Eveli Varik

Artist's country of origin: Estonia

Eveli Varik – installation, photography and painting.

Eveli Varik has a degree in graphic design from the Estonian Academy of Arts. In the visual arts, she is known for large-format nude photographs and exploratory social exhibition projects.

Varik has curated Pärnu Art Summer for four years (2014–18) and was the designer of Tartu Annual Exhibition 2020. For nine years, she has worked as the chief artist and gallerist of Rakvere Theatre, where she has curated numerous solo exhibitions of Estonian artists. Alongside her theatre work, Varik has been diving into a variety of materials in recent years, including large-scale installations, which resulted in the winning piece of the Tallinn Port D-terminal art competition, the hanging glass installation “Päikese all” (Under the Sun).

A new photographic direction is the composition of animate and inanimate material in the pictorial space, as could be seen in the exhibitions: Marie Antoniette… LÕHN (Marie Antoniette… SCENT), Valge madu (White Snake) and Gurmaan (Gourmand). Varik is an artist who deals with the aesthetics of space. She is interested in influencing space with design, where she creates a performance on an important theme in advance. Light, colour and the precisely exposed object are in a purified coexistence – in an empty space. Light, mostly invisible but creating the atmosphere. Seeming invisibility creates the most important interaction between man, space and light. A picture is a story.In her work, Varik transforms perspectives both visually and mentally. She asks questions. She is interested in the human being as an object, who, in a slightly strange stillness in relation to timelessness, brings various sensations to the viewer’s consciousness. Photography in her art is a means of capturing different artistic visions in order to reach people. Varik does not stick to one topic. Her ideal is one of infinite progression, where thought and perception are ever-changing, but a certain aesthetic approach in her artistic output is as recognisable as handwriting.

The painting is from a series of works that combine different painting techniques (classical, abstract and photorealism), exploring surprising ways of magic luck.

Varik has also gained recognition as an interior and product designer. Currently a freelance artist, designer and interior designer, doing furniture projects and room designs.