Terje Ojaver

1955– · Estonian sculptor (born 1955)
Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; NOBA; Tartu Kunstimuuseum

trained at Estonian Academy of Arts

Terje Ojaver (1955) is a sculptor, whose work includes abstract and figurative monumental painting, site-specific installations, performative paraphrases, classical sculpture, and video. She has also created notable monumental sculptures for public space. In the 1990s Terje Ojaver mostly focused on site and material specific installations, characterised by a conceptual approach to nature. During the 3rd Annual Exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia titled “Biotopia”, she exhibited the work “Bio-Top” (1994) on the columns in front of the entrance of the Tallinn Art Hall building, measuring the level of air pollution. At the open-air art centre Le vent des forêts Lahaymeix’ in Lorraine, France, Ojaver built massive protective planters around living trees (1998). At the Tallinn Botanic Garden the artist covered the ground with a ruffling carpet of natural grass, highlighting the unity of man and nature. In Kuressaare she released blocks of ice taken from the Kuressaare Castle pond in winter and preserved in a freezer, back into the pond in spring (2001), demonstrating the eternal cycles of nature. With the show “Dance of the deceived” (Petetute tants, 2009) Ojaver begun her series of replicas of large rocks, continuing it at the Sculpture Quadrennial Riga on the square of St Peter’s Church (2016), followed by a display of the rocks as floating pieces in Swan Pond in Kadriorg Park (2016), and later in Århus, Denmark (2019). Ojaver's work ties together canons of classical sculpture and controversial technical or narrative solutions, blending high and low art. Her figure-based work (mostly using her own image) make up a significant part of her practice, telling stories of women's real and illusory positions, but also of herself as a wife, mother, daughter, her freedoms and obligations, strengths and resignations. Among these works we find “Blind” (Pime, 2011), “Awkward egg body” (Piinlik munakeha, 2015), “Self-portrait as burning fish” (Autoportree põleva kalana, 2014), “Self-portrait as a camel” (Autoportree kaamelina, 2012), “Self-Portrait as a tortoise” (Autoportree kilpkonnana, 2018). In creating these creatures as self-portraits Ojaver uses materials that during the past 50 years have been associated primarily with women artists: everyday objects, soft fabrics, etc. In her solo show “Stripclub” (Striptiisiklubi, 2015, Vabaduse Gallery) Ojaver exhibited “Madonna”, a work depicting a figure dressed in tarp, a bitter-looking woman, who will never be free of her burden. In contrast, she exhibited a series of bronze figurines focusing on d.

1 auction lots · 1 sold · 2026 · €20,100 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation

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6 works at NOBA, €4,925–€22,950. Prices as the galleries state them.

Autoportree kilpkonnana
€4,925 · NOBA ↗Elajas
€10,125 · NOBA ↗Hüpates üle varju
€13,500 · NOBA ↗Naine puulõhkumismasinal
€21,600 · NOBA ↗Maria hargiga
€22,950 · NOBA ↗Kuldtikandiga naine
€22,950 · NOBA ↗

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Autoportree kilpkonnana
2018 · NOBAHüpates üle varju
2020 · NOBAKuldtikandiga naine
2022 · NOBANaine puulõhkumismasinal
2023 · NOBAMaria hargiga
2024 · NOBAElajas
2019 · NOBA

6 works with a picture; the first 6 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: Tiiu Kirsipuu · Tamara Ditman · Lembit Palm · Elin Tober · Irina Rätsep · Külli Tammik

Also trained at Estonian Academy of Arts: Eduard Wiiralt · Evald Okas · Andrus Johani · Johann Naha · Leonhard Lapin

Contemporaries in NOBA: Mari Kartau · Paco Ulman · Maxim Mjödov · Kadri Kangilaski · Ivi Arrak

By decade: 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s
By medium: Sculpture · Installation
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Tartu Art Museum

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