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Pallas exhibits its universe in Tartu’s Christmas City
The pavilion of Pallas University of Applied Sciences in Tartu’s Christmas City invites everyone to discover the wonderful Pallas universe and its imaginative constellations that make the entire sky of the Athens of the Emajõgi shine. The Christmas City is open from November 30 until January 5, 2025 at Tartu Town Hall Square.
At the heart of our creative galaxy stands Pallas Athena – the goddess of wisdom, handicraft and warfare – holding the Solar System’s strangest asteroid, Pallas. The model of this asteroid symbolizes a source of inspiration as mysterious and dynamic as its namesake, Pallas University of Applied Sciences.
Pallas, the largest unexplored asteroid in the universe that is named after the Greek goddess, is like the center of our imagination. Like the eccentric and tilted orbit of Pallas, our creativity also moves along paths that are unusual, unexpected and often open to new collisions. Just as Pallas disrupts the harmony of the Solar System, we too seek to disrupt the creative rules and form unique spheres in art and design.
As a curious celestial traveler, you can explore our constellations, which are as if galaxies, revolving around our goddess and reflecting the journey of limitless creativity towards the infinite possibilities of the universe.
Thanks to the right movement of celestial bodies in the Milky Way, part of our universe is visible in the Christmas City for just over a month, offering a rare opportunity to explore the unusual and wonderful world of Pallas. Find Sculptor, Pictor, Machina Electrica, Circinus, Horologium, Triskelion, Caelum and Chamaeleon in the display! The all-embracing Pallas universe is, however, still only few light-years away from Tartu Town Hall Square at celestial coordinates 58.36942011159274, 26.729634417630713, at Tähe street 38B.
The creators and designers of the Pallas exhibition are the chief artist Madis Liplap and the head of our textile department professor Aet Ollisaar.
The Christmas City’s ice rink, built around the Kissing Students Fountain, will remain open until March 2, 2025.
