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Andres Kurg

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Andres_Kurg/eng
20.09.1975
+37256470308
andres.kurg@artun.ee

Career

Institutions and positions
01.01.2020–...   
Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Senior Researcher (0,75)
01.09.2019–...   
Estonian Academy of Arts, Professor (0,25)
01.09.2021–28.02.2022   
Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller Universitet Jena, Fellow (1,00)
01.09.2017–31.12.2019   
Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Senior Researcher (0,50)
01.04.2017–31.12.2019   
Vilnius University, Faculty of History, Senior Researcher (0,20)
01.01.2017–31.05.2017   
Yale University, Visiting Researcher (1,00)
21.09.2015–11.12.2015   
Getty Research Institute, Guest Scholar (1,00)
2014–31.08.2017   
Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Senior Researcher (1,00)
2004–2014   
Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Researcher (1,00)
01.01.2001–31.12.2004   
2001-2004, Estonian Academy of Arts Institute of art History, research assistant
01.01.1996–31.12.2000   
1996-2000, Museum of Estonian Architecture, curator
 
 
Education
2014–2014   
PhD in Art History, Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts
2002–2008   
Estonian Academy of Arts, PhD student in Art History
2000–2001   
2001, MSc Architectural History, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London
1998–2000   
1998-2000, Estonian Academy of Arts, MA student in Art History
1993–1998   
1998, BA cum laude (Honours) in Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts
 
 
R&D related managerial and administrative work
2022−...   
European Architectural History Network, Councillor
2012−...   
Journal ArtMargins (MITpress), member of editorial board
2016−2018   
European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Fifth international conference, General Chair
2015−2019   
Estonian Research Council, Member of Culture and Social Sciences Expert Board
2012−2012   
9th International Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) conference, London Metropolitan University, Member of Advisory Board
2008−2015   
Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art, Member of Board
2008−2011   
Society of Estonian Art Historians board member
2007−2016   
Member of Estonian Academy of Art Academic board
2005−2016   
Journal "Estonian Art" - member of Editorial Board
2003−2005   
Estonian Cultural Endowment, Member of Board
2003−2005   
Estonian Cultural Endowment, Member of Architectural Endowment board
 
 
Creative work
Curated exhibitions:
2014-2015, "Present Tense: Ten Baltic Artists", Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden (15 November 2014 - 12 February 2015)
2011-2012, “Our Metamorphic Futures. Design, Technical Aesthetics and Experimental Architecture in the Soviet Union 1960-1980”, Vilnius National Gallery, Lithuania, 9 December 2011 –12 February 2012; Museum of Estonian Applied Art and Design, 29 June – 2 September 2012.
2008, “Environment, projects, concepts. Architects of the Tallinn School 1972-1985”, Museum of Estonian Architecture (with Mari Laanemets), 27 June – 24 August
2000, “Constructed Equality”, Museum of Estonian Architecture, 23 September – 29 October

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Qualifications

Academic degrees
Andres Kurg, Doctor's Degree, 2014, (sup) Katrin Kivimaa, Boundary Disruptions: Late-Soviet Transformations in Art, Space and Subjectivity in Tallinn in the 1970s, Estonian Academy of Arts.
Andres Kurg, Research Master's Degree, 2001, (sup) Jane Rendell, Making the world take flight. Diverging discourses on art, seeign and resistance in the works of Jüri Okas (Lahknevad diskursused kunstist, nägemisest ja vastupanust Jüri Okase töödes), University College London.
 
 
Honours & awards
2015, Andres Kurg, Estonian Academy of Arts Award for Best Research Publication
2015, Andres Kurg, Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Award for architectural research in 2014
2009, Andres Kurg, Annual Award of the Estonian Society for Art Historians for the book and exhibition "Environment, projects, concepts. Architects of the Tallinn School 1972-1985"
2002, Andres Kurg, Estonian Cultural Endowment Visual arts foundation yearly award for the book “A user’s guide to Tallinn” (with Mari Laanemets)
2002, Andres Kurg, Estonian Cultural Endowment Architecture foundation yearly award for the book “A user’s guide to Tallinn” (with Mari Laanemets)
2000, Andres Kurg, Annual award of "Sirp", Estonian cultural weekly
 
 
Fields of research
ETIS RESEARCH FIELD: 2. Culture and Society; 2.5. Aesthetics and Arts Research; SPECIFICATION: Art and architectural history of the 1960s and 1970s, art theory, spatial theory, urban studies
 
 

