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BRON TRAILER TALLINN
Retrospective exhibition BRON of Ruudt Peters at the Estonian museum for Applied Art and Design in Tallinn Estonia
The Ambassadors of Cycling in Tartu, Estonian National Museum
Ambassadors of Cycling in Tartu for a seminar. Helping us see opportunities to build a better infrastructure for cycling.
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TALLINN - Kumu Art Museum 2
Post War and Contemporary
Kumu is an abbreviation of the Estonian Kunstimuuseum (art museum). The designer was a Finnish architect, Pekka Vapaavuori, who won the competition in 1994.
It was constructed from 2003 to 2006.Kumu received European Museum of the Year Award 2008 by European Museum Forum.
International Master's Programmes at the Estonian Academy of Arts
The Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) offers seven Master’s programmes fully taught in English: Design & Crafts, Animation, Interaction Design, Interior Architecture, Urban Studies, Design & Engineering and Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies. All programmes are two years (120 ECTS). For more information and to apply visit
The Estonian Academy of Arts, founded in 1914, is the only public university in Estonia offering higher education in fine arts, design, architecture, media, visual studies, art culture, cultural heritage and conservation. Located in the capital city, Tallinn, it is an active study and research institution and the leading national centre of innovation in visual culture.
Nearly 1,100 students are currently enrolled at the Estonian Academy of Arts and are taught by 89 professors, associate professors, teachers and lecturers from Estonia and abroad. Studies take place in small groups of carefully selected students, and the Estonian Academy of Arts prides itself on the low student-to-professor ratio.
Small class sizes enable a more personal, one-on-one approach. EAA offers 50 well-equipped workshops with 38 skilled technicians on hand to assist students. At EAA, students are able to hone their skills, try new mediums and above all have the freedom to experiment and pursue independent projects.
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video „Kadriorg 300“
video „Kadriorg 300“
«Кадриорг 300»
Выставка к 300-летию Кадриоргского дворцово-паркового ансамбля – дань уважения уникальному произведению архитектуры и памятнику культуры. Кадриорг был ареной крупных политических событий, формировал эстетические воззрения многих поколений, играл важную роль в литературе и искусстве. С одной стороны Кадриоргский дворец прекрасно сохранился, с другой – приходится признать, что каждый период истории трансформировал его под себя, и прошлое вернуть невозможно. Эта выставка – реминисценция истории парка и дворца, которая помогает понять и почувствовать суть Кадриорга. Здесь каждый посетитель найдет свой Кадриорг.
Anniversary exhibition “Kadriorg 300”
The exhibition includes works of art and objects from the following collections: the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation, Estonian History Museum, Tallinn City Museum, Tallinn Literary Centre, Museums of Virumaa Foundation, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, University of Tartu Museum, Narva Museum, Enn Kunila Collection, Jaanus Idla Collection and the Art Museum of Estonia.
Travel in Estonia. Tallinnassa. Eesti.
Kesäkuu 2015. Monta ilmettä ja näkymää.
Julia Maria Künnap - Artist Talk - ATTA Gallery Bangkok - Modern Art Jewelry Lapidary Carving
Jan 11 2020
Perfection as an aim to strive for has been present throughout my artistic career. Stone carving and faceting, which I've been practising since 2008, have summoned it regularly. With every new stone, my work starts with a conception of the finished piece. The perfection of an idea is visualised in the faceting diagram, where a gem is described by a formula: a table of faceting angles, indexes and instructions. The cutting process usually starts relatively calmly, but sooner or later, I make a mistake. My mind wanders for a moment and a facet gets too deep or there's a tiny particle on the lap that leaves a scratch upon the stone. Then, I try to hide this failure by re-cutting the neighbouring facets. Usually, it means I have to make more little mistakes around the big one. In this way, a perfect idea becomes a collection of human errors. For some reason, it is quite inevitable and happens in almost every work I do. Therefore, I set a mark to understand whether a piece is ready or not. I consider it finished as soon as I can bear all the mistakes it possesses.
Bio
Julia Maria Künnap is a freelance jewellery artist currently living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Jewellery Art Department under Professor Kadri Mälk (MA 2004, BA 2001).
Künnap works with natural gemstones and has developed a technique to combine the facet cut and free form engraving. She has had solo and small group exhibitions in Estonia, Italy, USA and Taiwan. Additionaly her work has been shown in various galleries and museums in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, Paris, Stockholm, Riga, Padova, Munich etc.
In 2018 her lapidary work was recognized with Herbert Hofmann Prize.
