Lives and works in Tallinn

MEDIUM and SUBJECT MATTER

Helen Tago works mainly with printmaking, often manipulating the printed works into 3d form or installation. She often experiments with alternative methods and looks for environmentally safe options in her practice. Her main subject matter is capturing the invisible or fleeting moments and transformation of matter.

EDUCATION 

2000-2004. Estonian Academy of Arts printmaking BA

LINKS:

helentago.com
Instagram: @helentago
graafika.ee/helentago

WORKS ARE PRESENTED 

KUMU , TÜTAR gallery (Estonia), private collections around the world

PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES 

solo shows:

2025  Geometry of the Perception Field. Tütar Gallery, Tallinn

2024  Stairway to heaven, GÜ Gallery, Tallinn

2023 Memories of the landscape, in Toompea castle with Lilli-Krõõt Repnau ja Kaija Kesa

2022  (temporary).normal.tangled,  Metropol Kapp Gallery, Tallinn

2022  Firewhip,  Metropol 6m2 Gallery, Tallinn

ARTIST VOICE 

My visual perception has been influenced by the abandoned, stalker-like landscape I experienced in my childhood and later in the post-Soviet era. There is something mysterious, unclear, yet not gloomy about it. It is familiar, I can navigate it. Wasteland and the city, its ordered rhythms and spaces invisible at first glance. Pauses for breath. Places that have been passed through hundreds of times, from which fragments of information captured in the subconscious begin to form their own world in sediments. The occasional absurdity and shifts of life. This takes shape and manifests itself through my works.

Layered thinking and the wide range of techniques that graphic arts offers continue to inspire.