
darja popolitova
education
2017 – heden EKA Estonian Academy of Arts, Arts and Design, PhD, Prof Kadri Mälk, Dr Raivo Kelomees, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 – 2015 EKA Estonian Academy of Arts, Jewellery and Blacksmithing (cum laude), Prof Kadri Mälk, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 – 2013 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Studio S+M+L+XL Metal and Jewellery, Prof Karol Weisslechner, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 – 2012 Estonian Academy of Arts, Glass art and design, Prof Mare Saare, Tallinn, Estonia
exhibitions
since 2013
awards
2013 Young Estonian Jewellery Award
work in public collections
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Estonia
Jewellery and Blacksmithing department’s collection, Tallinn, Estonia
Collection of Sillamäe Museum, Estonia
about the work
A powerful piece of jewellery is an essence; it is resulted from fusion of humility and desire. The fusion is a quality that comes only while controlling its’ richest saturation – poisonous in a big doses. Artist is a perfumer whose fragrance takes physical form only when created by previously written recipe. It’s all somehow intimate. Artist and jewellery become shy lovers allured by unsaid words of love. My collectible jewellery is for big ego and can be treated as contemporary relics. Involving high technologies into a creative process, these works merge innovative and sensual worlds — digitally modified baroque treasures. The topics of my works include androgyny, tactility and digital culture.
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Darja Popolitova, Save As Collection – LOL, ring, 2020, 3D printed silver, photo: courtesy artist, courtesy Galerie Door
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Darja Popolitova, Save As Collection – LALALA, ring, 2020, 3D printed silver, photo: courtesy artist, courtesy Galerie Door
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Darja Popolitova, Save As Collection – >:), ring, 2020, 3D printed silver, photo: courtesy artist, courtesy Galerie Door – (SOLD)
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Darja Popolitova, Save As Collection – Engagement Ring Download, ring, 2020, 3D printed silver, photo: courtesy artist, courtesy Galerie Door
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Darja Popolitova, Save As Collection – LOL, ring, 2020, 3D printed silver, photo: courtesy artist, courtesy Galerie Door
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Darja Popolitova, Hybrid Modus II, 2019, brooch, rubber, silver, steel 90 x 100 x 85 mm, photo: Darja Popolitova
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Darja Popolitova, Drama of Two I, 2018, brooch, CNC milled and chromed wooden part of an ancient ship found from the sea, on Saaremaa island; silver, 120 x 63 x 25 mm – photo: Darja Popolitova (SOLD)
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Darja Popolitova, Drama of Two II, 2018, brooch, CNC milled and chromed wooden part of an ancient ship found from the sea, on Saaremaa island; silver, 93 x 52 x 25 mm, photo: Darja Popolitova
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Darja Popolitova, Hot Not Only Online Phone Case, 2019, object, 3D printed and dyed nylon, iPhone 7 dummy, photo: Darja Popolitova
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Darja Popolitova, Seraphita I, 2019, brooch, 3D printed and chromed starch, silver, 105 mm (length), photo: Darja Popolitova
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Darja Popolitova, Seraphita II, 2019, earrings, 3D printed and chromed starch, silver, 90 – 100 mm (length), photo: Darja Popolitova
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Darja Popolitova, Coincidentia Oppositorum III, 2015, brooch, reconstructed horn, silver, steel, lab created smaragd, 100 x 35 x 17 mm, photo: Darja Popolitova