Her work is in the collections of Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Boston Museum of Fin Arts and MAD Museum of Arts and Design New York.
BAHC 2016 - Raivo KELOMEES (EE). On Media Art in Estonia and the Baltics
3rd Conference of Baltic Art Historians
REPRESENTING ART HISTORY IN THE BALTIC COUNTRIES: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS
Riga, 6–8 October 2016
Abstract
One can be sure that many changes in art have originated from changes in technol-ogy, political systems and economic opportunities. During this period – when West-ern art and new technologies entered post-Soviet society – video art seemed to be the most radical achievement of technological art.
My discussion is based on following events connected with digital art in the Bal-tics: French-Latvian video festival, French-Baltic festivals of video art, French-Baltic-Nordic festival with the subtitle “offline@online”; international conference “Interstanding – Understanding Interactivity” held in 1995 in Tallinn, the ISEA in 2004 which took place in Helsinki and Tallinn, the “Art + Communication” festivals and conferences organised in Riga since 1996 by Rasa and Raitis Smits. Several pro-jects by Baltic artists: the MILK project (2005) by Ieva Auziņa and Esther Polak, Timo Toots “Memopol-2” in 2012 which was distinguished with the prestigious Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art. The Tallinn-based group You Must Relax (Riin Rõõs, Eve Arpo) started their activities in 2007 with the action in public space entitled “A Day without the Mobile Phone”, mention must also be made of Varvara and Mar's successful team, etc. Also worthy of mention is the exhibition “Gateways. Art and Networked Culture” curated by Sabine Himmelsbach (Germany) at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn in 2011.
Education centred around digital and media art forms a separate topic. I shall dis-cuss mostly the Estonian situation: pragmatic media and advertisement design de-partment at Tartu Art College, the New Media chair at the Estonian Academy of Arts is focused more towards experimental contemporary media projects, Crossmedia and Digital Learning Games are two relatively new study programmes at Tallinn Univer-sity which could be described as new media based, the Viljandi Culture Academy of Tartu University deserves a mention in regard of its performing arts department which includes the “theatre technical arts” speciality. The major difference between the various educational programmes is that there are technological education programmes oriented toward the art world and others that offer a pragmatic design-world approach. Now all educational fields have developed into two general directions: media art and media design – the latter including interaction design which could have minimal artistic ambitions. One might also include here the digital film centred approach.
In conclusion we see that creative practice which is based on digital technology has spread practically everywhere, to applied fields and visual art. We encounter digital technology in the theatre, at the cinema, and in scientific fields. All this is sometimes merged into interdisciplinary exhibition projects. It is no longer possible to describe a specific group of avant-garde innovators who are appropriating new technologies. Digital technology has become a cultural constant.
dance performance in Tallinn
The exhibition REWIND HISTORY opened on 10 February in the Estonian Museum of Applied Arts (Tallinn). During the opening of the exhibition AURA dance theatre showed the dance performance.
Illusions Automat from Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
After the repair in Varkaus Mechanical Music Museum, March 2015.
Hare christmas en Tallin, Estonia
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Solo Sokos Hotel Estoria - the hotel of Estonian design and stories
The hotel of Estonian design and stories Solo Sokos Hotel Estoria in Tallinn, Estonia
6. TAB Symposium: Kadri Kerge and soma architecture. The Exhibit. Moderator Kaja Pae.
soma is an Austrian practice founded in 2007 by Stefan Rutzinger, Kristina Schinegger, Günther Weber and Martin Oberascher. In addition to the Theme Pavilion for the Expo 2012 Yeosu in South Korea, completed projects include the extension for the Building Academy in Austria (2012) and the travelling Art Pavilion for the Salzburg Biennale (2011). The team’s work has won numerous prizes in international competitions and has been featured in significant exhibitions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 and Archilab 2013. In 2014 soma was presented in a solo show at the Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2017 soma is run by Stefan Rutzinger and Kristina Schinegger.
Kadri Kerge is an Estonian architect based in New York City, where she is designing large scale buildings, design strategies and master plans across the world for NBBj Architects. She is running her private studio Ministry of Architecture with her sister Maris Kerge in Tallinn, Estonia and New York, focusing on residential buildings and interior design architectural projects in Estonia and NYC. Prior to that she was working at Asymptote Architecture in New York, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Eichinger Offices in Vienna.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2019 Symposium took place on the 12-13th of September in Kultuurikatel, Tallinn.
The 2-day event was multidisciplinary symposium that included architecture, neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, poetry, mathematics, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital technologies related to these fields. Its participants included both distinguished scholars and leading architects and designers.
