonian
5 pm TASE Anima ’26 screening at the cinema Sõprus
7 pm TASE Anima ’26 Q&A in the lobby of the main building of the Estonian Academy of
Arts, moderated by Lyza Karoly Jarvis and Kaur Järve, in English

Keithy Kuuspu’s durational performance in the yard of Kotzebue 4

– “Indirect Performativity” on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 pm

Burning rituals at Kail Timusk’s installation “Requiem Larium” on the sea terrace of the main building of EKA

– Sat 6.06 at 3–6 pm
– Sun 14.06 at 4–7 pm
– Fri 19.06 at 1–4 pm

Margaret Tilk’s study club “Girls, In Theory”

Tuesday, June 9 at 6 pm at EKA Gallery, with pre-registration, in Estonian

GUIDED TOURS

All tours start in the lobby of the EKA main building and participation is free of charge.

Historical tour

Saturday, June 6 at 3.45–4.30 pm historical tour around EKA, led by Jaak Juske, in Estonian, donations are welcome

Guided tours of the Faculty of Architecture

– Thursday, June 11 at 2–3 pm guided tour of the Department of Interior Architecture led by Gregor Taul, in Estonian
– Thursday, June 11 at 3.30–5 pm guided tour of the Departments of Architecture and Urbanism led by Roland Reemaa, in Estonian
– Monday, June 15 at 5–6 pm guided tour of the Faculty of Architecture led by Sille Pihlak, in Estonian
– Tuesday, June 16 at 1–2 pm guided tour of the Department of Interior Architecture led by students of the faculty, in Estonian

Guided tours of the Faculty of Design

– Saturday, June 6 at 1–3 pm, guided tour by Kätlin Leokin and students of the faculty, in Estonian
– Sunday, June 14 at 1–3 pm, guided tour by Kätlin Leokin and students of the faculty, in Estonian

Guided tours of the Faculty of Arts and Culture

– Saturday, June 6 at 3–3.30 pm, guided tour by Valve Saarma, in Estonian
– Sunday, June 14 at 3–3.30 pm, guided tour by Valve Saarma, in Estonian

Guided tour of the Faculty of Fine Arts

– Sunday, June 14 at 4–5 pm, guided tour by Elo Vahtrik, in Estonian

More info at: https://tase.artun.ee/

Faculty of Fine Arts invites: Public artist talk by acknowledged Australian contemporary artist Mikala Dwyer at 18.00 on June 4th in EKA, A-501

In works that explore how we relate to the object-world, Mikala Dwyer has pushed the limits of sculpture, painting and performance, establishing herself as one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists. She has been honoured with solo survey exhibitions at Sydney’s two major art museums, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.

Her many exhibitions internationally include The Recent, Talbot Rice gallery, Edinburgh, Ichiahara Art + Mix Triennale, Japan, Blessed Be, MOCA Tucson, USA (2018); The End of the 20th Century, The Best is Yet to Come—A Dialogue with the Marx Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2013); Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2003); Verso Süd at Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome, curated by Franz West (2000); and shows at The Graz Museum, Austria; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; and Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK. Her work has been selected for the Lyon Biennale (2026) Istanbul Biennale (1995), the Biennale of Sydney (2010 and 2014) and the Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Australian Art (2010 and 2020)

Mikala Dwyer’s compounds invite open-ended interaction and take the viewer across boundaries of time, space and geography. While playful and exuberant on the surface, they almost always impel us to imagine something darker beneath—or above. Ordinary and familiar materials draw us in, transformed so as to bring attention to the unseen or occult or what society banishes from view. Emerging from a deep and disobedient engagement with modernist form and space, Dwyer’s works have an eye on the future and relationship at their heart—they have been described as ‘profoundly sociable’.

Dwyer’s work is always responsive to site and context, and her successful public art commissions include Monuments for Fishes, Barangaroo, Sydney 2026; Sydney Metro, 2024; Apparition, University square, Melbourne, 2020; In the Smoke of Ghosts, MUMA 2020; Egg Swing, 2012, Royal Women’s Hospital, Paddington, Sydney; Windwatcher, 2011, Central Park, Chippendale, Sydney; A Lamp for Mary, 2010, Mary Place, Surry Hills, Sydney; Swamp Sculpture, 2006, Omi Sculpture Park, New York, NY; and IOU, 2005, Docklands, Melbourne.

https://www.mikaladwyer.com/

Being / Becoming
Põhjala tehas, Marati 5-3, 2nd floor
Exhibition open June 4–14, everyday 11:00–19:00
Opening: Wednesday, June 3, 18:00

From materials to maker,
from environment to mind.
Through the fingertips into an object,
which then finds its way back to the environment again.

