Triin Metsla, Tallinn
November 1, 2025 – January 31, 2026 (Research Fellowship)
Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn under Prof. Dr. Krista Kodres.
Ragne Soosalu, Tallin
August 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025
Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn under Prof. Dr Kristina Jõekalda. 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 at the Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V.), the East Prussian State Museum and the Carl Schirren Society, as well as research stays at the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. 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)
September 1 – October 31, 2024
Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Research on “The Overshadowed Everyday in Lithuanian Art of the Interwar Period” and presentations: “Art and Politics: The Migration of Images and Ideas between the Weimar Republic and Interwar Lithuania,” International Conference “Cultural Relations between Germany and the Baltic States 1850–1950,” Eutin State Library, Oct. 10–13, 2024, and Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) in Leipzig. Discussions regarding potential future exhibition projects, including with the Berlinische Galerie. Archival research at the Hygiene Museum in Dresden.
4-week intensive language course (A.1 and A.2) at the GoetheInstitute Berlin, followed by a 2-week online course (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)
August 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn under Prof. Dr. Krista Kodres.
Research fellowship at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich and completion of her dissertation “Baltic Art and Art History Writing as Knowledge Production in the First Half of the 19th Century.”
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)
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)
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)
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, Oldenburg, 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.)
