Maria Sidljarevich

Tallinn, Estonia

About Maria Sidljarevich

[---] The great square has no corners ...the great tone makes only a tiny sound, the great image has no form. Laozi Maria Sidljarevitš’s richness of colour and a very distinct playful painting style are very characteristic. Her art is expressive, filling the space of the painting with such intensity and emotion that even the worlds transferred to the smallest of canvases seem to career inexorably away from the frames of the picture to somewhere far away. Maria depicts only parts of different objects and imagery in the spaces of her compositions, just like they are seen in real life – single expressions of something, chunks of a larger system, inklings of the whole, a piece of someone’s window sill with a view of the big world. It is as if the artist is saying that there is no such thing as a good or bad phenomenon of life, but just a part of the universe. Maria Sidljarevich has obtained MA degree in painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2014. The artist studied the subject of personal memory while reviving images from the past in her naivistic-expressionistic way as seen at her personal exhibition „You broke my life“ held in Tallinn City Gallery in 2014. She has participated in exhibitions since 2008, is a member of the Estonian Artists' Association and the chairwoman of the board of Estonian Painters' Association. WEB: mariasidljarevich.weebly.com

Education:

2012 - 2014 Estonian Academy of Arts painting MA
2008 - 2012 Estonian Academy of Arts Fine Arts BA

Exhibitions:

Selection of solo exhibitions:
2017 "Three sights. Contemporary Estonian painting art." with Einar Vene and Holger Loodus, CDH, Moscow, RF
2017 "M.Robinson and other stories" Tartu Art Hall, Tartu, Estonia
2016 "Confucius hair" Draakoni gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2016 "Looking for silence" Tushino gallery, Moscow, RF
2016 "Looking for silence" Estonian Embassy in Moscow, Moscow, RF
2014 "You broke my life" Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 "Thread from a ceiling" Cultural Factory Polymer, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 „Looking for own space” Metropol Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 „Imagine me”, Rotermann Atrium, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 „17”, M Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Selection of group exhibitions
2017 "Emotion" Narva art gallery, Narva, Estonia
2017 "JUST NÜÜD!/RIGHT NOW The Museum Of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2016 "Extention" gallery Triumph, Moscow, RF
2016 "Tallinn teeb Tartut" gallery Jakobi, Tartu, Estonia
2016 "Spring Exhibition" exhibition of Estonian Artist Union, Tallinn At Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 "Muutuv ja muutumatu" The Museum Of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia 2015 IV Gabala International Art Exhibition, Gabala, Azerbaidjan
2015 "Duubel 2 30x40" exhibition of Estonian Painters Union, gallery Haus, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 "Maal kui vaal" exhibition of Estonian Painters Union, gallery Vaal, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 "Spring Exhibition" exhibition of Estonian Artist Union, Tallinn At Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 "Flower festival" Köismäe tower, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 "Contemporary Estonian Painting" exhibition of Estonian Painters Union, The Museum Of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2015 "Reflektsioonid: sissevaade/väljavaade" VDRUG festival, Russian Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 "Melancholy. Despair." Türi Cultural Center gallery, Türi, Estonia
2014 "30x40" Haus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 IV Baltic Biennale, Gallery of design/bulthaup Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
2014 "Game" Viljandi City Gallery, Viljandi, Estonia
2014 "TASE 14" Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 "Tower Power" Wittenstein Time Center, Paide, Estonia
2014 "Spring Exhibition" EKL exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 "Painting focus" The Museum Of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2013 "With. Without" Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 "Local love" Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2013 "MUUTTUUM" Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia; Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 "Valueless art" Raja Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 "Crossings" EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 "Nomadic project" Aiken Center For the Arts, Aiken, SC, USA
2012 “Väärtus – Väärtuskriis” EKL exhibition at Gallery Vaal, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 “2031”, EKL exhibition art Tartu Art Hall, Tartu, Estonia
2011 "Russian artists in Estonia. The beginning of 21 centuries" Russian Cultural Center, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 "Tase 11" EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 "Untold story" T Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 "Academical opened" EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Projects:
2016 Elamusaasta project http://www.elamusaasta.ee/
2016 "From the second sight" authors and directors P.Piik and M.-L. Lill, City Theatre, repro of "Sipsik ja Potsataja teel suvesse"
2012 “Younite Tour Worldwide”, USA

Publications:
TV canal MIR - http://mirtv.ru/video/46176/
Sirp - http://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/c6-kunst/teise-pilk-aitab-ennast-leida/
ETV+ "Tvoi vecher" 19.23min:
http://etvpluss.err.ee/v/meelelahutus/tvoi_vecher/saated/b7b9c14a-bdae-48b6-84cb-0da90057fc62/tvoy-vecher
Vikerraadio Kultuuriuudised 31.10.2016 kl.16.05
Linnaleht 22.06.2016:
http://www.linnaleht.ee/pdf/narva-rus/2016-06-22.pdf
Raadio 4 saade „Baraban