The practice of craft is one of interconnection: between material and body, environment and society, thought and action. Craft extends beyond the production of a physical object – it shapes the ways we relate to the world around us and to one another.

The exhibition Being / Becoming presents works by the first year students of the Craft Studies MA program. Developed alongside one another over the past year, the works emerge through conversations between materials and makers, processes and practices, experiments and outcomes – shaped through sharing spaces of making, thinking and exchange.

Being is existing in the same space with others. Becoming is an endless process of change until we decide to lay a pause on it.

Participating: Astrid Davis, Þórey Björk Halldórsdóttir, Carmen Kremm, Anna Larionova, Athaly Lens, Marco Manfredino, Teresa RA, Anna-Maria Saar, Kay Shek, Laura-Maria Vahimets

In curatorial dialogue with: Anu Vahtra
Graphic design: Andrew Kuus-Hill & Linda Morel

Thank you: Juss Heinsalu, Kärt Ojavee, Põhjala tehas
Supporters: Craft Studies, Estonian Academy of Arts, Punch Club OÜ

Throughout the exhibition we have a few events organised for the public, including tours, workshops and a finissage:

Tours
Sunday, June 7, 11:00–12:00
Sunday, June 14, 15:00–16:00
In English & Estonian
* Free participation

Workshops
‘Materializing the Handwriting. The Workshop’ by Anna-Maria Saar

The hand-stitching workshop develops participants’ awareness of their personal working methods through hands-on experimentation with different materials. It supports learners more broadly in understanding and articulating their intuitive choices as makers.

Sunday, June 7, 13:00–13:45
Wednesday, June 10, 18:00–18:30
Thursday, June 11, 18:00–18:30

* Workshops take place in the exhibition space, free participation with prior registration: anna-maria.saar@artun.ee. Materials are provided on site.

Finissage
Sunday, June 14, 16:00–19:00

29.05–16.08.2026
Maria Kapajeva. I Am A Border
Curator: Siim Preiman, Exhibition designer: Anu Vahtra

Estonian artist Maria Kapajeva will open her largest solo exhibition to date at the Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion on 28 May at 6 pm. Titled I Am a Border, the exhibition brings together 16 works created between 2014 and 2026, many of them produced specifically for this show. Admission is free.

The exhibition is the culmination of more than a decade of artistic research into the border as a geographical, bodily, and emotional phenomenon.

Its point of departure is the region beyond Narva, Narvataguse – the former homeland of the artist’s paternal family, now located within the Russian border zone and inaccessible to the family today. Through photographs, video works, installations, and textiles, Kapajeva approaches borderliness not as a fixed place, but as a continuous state of transition – never fully one thing, never fully becoming the other.

The works intertwine the Narva River, the post-operative body, family archives, a disappearing language, and disrupted connections to landscape and heritage. One of the exhibition’s central works, Four Generations Later, features the artist’s relatives reading dialect texts from the Narvataguse region recorded in 1947 – a language that has become partly incomprehensible even to younger Russian-speaking generations.
The installations incorporate materials such as maps from the family archive, diary entries by Kapajeva’s father, a family tree drawn by a geneticist, and a blanket that once belonged to the artist’s grandmother. Several works also explore the fluidity of the body and identity, connecting queer perspectives with ecology and border landscapes.

“What moves me in Maria Kapajeva’s work is her ability to speak about identity without simplifying it. Her works hold vulnerability, the weight of history, and a deeply personal clarity all at once,” said the exhibition’s curator Siim Preiman. “Every day I see how nationalism is often something that divides rather than unites us.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a diverse public programme:

• 30 May at 2 pm – curator’s tour with Siim Preiman
• 17 June at 5 pm – artist’s tour with Maria Kapajeva
• In July, Maria Kapajeva and Anton Küünal will host a joint event exploring the intersections of plants, ecology, and queer perspectives (date to be confirmed)
• 9 August – a collective textile workshop titled Queering and Sewing Together
• On the exhibition’s final day, 16 August, there will be an artist’s tour followed by a communal cooking event in the Korr-korr (Borborygmus) series, where the exhibition team and visitors will prepare and share food together.

