Topic: culture

The exhibition presents traditional woollen blankets woven by the Estonian Native Textile students of the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy in their weaving classes.

The solo exhibition of world-famous Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda, for which the artist collected data and inspiration in cooperation with the University of Tartu Institute of Genomics, was opened on 2 November.

On the 3rd, 10th, ja 17th of October at 15.30 - 17.00

On 25th of September, we will open the exhibition "Creative animals in a changing world" by Mark Antonius Puhkan in the stairway of the Oecologicum building. The presented pictures are illustrations to the book with the same name by Tuul Sepp.

The exhibition takes us back to medieval Tartu.

The concert “180 years from Clara Schumann’s concerts in Tartu”, which will take place on 11 October at 18:00 in the university assembly hall.

For the second year in a row, volunteers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are organising an eco-friendly fair that offers everything sustainable. This enables reusing a wide range of consumer goods in addition to delighting fairgoers with farm, garden and forest products. The fair will take place in the courtyard of Philosophicum on 3 September at 12:00–16:00. You can register to sell your goods until 30 August.

In response to the current environmental crisis, the exhibition “Veil of Nature” by Luxembourgish artist Justine Blau, curated by Fanny Weinquin, explores, through works navigating between documentation, illusion and narration, man’s relationship with nature and conservation practices. Guided tours of the exhibition “Veil of Nature” will take place every Saturday from June 22nd to July 20th and on the last day of the exhibition, July 28th.

In the coming academic year, singer, pianist and composer Kadri Voorand will become the new Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Tartu, with a lecture course focusing on life-changing creation. She will be succeeded by Peeter Jalakas, former professor and director, who will participate in a public discussion titled “Feeling and meaning” in the attic hall of Tartu Cathedral on the evening of 23 May.

The international conference "Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery" held on 5–7 June 2024 at UT Oecologicum (J. Liivi 2, Tartu) sheds light on the various aspects of biodiversity loss and discusses cultural, subjective, and semiotic approaches to understanding species extinction. Registration is open until 23 May.