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Trotoar Artists

Helena Tahir

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Helena~3
Enki Enki
Dear father, installation views, trotoar, photo by d. Žižić (11)
Annazah Annazah
Dear father, installation views, trotoar, photo by d. Žižić (16)
The Last Sector, Tracing Back My Father’s Unspoken Past The Last Sector, Tracing Back My Father’s Unspoken Past
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Videotape from My Iraqi Family (Post-Regime Fall) Videotape from My Iraqi Family (Post-Regime Fall)

Helena Tahir (Jasenice, Slovenia, 1991) primarily works in the fields of printmaking and drawing. Her monumental, rich, and detail-saturated visual narratives require slow and rigorous reading. Thanks to her consistent and thorough exploration of the medium, each drawing presents her with a new technical challenge.

She has showcased her work at several solo and group exhibitions, including the International Graphic Centre in Ljubljana (Slovenia); ARCO Lisboa (Portugal); the Lamut Salon in Kostanjevica na Krki (Slovenia); the International Graphic Centre in Ljubljana; the Ravne Gallery of the KGLU; RAVNIKAR (Slovenia); the Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich (Germany); and the Migration Museum, London (UK). She was honoured with the Young Artist Award at the International Exhibition of Graphic Art and Artists’ Books in Rijeka.

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Printmaking and a Master’s degree in Painting. During her studies, she attended the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. In 2024, she entered the PhD program at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is an Assistant Professor in the Printmaking Department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Her works are part of various private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the KGLU, Slovenia; the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia; the Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia; the RAVNIKAR Collection; Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and the Modern Art Museum SLU, Niš, Serbia. Helena lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.