Helena
Tahir

Born in 1991, Jesenice (SI)
Lives and works in Ljubljana (SI)

Helena Tahir (1992) primarily creates in graphic art and drawing. She completed her undergraduate studies in graphic art and her graduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana. As a student, she received further training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Her monumental, rich, and detail-saturated visual narratives require slow and rigorous reading. Thanks to her consistent and thorough examination of the medium, every artwork represents a new technical challenge. Helena Tahir has presented herself with several independent exhibitions, for example, at Lamut Visual Art Salon in Kostanjevica na Krki (2018), International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (2020), Gallery Ravne KGLU (2021), and RAVNIKAR GALLERY SPACE (2022), as well as many group shows in Slovenia and abroad. In 2022, she will also premiere at the international art fair Art Rotterdam. She currently lives and works between Jesenice and Ljubljana.

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Imaginaries of Elsewhere (I), 2022
Mixed Media on Paper
30 x 42 cm

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Imaginaries of Elsewhere (II), 2022
Mixed Media on Paper
30 x 42 cm

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Imaginaries of Elsewhere (III), 2022
Mixed Media on Paper
30 x 42 cm

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Study I, 2022
Words Fail Me
Drawing on Paper
50 x 70 cm

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Study II, 2022
Words Fail Me
Drawing on Paper
50 x 70 cm

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Words Fail Me
Pencil on Paper, #triptych
88 x 122 cm

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Words Fail Me
Pencil on Paper, #triptych
88 x 122 cm

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Words Fail Me
Pencil on Paper, #triptych
88 x 122 cm

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Miltown, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 110 cm

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Trick or Treat, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 110 cm

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Adolescent Apathy, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm

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Poetics of Childhood I, 2018
Orig. colored linocut and handmade print on felt
150 x 80 cm

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Poetics of Childhood III, 2018
Orig. colored linocut and handmade print on felt
150 x 80 cm

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Poetics of Childhood IV, 2020
Linocut and handmade print on felt
126 x 86 cm

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Poetics of Childhood V, 2020
Linocut and handmade print on felt
200 x 120 cm

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Jesenice IV, 2020
Drawing, Pencil
70 x 50 cm

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Jesenice V, 2020
Drawing, Pencil
70 x 50 cm

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Jesenice I, 201
Drawing, Pencil
70 x 50 cm

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Jesenice III, 2020
Drawing, Pencil
50 x 35 cm

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Jesenice VI, 2020
Drawing, Pencil
100 x 70 cm

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Jesenice II, 2018
Drawing, Pencil
70 x 50 cm

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Poetics of Childhood II, 2016
Colored pencils 
100 x 175 cm 

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Poetics of Childhood II, 2016
Colored pencils 
100 x 175 cm

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Poetics of Childhood II, 2016
Colored pencils 
100 x 175 cm