Red String

Renowned artist Sirje Petersen primarily deals with human and humanity in her work. We can meet the reflections of a person's inner world in her paintings, where figure and color play an important role as a means of expression. By purifying the painting of extra details and adding perceptible nuances from personal experience, she achieves a multidimensionality in her work, almost to the extent of abstraction.

Sirje Petersen is a laureate of the Audience Award of the 19th Annual Exhibition of the Estonian Artists' Union and a nominee of the Konrad Mägi Painting Award in 2019. Petersen has more than 60 solo exhibitions, including previously in Toompea Castle Art Hall (2020) and Pärnu City Gallery Artists' House (2019). She has appeared in many group and review exhibitions both in Estonia and in Europe. Sirje Petersen works as a co-professor at the Pallas University of Appied Sciences.

Her works belong to the collections of Tartu Art Museum, Estonian Ministry of Culture, University of Tartu Library, Estonian Art Foundation, Supreme Court of the Republic of Estonia, Pärnu Museum of New Art, Lüneburg City Art Council, Germany; IBL State Art Gallery in Port Louis, Mauritius, etc. and to private collections in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines.

This exhibition is presented with the support of:

Estonian National Culture Foundation Renate Jõesaare Scholarship

Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine and Applied Arts

Tartu Cultural Endowment

Pallas University of Applied Sciences