The Symposium’s 16 participants formed 16 panels of different duo, presented and discussed why beauty matters today, how come it was dormant for some 80 years, and to reflect on new buds of beauty in architecture.
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War Machinery and Transport Museum _ Disover Lithuania
War Machinery and Transport Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania
Apostolic Orthodox Church Häädemeeste Estonia
Apostolic Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord at Häädemeeste Pärnu County
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Church was built in 1872.
Laura Põld ja Katrin Väli Eitus
Laura Põld ja Katrin Väli räägivad enda ühisnäitusest Eitus Tartu Kunstimaja suures saalis 24.01.–16.02.2020.
Näitus on jätkuks Põllu ja Väli varasematele ühisprojektidele „Natural Shelter” (2019, Fiskarsi küla Kunsti- ja Disainibiennaali näitus „Being with“, kuraator Jenni Nurmenniemi) ja „Urud. Lennud“ (2019, Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn). Installatsioon koosneb Põllu keraamilistest objektidest ja skulptuuridest, vitriinidesse koondatud toetavast kirjandusest ning Väli luuletustest. Erinevalt varasematest projektidest on sellel korral ka osa luulekatkeid omandanud orgaanilisema punutud välimuse ning seetõttu suhestuvad otsesemalt ülejäänud väljapanekuga.
Autorid lisavad: „Maailm on täis mitmesugust elu, mis on väärtuslik ja tähtis, ning mitte meie, inimesed ei anna talle väärtust, vaid tema väärtus on temas eneses. Kunstniku tunnetusliku oletuse põhjal inimkäele loomulikuks peetud vormid on teiste liikide seas levinud juba enne inimest ja kätt. Seda olulisem on liigirikkuse säilitamise teema praeguses Eestis, kus aastasadu püsinud elupaiku mõtlematult hävitatakse. Inimestel peaks olema rohkem empaatiat teiste olendite vastu.“
Näituse kuraator on Peeter Talvistu.
Luuletaja ja tõlkija Katrin Väli (snd 1956, kodanikunimega Katrin Hallas) elab ja töötab Tallinnas. Ta on lõpetanud Moskva Gorki-nimelise kirjandusinstituudi ning on avaldanud 12 luulekogu ja järjepidevalt luuletusi perioodikas. Tema esimene luulekogu „Eluase“ ilmus 1978. aastal ja seni kõige hilisem, „Sugulane“, 2018. aastal. Katrin Väli tekste on tõlgitud vene, ungari, ukraina, inglise ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud ilukirjandust, peamiselt luulet. Alates 1994. aastast on töötanud ajalehe Eesti Ekspress keeletoimetajana.
Laura Põld (snd 1984) on õppinud keraamikat Eesti Kunstiakadeemias, maali Tartu Ülikoolis ning plastilisi kontseptsioone ja keraamikat Linzi Kunstiülikoolis. Oma erinevaid meediume siduva loominguga on ta lisaks Eestile osalenud näitustel ka Ameerika Ühendriikides, Austrias, Iraanis, Jaapanis, Leedus, Prantsusmaal, Saksamaal, Soomes, Ungaris, Taanis ja Venemaal. Teda on muu hulgas tunnustanud nii Eesti Kutuurkapitali kujutava ja rakenduskunstisihtkapital (aastapreemia 2014, peapreemia 2018) kui Köler Prize (grand prix 2016). Põllu viimane näitus Tartus toimus 2016. aastal Tartu Kunstimuuseumis.
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Laura Põld and Katrin Väli talk about their joint exhibition Denial in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House 24.01.–16.02.2020.
This exhibition is a continuation of two earlier joint projects of Põld and Väli: “Natural Shelter” (2019, Fiskars Village Art and Design Biennial, curator Jenni Nurmenniemi) and “Burrows. Flights” (2019, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn). The installation consists of Põld’s ceramic objects and sculptures, display cases containing supporting literature and Väli’s poems. Unlike the previous projects, the fragments from poems have a more organic appearance and therefore relate more closely with the rest of the exhibition.
The authors add: “The world is full of diverse life that is valuable and important. This is not made valuable by us, the people, but the value is contained within itself. The forms that are presumed natural to the human hand by the sensibilities of the artist have proliferated among other species long before humans and hands. This makes maintaining biodiversity an even more pressing question in today’s Estonia where the habitats that have stood for hundreds of years are being thoughtlessly destroyed. Humans should have more empathy towards other beings!”
The exhibition has been curated by Peeter Talvistu.
