EKA MA Contemporary Art, Põhja pst 7, Tallinn (2026)

05/06/2026

There’s a little over a week left to visit Entrance No. 4 at ARS Project Space in Tallinn, which includes a selection of work from the second year MACA/MAKK programme.

The exhibition will close with a soft finissage in the presence of some of the curators and artists on Sunday, 14th June, from 14:00 – 16:00. There will be coffee and cookies!

The exhibition transforms the 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.

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

Opening hours:
Tue - Fri: 12:00 - 18:00
Sat - Sun: 12:00 - 16:00

Address:
ARS Project Space, Pärnu mnt 154, Tallinn 11317.

Photography by:

13/05/2026

𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐍𝐎. 𝟒
 23.05.26.-14.06.26  Join us for the opening on Friday, 22.05.26 at 18:00! There will be a performance by Anumai Raska .raska 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  Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen and Nora Schmelter

Graphic Design: Chloé Gourvennec, Ethan Anthony Read  Opening hours:
Tue–Fri: 12:00–18:00
Sat, Sun: 12:00–16:00

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

07/05/2026

Welcome to an open lecture by ⛺️

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: , Sarah Riley, , .plof , , — events by them in Kumu courtyard on 11 May and 13 May.

See you in EKA and ⛺️

01/05/2026

Our second year students , , .noreika and are opening a group exhibition:
'SITE & SELF: Fragments of Spaces Inhabited.' tonight at gallery.

The exhibition will run until 16 May.

Place: (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.

11/03/2026

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

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).

04/02/2026

Tomorrow at 7pm opens the solo show of our 2nd year student Lisette Lepik at Haapsalu City Gallery💥💥💥

Firm & soft. Soft & firm

Inspired by autobiographical material the exhibition deals with themes of gender roles in intimate relationships. Visitors will see emotionally charged paintings accompanied by a soundscape created for the exhibition, representing Lepik's personal reflections and conversations with her mother and grandmother about their experiences within relationships and general family life.

The paintings are supported floor to ceiling by iron chains handcrafted by Lepik, representing the strongly held cultural and social baggage passed down between generations. The artworks within the exhibition act as a time machine through which one can observe the atmosphere of a 1990s city home in Mustamäe district or perhaps smell freshly cut grass from a recently mowed 1970s lawn in Rapla city.

Lisette Lepik: “I explore changes in gender roles and power dynamics through personal stories and photos of my family. Throughout the exhibition process I was inspired by B**M communities. They provide an opportunity to reverse the roles and rethink expectations on different genders. Within this context power relations happen by mutual agreement. Roles — dominant or submissive, firm or soft — are chosen consciously and voluntarily, with prior communication regarding boundaries and desires being the norm. Power, control and submission does not mean oppression here, but rather trust.”

The exhibition team

Location: Haapsalu City Gallery, Posti street 3
Opening: 5.02.2026 at 7pm
Open: 6.02.2026–01.03.2026, Wed-Sun 12am–6pm
Curator: Liisi Kõuhkna
Soundscape for the exhibition: Rene Manivald Tamm
Graphic design: Cristopher Siniväli
Tech support: Agur Kruusing, Mattias Veller
Special thanks to: Virve Lepik, Liana Lepik, Nora Schmelter, Gerda Hansen, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Estonian Academy of Arts metalworking shop, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Põhjala Brewery, Nudist Drinks

06/06/2025

Second half of the thesis defences is done – huge congratulations to 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗞𝗶𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮, 𝗬𝘂𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘀, 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗞𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂, 𝗠𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶ć, 𝗬𝘃𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱, 𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗟𝗶𝘇𝗮 𝗧𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗹𝗼é 𝗚𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘇! Thank you all the supervisors and reviewers, committee and audience!
For June 4 & 5 the core members of the thesis committee – artist and filmmaker 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗶𝗸𝗹𝗮, curator and head of CCA Estonia 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗼𝗼, artist and educator 𝗧𝗮𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻 – were joined by three international members: writer, editor, and independent researcher 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗮, and artists and educators 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵 and 𝗟é𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗵𝘆.

𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗘 ‘𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁! 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝘃𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 & 𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲 .

Rävala 8, III floor:
𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗞𝗶𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮: ‘Shrek and The Aphrodite Beans’, supervisor Anu Vahtra, reviewer Anna Jensen.
𝗬𝘂𝗸𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶: ‘embodiment - -> de-zombification’, supervisors Madis Kurss. Reviewer Taavi Suisalu.
𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘀: ‘Touch’, supervisors Tõnis Jürgens, Else Lagerspetz. Reviewer Piibe Kolka.

Rävala 8, II floor:
𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗞𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂: ‘Rapprochement’, supervisors Laura Cemin, Else Lagerspetz. Reviewer Evelyn Raudsepp.
𝗠𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶ć: ‘What Goes Around’, supervisors Piibe Kolka, Maris Karjatse. Reviewer Tõnis Jürgens.
𝗟𝗶𝘇𝗮 𝗧𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶: ‘Trauma Made Me Hot’, supervisors Paul Kuimet, Maris Karjatse. Reviewer Anna Skodenko.
𝗖𝗵𝗹𝗼é 𝗚𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘇: ‘Water, fountains and witches’, supervisors Liina Siib and Maris Karjatse. Reviewer Elo-Hanna Seljamaa.