Projects in progress

Completed projects

Dissertations under supervision

Supervised dissertations

Publications

Category
Year
Publication
 
3.2.
2022
Kurg, Andres (2022). Material White: Anne Katrine Senstad’s Radical Light. In: Anne Katrine Senstad: Neon Guides Me (xx−xx). Stockholm: Praun & Guermouche [forthcoming].
3.2.
2021
Kurg, Andres (2021). lusad ja mugavamad linnad. Nõukogudeaegsest massehitusest Tallinnas [Cities Prettier and More Convenient. On the Soviet-era Mass Housing in Tallinn]. Pille Epner (Toim.). Lõpetamata linn: Tallinna linnaehituslikud visioonid (196−210). Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia.
1.3.
2020
Kurg, Andres (2020). Maksimaalne suhtlus koos maksimaalse eraldatusega: Nõukogude massehituse aparaat [Maximal communication with maximal withdrawal: the Soviet mass housing apparatus ]. Vikerkaar, 6, 54−63.
6.6.
2020
Kurg, Andres (2020). Arhitektuurilugu on olnud vallutuste ajalugu. Intervjuu Reinhold Martiniga [The history of architecture has been a history of conquest. Interview with Reinhold Martin ]. Sirp, 38 (3810), 16−18, 25.09.2020.
1.1.
2019
Kurg, Andres (2019). Free Communication: From Soviet Future Cities to Kitchen Conversations. The Journal of Architecture, 24 (5), 676−698. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2019.1670230.
3.1.
2019
Kurg, Andres (2019). Werewolves on Cattle Street: Estonian Collective Farms and Postmodern Architecture. In: Vladimir Kulic (Ed.). Second World Postmodernisms (111−127). London: Bloomsbury.
4.1.
2019
Bocharnikova, Daria; Kurg, Andres (2019). Introduction: urban planning and architecture of late socialism. The Journal of Architecture, 24 (5), 593−603. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2019.1671658.
1.1.
2018
Freigang, Christian; Kurg, Andres; Tostoes, Ana; Popescu, Carmen; Dettingmeijer, Rob; Stieber, Nancy; Mengin, Christine (2018). Seven Views on the Meaning of ‘Europe’. Architectural Histories, 6 (1). DOI: 10.5334/ah.324.
1.1.
2018
Hochhäusl, S., Lange, T., Exo Adams, R., Barber, D.A., Doucet, I., Förster, K., Bierig, A., Cupers, K., Ferng, J., Krivý, M., Levin, A., Nolan, G., Vronskaya, A., Kurg, A. and Fischer, S. von . (2018). Architecture and the Environment. Architectural Histories, 6 (1), 20. DOI: 10.5334/ah.259.
3.1.
2018
Kurg, Andres (2018). Three Takes on the Environment. Redefinitions of the City on the Intersections of Design and Art in Tallinn in the 1970s. In: Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril (Ed.). Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (60−67). Duke University Press. (MoMA Primary Documents).
3.2.
2018
Kurg, Andres (2018). Architectural Exhibition 78. In: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Ed.). Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture, 1948-2000 (204−210). Phaidon.
4.1.
2018
Kurg, Andres; Vicente, Karin (2018). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network. 1−550.
6.8.
2018
Kurg, A., Correia, J., Crinson, M., Heynen, H., Martin, R., Rawes, P., & Stieber, N. (2018). Reports from the Fifth EAHN Meeting in Tallinn. Architectural Histories, 6 (1), 19. DOI: 10.5334/ah.358.
3.2.
2017
Kurg, Andres (2017). Vahepealsuse visuaalkultuur [Visual Culture of In-Betweenness]. Sirje Helme (Toim.). Jüri Okas (33−65). Tallinn: Eesti Kunstimuuseum : Kumu Kunstimuuseum.
3.2.
2017
Kurg, Andres (2017). Unsettled Tendencies: Conceptual Architectural Projects from the Late Soviet Period. In: Yuri Avvakumov (Ed.). Centrifugal Tendencies: Tallinn–Moscow–Novosibirsk (131−151). Berlin: Tchoban Foundation: Museum für Architekturzeichnung.
3.1.
2016
Kurg, Andres (2016). Courtyards, Corners, Streetfronts: Re-Imagining Mass Housing Areas in Tallinn. In: Ákos Moravánszky, Karl Kegler (Ed.). Re-scaling the Environment. New Landscapes of Design, 1960 –1980 (233−251). Birkhauser Verlag AG.
3.2.
2016
Kurg, Andres (2016). Keskkonna demokratiseerimisest isiklike müütideni [From Democratising the Environment to Personal Myths]. Jaak Kangilaski (Toim.). Eesti kunsti ajalugu 6, II osa, 1940-1991 (282−318). Tallinn: Kultuurileht.
1.1.
2015
Kurg, Andres (2015). Tallinn in Technicolour. AA files, 71, 68−74.
3.2.
2015
Kurg, Andres (2015). Towards Paper Architecture: Tallinn and Moscow. In: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Carson Chan (Ed.). Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox? (119−129). New Haven: Yale School of Architecture.
3.2.
2015
Kurg, Andres (2015). Souvenirs from Tallinn. In: Tõnis Saadoja: Works 2008-2014 (105−112). Tallinn: Lugemik.
2.3.
2014
Kurg, Andres (2014). Boundary Disruptions: Late-Soviet Transformations in Art, Space and Subjectivity in Tallinn 1968-1979. Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia .
3.1.
2014
Lehtovuori, Panu; Kurg, Andres; Scwab, Martina; Ermert, Siri (2014). Public Spaces, Experience and Conflict: The Cases of Helsinki and Tallinn. In: Chiara Tornaghi, Sabine Knierbein (Ed.). Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning (125−147). Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd.
3.1.
2014
Kurg, Andres (2014). The Turning point in 1978. Architects of the Tallinn School and their Late Socialist Public. In: Weizman, Ines (Ed.). Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence (19−32). Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd.
3.2.
2014
Kurg, Andres (2014). Предыстория современной среды: мультимедийная программа для конгресса ИКСИД 75 в Москве. Anna Romanova, Galina Metelichenko. о.с.т.р.о.в.а. Юрия Соболева (145−155). Moskva: Maier.
1.1.
2013
Kurg, Andres (2013). Introduction to Leonhard Lapin's "Objective Art". ARTMargins, 2, 163−171.
3.1.
2013
Kurg, Andres (2013). Modernist in Form, Late-Socialist in Content. The Viru Hotel in Tallinn. In: Avermaete, Tom; Massey, Anne (Ed.). Hotel Lobbies and Lounges. The Architecture of Professional Hospitality (178−185). London: Routledge. (Interior Architecture).
3.2.
2013
Kurg, Andres (2013). Kakskümmend kaks aastat iseolemist. Büroo Okas-Lõoke arhitektuur ja selle sotsiaalne kontekst [Twenty two years of self-determination. The architecture of Okas-Lõoke and its social context ]. Jüri Okas (Toim.). ABOL. Arhitektibüroo J.Okas & M.Lõoke (12−24). Tallinn: J.Okas & M. Lõoke.
1.1.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Situating Culture. Home Cultures, 9 (3), 225−232.
1.1.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Fractured Boundaries. The Representation of Homes in the Critical and Artistic Practices of the 1970s. Home Cultures, 9 (3), 257−284.
1.1.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Noise Environment: Jüri Okas's Reconstructions and Its Public Reception. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 21, 134−175.
3.2.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Three Takes on the Environment. Redefinitions of the City on the Intersections of Design and Art in Tallinn in the 1970s. In: Astahovska, Ieva (Ed.). Recuperating the Invisible Past (86−103). Riia: The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.
1.1.
2011
Kurg, Andres (2011). Feedback Environment: Rethinking Art and Design Practices in Tallinn During the Early 1970s. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 20, 26−58.
1.2.
2011
Kurg, Andres (2011). Empty white space: Home as a total work of art during the late-Soviet period. Interiors Design Architecture and Culture, 1, 45−68.
1.3.
2011
Kurg, Andres (2011). Postmodernismist vaatemänguni ja sealt edasi [From postmodernism to spectacle and beyond]. Vikerkaar, 148−152.
