Office Sweet Home (All You Can Work Buffet)
About the artist
Sigrid Viir (1979) is a photo and installation artist who lives and works in Tallinn. She studied cultural theory at the Estonian Institute of Humanities and graduated in photography from the Estonian Academy of Arts. As an artist, she is interested in the analysis of social constructions, the absurdity of everyday situations, the development of different roles for people (especially women), the border between the totality of work and personal leisure, and questions of visual language. Sigrid is one of the three founding members of the art collective Visible Solutions LLC. She has actively participated in exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.
She has been recognized with the Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment for Fine and Applied Arts three times (2013, 2019, 2022), has been a Köler Prize nominee (2011, 2014), participated in Manifesta 9 with Visible Solutions OÜ (2012), and received the Young Artist Award (2009).
Her recent exhibitions include False Vacationers Workcation Travels at Draakoni Gallery (2021), False Vacationer at Koenig 2 Gallery in Vienna (2021) and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (2019), In front of the mirror, on a day full of enthusiasm, you put your mask on too heavily, it bites your skin with Cloe Jancis at Riga Photography Biennial (2022) and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (2021) and The Second Act. Found in a Translation with Cloe Jancis at Tartu Art House (2022), Lonny the Enchanter with Liga Spunde (2024), The Secrets of the Leaning Building with Kristiina Hansen at Tartu Art Museum (2024).
Sigrid Viir is represented by Temnikova & Kasela gallery.