Maria Kapajeva is an artist whose work explores questions of identity and gender, with a particular focus on in-between and transitional states. Her works are included in several museum collections, including the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tartu Art Museum. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is one of the recipients of the Estonian state artist’s salary.

Lecture will be held on 2nd of june at Estonian Academy of Arts (room A101)

Please register HERE.

SYNOPSIS

The open lecture will explore the intersection of high-level design leadership and the practical mechanics of scaling impactful ideas. Drawing from the experience of a global design leader and former Global Director of Innovation at Puma Headquarters, the lecture will present case studies that reveal how innovation is navigated within complex creative and commercial environments.

At the core of the lecture is the question of what it truly means to be a “good” designer today. Referencing David Epstein’s concept of Range, the discussion will examine why breadth of experience, interdisciplinary curiosity, and analogical thinking often outperform narrow specialization when addressing contemporary challenges.

Moving beyond individual creative practice, the lecture will also introduce frameworks for scaling ideas through innovation stress-testing — a process designed to distinguish short-lived trends from commercially and culturally sustainable concepts. This approach is grounded in meaningful definition and purpose-driven thinking, inspired by Simon Sinek’s principle of Start with Why.

The lecture concludes by addressing the human side of innovation: the communication skills, persuasion strategies, and stakeholder management required to guide ambitious ideas through the inevitable friction of growth and implementation.

Key themes include:

– Global design and innovation case studies from Puma and beyond

– The value of interdisciplinary thinking and creative range

– Purpose-driven innovation and idea stress-testing

– Communication, persuasion, and stakeholder alignment in scaling innovation

Charles Johnson

Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center

Principal, Driven By Charles LLC

For four decades, Charles has shaped the product visions and strategies of world-leading brands including Adidas and Puma. Originally trained as an Industrial Designer, his career evolved from specialized footwear design to executive-level leadership across sports, fashion, and connected products.

Today, Charles bridges the gap between high-level consulting and academia. As Assistant Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center, he teaches students how to scale innovations from inception to mass market while navigating the complex “adverse interests” of organizational functions and stakeholders. As a consulting practice Driven By Charles he helps startups ground their vision in product and brand strategy. Charles is driven by a humanistic approach to design, specializing in experiences that bridge the digital and physical worlds and that promote health and world balance.

The EKA Graduation Show Festival TASE ’26 opens on May 27, 2026 at 17:00.

At the graduation festival, the faculties of architecture, design, art culture, and fine arts will present this year’s final projects.

TASE ’26 will take place on the EKA campus in Kalamaja – in the EKA main building (Põhja pst 7 / Kotzebue 1), as well as in the buildings at Kotzebue 4 and 10, and on the Kotzebue 2 plot.

At the opening event, the Young Artist, Young Applied Artist, and Young Designer awards will be presented to bachelor’s and master’s level students.

The TASE ’26 exhibition will remain open from May 28 to June 19, daily from 13:00 to 19:00.

Find the detailed programme and the list of graduates on the website https://tase.artun.ee/

PROGRAMME

TASE ’26 Opening on Wed 27.05. at 17–23

• 17.00 opening ceremony on Kotzebue Street, speeches, announcement of the Young Designer, Young Artist, and Young Applied Artist awards
• 18.00 Puuluup concert on the Kotzebue Street stage
• 19.00–22.00 DJ duo Danger from Estonia on the roof of the PAKK pavilion
• 23.00 end of the party
• 23.00–… official afterparty and karaoke at Balta Chill

Additionally, Hulkur Baar and the ÖKU food truck will be present.

TASE Day on Saturday, 6 June:

• 13.00–21.00 TASE exhibition open
• 13.00–15.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Faculty of Design
• 15.00–15.30 presentation of graduation projects from the Faculty of Art and Culture
• 15.45–16.30 Jaak Juske’s historical tour around the EKA area
• 17.00 screening of TASE Anima ‘26 at Sõprus Cinema
• 19.00 TASE Anima ‘26 discussion in the lobby of the EKA main building, in English

Keithy Kuuspu endurance performance

• “Active Performativity”, Monday, 25 May at 19.00 in the courtyard of Kotzebue 4
• “Indirect Performativity”, Wednesday, 17 June at 19.00 in the courtyard of Kotzebue 4

Margaret Tilga’s learning club “Girls, in Theory”

• Tuesday, 9 June at 18.00 in the EKA Gallery, with pre-registration, in Estonian

GUIDED TOURS
All tours begin in the lobby of the EKA main building and participation is free.

