OUR ACTIVITIES

The activity of Center For Contemporary Arts, Estonia (CCA, Estonia) is based to the three main programmes:

* SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION CENTER
* PROMOTION OF ESTONIAN ART AND MEDIATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL ART EVENTS
* INITIATING OF AN ANNUAL EVENT (EXHIBITION, CONFERENCE), INVITATION OF INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONALS TO ESTONIA

I INFORMATION CENTER

Information center means a multilayered system with its objective to create, initiate and support international contacts of Estonia’s art life (professional information, exhibition activity, looking for partners for different projects, making information available for both local and international researchers, curators, artists, etc.). Acting as an information center has made available via following existing databases:

1. Information database that is under permanent construction and consists of:
* library (about Estonian and international art life);
* library of Central and Eastern Europe art publications;
* photo library about Estonian art scene, which is constantly completed according to the local exhibitions;
* DVD and CD-ROM library consisting of video works by Estonian artists;
* copies of published art reviews from Estonian newspapers and journals since 1993 that can be found in computers’ database (a project which is now freezed due to the fact that Estonian printed media is well represented in internet as well).

2. Publication of the materials about contemporary art in Estonia, initiation of catalogues, art books (biggest projects to this date are: ‘Artists of Estonia 3’, 2007; ‘Nosy nineties. Problems, Themes and Meanings in Estonian art on 1990s’, 2001; double CD-ROM ‘VideoArt in Estonia. The Story of Medium of Interruption and Happening, Performance and Live Art in Estonia 1966 – 2000’, 2001).

3. Everyday help and consultations for the guests of the office that contains the following facilities:
* free use of the databases
* free internet
* rental of the audiovisual technical equipment

II PROMOTION AND MEDIATION OF ESTONIA’s ART

* CCA, Estonia is a partner and organizer from Estonian side to the large international art events (Venice biennial, Berlin biennial Manifesta, São Paulo Biennial, etc.);
* CCA, Estonia is an organizer from Estonian side to the foreign exhibitions and events, accepted by the Board of the CCA, Estonia;
* CCA, Estonia invites international curators or museum directors, organize programmes for introducing Estonia’s art scene;

III ORGANIZING OF THE ANNUAL EVENT; SEMINARS, CONFERENCES

Annual event is like a model of the activity of the CCA, Estonia, expressing the purposes and ideology, which form the basis of the activity of the office. Annual event can be an exhibition, conference or a complex of art events, its purpose is to deal with the significant and important questions of contemporary art. From the year 1993 to 1997 five annual exhibitions of the CCA, Estonia took place. Annual event in 2000 was the complex of events, consisting of the international conference ‘Art and Society in the 1990s’, accompanied by the publication of the series of articles ‘Nosy nineties’; In 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001 the line of international conferences and exhibitions in the field of new media – ‘Interstanding’ – was organized by the office. Seminars and conferences have accompanied the exhibitions (‘Estonia as a Sign’) on the anniversary of the CCA, Estonia (‘Looking forward…’) or in co-operation with other institutions (‘Action – Reflection’). From 2002 a new series of seminars and publications has been initiated – "Addenda to Estonian art history" (most recent book in that series is “Moral Choises”, 2006) – that can be seen sort of a continuation of the collection of a continuation of the collection of articles ‘Nosy Nineties’.