Triin Metsla, Tallinn
November 1, 2025 – January 31, 2026 (Research Fellowship)
Ph.D. candidate in art history under Prof. Dr. Krista Kodres, Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), Tallinn.
Ragne Soosalu, Tallin
August 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025
Ph.D. candidate in art history under Dr. Kristina Jõekalda, Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), Tallinn. Research on “Ethnic Minority Women Artists in Estonia from 1890 to 1939.”
4-week intensive language course at the Goethe-Institute Berlin (B.1 and B.2). Visiting scholar in Lüneburg as well as research stays at the Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V.), and the archives of the East Prussian State Museum, and the Carl Schirren Society in Lüneburg, as well as research stays at the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Networking. Participation in the conference “Inventing traditions in a dis:connected world. Self-fashioning and nation-building in the age of empire, 1860s–1960s,” Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU, Munich, September 3–5, 2025.
Gabrielė Radzevičiūtė, Vilnius (Lithuania)
01. September - 31. Oktober 2024
Doktorandin der Kunstgeschichte, Vilnius Academy of Arts. Forschungen zu “The Overshadowed Everyday in Lithuanian Art of the Interwar Period” sowie Vorträge: "Art and Politics: The Migration of Images and Ideas between the Weimar Republic and Interwar Lithuania", Internationale Konferenz "Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und den baltischen Ländern 1850-1950", Eutiner Landesbibliothek, 10.-13. Okt. 2024 sowie GWZO Leipzig. Gespräche zu eventuell zukünftigen Ausstellungsprojekten, u.a. mit Berlinische Galerie. Archivforschungen im Hygiene Museum Dresden.
4-wöchiger Intensivsprachkurs (A.1 und A.2) am Goethe-Institut Berlin sowie im Anschluss ein 2-wöchiger Onlinekurs (A.3).
“The scholarship of the Böckler-Mare-Balticum Foundation was an excellent opportunity to research the cultural relations between Lithuania and Germany and to get acquainted with the archives of German museums and libraries. It was also an opportunity to establish cultural contacts with German professionals and to learn German, which is important for future projects.”
Liisa-Helena Lumberg-Paramonova, Tallinn (Estonia)
01. August 2022 - 31. Januar 2023.
Doktorandin der Kunstgeschichte bei Prof. Dr. Krista Kodres, Estnische Kunstakademie (EKA), Tallinn.
Forschungsaufenthalt am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München und Fertigstellung der Dissertation "Baltische Kunst und Kunstgeschichtsschreibung als Wissensproduktion in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts".
Liisa-Helena Lumberg, Tallinn (Estonia)
Art historian
21 October – 15 December 2019
Doctoral candidate at the Estonian Art Academy (EKA) in Tallinn under Prof. Dr Krista Kodres. Visiting researcher (Böckler Mare Balticum Foundation Fellow) at the Chair of Art History of Eastern Europe / Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt University. After a one-month intensive language course at the Goethe Insitute, she visited Berlin libraries to work on her literature research for her dissertation on Estonian/German Baltic art history in the first half of the 19th century: Kunstwerke als Wissensproduktion – die Rolle und Absicht der Bilder Art works as knowledge production – the role and purpose of images. Subsequently she undertook several short study trips: to Dresden (art collections), Marburg (Herder-Institute, Foto Marburg) and Hamburg (Kunsthalle, etc.).
Kristina Joekalda, Tallinn (Estonia)
Art historian
3 September – 29 November 2018
Visiting researcher (Böckler Mare Balticum Foundation Fellow) at the Chair of Art History of Eastern Europe / Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt University. Research for the dissertation “Local and National in the 19th-century Baltic Heritage Discourse”, and participation in academic events with her own contributions: “Cherishing and Destruction of Monuments: Heritage Preservation in the Baltic Provinces during the Long 19th Century” (Tallinn, 2–7 October 2018, Conference by AK Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege, AKTLD); “Identity Construction through Architectural Monuments: Some Insights into Baltic Heritage Preservation in the 19th Century” (Lüneburg, Nordost-Institut, 20–23 October 2018); “Monuments as a Responsibility: Baltic-German Discussions on Architectural Heritage around 1900” (HU Berlin, 31 October 2018, Fellow Talk). Participant in the 2018 Homburger Gespräch in München. 8-week evening course at the Goethe-Institute in Berlin.
Dr Ula Tornau, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Art historian
27 January – 9 March 2018
28 October – 11 December 2018
Two 4-week intensive language courses at the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Research visits to several institutes on the topic of “Post-socialist Public Spaces”, to institutions including the Institute for Slavic Studies (Humboldt University Berlin), German Institute for Urban Studies (Difu, Berlin), Bauhaus Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and Planning, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Research Center East Europe (University Bremen), and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig. The aim of her research and talks with other researchers at the institutes was to establish a network and to develop a topic for a postdoctoral research project.
Dr art Baiba Vanaga, Riga (Latvia)
Art historian
8-week intensive language course at the Goethe Institute in Berlin in combination with frequent visits to archives, research centres and numerous museums. Further research stays in Lüneburg, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, Münster, Bremen, Worpswede, Odenburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Coburg, and Stuttgart. Final presentation “Diletantinnen oder Pionierinnen? Künstlerinnen in Lettland von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis 1915” Dilettantes or Pioneers? Female Artists in Latvia from the Middle of the 19th Century to 1915 at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern
Europe (GWZO) at the University Leipzig.
“Im Allgemeinen war mein Aufenthalt in Deutschland ausgezeichnet. Ich konnte innerhalb meines Aufenthaltes von drei Monaten die nützlichen Informationen für meine weiteren Forschungen gewinnen. Ich werde die neu erworbenen Materialien in den kommenden Monaten nutzen, um meine Monographie über die Künstlerinnen Lettlands von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis 1915 zu vervollständigen. Ein ernsthafter Vorteil in Bezug auf Kontakte wurde ebenfalls erreicht – ich bekam die Anfrage von Frau Dr. Wilhelmi einen Beitrag für die Zeitschrift “Nordost-Archiv” für das Jahr 2019 zu schreiben.” (On the whole, my stay in Germany was excellent. During my stay of three months I was able to obtain the necessary information for my further research. I will use this newly found material to complete my monograph on the female artists of Latvia from the middle of the 19th centruy until 1915. I also obtained a real boost in terms of new contacts – I received a request from Dr Wilhelmi to write a contribution to the magazine Nordost-Archiv for the year 2019.)
