Gregor Taul

Presentation of the results of the international workshop “How to Reframe Monuments: Case Studies for Thinking Through Dissonant Heritage” on September 6 at EKA and EKA TV.

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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked debates and conflicts over Russian and Soviet monuments in the former Eastern Bloc and has also revitalized global discussions about dissonant heritage. This has created a new need and a new framework for comparisons – for comparing monuments, as well as their toppling and rebuilding in different parts … Presentation of the results of the international workshop “How to Reframe Monuments: Case Studies for Thinking Through Dissonant Heritage” on September 6 at EKA and EKA TV.

The statue that never was – the persisting and vanishing Lenin Park of Helsinki

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An anti-war sticker on the defaced sign of the Lenin Park in Helsinki, 2022. Photo: Hannu Häkkinen, Finnish Heritage Agency. Pavel Petrov, a Master’s student in History and Eastern European Studies at the University of Helsinki, wrote this text as part of his internship at How to Reframe Monuments (July-September 2024) project. Besides publishing this … The statue that never was – the persisting and vanishing Lenin Park of Helsinki

An exhibition dedicated to the Tehumardi Memorial was opened in Kuivastu Harbour

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On 23 July, a pop-up exhibition “New frames for the monument: the Tehumardi Memorial” was opened in the dock area of Kuivastu harbour. The exhibition, a collaboration between artists, historians and heritage conservationists, invites the public to reflect on the meaning of the Tehumardi monument and the possibilities for reinterpreting it. To this end, five … An exhibition dedicated to the Tehumardi Memorial was opened in Kuivastu Harbour

Special issue of Kunsttexte.de War on Monuments: Documenting the Debates over Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe

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The special issue of the magazine kunsttexte.de, War on Monuments: Documenting the Debates over Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe. Documenting the Debates on Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe, edited by Kristina Jõekalda. This issue of the open access online journal kunsttexte.de (https://doi.org/10.48633/ksttx.2024.1) contains 14 articles on the … Special issue of Kunsttexte.de War on Monuments: Documenting the Debates over Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe

Battle of Tehumardi

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The night battle of Tehumardi between units of the Red Army’s Estonian Rifle Corps and a retreating German battalion in the late evening of 8 October 1944 was a casual and strategically insignificant encounter – it was bloody, but without major military results. The battle took place in the final phase of the war here, … Battle of Tehumardi