About

Kristen Rästas is an interdisciplinary Estonian artist based in Berlin, working primarily with painting and video/VR. His practice spans installation and moves fluidly between digital and physical media. Drawing on landscape motifs and shifting visual languages, he constructs speculative environments that blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. These immersive situations reflect states of alienation, escape, and detachment, inviting viewers into spaces where perception becomes unstable. Rästas' work explores the fragility of existence and the porous boundaries between inner experience, environment, and mediated reality.

Selected Personal Exhibitions

Wake Me Up When It's All Over
with Kelli Gedvil, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2023
Down the Rabbit-hole
with Victoria Holdt, post-gallery.online, web, 2023
Look up. Look up in the sky
roam project space, Berlin, DE, 2023
Somewhere over the rainbow II
Tartu Art House Small Gallery, Tartu, EE, 2021
The Caretaker
Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2021
Grow Up Get Over It
with Kelli Gedvil and Robin Ellis Meta, roam project space, Berlin, DE, 2021
Somewhere over the rainbow
Vent Space, Tallinn, EE, 2020
pHoNe bAd, bOOk gOOd
with Kelli Gedvil, post-gallery.online, web, 2020
New Year, New Me
with Robin Ellis Meta (Kelli Gedvil and Anu Lehis), Post-Gallery Pop-Up Gallery, Antwerp, BE, 2019
Stop! Breaking the fourth wall is a bad idea!
with Victoria Holdt, KASK School of Arts, Ghent, BE, 2018
Borders Within2
Pärnu Artists’ House Gallery, Pärnu, EE, 2018

Selected Group Exhibitions

Tõde ja õigus 100. Sada pilku romaanile
Kastellaanimaja Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2026
ETHER 2.0
Galería Cromática, Mexico City, MX, 2025
Humor my love, Humor II
Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin, DE, 2025
Humor my love, Humor
roam project space, Berlin, DE, 2025
XOXO Solidarity Art Market
ASK, Berlin, DE, 2024
Don't Look Before You Leap
Artrovert Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2024
Perpetum Mobile
Estonian Embassy, Berlin, DE, 2024
Mettalisches Fest / Techocene Tempelhof 2024
Zebrahaus, Berlin, DE, 2024
Love, heat, sweat, tears
BLAM Festival, roam project space, Berlin, DE, 2024
YEAH, BUT ...
48H Neukölln Festival, Rabbithole, Berlin, DE, 2023
Squeeeeeze!
KVETCH × BLVSH × COVEN: Vorspiel (CTM & Transmediale Festival), Mensch Meier, Berlin, DE, 2023
Quicky – why not?
Eberswalder Straße 30, Berlin, DE, 2023
Exercises for Dreamkeeping
Balcony Gallery of Aparaaditehas, Tartu, EE, 2022
It's Lonely in the Metaverse
Rapla County Center for Contemporary Art, Rapla, EE, 2022
A Fluid State of Mind: Baltic Painting in the Expanded Field
Pamėnkalnio Gallery, Vilnius, LT, 2022
Lekko / Djourina / post-gallery.online
Rebel Art Management, Berlin, DE, 2020
Arcadia
Infinite Life Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2020
Young Painters Prize '19 Finalist Show
Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, LT, 2019
Mind Mapping
Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2018
Home and Away
Viljandi City Gallery, Viljandi, EE, 2018

Curation

Quiet Memory
Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, EE, 2025
post-gallery.online
Co-founder and co-curator, 2020–2024