art and the city

“Art and the City” – a live action play in Telliskivi Creative City – is inviting you to come and enquire what art and creativity do in a modern capitalist city. How is creativity and art used to make cities of today, who is the creative class and how can one enter the creative city? 

Urban studies and architecture students of EKA address the questions revolving around the role of creativity in a city via an immersive role play, inviting the player to see Telliskivi Creative City through seven different characters’ eyes. How would a retired worker of the former factory see the place today, when the citadelle of a secret factory with its monotonous work has been opened up into a diverse creative village with no walls around? How is it to be an artist in a gallery that doesn’t any more represent the value of art space as a critical force or antithesis but rather acts as a tiny particle in a greater creative soup? Or how could a young designer who recently moved to Estonia enter the area as a creative workforce, not merely a consumer? Etc, etc.

If you’re ready to play, meet us in Telliskivi on Sunday, 18. December between 12 and 3 PM. Come and win with us: there will be wonderful prizes for the best players! 

EKA Animation MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 15:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the programme and to meet and ask questions directly from the people of animation department – both the teaching staff and the current students.

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. (ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/95686410177)

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.

Register HERE

More information about the Animation MA programme:

• https://www.artun.ee/animation
• https://www.facebook.com/EKAanimatsioon
• https://vimeo.com/ekaanima

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.

https://artun.ee/admissions

EKA Design Showcase gala once again brings to the audience the best cooperation projects of EKA students from the past year with companies and public sector organizations. We welcome all current and future cooperation partners of EKA and those interested in future design!

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Concepts, prototypes and ready-to-go solutions for companies and organizations such as PERH (North Estonia Medical Centre), Thermory, Tallinn City, INVL Eesti, Saku Vald and others will be presented during the presentation by the students of the Faculty of Design of EKA and Design & Technology Futures (joint curriculum of TalTech and EKA). For the first time, the projects created within the framework of LAETUS, the new business cooperation program of the Faculty of Design of EKA, will be presented.

The Estonian Academy of Arts has accumulated a very strong wealth of experience in carrying out cooperation projects over the years. The LAETUS cooperation program launched in 2022 has further expanded this field of activity. The program brings together EKA’s design field courses and business challenges of companies, offering synergy and fruitful cooperation.

According to Agris Peedu, chairman of the board of the long-term cooperation partner PERH, the cooperation with EKA has been very effective: “Not only have we received fresh ideas and useful recommendations for some existing activities, but thanks to EKA students and their supervisors, we have also identified bottlenecks that we have grown too accustomed to. We recommend a similar cooperation to everyone. Not to mention the positive energy that comes with the students and stays with us for a long time.”

Come to EKA Design Showcase and find new knowledge and inspiration on how to take your organization’s products or services to the next level with the help of new generation design and open innovation in cooperation with EKA!

Please register for the event HERE. 

PROGRAMME

16.00 Greetings and introduction. Moderators Urmas Lüüs and Karin Kiigemägi

16.05 – 16.20 Welcoming words by Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Dean of the Faculty of Design 

16.20 – 17.30 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects:

– “Welcome: Easying Hard Times” – Interaction Design MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)

– “Journey: Colonoscopy” – Design & Technology Futures MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)

– “Patient Referral Pathway” – Design & Technology Futures MA students and North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH)

– “For the Peace of Mind” – Interaction Design MA students and INVL Life Insurance

– “Look Down” – Interaction Design MA students and Tallinn Strategic Management Office

17.30 – 17.45 Coffee break

17.45 – 18.45 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects

– “Growing Area” – Product Design MA students and Thermory

– “BLOB” – Product Design MA students and Thermory

– “Estoplast Lighting Project” – Industrial Product Design BA students and Estoplast

18.45 – 19.00 Coffee break

19.00 – 19.50 Presentations of EKA collaboration projects:

– “Tallinn Quest” – Digital Product Design BA students and Visit Tallinn

– “Dopamine” – Digital Product Design BA students and Visit Tallinn

– “Development of a Pedestrian-Friendly Signage System for the Saku Sports Center” – Industrial Product Design BA students and Saku vald

– “Creation of the Concept of a Mobile Youth Center in the Municipality of Toila” – Product Design MA students and Toila Parish

– “Tallinn Children’s Home House Guide” – Product and Environment Design BA students and Tallinn Children’s Home

19.50 – 20.00 Conclusions and thank you

20.00 Networking, snacks

20.30 EKA building tour

Presentations are in Estonian and English, without translation.

It is possible to participate both on site at EKA (room A101) and watch the broadcast at http://tv.artun.ee/ or on Facebook.

We look forward to hearing from all current and future cooperation partners of EKA and those interested in future design!

Additional information:
Karin Kiigemägi
Enterprise relations and project coordinator of EKA

Event is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 16:00 EET (local Estonian time).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the brand new 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. (ZOOMI LINK: https://zoom.us/j/91482491834)

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 2023 and application deadline is 6th of March 2023.

https://artun.ee/admissions

Lara Brener’s exhibition It Brittly Joints the Other’s
16.12.2022 – 22.12.2022
12:00 – 18:00
Vernissage on 15.12, 7 p.m.

