Kerge eine€6,154 · NOBA ↗
1973– · Estonian artist (born 1973)
Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; NOBA; Temnikova & Kasela
Sirja-Liisa Eelma (1973) is a conceptual painter, whose visual language is characterised by minimalist structures. She often works with repeating and slowly changing images in order to analyse themes like lack of intimacy, the physical experience of pause, silence, and delineating the visible and the invisible. Eelma’s practice relies on the mutual impact of the time factor and the spatial context in painting, her works evoke contemplation and meditative quietness. Eelma’s colours are extremely nuanced, sensitive in gradation and mostly pastel. She started her career as an artist in the second half of the 1990s. In her early years, Eelma focused on the playful juxtaposition of letters and shapes. At the show “Õ><Ö” (2006, Tallinn City Gallery) she displayed a series that offered proof of a theorem regarding the alikeness of the letters Õ and Ö; the exhibition “Everyday vocabulary” (2006, Hobusepea Gallery) combined elements of different sign systems to create a new coherence. Since the late 2000s she has increasingly focused on the process of painting, letting herself be guided by the flow of time, the pleasure and solitude of painting a repeating image. The exhibition and the series of paintings titled “Secret Matter” (2003, Hobusepea Gallery) centred on the hidden or perceptible objects as well as expectations and fears related to their environment. Eelma continued working with these ideas in the show “There is Nothing” (2012, Draakon Gallery), where all the exhibited paintings depicted curtains. The anxious repetition of the image of curtains expressed a tension, whereas the title of the show evoked a safe environment. Repetitive motifs were also the central element in the exhibition “The Waiting Room” (2014, Hobusepea Gallery), where the artist showed similar views of interiors and, drawing parallels between the similarity of the gallery space and the depicted waiting room, created an installation of a-space-within-a-space. The series of paintings “Emptying Field of Meaning” (2014) was the first time a slowly changing symmetrical repetition of an abstract geometrical shape appeared in Eelma’s work. The idea of the series was to create a pause in the contemporary information overload, above all, for the painter herself but also for the viewer.
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Kerge eine
Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale. Vaade I / Seven Views to the Surroundings. View I
Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale. Vaade II / Seven Views to the Surroundings. View II
Soovist näha I
Soovist näha II
Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale III / Seven Views to the Surroundings III
Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale. Vaade IV / Seven Views to the Surroundings. View IV
Objekt nr 2. Pärl II / Object no 2. Pearl II
Objekt nr 2. Pärl I / Object no 2. Pearl I
Peegel Bluhmi majast. III / Mirror from the Bluhm's house III
Peegel Bluhmi majast. II / Mirror from the Bluhm's house II
Peegel Bluhmi majast. I / Mirror from the Bluhm's house I
Peegel Bluhmi majast. V / Mirror from the Bluhm's House V
Roosa sirm IV / Pink Screen IV
Roosa sirm III / Pink Screen III
Roosa sirm II / Pink Screen II
Roosa sirm I / Pink Screen I
Kroonimine II / Coronation II
Kroonimine I / Coronation I
Mandorla I
Mirror. On the Desire to See. VII
Mirror. On the Desire to See. IX-X
Mirror. On the Desire to See. XV
Mirror. On the Desire to See. XVII
Seisundid IV / States IV
Seisundid III / States III
Seisundid II / States II
Seisundid I / States I28 works with a picture; the first 28 here, all in the catalogue. Pictures for public-domain works, live gallery listings and the works galleries and artists show on their own pages, from those servers.
Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Pille Tammela · Janika Turu · Karin Strohm · Enno Allik · Sirje Petersen · Rauno Thomas Moss
Contemporaries in Temnikova & Kasela: Johanna Ulfsak · Eetu Sihvonen · Man Yau · Dafna Maimon · Lieven Lahaye
By decade: 2010s · 2020s
By medium: Painting · Other
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia
| Year | Title | Technique | Dimensions | Held by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Kahaneva väärtusega kapp | acrylic | kõrgus: 27.0 cm; sügavus: 15.0 cm; laius: 96.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2017 | Kerge eine | Painting | 160 x 200 cm | NOBA |
| 2019 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S14 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2019 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S3 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2019 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S5 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S10 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S11 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S12 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S13 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S18 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S19 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S20 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S21 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S22 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S7 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2020 | Kirjutada oma/sinu nime. S9 | oil | laius: 55.0 cm; kõrgus: 50.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 2022 | Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale III / Seven Views to the Surroundings III | oil on canvas | 200×90cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2022 | Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale. Vaade I / Seven Views to the Surroundings. View I | oil on canvas | 100×90cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2022 | Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale. Vaade II / Seven Views to the Surroundings. View II | oil on canvas | 100×90cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2022 | Seitse vaadet ümbritsevale. Vaade IV / Seven Views to the Surroundings. View IV | oil on canvas | 200×90cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2022 | Soovist näha I | oil on canvas | 90×50cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2022 | Soovist näha II | oil on canvas | 90×50cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Kroonimine I / Coronation I | oil, canvas, painted mdf | 146×55cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Kroonimine II / Coronation II | oil, canvas, painted mdf | 146×55cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Mandorla I | oil, canvas | 90×100cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Objekt nr 2. Pärl I / Object no 2. Pearl I | oil, canvas | 38×33cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Objekt nr 2. Pärl II / Object no 2. Pearl II | oil, canvas | 38×33cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Peegel Bluhmi majast II | Oil, canvas | 47 x 72 cm | Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid · EKL 2. ja 3. päev — Maal & Skulptuur · Sold €2,400 |
| 2024 | Peegel Bluhmi majast. I / Mirror from the Bluhm's house I | oil, canvas | 50×72cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Peegel Bluhmi majast. II / Mirror from the Bluhm's house II | oil, canvas | 50×72cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Peegel Bluhmi majast. III / Mirror from the Bluhm's house III | oil, canvas | 50×72cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Peegel Bluhmi majast. V / Mirror from the Bluhm's House V | oil, canvas | 55×50cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Roosa sirm I / Pink Screen I | oil, canvas | 146×55cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Roosa sirm II / Pink Screen II | oil, canvas | 146×55cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Roosa sirm III / Pink Screen III | oil, canvas | 146×55cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Roosa sirm IV / Pink Screen IV | oil, canvas | 146×55cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Seisundid I / States I | cyanotype, unique | 30×20cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Seisundid II / States II | cyanotype, unique | 30×20cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Seisundid III / States III | cyanotype, unique | 30×20cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2024 | Seisundid IV / States IV | cyanotype, unique | 30×20cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2025 | Mirror. On the Desire to See. IX-X | oil, canvas, mdf | 157×109cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2025 | Mirror. On the Desire to See. VII | oil, canvas, mdf | 201×109cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2025 | Mirror. On the Desire to See. XV | oil, canvas, mdf | 201×109cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
| 2025 | Mirror. On the Desire to See. XVII | oil, canvas, mdf | 157×109cm | Temnikova & Kasela |
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