Historical tour

• Saturday, 6 June at 15.45–16.30 historical tour around the EKA area, guided by Jaak Juske, in Estonian, donations are welcome

Faculty of Architecture tours

• Thursday, 11 June at 14.00–15.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Department of Interior Architecture, in Estonian
• Thursday, 11 June at 15.30–17.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Departments of Architecture and Urban Studies, in Estonian
• Monday, 15 June at 17.00–18.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Faculty of Architecture, in Estonian
• Tuesday, 16 June at 13.00–14.00 presentation of graduation projects from the Department of Interior Architecture, in Estonian

Faculty of Design tours

• Saturday, 6 June at 13.00–15.00, in Estonian
• Sunday, 14 June at 13.00–15.00, in Estonian

Faculty of Art and Culture tours

• Saturday, 6 June at 15.00–15.30, in Estonian
• Sunday, 14 June at 15.00–15.30, in Estonian

Faculty of Fine Arts tours

• Saturday, 30 May at 16.00–17.00, in Estonian
• Sunday, 14 June at 16.00–17.00, in Estonian

General TASE tour

• Friday, 29 May at 17.30–18.30, in English

SPONSORS
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn City

PARTNERS
Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Funrent, mirai™, Punch Club, Puumarket, Sadolin Estonia, Tallinn Circular Economy Center

TASE chief organizer:
Kaisa Maasik-Koplimets, kaisa.maasik@artun.ee

Nordic and Baltic comics exhibition “Mythbústers”
In the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts 03.09.–04.10.2026
Open Mon–Sun 8–23, admission free

Opening: Thu 3.09.26 at 5 pm in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts
Artist talk with Emmi Valve, Joonas Sildre and David Schilter: Thu 3.09.26 at 5.30 pm
Emmi Valve’s workshop: Fri 4.09. at 2–4 pm

When thinking about the Nordic and Baltic countries, the first associations that come to mind might be trolls and Vikings, the midnight sun and the polar night, saunas and winter swimming, hygge and fika, Nokia and IKEA. Perhaps you have also heard of these countries’ excellent school systems and strong social welfare models? But what is behind these myths? 16 comic artists from all over the Nordic and Baltic countries created works that reflect their own unique perspectives on life in the region.

The Baltic comic magazine “š!”, issue 57 “Mythbústers” which includes all these works and is distributed worldwide, was published in connection to the exhibition.

As part of the exhibition, a comic drawing workshop for students will be held on Friday, September 4, at 2–4 pm, led by Emmi Valve. Participation is free, but places are limited. The workshop will be held in English and all students are welcome to participate. Register here.

Participating artists: Akvile Magicdusté (LT), Cecilia Vårhed (SE), Clara Jetsmark (DK), Disa Wallander (SE), Elín Elísabet (IS), Emmi Valve (FI), Ida Neverdahl (NO), Joonas Sildre (EE), Jurijs Tatarkins (LV), Laura Ķeniņš (CA), Liisa Kruusmägi (EE), Mari Ahokoivu (FI), Ona Kvašytė (LT), Søren Glosimodt Mosdal (DK), Tim Ng Tvedt (NO), Tommi Musturi (FI)

Curator: David Schilter (LV)

The exhibition is organised by Kuš! in cooperation with the Nordic Council of Ministers’ offices in Latvia and Estonia.
The exhibition was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Latvia, the Nordic Council of Ministers’ offices in Latvia and Estonia, the Danish Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Sweden in Riga.

On May 23 at 1:30 PM the 2nd year glass and ceramics department students of EKA will open their exhibition Same Time Same Place in the Viinistu`s Barrel Gallery.

In a time marked by tension, acceleration and fragile boundaries, this exhibition gathers works that linger in the space between presence and relation. Created by 12 student artists from the glass and ceramics departments of EKA, the exhibition unfolds as a series of quiet negotiations between materials, bodies, and ways of being that do not always easily align.

Rather than offering a unified perspective, it brings together distinct, sometimes conflicting approaches. The works explore connection as a process: we leave traces, we transform, inevitably and continuously, both intentionally and unintentionally. In this, there are tensions and collisions, moments of conflict, and recurring attempts to foster peace.

The exhibition attends to the conditions under which beings share space. Proximity does not guarantee understanding; contact does not ensure unity. Instead, the works move through closeness, tension, dependence, and care, questioning what it means to coexist. Symbiosis is more than living side by side, just as parasitism speaks to forms of reliance and imbalance.
Co-existence emerges here as a kind of chemistry — a dissolving you and an insoluble me, and vice versa. Together, the works ask what it means to exist alongside difference without dissolving it.

