Bolatta Silis-Høegh

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Bolatta Silis-Høegh at a collage workshop for children in the Nordic embassies in Berlin (2018)

Bolatta Tatjana Paarnaq Silis-Høegh [ boˈlatːa tatˈjaːna ˈpɑːnɑq ˈsiːlis høˀ ] (born April 17, 1981 in Qaqortoq ) is a Greenlandic visual artist and children's book author .

life and work

Bolatta Silis-Høegh was born in the south of Greenland. Her father, the Latvian artist, writer and photographer Ivars Sīlis (* 1940), fled to Denmark during the Second World War in 1944 before the Red Army invaded Denmark . In 1976 he married the Greenland artist Aka Høegh (* 1947). The couple's two children also became artists: the filmmaker Inuk Silis-Høegh (* 1972) and his sister Bolatta.

Bolatta Silis-Høegh graduated from the Art Academy in Aarhus, Denmark in 2006 . In 2005 her first exhibition was in Denmark: Den røde snescooter ("The red snow scooter "). Her works have since been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Denmark, Greenland and abroad. Her installation Greenlandic Future Garden from 2010 received the award from the Danish Art Council. The installation Ningiu of 2012 was in the Danish Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale of Venice to see. In 2015 and 2016 her solo exhibitions Lights On Lights Off and STORM went on tour in Scandinavia.

Bolatta Silis-Høegh is also one of the most famous contemporary children's book authors from Greenland. In 2011, she wrote and illustrated the children's book Aima : the story of the first grader of the same name who dreams of what she can do once she grows up. It was published in German in 2018 by the Berlin publishing house Kullerkupp Kinderbuch Verlag in a translation by Carsten Wilms. The follow-up volume Aima qaa schhh! was nominated for the Children's Book and Youth Literature Prize of the Nordic Council in 2016 . In August 2020 the third story by Aima was published in Danish and Greenlandic, Aima møder Fjeldets Moder and Aima Qaqqap Arnaalu .

Private life

Bolatta Silis-Høegh now lives and works mainly in Copenhagen . She is married to the Danish-Greenlandic film producer Emile Hertling Péronard . The couple have two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Greenland Today (November 19, 2014)
  2. ↑ Bolatta Silis-Høegh at litteraturpriser.dk
  3. ↑ Exhibition announcement
  4. ↑ https://www.kullerkupp-kinderbuch.com/gute-kinderbuecher/aima/
  5. ↑ Press announcement
personal data
SURNAME Silis-Høegh, Bolatta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silis-Høegh, Bolatta Tatjana Paarnaq (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic visual artist and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Qaqortoq