Sirje Papp

Sirje Papp, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden

A swedish contemporary artist inspired by the Renaissance masters, but also from contemporary photorealist painters as well as photography and film.

Sirje Papp works in a realistic painting tradition and is inspired by the motion of the human body and our states of mind. Light and reflections are an important part of her compositions – without darkness there is no light.

She captures with subtle sensitivity the borderland between dream and reality. Some of her works integrates water and a weightless human body, but there are no feelings of drowning. Instead, the model just floats there in calmness and contemplation together with Papp’s playfulness between light and dark.

Sirje's painting portrays themes around the symbiosis between man and nature but also the existential questions of time, space, life and mortality.

Her fascination with the human body shapes the motifs that provide a wordless story.
A title for the painting is perhaps not necessary but still there rests a calmness, a contemplation in her figures, as if they were caught in a frozen moment.

Papp’s paintings give expression to a suspenseful mystery and can be expressed as magical realism. Through her realist...

EDUCATION
Basic courses in drawing and paintings, Stockholm 1987–1988.
Berghs School of Communication, Graphic Design & Illustration, Stockholm 1988–1991.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 ”Balance” Gallery Agardh & Tornvall, Stockholm
2024 ”Sirje Papp” Gallery Mats Bergman, Karlstad
2024 ”State of Mind” Mollbrinks Gallery, Uppsala
2023 ”Short Stories” Tyresö Art Gallery, Stockholm
2023 ”Memories of a Summer” Gallery Blå, Båstad
2023 ”Sirje Papp – Paintings” Gallery Blå, Linköping
2022 ”Atmosphere” Gallery Agardh & Tornvall, Stockholm
2021 ”Sirje Papp” Gallery Blå, Linköping
2020 ”Time” Gallery Agardh & Tornvall, Stockholm
2019 ”Moments” Gallery Agardh & Tornvall, Stockholm
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2023 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2023 Krapperups Konsthall, Höganäs
2022 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2021 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2019 Edsviks Konsthall, Solna
2019 Krapperups Konsthall, Höganäs
2019 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2017 Katrineholms Konsthall
​2019 Krapperups Konsthall, Höganäs
2019 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2017 Katrineholms Konsthall
​2019 Krapperups Konsthall, Höganäs
2019 Grand Antiques Art & Design, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2017 Katrineholms Konsthall
​2019 Krapperups Konsthall, Högan...