1.1.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Strassenmuseum in Varbuse, Estland. Bauwelt, 101 (43), 48−49.
3.2.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Mustamäe “inimlikustamine”. Mati Undi “Sügisball” 1970. aastate kriitiliste arhitektuuripraktikate taustal ["Humanising" Mustamäe. Mati Unt's "Autumn Ball" on the background of critical architectural practices of the 1970s]. Virve Sarapik, Piret Viires (Toim.). Sügisball. Etüüde nüüdiskultuurist 2 (28−38). . Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus. (Etüüde nüüdiskultuurist; 2).
6.3.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Municipal School Sports Hall. In: Marion Göth, Gerhard Panzenböck (Ed.). Brick 10. Brick Award 2010 (160−163). . München: Callwey Verlag.
6.3.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Viimane nõukogude põlvkond eksiilis [Last Soviet generation in exile]. Vikerkaar, 198−201.
6.3.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). A "seemingly reckless campaign of colour": Design, Information and Environment in the 1970s. In: Mari Laanemets (Ed.). There Life Would Be Easy (17−32). . Tallinn: Lugemik.
1.1.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Architects of the Tallinn School and the critique of Soviet modernism in Estonia. The Journal of Architecture, 14 (1), 85−108.
3.2.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). The Bronze Soldier Monument and its Publics. In: Andreas Trossek (Ed.). Kristina Norman. After-War (49−65). . Tallinn: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.
3.2.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Erinevad valged (ruumid). Tervikkunstiteose ideed 1970. aastate eesti kunstis [Many Shades of White Space. Ideas of Total Design in 1970s Estonian Art]. Sirje Helme (Toim.). Erinevad modernismid, erinevad avangardid. Kesk- ja Ida-Euroopa kunstiprobleemid pärast teist maailmasõda (153−176). . Tallinn: Eesti Kunstimuuseum. (Eesti Kunstimuuseumi toimetised; 4).
6.3.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Social space and design: the case of the Rotermann quarter. Estonian Art, 2, 37−40.
6.3.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Maardu-foobia [Maardu-phobia]. Eero Epner (Toim.). NO 80 Onu Tomi onnike (numereerimata). . Tallinn: Teater NO 99.
1.1.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Whose monument? A Prior Magazine, 17, 111−120.
1.2.
2008
Kivimaa, Katrin; Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari; Sarapik, Virve (2008). "Uus kunstiajalugu" ja eesti kunstikirjutus [On Implications of New Art History in Estonian Context]. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 17 (3), 100−109.
3.2.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Modernismi lõppmäng, Tallinn 1978 [Modernism's endgame, Tallinn 1978]. Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (Toim.). Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985 (40−55). . Tallinn: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
3.3.
2008
Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (2008). Tallinna kooli ABC [The ABC's of the Tallinn School]. Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (Toim.). Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985 (257−288). . Tallinn: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
4.1.
2008
Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (2008). Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985 [ Environment, projects, concepts. Architects of the Tallinn school 1972-1985]. [Tallinn]: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
6.3.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Synagogue in Tallinn: Abstraction and Meaning. In: Martina Klauser, Gerhard Panzenböck (Ed.). Brick 08. The very best brick architecture (140−143). . Callwey Verlag.
6.3.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Aru kaotanud arhitektoonid ja irooniline arhitektuur. Maja : Eesti arhitektuuri ajakiri = Estonian architectural review, 1, 62−65.
1.1.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). 3+1 architects. Parctice profile. Architectural Design, 4, 110−117.
1.2.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). Death in the New Town. Leonhard Lapin’s City of the Living – City of the Dead. Art History & Criticism, 3, 158−166.
3.2.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). Official architecture, unofficial art: Two Exhibitions of the „Tallinn School” in the 1970s. In: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Esa Laaksonen (Ed.). Architecture + Art. New Visions, New Strategies (176−188). . Helsinki, Finland: Alvar Aalto Academy.
6.3.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). Postsotsialismist vaatemängulinna [From Post-Socialism to the City of the Spectacle]. Maja : Eesti arhitektuuri ajakiri = Estonian architectural review, 1, 44−51.
1.1.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). Expanding suburbia - White Neomodernist villas and beyond. Architectural Design, 3, 62−67. DOI: 10.1002/ad.267.
1.1.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). The Remarkable Afterlife of the Linnahall Concert Hall. Architectural Design, 3, 46−53. DOI: 10.1002/ad.265.
1.3.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). Ruum, ca 1986. Vikerkaar, 89−104.
3.2.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). The Social History of Linnahall. In: Dan, Calin (Ed.). Emotional Architecture 2 (44−65). . Bucharest: Hand Milked Visions Foundation.
6.6.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). Packaging Estonia. Dérive, 25−27.
3.2.
2005
Kurg, Andres (2005). Kiistellyt kaupunkiperspektiivit: Tallinnan Tõnismägi-monumnetin tapaus. Susanna Paasonen. Aktivismi. Verkostoja, järjestöjä ja arjen taitoja (235−248). . Jyväskylä: Jyväskylan yliopisto. (Nykykultuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja; 85).
3.2.
2005
Kurg, Andres (2005). Trichtlinnburg city: Tourism, post-socialism, urban stories. In: Hildegund Amanshauser, Mare Pedanik, Hinrich Sachs (Ed.). Trichtlinnburg: An Urban Affair (7−18). . Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie.
3.5.
2005
Kurg, Andres (2005). Poliitiline linnamaastik. Ruumilisi muutusi lähiaastate Tallinnas. Estonian Social Science Online: Eesti sotsiaalteaduste 5. aastakonverents. (3).
1.2.
2004
Kurg, Andres (2004). Almanahh Kunst ja Kodu 1973-1980. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 2 (13), 110−142.
1.3.
2004
Kurg, Andres (2004). Flanööri mitu elu. Vikerkaar, 105−114.
1.3.
2003
Kurg, Andres (2003). Jüri Okas’s ‘specific objects’. Diverging discourses in Estonian art in 1970s. Inferno - Journal of Art History, 29−43.
3.2.
2002
Kurg, Andres (2002). Jüri Okase “spetsiifilised objektid” [Jüri Okas’s “specific objects”, summary in English]. Sirje Helme (Toim.). 1970ndate kultuuriruumi idealism - Idealism of the cultural space of the 1970s (19−42). . Tallinn: Centre for Contemporary Arts. (Lisandusi eesti kunstiloole).
3.3.
2002
Kurg, A.; Laanemets, M. (2002). Tallinna juht [ A user’s guide to Tallinn]. Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia .
3.4.
2002
Kurg, Andres (2002). Power within solitary dreams. Transformations of the private sphere in Soviet Estonia. Universal versus Individual. The architecture of the 1960s. Ed. Pekka Korvenmaa, Esa Laaksonen. Jyväskylä: Alvar Aalto Academy, 52−55.
3.3.
2000
Kurg, Andres; Hallas, Karin; Kodres, Krista; Kalm, Mart; Ojari, Triin; Tammet, Tiina (2000). 20th century architecture in Tallinn: architectural guide. tartu: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
28.02.2022

