EKA MA Contemporary Art

“Rehearsals for solidarity” continues today with a reading circle on nonviolence at 18.00. In addition a diverse programme is coming up at the weekend! Friday is dedicated to young participants, as Kumu Youth Club have organised an evening in the courtyard “Stretching our emotions.” Starting time is 17:00! Saturday takes us to the annual museum night. Next to permanent exhibitions the courtyard is also full of activities, including Belgian choreographers piece “Infinite dances” which is performed with local participants at 19:00 and 20:30. On Sunday an open air cinema will start at 12.00! The following films will be screened: 12:30 – “My Family and Other Clowns”. 14:30 – “Hearth and Home” (Alaav), documentary, Prabhash Chandra, India, 2024. 17:00 – “The Glass Castle”, drama, Destin Daniel Cretton, 2017. Feel welcome to join!

𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐍𝐎. 𝟒 □23.05.26.-14.06.26□ Join us for the exhibition's opening event on Friday, 22.05.26 at 18:00! Entrance no. 4 features a selection of work from the second year MACA/MAKK programme, with the stage being activated during the opening by @anumai.raska 's performance starting at 19:00. 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. Artists: Bob Bicknell-Knight, Giulio Cusinato, Anastasiia Krapivina, Kroplya, Denis Kudrjašov, Lisette Lepik, Fausta Noreikaitė, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Kertu Rannula, Anumai Raska, Nora Schmelter Curators: Bob Bicknell-Knight, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen and Nora Schmelter Graphic Design: Chloé Gourvennec and Ethan Anthony Read Opening hours: Tue - Fri: 12:00 - 18:00 Sat - Sun: 12:00 - 16:00 Address: ARS Project Space, Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn 11317 The exhibition is supported by ARS Kunstilinnak, Estonian Acadamy of Art, Estonian Artists’ Association, Nudist, Põhjala Brewery, Tuletorn.

☔️ “House of the Leaking Sky” on avatud Sel nädal avas @eka_maca õppekava juht Merike Estna Veneetsia biennaalil Eesti paviljoni. Avamisele tuldi Leedu paviljonist Baltikumi ühises rongkäigus – selge seisukoha väljendusena solidaarsusest Ukraina vastu. Avamisel võttis sõna ka kultuuriminister @heidypurga , kes rõhutas Eesti kohalolu olulisust Veneetsias. Palju õnne, Merike! Palju õnne, kogu Eesti Paviljoni tiim! Eesti paviljon 61. Veneetsia kunstibiennaalil on avatud 📍Calle S. Domenico, 1285 🗓️ Augusti lõpuni T-P 11-19 ja septembrist novembrini T-P 10 – 18 @estonianpavilion_merikeestna @merikeestna ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @eka_maca 📷 @laurajuristo

Welcome to an open lecture by @pankajyavanika ⛺️ In the lecture, Tiwari will introduce TENT: A School of Performative Practices — not as a proposal, but as an intervention. TENT is a nomadic, collective, and deliberately unfinished institution that refuses permanence, refuses neutrality, and refuses to wait for permission. Emerging from lived experience and structural exclusion, TENT is built from the ground up: without fixed walls, without inherited authority, and without the illusion that change can happen from within the same frameworks that produced the problem. “Contemporary art institutions speak the language of inclusion, while their structures remain largely unchanged,” says Tiwari. “This is not a conversation about reform. It is an attempt at construction.” The lecture moves between dream and reality, critique and action, asking a simple but urgent question: if institutions cannot change, what does it take to build new ones — and who gets to build them? MAKK&MACA students are participating in Pankaj’ TENT plaform with their programme TENTative Practices which unfolds across several days within and around the tent. Students: @mingzhu_art , Sarah Riley, @ronjasiitonen , @sprotch.plof , @yvi_schlgtr , @lottqkqroliinq — events by them, supervised by @yvettebathgate and @jake.r.shepherd , in Kumu courtyard on 11 May and 13 May. See you in EKA and @kumukunstimuuseum ⛺️

