Sirje Runge

Sirje Runge is a painter and teacher, recognised for her geometric abstract and minimalist paintings. In addition to painting, she has also contributed to contemporary art with her philosophy and original teaching method. Since 2008 she has worked as a lecturer at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University. In 2021, at the Estonian Open Air Museum, she presented a project she considers one of her most significant works – Great Love / Beautiful Rotting – where she surrendered her ten-meter oil painting, Great Love (2003), to nature.