Andres Kurg

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Andres_Kurg/est
20.09.1975
+37256470308
andres.kurg@artun.ee

Teenistuskäik

Töökohad ja ametid
01.01.2020–...   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Kunstikultuuri teaduskond, Kunstiteaduse ja visuaalkultuuri instituut, Vanemteadur (0,75)
01.09.2019–...   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Professor (0,25)
01.09.2021–28.02.2022   
Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller Universitet Jena, Teadur (1,00)
01.09.2017–31.12.2019   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Kunstikultuuri teaduskond, Vanemteadur (0,50)
01.04.2017–31.12.2019   
Vilniuse Ülikool, Ajaloo teaduskond, Vanemteadur (0,20)
01.01.2017–31.05.2017   
Yale'i Ülikool, Külalisteadur (1,00)
21.09.2015–11.12.2015   
Getty Research Institute, Külalisteadur (1,00)
2014–31.08.2017   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Kunstikultuuri teaduskond, Kunstiteaduse ja visuaalkultuuri instituut, Vanemteadur (1,00)
2004–2014   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Kunstikultuuri teaduskond, Kunstiteaduse ja visuaalkultuuri instituut, Teadur (1,00)
01.01.2001–31.12.2004   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia KTI teadussekretär
01.01.1996–31.12.2000   
Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum, kuraator
 
