TALLINN, ESTONIA

Inga Heamägi works with printing and digital graphic art, as well as with object and conceptual installation. During the last 6 years she has participated in juries, expert committees of art competitions. She is chairman of the Board of Estonian Graphic Artists Association from 2012; President of the International Jury of the 1st international Yerevan graphic art biennial, Armenia; member of the council of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for the Visual and Applied Arts Foundation (2015–2017). In 2019 Inga was the winner of the 2nd Award Wiiralt Prize 2019. From the autumn of 2018 works as the director of Kohila School of Arts in Tohisoo Manor.

Inga had 33 personal exhibitions, over 70 participations in international graphic biennials-triennials, 25 exhibitions of the Estonian Art Museum, more than 50 group exhibitions, and besides she was curator of  17 graphic art exhibitions.

EDUCATION

1988. Graduated with a degree in Graphic Arts from the Estonian Academy of Arts from the Graphics Department. 

WORKS ARE PRESENTED

Estonian Art Museum (Tallinn), Art and History Museum, Cēsis (Latvia), Hotel Torni (Helsinki), SEB Group, Silpakorn University (Thailand), Estonian National Library (more than 50 works donated), Long-Term Nursing Centres (East-Tallinn Central Hospital and North-Tallinn Aftercare Clinic), Lauderhill Arts Center (USA), Schio town (Italy), KulturDialog Armenien, Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art Minsk Belarus, Mark Rothko Art Centre (Daugavpils, Latvia), Zhejiang Sevan Culture and Technology Co., Ltd, private collections. 

LINKS 

https://ingaheamagi.weebly.com 

ARTIST VOICE 

Since 1994-2008 I have exhibited mainly works in lithography. In the autumn of 1996, I met lithography master Dmitry Molotkov in Minsk, with whom I worked until his retirement in 2008. After that, the artists who had worked with him "retired" with him. These works were mainly made in Minsk.

It was a very stressful time for me. I usually did 5 large (100 x 70 cm) multi-coloured works in 1 week. The personality and experience of the litho master played a big part in the completion of the works. But the most interesting were the dialogues and the master stories that accompanied the work.

For the last few years, I have been using digital printing for self-expression, as the quality of the paper and the inkjet printers is so good that I can use my favorite, a photograph, without much pain. And my work no longer depends on the presence of a master. However, that dependence has been rather sweet.