BRITTA BENNO
TALLINN, ESTONIA
Britta Benno is an artist working with drawing and printmaking. She is interested in different techniques and materials, and when they are juxtaposed and combined, new perspectives open up. Benno abstracts landscapes, looking for new graphic shapes in line, ground and tones. In the exhibition space, Benno's drawing language expands into animation techniques and a comprehensive spatial installation.
EDUCATION
2023 Estonian Academy of Arts, Art and design, doctoral school PhD
2011 Estonian Academy of Arts, Fine Arts, graphic art MA
2007 Estonian Academy of Arts, Fine Arts, graphic art BA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1/2023. Polar Dream. Rüki Gallery, Viljandi, Estonia
1/2022. Of Becoming a Land(Scape). Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
11/2020. Ruinenlust: Lasnamägi. Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
06/2019. Dystopic. Tallinn, Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
01/2017. Trapped. Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
12/2015. Multitasking. Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
WORKS ARE PRESENTED
Estonian Academy of Arts Museum collection
Private collections
LINKS
ARTIST VOICE
The graphic art, serigraphy series "Maakaar" is arc-shaped landscape compositions. It is a technique where mesh is used to push ink through the stencils. Summer plants and color palettes are collected from fields, gardens and roadsides of my country side. The arch of life, the arch of the earth, the triumphal arch, the arch of the cave door, the arch of the church windows - the artworks invite people to look at the shapes and colors of nature. The drawings from the exhibition “Of Shells, Strokes and Stains” is about the search for an abstract, organic form. Also about ease and simplicity, doing less. I collected shells from the beach and drew their irregular shapes mainly with ink. The time in Japan flew like a quick brush stroke.
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