Meta Solar

Radovljica, Slovenia

About Meta Solar

Meta Solar (b. 1989) is a painter based in Radovljica, Slovenia. She portrays young women in a surrealistic manner merging their skin with plants, fruit or patterns surrounded by backgrounds of dripping colour and translucent layers. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our personality is questioned. She fantasizes a mode of portraiture that overcomes the tyranny of the body. By co-opting the language of the hyper-feminine spectacle, her work exploits the troubled relationship of femininity and beauty to representations of vulnerability and power. Drawn to images where the feminine is staged as a prop for power, she appropriates images from art history and contemporary culture in order to strip, destroy or dismantle them. Every painting is a reflection of thoughts and feelings she experiences during the time period of creation. Influenced by contemporary artists, old masters, her admiration of nature, Japan and fantasy her art is in a constant state of development. Meta Solar studied and received her diploma at the academy of fine arts in Ljubljana. She exhibits nationally and internationally. She lives and works in Radovljica, Slovenia.

Education:

Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2008-2012)
NOVIA University of Applied Sciences(2012)

Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Verschleiert und entfaltet, Korotan, Vienna, Austria (May 2018)
Communication noise, Ivan Varl Gallery, Kosovel Cultural Centre, Sezana, SI (with M. Stibelj and K. Urh, march 2018)
Sweetness and Secrets, Glass atrium, Ljubljana (with Eva Lucija Kozak, november 2017)
Chocolate paintings,Vurnik square, Chocolate festival, Radovljica (april 2017)
Open studio 8222, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (oktober 2016)
New members, Mala Galerija, Kranj (with Eva Serpan Sitar and Irena Orel, august 2016)
Now hidden, Tainach Art Gallery, Tainach, Austria (may 2016)
Dirty pink, Layer house, Kranj (with Eva Lucija Kozak, april 2016)
Available secrets, Gallery Šivec house, Radovljica (with Eva Lucija Kozak, march 2016)
Paper, silk, wood and canvas, Exhibition space Dolik, Jesenice (February-March 2015)
Confrontation, Tower Gallery, Bled castle, Bled (February 2015)
Gorenjska Bank, Radovljica (February 2013)
Teahouse Jasmin, Bled (January 2013)
Chara-chara ,Gallery Šivec house, Radovljica (November 2012)
Paintings, exhibition space, Novia UAS, Nykarleby, Finland(May 2012)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

ON TOUR Milano, 809 Art Gallery, Milano, Italy (October 2018)
Vabljeni mladi 2018, Primavera, Galerija DLUM, Maribor SI (July 2018)
Allstarz, Dobra vaga, Ljubljana (oktober 2017)
Independent biennal, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana (oktober 2017)
Ex-tempore Piran 2017, Piran town gallery, Piran (september-november 2017)
Watercolour festival Castra, Lokar Gallery, Ajdovščina (avgust 2017)
The view from above, Gallery Šivec house, Radovljica (may 2017)
Prešeren at Layer with Frelih at Cankar, Layer house, Kranj (february 2017)
Mozaik, Small galery, Kranj (february 2017)
Winter salon 2016, ZDSLU Gallery, Ljubljana (november-december 2017)
5. INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS FESTIVAL KRANJ – ZDSLU 2016, Vpliv medijev na slikarstvo (September 2016)
Exhibition of small format works, Simposium, Sinji vrh, Lična hiša, Ajdovščina (junij 2016)
Novoletna razstava ZDSLU, Gallery ZDSLU (December 2015)
Mali format, Small Gallery, Kranj (December 2015)
European Arts Forum, World Youth Alliance, Brussels, Belgium (November 2015)
4. INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS FESTIVAL KRANJ – ZDSLU 2015, Contemporary landscape, Mala Galerija, Kranj (Oktober 2015)
4. INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS FESTIVAL KRANJ – ZDSLU 2015, Contemporary landscape, Paviljon Jugovic, Bitnje(Oktober 2015)
Bees, Apiculture Museum Radovljica, Slovenia (September 2015- ongoing)
Periferija (Felix), Gallery Brigita, Lancovo (July 2015)
Exhibiton of former students of Diocesian Classical Gymnasium, Zavod sv. Stanislava, Ljubljana(Oktober 2013)
Open drawers, Zavod sv. Stanislava, Ljubljana (2012 and 2013)

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