Laupäeval alustab Kumu hoovis Pankaj Tiwari telgikool „TELK: Kaasavate Praktikate Kool“. Telgikooli programm tõukub vajadusest leida ühisosa ajal, mil sõjad ning geopoliitilised ja ökoloogilised kriisid aina süvenevad. Meie ühiseid elusid puudutavad (globaalsed) väljakutsed on muutunud nii suureks, et nendele vastamiseks on vaja teha koostööd. Samal ajal seisame silmitsi üha enam polariseerunud ühiskonnaga, mis omakorda vähendab meie koostöövõimet. Just sellega „Harjutused ühte hoidmiseks“ programm tegelebki – ühisosa leidmisega ajastul, millal selle leidmine tundub aina keerulisem. Telgikool pakub ruumi õppimiseks, kuidas viibida selles ebamugavas läbirääkimiste ja koostöö ruumis koos erineva taustaga inimestega. ⛺ Kaheteistkümnepäevane programm hõlmab performance’eid, töötubasid, lugemisringe, loenguid ja palju muud. Iga sündmus panustab omal viisil kollektiivse ja koostöise praktika sõnavara ja oskuste arendamisse. Kõik üritused on tasuta! Kogu programmiga saad tutvuda kodulehel kumu.ekm.ee / On Saturday, Pankaj Tiwari’s “TENT: School for Performative Practices” begins in the courtyard of Kumu. The programme is born out of an urgency to find common ground during a time when war, geo-political and ecological crisis are continuously intensifying. Challenges facing our shared lives have become so big that to meet them only collaborative action has the potential to be affective. At the same time our politics and societies have become increasingly more polarised which diminishes our abilities for collaboration. This is the core of what Rehearsals for Solidarity aims to tackle, to find common ground and learn to be in that uncomfortable space of negotiation and collaboration with people of diverse backgrounds. ⛺ The ten day programme consists of performances, workshops, readings, lectures and more. Each of the events in some way adds to the vocabulary and skill of collective, collaborative practice. Participation is free of charge! You can explore the full programme on the website kumu.ekm.ee/en @pankajyavanika @banyan_tent #kumu #kumuevent #TENT #infinitedances

Our second year students @cosmotuvi , @elo4everr , @fausta.noreika and @giulio_cusinato are opening a group exhibition: SITE & SELF: Fragments of Spaces Inhabited. The opening event is tonight at @uusrada gallery, the exhibition will run until 16 May. Place: @uusrada (Raja tn 11a, 12616 Tallinn, Estonia) Opening event: 1st of May / 18:00 - Opening hours: Friday to Sunday, 16:00–20:00; Monday to Thursday by appointment only. @eka_vabad_kunstid @eka_estonian_academy_of_arts

For Crunch to be released, Compression must be added’ publication launch last friday📁 Started from the Balti Jaam pedestrian tunnel and dragged the publication dispenser (thank you Eo and Maria for making it!) all around Spring exhibition openings in Hobusepea, Draakon, Vabaduse and last Lasnamäe pavilion. We left the dispenser there, still might have some copies available📗 The publication gathers together announcements, divinations, exercises, game rules, instructions, preparations, recipes, reports and transcriptions by us, @eka_maca first year internationals @yiyangsunyiyang @sprotch.plof @maria.wr_art @edward_allspice @smallshirt_bigpants Rover, Nadya and me. The texts were created during writing practice course by @lievenlahaye , and the graphic designers behind this beautiful outcome are @selnea and @natalia___moro 🌟 maybe i’ll post more photos of the actual contents later..

On Friday March 13th at 16:00, we’re launching the publication ‘For Crunch to be released, Compression must be added’ written by MACA students, during the Writing Practice course with Lieven Lahaye. This publication gathers together announcements, divinations, exercises, game rules, instructions, preparations, recipes, reports and transcriptions by Ronja Siitonen, Yiyang Sun, Eddie Allport, Sarah Riley, Éric-Olivier Thériault, Maria Wrang-Rasmussen, Po4(sh)taljon and Rover Indigo Bertels-Andréa. It was designed by Natália Morová and Selena Repanis @ekagd_ma 16:00 Launch event in the Balti Jaam pedestrian tunnel Afterwards, the publication will also be available outside the opening of the spring exhibitions at Hobusepea Gallery (at 17:00), Vabaduse Gallery (at 18:00) and Lasnamäe pavilion (at 19:00).

𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚙𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚎 ‘𝟸𝟼 👠👠💋 Come down for the opening on Friday the 6th March from 16:00 - 19:00 at ARS Kunstilinnak Project Space @ars_kunstilinnak where the winner will be announced ! Exhibiting artists: Rover Indigo Bertels-Andréa, Thórey Halldórsdóttir, Denis Kudrjašov, Ivor Mikker, Daniil Musesovs, Elise Marie Olesk, Kertu Rannula, Lotta Karoliina Räsänen, Éric-Olivier Thériault, Kail Timusk, Lume Tuum, Elo Vahtrik, Ats-Anton Varustin, and Maria Wrang-Rasmussen. @eka_maca @eka.installation.sculpture @eka_estonian_academy_of_arts Poster illustration: Maria Wrang-Rasmussen @maria.wr_art

☀️ From 11–16 August 2026, The House of Leaking Sky will host a week-long project, The School of Strange Weather. During this week, Merike Estna @merikeestna and associate professor Karel Koplimets @karelkoplimets invite Contemporary Art MA students @eka_maca from the Estonian Academy of Arts @eka_estonian_academy_of_arts to activate the pavilion as an open platform. Through their performative practices, the pavilion becomes a site of experimentation. 🤹‍♀️ The students participating: Rover Indigo Bertels Bob Bicknell-Knight @bobbicknellknight Sander Karjus @sandereikarjunud Anastasiia Krapivina Denis Kudrjašov @kdrjasov Daria Morozova @dariakylm Rosa-Maria Katariina Nuutinen @rosanuutinen Kirke Mari Päll @maarjju Lotta Karoliina Räsänen Kertu-Liisa Sarap @kertuliisa Marc Léger Sauvageot @marcsauvageot Nora Schmelter @boraboranoraa Irmak Semiz @irmakmiz Maria Helena Seppik Ronja Aurora Siitonen @ronjasiitonen Yiyang Sun @yiyangsunyiyang Eric Olivier Theriault-Raymond @sprotch.plof Nadežda Tjuška @coolpix2006 Hanna Vinter @hanna_vinter Maria Cecilie Wrang-Rasmussen @maria.wr_art

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🟡 Eesti Kultuurkapitali 2025. aastapreemiad EKA-lastele! 🟡 Arvo Pärdile pühendatud muusikamajas Ukuaru anti pidulikult üle kultuurkapitali 2025. aasta peapreemiad ja elutööpreemiad ning kujutava ja rakenduskunsti, audiovisuaalse kunsti ja rahvakultuuri sihtkapitali aastapreemiad. 🟡 Õnnitleme EKA tööstuskunsti vilistlast, maalikunstnik Sirje Runget; arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise vilistlasi Maarja Kaske, Ralf Lõokest, Kerstin Kivilat, Märten Petersoni ja Andro Mändi; tööstus- ja digitootedisaini vilistlast Martin Mcleani; kaasaegse kunsti vilistlast Katariin Mudistit ja keraamika magistrandi Keithy Kuusput; animatsiooni vilistlast Natalya Mirzoyani; kunstiteaduse ja visuaalkultuuri vilistlast Marika Agu; kaasaegse kunsti vilistlast Iryna Tanasiichuki; kaasaegse kunsti ning animatsiooni vilistlast Jass Kaselaant; õppejõudu ja endist keraamika töökoja meistrit Andres Allikut; keraamika vilistlast Cristopher Sinivälja; klaasikunsti emeriitprofessorit Mare Saaret; fotograafia vilistlast Tanja Muravskajat; kunstiteaduse ja visuaalkultuuri vilistlast Johannes Saart ning urbanistika vilistlast ja Narva kunstiresidentuuri juhti Johanna Rannulat!