It brittly joints the other’s is a reflection on the experience of translation and the meeting of displaced identities. Brener examines selftranslation, facing the other within and the border created through the contact between hybrid and ambiguous identities. The artist also reflects on displacement, playing with subtleties of text and exploring translation as the transposition of images and spaces, identities, languages, and experiences. 

Lara Brener is an artist and educator from São Paulo, Brazil. She holds both a Bachelor and a Licentiate degree in Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) and is currently enrolled in the Master of Contemporary Art program in the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). She participated in exhibitions in Brazil, Estonia, and Lithuania, and is also a teacher in Tallinn. In her practice, working mostly with text, printmaking, and photography, Brener builds cavernous images, dissolving narratives, with images boiling up but never being fully uncovered.

The peer-review of Marco Laimre’s exhibition „Crawl out Through the Fallout“ will take place on 12 December 15.30  at EKKM.

„Crawl out Through the Fallout“ is a group exhibition, curated by Marco Laimre featuring works by five artists: Camille Laurelli, Keiu Maasik, Marco Laimre, Martin Buschmann ja Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo.
Exhibition is part of the doctoral thesis of Laimre. The thesis is supervised by Dr. Jaak Tomberg.  The peer-reviewers of the exhibition are Dr. Roomet Jakapi and Indrek Grigor.

The exhibition is open until 18 December 2022.

Graphic design 3rd year BA students invite everyone to the opening of their exhibition I Will Always Remember… on Tuesday, 6 December at 5 p.m. 

The exhibition presents artworks that combine artificial and natural materials, resulting in a whole new world. Despite the wide spectrum of topics and personal points of departure, on closer inspection, the works have quite a bit in common.

Works are by Aleksander Alev, Elisabeth Järve, Emma Reim, Erik Merisalu, Karl Kevad, Katariina Kesküla, Katrin Kannu, Kaur Joonas Karu, Kertu Klementi, Csenge Kinga Kovács, Magnus Harjak, Steven Pikas.

The exhibition was created in the framework of a course supervised by Kaspar Sellin.

The exhibition is open on two days:
Tuesday, 6 December, 5–10 p.m.
Thursday, 8 December, 3–10 p.m.

Address: Tulika põik 4a, Tallinn

Find the Facebook event here. For more information, email sellin.kaspar@gmail.com

Dear curriculum leaders, lecturers, students and study specialists!

Teaching and study programs at EKA have received a very good evaluation from our graduates, but – keeping the curriculum at a very good level is a constant challenge. The curriculum in higher arts education is a comprehensive network of activities during which students shape their approach to creative practice. Designing learning paths and creating an inspiring learning environment in higher arts education is an art in itself. Questions like: what are the new approaches to the curriculum? How to create, find new and effective approaches to the formation of a creative practitioner? How to create a whole? Are waiting a response.

At EKA, we have conducted two curriculum analyses, from which we see the challenges at our curricula. Several curriculum teams have carried out systematic development in cooperation with the Department of Art Education, and based on this experience and in order to meet the challenges of curriculum quality, we have put together EKA curriculum development workshop program “The Art of Curriculum Planning”.

Therefore, we invite curriculum leaders, lecturers, students and curriculum support staff to participate in it.

The workshop will be supervised by Maria Jürimäe, lecturer in curriculum theory at the University of Tartu, and Anneli Porri, lecturer in art education at EKA.

The program will take place in two parts, it is important to join both of them:

1. introductory seminar – where we map the possibilities, educate the horizons;
2. practical curriculum workshops in faculties.

Participating in workshops provides practical help for curriculum management, curriculum development and analysis writing.

Let’s start with the introductory seminar “The Art of Designing a Curriculum” on Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 13.00-15.30, room A-501 (3 academic hours).

The aim of the seminar is to create a common understanding and find an agreement on the most important strategic learning goals of the ESA.

ENG will be provided if there is a need.

Please register to first seminar by January 10.

Time: Wednesday, Dec 7 at 18:00

Place: A306, EKA

The department of photography of the Estonian Academy of Arts presents a new publication Last Edit was Seconds Ago. BFO19 in EKA gallery at 18:00 on Thursday, December 8th, 2022.

The publication introduces the works of eleven BA students (BFO19) – Andra Junalainen,
Laura Ruuder, Ivor Lõõbas, Elo Vahtrik, Imbi Sõber, Meel Paliale, Markus Mikk, Joosep Kivimäe, Kertu Rannula, Jana Mätas, Laura Maala – who graduated from the Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. The abbreviation BFO19 stands for the group of students who started their studies in the fall semester 2019.
The book includes a selection of images realized during their study period, exhibition views of graduation projects, short interviews with the students and an essay by Marge Monko, the professor of the department of photography.

The publication is designed by Alejandro Bellon Ample and Björn Giesecke who recently
obtained MA degree in the department of graphic design at EKA.

The discount price at the presentation will be 15 €, later 20 €.

Our gratitude goes to: Sean Yendrys, Laura Kuusk, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo
Supporters: Hartwall Estonia, Põhjala Brewery