Ejti Štih: Red and Gold

Ejti Štih: Red and Gold
14 June–20 July 2024
MMC KIBLA/KiBela

You are cordially invited to the opening of Ejti Štih's solo exhibition Red and Gold, which will take place on Friday, 14 June 2024, at 7 p.m. at the KiBela space for art.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)

With a strong painterly sensibility, painter Ejti Štih depicts scenes of the real world and people's unfriendly everyday life, where many just look away. The artist addresses often overlooked themes that are still unresolved, yet strive for being resolved.

The artist paints the hardships, doubts, difficulties, accusations and guilt experienced by women. She paints them in red, the color of blood and struggle. The color of infinity is represented by gold, which is also important in her entire oeuvre, and every woman will come into this infinity.

Biography

Ejti Štih was born on 25 November 1957 in Kranj, Slovenia. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, and after graduation she studied with the academic painter Krsto Hegedušić in Zagreb, Croatia.
Since 1982 she has been living and working in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Her artistic career so far has included painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations and printmaking. She has illustrated books, magazines and newspapers, and designed posters. She has taught drawing and painting at the Atelier of Visual Arts in Puerta Abierta in Santa Cruz.
As a costume and set designer she has worked on more than fifty theatre productions in Slovenia, Bolivia and Spain. She has also designed masks and carnival costumes.
She designed the church furnishings for the Misiones de Chiquitos International Festival of Renaissance and Baroque Music in Bolivia.

< Ejti Štih: Bandage, acrylic on canvas, 2017

MMC KIBLA/KiBela, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor
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