The poet and translator Katrin Väli (b 1956, real name Katrin Hallas) lives and works in Tallinn. She has graduated from the Gorki Literature Institute in Moscow and has published twelve collections of poems. Her first collection “Eluase” was published in 1978 and the latest thus far, “Sugulane” in 2018. Her texts have been translated to Russian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, English and Finnish. Väli herself has translated fiction, mainly poetry. Since 1994 she works as a proofreader at the weekly newspaper “Eesti Ekspress”.
Laura Põld (b 1984) has studied ceramics at the Estonian Academy of Arts, painting at the University of Tartu and sculptural conceptions and ceramics at the University of Art and Design Linz. Besides Estonia, she has presented her oeuvre, that brings together various media, in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Lithuania, Russia and the United States. Her work has been recognized by the Visual and Applied Art Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (annual award 2014, main prize 2018) and Köler Prize (grand prix 2016). Põld’s last exhibition in Tartu took place in 2016 in the Tartu Art Museum.
Eveline von Maydell. Mustvalge maailm ja Põhjamaade uus ehe
Saates esimeses pooles räägivad Kadrioru muuseumi ja Eesti Rahvusarhiivi näituste Eveline von Maydell. Mustvalge maailm (29.0307.09.2014) kuraatorid Juta Kivimäe ja Linda Lainvoo balti
saksa päritolu kunstniku Eveline von Maydelli elust ja siluetilõigetest koosnevast loomingust. Saate teises pooles vaatame Eesti Tarbekunstija Disainimuuseumis näitusi From the Coolest Corner. Põhjamaade uus ehe ja TUNGraud
(07.03.201411.05.2014). Autoriehetest ja materjalidest kõnelevad Põhjamaade näituse koordinaator Ketli Tiitsar, kunstnikud Julia Maria Künnap ja Kristi Paap.
In the first part of the show Juta Kivimäe and Linda Lainvoo, curatorsofthe exhibitions Eveline von Maydell. A world in black and white in the
Kadriorg Art Museum and in the National Archives of Estonia ( 29.0307.09.2014) talk about the BalticGerman artist Eveline von Maydell,
her life and work that consists of scissorcut silhouettes.
In the second part of the show we will watch the exhibitions From the Coolest Corner -- Nordic Jewellery and IRON URGE.
Jewellery and objects made out of iron (07.03.201411.05.2014)
in the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design. Ketli Tiitsar, coordinator of the Nordic jewellery exhibition and the artists
Julia Maria Künnap and Kristi Paap talk about contemporary
jewellery design and the materials used nowedays.
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Estonia (Estonian: Eesti [ˈeːsti] (listen)), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden to the west (Scandinavia to the far west and north), to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands in the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of 45,227 km2 (17,462 sq mi), water 2,839 km2 (1,096 sq mi), land area 42,388 km2 (16,366 sq mi), and is influenced by a humid continental climate. The official language of the country, Estonian, is the second most spoken Finnic language.
The territory of Estonia has been inhabited since at least 9,000 B.C. Ancient Estonians were some of the last European pagans to be Christianized, following the Livonian Crusade in the 13th century. After centuries of successive rule by Germans, Danes, Swedes, Poles and Russians, a distinct Estonian national identity began to emerge in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This culminated in independence from the Russian Empire in 1918 after a brief War of Independence at the end of World War I. Initially democratic, Estonia was governed by authoritarian rule since 1934 during the Era of Silence and the Great Depression. During World War II (1939–1945), Estonia was repeatedly contested and occupied by the Soviet Union and Germany, ultimately being incorporated into the former as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. After the loss of its de facto independence, Estonia's de jure state continuity was preserved by the Estonian government-in-exile, which was recognized by much of the Western World throughout the Cold War (1945–1991). In 1987 the peaceful Singing Revolution began against Soviet rule, resulting in the restoration of de facto independence on 20 August 1991.
The sovereign state of Estonia is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties. Its capital and largest city is Tallinn. With a population of 1.3 million, it is one of the least-populous member states of the European Union since joining in 2004, the economic monetary Eurozone, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Schengen Area, and of the Western military alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is a developed country with an advanced, high-income economy that has been among the fastest-growing in the EU. Estonia ranks very high in the Human Development Index, and performs favourably in measurements of economic freedom, civil liberties, education, and press freedom (third in the world in 2012 and 2007). Estonian citizens are provided with universal health care, free education, and the longest-paid maternity leave in the OECD. One of the world's most digitally advanced societies, in 2005 Estonia became the first state to hold elections over the Internet, and in 2014 the first state to provide e-residency.