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. Rästas builds imagined landscapes and speculative worlds out of personal, often bodily source material — altered states of perception, memory, and psychological drift — rendered through painting, VR, and sculptural form. These worlds sit somewhere between the natural and the artificial, the remembered and the invented. Recurring themes of alienation, escape, and detachment surface across the work, as inner experience and external environment gradually lose their distinction.
Selected Personal Exhibitions
Wake Me Up When It's All Over
Down the Rabbit-hole
Look up. Look up in the sky
Somewhere over the rainbow II
The Caretaker
Grow Up Get Over It
Somewhere over the rainbow
pHoNe bAd, bOOk gOOd
New Year, New Me
Stop! Breaking the fourth wall is a bad idea!
Borders Within2
Selected Group Exhibitions
Tõde ja õigus 100. Sada pilku romaanile
ETHER 2.0
Humor my love, Humor II
Humor my love, Humor
XOXO Solidarity Art Market
Don't Look Before You Leap
Perpetum Mobile
Mettalisches Fest / Techocene Tempelhof 2024
Love, heat, sweat, tears
YEAH, BUT ...
Squeeeeeze!
Quicky – why not?
Exercises for Dreamkeeping
It's Lonely in the Metaverse
A Fluid State of Mind: Baltic Painting in the Expanded Field
Lekko / Djourina / post-gallery.online
Arcadia
Young Painters Prize '19 Finalist Show
Mind Mapping
Home and Away
Curation
Quiet Memory
post-gallery.online