Werner Rodlauer,
Sirja Liisa Vahtra
web: www.hot.ee/sirliisa
Born 20.10.1973 in Tallinn, Estonia
Education
1992-1996 Estonian Academy of Arts, painting BA
1990-1992 Estonian Academy of Arts, evening courses (textile art, painting)
1986-1990 Tallinn Art School
Membership
since 2001 Estonian Artists’ Association
since 1996 Studio 22 (artists’ group engaged in the exploration of alternative interpretation of art with a stress on eastern philosophy)
Projects
2006 Merimetsan Alchemy, a follow-up of society therapy project in Meimetsa Rehab Centre (together with Otto von Busch and Diana Lui)
2005 Kaprealism by Aroonia, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn www.hot.ee/aroonia3
2005 breathing / hingamine - light projection and cut-out action (together with Kaarel Eelma), nkd-open studios, Dale, Norway
2005 GAME Company - games in the landscape (together with Kaarel Eelma), Måren Biennale, Norway
2005 Good Old Swedish Time - Vana Hea Rootsi Aeg, Hardanger Streif, Norway
2005 AKKURAT – an axe-game for the whole family (together with Kaarel Eelma), Dale Biennale, Norway
2004 [RE_TALL]iation, society therapy through alternative fashion production at rehabilitation center (together with Otto von Busch), Tallinn
2004 Visual Ahimsa, experimental painting action (together with Otto von Busch), Tallinn Art Hall and restaurant Curry House
2004 Gaze Terror, non-violent graffiti interventions, mapping exercises and t-shirt production aimed at promoting discussion concerning the ever-increasing surveillance in Tallinn
Solo exhibitions
2006 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Õ><Ö, Tallinn Town Gallery, Estonia
2006 Between one and another (together with Kaarel Eelma), Gallery of Endla Theatre, Pärnu, Estonia
2004 Lõike Lahkajad – Pattern Dissectors (with Otto von Busch), Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2003 Hided Substance (together with Mae Kivilo), Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2002 Memories of Plants, Tallinn Town Gallery
2001 Gallery of Castellan House, Tallinn
1998 Sammas Gallery, Tallinn
1997 The Museum of A.H.Tammsaare, Tallinn
1996 Close Views, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
1995 German Culture Institute, Tallinn
Group exhibitions
2006 Rauma Biennal Balticum Wake Up!, Rauma, Finland
2006 Fleurs du Mal, EAA annual exhibition project, HOP gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Artists in Residency presentation, Wienstation, Vienna, Austria
2005 Selfportrait, annual exhibition of Estonian Painters’ Association, Galley of Artist House, Tartu, Estonia
2005 Unfurled, public exhibition of flags, satellite event of PostsovkhoZ 5, Galley Y, Tartu, Estonia
2005 Hordastreif 2005, Dale Biennale, Norway
2005 Separetly but together, E.Okas museum, Haapsalu, Estonia
2005 Personality, exhibition of graphic desing, Town Gallery, Haapsalu; Gallery of Arhitecture and Desing, Tallinn
2004 exhibition of Estonian painters, Tartu Art Hall, Estonia
2004 Ich bin ein Maler, Tallinn Art Hall
2004 Art Repairs, international group exhibition, Town Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2003 Me and the other, Tallinn Art Hall
2003 Chart, exhibition of Estonian Painters’ Association, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn
2002 Minimal, international painting exhibition in Town Galley, Pärnu, Estonia
2001 Lost property office, exhibition of young painters, Gallery of Hansapank, Tallinn
2001 Side-jump, Town Galley, Pärnu, Estonia
2000 Discovering Canvas, young Estonian painters in Estonian Academy of Arts Gallery, Tallinn
1999 Minimaal, Rüütli Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
1998 Studio 22, Galley of Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
1998 Kiriküüt, Kilpkonna Galley, Viljandi, Estonia
1998 Young Estonian National Painting, Cinema Võit, Tallinn
1997 Silent space, Galley of Artist House, Tartu, Estonia
1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 – annual exhibitions of Estonian painters, Tallinn
Works in public places
1996 stained-glass works on façade of Town Theatre, Tallinn
1994 mural painting in Children’ Hospital, Tallinn
Scholarships and grants
2006 Raumars AiR-Programme, Rauma, Finland
2006 KulturKontakt Austria, AiR-programme, Vienna, Austria
2005 Sleipnir travel grant, Nordic Council of Ministers
2005 NKD – the Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale, AiR-programme, Norway
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 – Cultural Endowment of Estonia
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