 
Haridustee
2014–2014   
Doktorikraad kunstiteaduses, Kunstiteaduse instituut, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
2002–2008   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia kunstiteaduse doktorantuuri põhiõpe
2000–2001   
Arhitektuuriajaloo magistrantuur, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
1998–2000   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia magistrantuur
1993–1998   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia bakalaureuseõpe kunstiajaloos
 
 
Teadusorganisatsiooniline ja -administratiivne tegevus
2022−...   
Euroopa arhitektuuriajaloo võrgustiku EAHN juhatuse liige
2012−...   
Ajakirja ArtMargins (MITpress) toimetuskolleegiumi liige
2016−2018   
European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Fifth international conference, General Chair
2015−2019   
ETAGi ühiskonnateaduste ja kultuuri ekspertkomisjoni liige
2012−2012   
9th International Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) konverents, London Metropolitan University, Advisory Board'i liige
2008−2015   
Kaasaegse Kunsti Eesti Keskuse nõukogu liige
2008−2011   
Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühingu juhatuse liige
2007−2016   
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia nõukogu liige
2005−2016   
"Estonian Art" kolleegiumi liige
2003−2005   
Eesti Kultuurkapitali nõukogu liige
2003−2005   
Eesti Kultuurkapitali arhitektuuri sihtkapitali liige
 
 
Loometöö
Kureeritud näitused:
2014-2015, "Present Tense: Ten Baltic Artists", Kalmari kunstimuuseum, Rootsi (15.november 2014 - 12. veebruar 2015)
2011-2012, “Me metamorfne tulevik. Disain, tehniline esteetika ja eksperimentaalne arhitektuur Nõukogude Liidus 1960-1980”, Vilniuse Rahvusgalerii, Leedu, 9 detsember 2011 – 12 veebruar 2012; Eesti Tarbekunsti- ja Disainimuuseum, 29 juuni – 2 september 2012.
2008, “Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985”, Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum (koos Mari Laanemetsaga), 27 juuni – 24 august
2000, “Ehitatud võrdsus”, Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum, 23 september – 29 oktoober

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Kvalifikatsioon

Teaduskraadid
Andres Kurg, Doctor's Degree, 2014, (sup) Katrin Kivimaa, Boundary Disruptions: Late-Soviet Transformations in Art, Space and Subjectivity in Tallinn in the 1970s, Estonian Academy of Arts.
Andres Kurg, Research Master's Degree, 2001, (sup) Jane Rendell, Making the world take flight. Diverging discourses on art, seeign and resistance in the works of Jüri Okas (Lahknevad diskursused kunstist, nägemisest ja vastupanust Jüri Okase töödes), University College London.
 
 
Teaduspreemiad ja tunnustused
2015, Andres Kurg, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia teaduspublikatsiooni aastapreemia
2015, Andres Kurg, Eesti Kultuurkapitali aastapreemia arhitektuurialase tegevuse eest 2014. aastal
2009, Andres Kurg, Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühingu aastapreemia raamatu ja näituse "Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985" eest
2002, Andres Kurg, Eesti Kultuurkapitali kujutav- ja rakenduskunsti sihtkapitali preemia raamatu “Tallinna juht” eest (koos Mari Laanemetsaga)
2002, Andres Kurg, Eesti Kultuurkapitali arhitektuuri sihtkapitali preemia raamatu “Tallinna juht” eest (koos Mari Laanemetsaga)
2000, Andres Kurg, Ajalehe "Sirp" aastapreemia
 
 
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ETIS VALDKOND: 2. Ühiskonnateadused ja kultuur; 2.5. Kunstiteadus; TÄPSUSTUS: 1960.-70. aastate kunsti- ja arhitektuuriajalugu, kunstiteooria, ruumiteooriad, linnauurimus