Works by: Antigone Doron-Sornin, Lee Saarepera, Maria Ivanova, Karl Otti, Daniela Treviño, Martin Kõiv, Stina Preiman, Kirke Vahar, Una Poriete, Olivia Jegorov, Ellen Schleyer, Helen Vinogradov

Advisors: Kaja Altvee, Kateriin Rikken 

The exhibition will remain open until June 11th.

Opening times:
 
Until May 31: Fri-Sun 11-18
From June 1: Mon-Sun 11–18

Supported by: Viinistu Art Harbour, Lexplast, EKA Student Council, Põhjala, Peetri Lõheäri, High Voltage, Capra Saun, Käbliku, Coca Cola, Juhan Kivitoa 

Everyone’s warmly invited to Master’s thesis presentations by EKA Urban Studies students.

May 25, 2026, 09:30

EKA, A-501

09:30–10:20 Melissa Lee

The Uneven Grounds of Publicness: Community and Control in Singapore’s Void Decks

10:20–11:10 Maria Kazlovskaya

Making Space, Finding Meaning: Youth and the Use of Urban Space in Tallinn, Estonia11:20–12:10 Adeolu Jeremiah Afolabi

Island Urbanism: Power and Spaces of Exceptions

12:10–13:00 Annabel Pops
The Startup City: Entrepreneurial Governance and Growth-Oriented Planning in Contemporary Northern Tallinn

14:00–14:50 Laman Mammadli

Green Displacement: Phased Construction of Baku Central Park and its Impact on the Sovetsky and Bayırşəhər Neighbourhoods (Baku, Azerbaijan)

14:50–15:40 Marta Bodnar

Grassroots Memorial at Maidan Nezalezhnosti at the Crossroads: Documenting the History of Now and the Risk of Institutionalisation

15:40–16:30 Yiğithan Akçay
It Doesn’t Disappear, It Moves: European Plastic Waste and the Governance of Displacement to Türkiye

16:40–17:30 Verdha Anjum

The Urban Political Ecology of River Ravi Transformation: Unpacking the Institutional Mechanisms Behind Manufactured Flood Risk in Lahore, Pakistan

17:30–18:20 Lion Herrmann

Artful Perfection: An Examination of the Instrumentalisation of Culture and Art in the Context of the New City Quarter, Am Tacheles, in Berlin’s Centre.

Supervisors: Nabeel Imtiaz, Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik, Leonard Ma, Mattias Malk, Agáta Marzec, Karlis Ratnieks, Mira Samonig, Sean Tyler, Karina Vabson 

Reviewers: Kush Badhwar, Sinan Erensü, Tahl Kaminer, Daria Khrystych, Madita Kümmeringer, Anton Küünal, Lily Song, Tauri Tuvikene, Aro Velmet 

Evaluation committee: Sergio Davila, Maroš Krivý (non-voting), Maria Lindmäe, Andres Ojari (chairman), Helen Runting, Sean Tyler (non-voting)

23.05.26.-14.06.26

Opening: 22.05.26 18:00

with a Performance by Anumai Raska starting at 19:00!

Artists: Bob Bicknell-Knight, Giulio Cusinato, Anastasiia Krapivina, Kroplya, Denis Kudrjašov, Lisette Lepik, Fausta Noreikaitė, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Kertu Rannula, Anumai Raska, Nora Schmelter

Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen and Nora Schmelter

Entrance No. 4 transforms the ARS Project Space into a stage of sorts, where the audience engages with the artworks on show through a series of curtailed entranceways, examining ideas of control, illusionary realities and voyeuristic tendencies. Through actively herding and throttling the viewing experience, Entrance No. 4 demands a re-examination of how artworks are seen and engaged with, reflecting upon how images are shared and diffused within contemporary life.

When navigating the purposefully oblique space one will have the opportunity to encounter work from 11 artists currently undergoing a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Artworks on show range from painting and sculpture to video and installation, engaging with ideas associated with the home, climate collapse and our collectively fraught relationship with the body and physical spaces.

Tue–Fri: 12:00–18:00

Sat, Sun: 12:00–16:00

ARS Project Space, Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn 11317

Graphic Design: Chloé Gourvennec, Ethan Anthony Read

The exhibition is supported by ARS Kunstilinnak, Estonian Artists’ Association, Estonian Academy of Art, Nudist, Põhjala Brewery, Tuletorn