Rävala 8, basement floor:
𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲: ‘Room for Play’, supervisors David Ross, Else Lagerspetz. Reviewer Jaanus Samma.

EKKM garden:
𝗬𝘃𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱: ‘a space to gather, a place to grow’, supervisors Yvonne Billimore, Joss Allen, Else Lagerspetz. Reviewers Ann Mirjam Vaikla, Sandra Kosorotova.

03/06/2025

🎈First day of MA thesis defence presentation is done – huge congratulations to 𝗧𝗲𝗮 𝗟𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗽𝘂𝘂, 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻, 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻, 𝗝𝗼𝗲𝗹 𝗝õ𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗲, and 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗷𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮! Thank you to all the supervisors and reviewers, the committee and the audience!

This year the thesis committee consists of five members for the Estonian graduating group and of six members for the international group. The core members are: artist and filmmaker 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗶𝗸𝗹𝗮, curator and head of CCA Estonia 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗼𝗼, artist and educator 𝗧𝗮𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻. For today they were joined by two more Estonian speaking members: artists and educators 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗼 and 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗿𝗲. For June 4 & 5 they are joined by three international members: writer, editor, and independent researcher 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗮, and artists and educators 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵 and 𝗟é𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗵𝘆.

Come see TASE ‘25 and please join us for the defence presentations tomorrow and Thursday for the international group:

June 4:
10.00 Kwan Kit Lau aka KitKit Para, Rävala 8, 3rd floor
10:50 Yuko Kinouchi, Rävala 8, 3rd floor
11:40 Brit Kikas, Rävala 8, 3rd floor
LUNCH
13:45 Eleftheria Kofidou, Rävala 8, 2nd floor
14:35 Mia Felic, Rävala 8, 2nd floor
15:45 Yvette Bathgate & Jake Shepherd, EKKM community garden, Kursi 5

June 5:
10.00 Vitor Pascale, Rävala 8, basement floor
10:55 Liza Tsindeliani, Rävala 8, 2nd floor
11:45 Chloé Geinoz, Rävala 8, 2nd floor

23/05/2025

Group exhibition COCOON will be opening next week at Paks Margareeta in Tallinn. The show has been curated by , who is currently finishing their masters degree with us at MACA. Join us for the exciting opening night!

COCOON
30.05 - 31.08.2025
Avamine/Opening: 30.05 kell 17.00
Location: Paks Margareeta

Kunstnikud / Artists: Andre Joosep Arming, Zody Burke, Laura De Jaeger, DOKK (Liina Leo, Eugenio Marini, Ingrid Helena Pajo), Kadi Estland, Maria Kapajeva, Ando Naulainen & Pire Sova, Sarah Nõmm, Mari Volens

Kuraator / Curator: KITKIT PARA

As questions of care and belonging become ever more entwined with vulnerability and fragility, the group exhibition COCOON examines how contemporary artists engage with the theme of protection through diverse perspectives. Set within the historic walls of Fat Margaret, a 14th-century defensive tower in Tallinn’s Old Town, the exhibition connects the history of medieval fortification to reflections on land, water, borders, and the fluidity of identities. Tracing the shifting nature of place, where land holds memory, water signals change, and borders reveal evolving cultural and political lines, while identities are explored as fluid and ever-changing, shaped by adaptation, exchange and context.

Featuring nine artists, duos, and collectives based in Estonia, the exhibition includes video, sculpture, photography, photographic prints, and site-specific installations, displayed throughout the museum to engage with the building’s historical architecture and existing artifacts, creating a dialogue between past, present, and future. COCOON explores the evolving meaning of protection amid ecological, political, and cultural shifts and questions what it means to protect and care for ourselves, for one another, and for the stories we carry.

Graafiline disain/ Graphic design:
Fatima-Ezzahra El Khammas

Toetajad/ With the support of:
Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Meremuuseum/
Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Estonian Maritime Museum

Täname/ Special thanks to: Hansas Plaadimaailm OÜ, Totaledu OÜ, Põhjala Brewery, Hanna Samoson

11/05/2025

Come visit .galerii form today till Wednesday! MACA 1st year semester reviews are taking place as two consecutive group exhibitions on May 11–12 and May 13–14, open to public from 14:00–18:00. These exhibitions bring together a variety of practices and feature works created during the spring semester’s Art Practice module addressing the following keywords and topics: breeze, collapse, derivation, gaze, glue-3-in-1, grass, homelessness, interval, memory, pigeoning, snug, sometime, time, to do list, veiled.

Participating artists:
[May 11–12] Anna Ovtšinnikova, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Denis Kudrjašov, Denis Lebedev, Kroplya, Lisette Lepik, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen
[May 13–14] Aidan Timmer, Anastasiia Krapivina, Anumai Raska, Edvard Vellevoog, Fausta Norekaite, Giulio Cusinato, Kertu Rannula, Kristina Kuzemko, Nadya Tjuška*, Nora Schmelter*, Siim Laanemäe

* work by Nadya Tjuška and Nora Schmelter will be presented at Uus Rada and Raja 11a building, open by appointment.

Supervisors of Art Practice in spring semester: Anu Vahtra, Camille Laurelli, David K. Ross, Jaan Toomik, Laura Põld, Liina Siib, Marge Monko, Maris Karjatse, Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Taavi Talve, Viktor Gurov

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