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3.2.
2022
Kurg, Andres (2022). Material White: Anne Katrine Senstad’s Radical Light. In: Anne Katrine Senstad: Neon Guides Me (xx−xx). Stockholm: Praun & Guermouche [ilmumas].
3.2.
2021
Kurg, Andres (2021). lusad ja mugavamad linnad. Nõukogudeaegsest massehitusest Tallinnas. Pille Epner (Toim.). Lõpetamata linn: Tallinna linnaehituslikud visioonid (196−210). Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia.
1.3.
2020
Kurg, Andres (2020). Maksimaalne suhtlus koos maksimaalse eraldatusega: Nõukogude massehituse aparaat. Vikerkaar, 6, 54−63.
6.6.
2020
Kurg, Andres (2020). Arhitektuurilugu on olnud vallutuste ajalugu. Intervjuu Reinhold Martiniga. Sirp, 38 (3810), 16−18, 25.09.2020.
1.1.
2019
Kurg, Andres (2019). Free Communication: From Soviet Future Cities to Kitchen Conversations. The Journal of Architecture, 24 (5), 676−698. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2019.1670230.
3.1.
2019
Kurg, Andres (2019). Werewolves on Cattle Street: Estonian Collective Farms and Postmodern Architecture. In: Vladimir Kulic (Ed.). Second World Postmodernisms (111−127). London: Bloomsbury.
4.1.
2019
Bocharnikova, Daria; Kurg, Andres (2019). Introduction: urban planning and architecture of late socialism. The Journal of Architecture, 24 (5), 593−603. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2019.1671658.
1.1.
2018
Freigang, Christian; Kurg, Andres; Tostoes, Ana; Popescu, Carmen; Dettingmeijer, Rob; Stieber, Nancy; Mengin, Christine (2018). Seven Views on the Meaning of ‘Europe’. Architectural Histories, 6 (1). DOI: 10.5334/ah.324.
1.1.
2018
Hochhäusl, S., Lange, T., Exo Adams, R., Barber, D.A., Doucet, I., Förster, K., Bierig, A., Cupers, K., Ferng, J., Krivý, M., Levin, A., Nolan, G., Vronskaya, A., Kurg, A. and Fischer, S. von . (2018). Architecture and the Environment. Architectural Histories, 6 (1), 20. DOI: 10.5334/ah.259.
3.1.
2018
Kurg, Andres (2018). Three Takes on the Environment. Redefinitions of the City on the Intersections of Design and Art in Tallinn in the 1970s. In: Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril (Ed.). Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (60−67). Duke University Press. (MoMA Primary Documents).
3.2.
2018
Kurg, Andres (2018). Architectural Exhibition 78. In: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Ed.). Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture, 1948-2000 (204−210). Phaidon.
4.1.
2018
Kurg, Andres; Vicente, Karin (2018). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network. 1−550.
6.8.
2018
Kurg, A., Correia, J., Crinson, M., Heynen, H., Martin, R., Rawes, P., & Stieber, N. (2018). Reports from the Fifth EAHN Meeting in Tallinn. Architectural Histories, 6 (1), 19. DOI: 10.5334/ah.358.
3.2.
2017
Kurg, Andres (2017). Vahepealsuse visuaalkultuur. Sirje Helme (Toim.). Jüri Okas (33−65). Tallinn: Eesti Kunstimuuseum : Kumu Kunstimuuseum.
3.2.
2017
Kurg, Andres (2017). Unsettled Tendencies: Conceptual Architectural Projects from the Late Soviet Period. In: Yuri Avvakumov (Ed.). Centrifugal Tendencies: Tallinn–Moscow–Novosibirsk (131−151). Berlin: Tchoban Foundation: Museum für Architekturzeichnung.
3.1.
2016
Kurg, Andres (2016). Courtyards, Corners, Streetfronts: Re-Imagining Mass Housing Areas in Tallinn. In: Ákos Moravánszky, Karl Kegler (Ed.). Re-scaling the Environment. New Landscapes of Design, 1960 –1980 (233−251). Birkhauser Verlag AG.
3.2.
2016
Kurg, Andres (2016). Keskkonna demokratiseerimisest isiklike müütideni. Jaak Kangilaski (Toim.). Eesti kunsti ajalugu 6, II osa, 1940-1991 (282−318). Tallinn: Kultuurileht.
1.1.
2015
Kurg, Andres (2015). Tallinn in Technicolour. AA files, 71, 68−74.
3.2.
2015
Kurg, Andres (2015). Towards Paper Architecture: Tallinn and Moscow. In: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Carson Chan (Ed.). Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox? (119−129). New Haven: Yale School of Architecture.
3.2.
2015
Kurg, Andres (2015). Souvenirs from Tallinn. In: Tõnis Saadoja: Works 2008-2014 (105−112). Tallinn: Lugemik.
2.3.
2014
Kurg, Andres (2014). Boundary Disruptions: Late-Soviet Transformations in Art, Space and Subjectivity in Tallinn 1968-1979. Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia .
3.1.
2014
Lehtovuori, Panu; Kurg, Andres; Scwab, Martina; Ermert, Siri (2014). Public Spaces, Experience and Conflict: The Cases of Helsinki and Tallinn. In: Chiara Tornaghi, Sabine Knierbein (Ed.). Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning (125−147). Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd.
3.1.
2014
Kurg, Andres (2014). The Turning point in 1978. Architects of the Tallinn School and their Late Socialist Public. In: Weizman, Ines (Ed.). Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence (19−32). Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd.
3.2.
2014
Kurg, Andres (2014). Предыстория современной среды: мультимедийная программа для конгресса ИКСИД 75 в Москве. Anna Romanova, Galina Metelichenko. о.с.т.р.о.в.а. Юрия Соболева (145−155). Moskva: Maier.
1.1.
2013
Kurg, Andres (2013). Introduction to Leonhard Lapin's "Objective Art". ARTMargins, 2, 163−171.
3.1.
2013
Kurg, Andres (2013). Modernist in Form, Late-Socialist in Content. The Viru Hotel in Tallinn. In: Avermaete, Tom; Massey, Anne (Ed.). Hotel Lobbies and Lounges. The Architecture of Professional Hospitality (178−185). London: Routledge. (Interior Architecture).
3.2.
2013
Kurg, Andres (2013). Kakskümmend kaks aastat iseolemist. Büroo Okas-Lõoke arhitektuur ja selle sotsiaalne kontekst. Jüri Okas (Toim.). ABOL. Arhitektibüroo J.Okas & M.Lõoke (12−24). Tallinn: J.Okas & M. Lõoke.
