Katrin Valgemae

Katrin Valgemäe (Katrin Valgemae, b. 1979) is an Estonian contemporary artist based in Tallinn, working in oil painting, ink drawing and porcelain. She takes everyday symbols of beauty, value and the good life (the ad, the china cabinet, the kitchen) and puts them where they stop behaving: ironic, figurative and often political works about femininity, consumer culture, power and desire. She studied painting and ceramics at the Estonian Academy of Arts and painting at the Art Academy of Latvia. Solo exhibitions include “Queens of Chaos” (Myymälä2, Helsinki, 2023) and “Eat Fight Repeat” (Helsinki, 2026). Her work has been shown in Estonia, Finland and Lithuania and is in private collections in Europe and Taiwan.

Education MA
2016— Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Painting
2017—2018 Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Ceramics, exchange programme

Education BA
2010—2015 Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Painting, BA
2012—2013 Art Academy of Latvia, painting. Erasmus exchange student
2004—2009 Tallinn College of Tallinn University of Technology, Economics, BA

Solo Exhibitions
2026 EAT FIGHT REPEAT, Galleriia Katariina, Helsinki, Finland
2023 "Queens of Chaos", Gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland
2022 "Estonian Preacher", Castellan House Gallery, Tallinn
2021 "16 Round Princesses", Staapli Gallery, Estonia
2017 "Paranoia in an Art Hall", Gallery 3,14, Estonia
2016 "I Am Romantic at Heart, But Life Has Gone Trivial", Rakvere Theatre, Estonia
2016 Solo show, during the BALTOSCANDAL festival, Rakvere Theatre, Estonia
2013 "Stranger", Draakoni Gallery, Estonia
2012 "One Story", Draakoni Gallery, Estonia