Kristen Rästas (b. 1992) is an Estonian artist. He has graduated from the faculty of fine art at the Estonian Academy of Arts BA in 2015 and MA in 2019. Rästas has taken additional courses in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary and in Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of Arts in Gent, Belgium. The artist has been participating in exhibitions since 2012 and he has held or participated at exhibitions in Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Iceland and Belgium. Rästas works as an interdisciplinary artist who involves painting, conceptualist art and various multimedia projects in his artwork. His recent artwork has studied virtual and artificial landscapes, digital errors and the general obscurity of being an artist. Kristen Rästas is one of the artists working under the pseudonym Robin Ellis Meta and a co-founder of post-gallery.online web-based gallery. The artist lives and works in Berlin and Tallinn.
2016–2019 Estonian Academy of Arts, fine arts, MA
2018 KASK the School of Arts Gent, fine arts, MA, exchange program
2014 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, fine arts, BA, exchange program
2011–2015 Estonian Academy of Arts, fine arts, BA
2023 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, online
2023 Look up. Look up in the sky. roam project space, Berlin, DE
2021 Somewhere over the rainbow II. Tartu Art House small gallery, Tartu, EE
2021 The Caretaker. Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, EE
2021 Robin Ellis Meta, Kelli Gedvil, Kristen Rästas: Grow Up Get Over It, roam project space, Berlin, DE
2020 Somewhere over the rainbow. Vent Space, Tallinn, EE
2020 pHoNe bAd, bOOk gOOd. with Kelli Gedvil, post-gallery.online, online
2019 Robin Ellis Meta: New Year, New Me. with Kelli Gedvil and Anu Lehis, Post-Gallery pop-up gallery, Antwerpen, BE
2018 Stop! Breaking the fourth wall is a bad idea! with Victoria Holdt, KASK the School of Arts Gent glass corridor, Gent, BE
2018 Robin Ellis Meta: U+1F6AE. with Kelli Gedvil and Anu Lehis, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, EE
2018 Borders Within². Pärnu Artists’ House gallery, Pärnu, EE
2025 ETHER 2.0, Galería Cromática, Mexico City, MX
2025 Humor my love, Humor II. Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin, DE
2024 XOXO Solidarity art market, ASK, Berlin, DE
2024 Humor my love, Humor. roam project space, Berlin, DE
2024 Don't Look Before You Leap. Artrovert Gallery, Tallinn, EE
2024 Perpetum Mobile. Estonian Embassy in Berlin, Berlin, DE
2024 Mettalisches Fest / Techocene Tempelhof 2024, Zebrahaus, Berlin, DE
2024 Love, heat, sweat, tears, roam project space, Berlin, DE
2023 YEAH, BUT ... Rabbithole, Berlin, DE
2023 Squeeeeeze! KVETCH x BLVSH x COVEN: Vorspiel (CTM and Transmediale festival), Mensch Meier, Berlin, DE
2023 Quicky - why not? Eberswalder Straße 30, Berlin, DE
2022 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
2020 Selected artists by Rebel Art Management: Lekko, Djourina, post-gallery.online, Eberswalder Str. 30 Berlin, DE
2020 Arcadia. Infinite life gallery, Tallinn, EE
2019 Young Painters Prize'19 finalist show. Titanikas gallery, Vilnius, LT
2019 TASE'19 graduation show. Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE
2018 Mind Mapping. Vaal gallery, Tallinn, EE
2018 Home and Away. Viljandi City gallery, Viljandi, EE
2025 Work Party, DAS Institute, Berlin, DE
2024 Roaminale #3 screen, roam project space, Berlin, DE
2023 Roaminale #2 screen: Robin Ellis Meta. roam project space, Berlin, DE
2019 ARS film festival AFF 2019: Robin Ellis Meta. ARS house project room, Tallinn, EE
2015 TASE FILM. Sõprus cinema, Tallinn, EE
2025 Quiet Memory, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, EE
2020–2023 post-gallery.online. Co-founder and co-curator of the web gallery programme
2021 POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair. with Kogo Gallery, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, DE
2021 Direkte Auktion II slot 15: I Miss Who I thought I Was. roam, Berlin, DE
2017 Tartu Young Art Auction. Tartu Centre for Creative Industries, Tartu, EE
2016 Tartu Young Art Auction. Tartu Centre for Creative Industries, Tartu, EE
2016 Tartu Young Art Auction. Tartu Centre for Creative Industries, Tartu, EE
2015 Tartu Young Art Auction. Tartu Centre for Creative Industries, Tartu, EE
2024 Second Chair of German-Estonian Society in Berlin (Deutsch-Estnische Gesellschaft Berlin e.V.)
2021 Member of the board of MTÜ Eesti-Saksa Kunstikoostöö
2020 Member of the Estonian Artists' Union
2020 post-gallery.online web gallery co-founder and curator
2017 Robin Ellis Meta pseudonym artist grouping co-founder and member