Siiri Jüris Swedish-Estonian, b. 1992

Jüris’ artistic practice centers on exploring universal and connective themes, often inspired by cultural and historical perspectives. Her latest work explores Estonian folklore and combines personal memories and interpretations with folk tales, games, and beliefs. Through zoomed-in game and action snippets, she constructs mystical environments where human bodies are scarcely discernible amidst biomorphic forms and digital-looking patches. These collage-like landscapes of vibrant hues unite abstract, classical, and digital visual languages into a singular whole.

Her paintings are created through an intuitive, slow, and layered process, in which the acrylic material is treated as an active agent, allowing unexpected forms and patterns to emerge. She uses the vibrancy and dullness, fluidity and transparency of the acrylic to create a strong visual experience, combining ‘classical painting techniques with arts and crafts and post-internet aesthetics.

Siiri Jüris, is a Swedish-Estonian painter, currently living and working in Uppsala, Sweden, born in Jõgeva, Estonia She holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2021), as well as an MFA in painting from the University of Tartu (2017). Jüris has participated in many group exhibitions, mainly in Estonia, but also in Sweden, Slovakia, and Lithuania. She was one of the finalists for the Young Painter Prize in both 2019 and 2021, and in 2020 she won the “Young Tartu” competition. Jüris’ solo exhibition matter that (em)bodies was held at the Tartu Art Museum in February 2021, and her solo exhibition as the day fades into midnight hues, November 11 – December 17, 2022 at Galleri Duerr. Jüris' work was also presented at Market Art Fair Stockholm 2023, together with works by Karl Dunér.