1.1.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Situating Culture. Home Cultures, 9 (3), 225−232.
1.1.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Fractured Boundaries. The Representation of Homes in the Critical and Artistic Practices of the 1970s. Home Cultures, 9 (3), 257−284.
1.1.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Noise Environment: Jüri Okas's Reconstructions and Its Public Reception. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 21, 134−175.
3.2.
2012
Kurg, Andres (2012). Three Takes on the Environment. Redefinitions of the City on the Intersections of Design and Art in Tallinn in the 1970s. In: Astahovska, Ieva (Ed.). Recuperating the Invisible Past (86−103). Riia: The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.
1.1.
2011
Kurg, Andres (2011). Feedback Environment: Rethinking Art and Design Practices in Tallinn During the Early 1970s. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 20, 26−58.
1.2.
2011
Kurg, Andres (2011). Empty white space: Home as a total work of art during the late-Soviet period. Interiors Design Architecture and Culture, 1, 45−68.
1.3.
2011
Kurg, Andres (2011). Postmodernismist vaatemänguni ja sealt edasi. Vikerkaar, 148−152.
1.1.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Strassenmuseum in Varbuse, Estland. Bauwelt, 101 (43), 48−49.
3.2.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Mustamäe “inimlikustamine”. Mati Undi “Sügisball” 1970. aastate kriitiliste arhitektuuripraktikate taustal. Virve Sarapik, Piret Viires (Toim.). Sügisball. Etüüde nüüdiskultuurist 2 (28−38). . Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus. (Etüüde nüüdiskultuurist; 2).
6.3.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Municipal School Sports Hall. In: Marion Göth, Gerhard Panzenböck (Ed.). Brick 10. Brick Award 2010 (160−163). . München: Callwey Verlag.
6.3.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). Viimane nõukogude põlvkond eksiilis. Vikerkaar, 198−201.
6.3.
2010
Kurg, Andres (2010). A "seemingly reckless campaign of colour": Design, Information and Environment in the 1970s. In: Mari Laanemets (Ed.). There Life Would Be Easy (17−32). . Tallinn: Lugemik.
1.1.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Architects of the Tallinn School and the critique of Soviet modernism in Estonia. The Journal of Architecture, 14 (1), 85−108.
3.2.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). The Bronze Soldier Monument and its Publics. In: Andreas Trossek (Ed.). Kristina Norman. After-War (49−65). . Tallinn: Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.
3.2.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Erinevad valged (ruumid). Tervikkunstiteose ideed 1970. aastate eesti kunstis. Sirje Helme (Toim.). Erinevad modernismid, erinevad avangardid. Kesk- ja Ida-Euroopa kunstiprobleemid pärast teist maailmasõda (153−176). . Tallinn: Eesti Kunstimuuseum. (Eesti Kunstimuuseumi toimetised; 4).
6.3.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Social space and design: the case of the Rotermann quarter. Estonian Art, 2, 37−40.
6.3.
2009
Kurg, Andres (2009). Maardu-foobia. Eero Epner (Toim.). NO 80 Onu Tomi onnike (numereerimata). . Tallinn: Teater NO 99.
1.1.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Whose monument? A Prior Magazine, 17, 111−120.
1.2.
2008
Kivimaa, Katrin; Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari; Sarapik, Virve (2008). "Uus kunstiajalugu" ja eesti kunstikirjutus. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 17 (3), 100−109.
3.2.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Modernismi lõppmäng, Tallinn 1978. Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (Toim.). Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985 (40−55). . Tallinn: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
3.3.
2008
Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (2008). Tallinna kooli ABC. Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (Toim.). Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985 (257−288). . Tallinn: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
4.1.
2008
Kurg, Andres; Laanemets, Mari (2008). Keskkonnad, projektid, kontseptsioonid. Tallinna kooli arhitektid 1972-1985. [Tallinn]: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
6.3.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Synagogue in Tallinn: Abstraction and Meaning. In: Martina Klauser, Gerhard Panzenböck (Ed.). Brick 08. The very best brick architecture (140−143). . Callwey Verlag.
6.3.
2008
Kurg, Andres (2008). Aru kaotanud arhitektoonid ja irooniline arhitektuur. Maja : Eesti arhitektuuri ajakiri = Estonian architectural review, 1, 62−65.
1.1.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). 3+1 architects. Parctice profile. Architectural Design, 4, 110−117.
1.2.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). Death in the New Town. Leonhard Lapin’s City of the Living – City of the Dead. Art History & Criticism, 3, 158−166.
3.2.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). Official architecture, unofficial art: Two Exhibitions of the „Tallinn School” in the 1970s. In: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Esa Laaksonen (Ed.). Architecture + Art. New Visions, New Strategies (176−188). . Helsinki, Finland: Alvar Aalto Academy.
6.3.
2007
Kurg, Andres (2007). Postsotsialismist vaatemängulinna. Maja : Eesti arhitektuuri ajakiri = Estonian architectural review, 1, 44−51.
1.1.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). Expanding suburbia - White Neomodernist villas and beyond. Architectural Design, 3, 62−67. DOI: 10.1002/ad.267.
1.1.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). The Remarkable Afterlife of the Linnahall Concert Hall. Architectural Design, 3, 46−53. DOI: 10.1002/ad.265.
1.3.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). Ruum, ca 1986. Vikerkaar, 89−104.
3.2.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). The Social History of Linnahall. In: Dan, Calin (Ed.). Emotional Architecture 2 (44−65). . Bucharest: Hand Milked Visions Foundation.
6.6.
2006
Kurg, Andres (2006). Packaging Estonia. Dérive, 25−27.
3.2.
2005
Kurg, Andres (2005). Kiistellyt kaupunkiperspektiivit: Tallinnan Tõnismägi-monumnetin tapaus. Susanna Paasonen. Aktivismi. Verkostoja, järjestöjä ja arjen taitoja (235−248). . Jyväskylä: Jyväskylan yliopisto. (Nykykultuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja; 85).
3.2.
2005
Kurg, Andres (2005). Trichtlinnburg city: Tourism, post-socialism, urban stories. In: Hildegund Amanshauser, Mare Pedanik, Hinrich Sachs (Ed.). Trichtlinnburg: An Urban Affair (7−18). . Maastricht: Jan van Eyck Academie.
3.5.
2005
Kurg, Andres (2005). Poliitiline linnamaastik. Ruumilisi muutusi lähiaastate Tallinnas. Estonian Social Science Online: Eesti sotsiaalteaduste 5. aastakonverents. (3).
1.2.
2004
Kurg, Andres (2004). Almanahh Kunst ja Kodu 1973-1980. Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on art and architecture, 2 (13), 110−142.
1.3.
2004
Kurg, Andres (2004). Flanööri mitu elu. Vikerkaar, 105−114.
1.3.
2003
Kurg, Andres (2003). Jüri Okas’s ‘specific objects’. Diverging discourses in Estonian art in 1970s. Inferno - Journal of Art History, 29−43.
3.2.
2002
Kurg, Andres (2002). Jüri Okase “spetsiifilised objektid”. Sirje Helme (Toim.). 1970ndate kultuuriruumi idealism - Idealism of the cultural space of the 1970s (19−42). . Tallinn: Centre for Contemporary Arts. (Lisandusi eesti kunstiloole).
3.3.
2002
Kurg, A.; Laanemets, M. (2002). Tallinna juht. Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia .
3.4.
2002
Kurg, Andres (2002). Power within solitary dreams. Transformations of the private sphere in Soviet Estonia. Universal versus Individual. The architecture of the 1960s. Ed. Pekka Korvenmaa, Esa Laaksonen. Jyväskylä: Alvar Aalto Academy, 52−55.
3.3.
2000
Kurg, Andres; Hallas, Karin; Kodres, Krista; Kalm, Mart; Ojari, Triin; Tammet, Tiina (2000). 20th century architecture in Tallinn: architectural guide. tartu: Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum.
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MUUKNTS-59/108 ARH 2012/VIII (S03-12/0200L)EHITUSKUNST 2012, studies on architecture and theory01.07.201231.12.2012Toomas TammisEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture10 000,00 EUR
MUUKNTS-59/131 ARH 2013/XII (S03-13/0179L)EHITUSKUNST 2013, studies on architecture and theory20.06.201328.02.2014Toomas TammisEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture10 000,00 EUR
MUUKNTS-59/161 ARH 2014/XI (S03-14/0175L)EHITUSKUNST 2015, studies on architecture and theory01.07.201431.12.2014Toomas TammisEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture10 000,00 EUR
MUU8-3/37 ARH2015/XIX (S03-15/0044L) EHITUSKUNST 2016, studies on architecture and theory01.04.201531.03.2016Toomas TammisEstonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture10 000,00 EUR
SFSF0162651s04Spatial environment in Estonia as an object of art historical research01.01.200431.12.2008Mart KalmEstonian Academy of Arts153 630,82 EUR
IUTIUT32-1Readdressing practices and theories of experimentation in the 20th- and 21st-century Estonian visual and spatial culture01.01.201531.12.2020Mart KalmEstonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture402 000,00 EUR
ETFETF grant 4748Elukeskkonna sotsiaalsest determineeritusest Eestis01.01.200131.12.2003Mart KalmEstonian Academy of Arts1 278,00 EUR
MUUPR04013 (EU51058)European Architectural Historians Network Fifth International Meeting01.01.201731.08.2018Andres Kurg; Mart Kalm; Epp LankotsEstonian Academy of Arts30 000,00 EUR
MUUS02-14/0464LKunstiteaduse instituudi avatud loengusarja korraldamine18.08.201401.03.2015Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture1 500,00 EUR
MUUS03-14/0214Kunstiteaduse instituudi avatud loengusarja korraldamine01.09.201401.04.2015Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture2 000,00 EUR
MUUS03-14/0345LKunstiteaduse instituudi õppereis Viin-Brno01.04.201501.06.2015Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture3 725,00 EUR
MUUS02-14/0930LKunstiteaduse Instituudi õppereis Viin-Brno01.04.201501.06.2015Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts; Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Art and Culture, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture2 000,00 EUR
PSGPSG530Forecast and Fantasy in Late Soviet Architecture01.01.202031.12.2023Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts289 125,00 EUR
SFSF0160047s09Visualising the Nation. Institutional critique of the twentieth century art and architecture in Estonia. 01.01.200931.12.2014Mart KalmEstonian Academy of Arts406 764,60 EUR
MUUP202-401 (P202-401 )Recuperating the invisible past.01.05.201001.04.2012Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts25 000,00 EUR
MUUKNTS-59/91 / P202/401 (S03-11/0060L)Uurimistöö "Tehniline esteetika ja disain 1968-1978".28.03.201131.10.2011Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts2 000,00 EUR
MUUKNTS-59/22 (S03-11/0362L)Uuringute kogumik "Me metamorfne tulevik".12.12.201130.04.2012Andres KurgEstonian Academy of Arts12 000,00 EUR