Katrin Koskaru Biography

Katrin Koskaru is an Estonian painter born in 1977. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and the Estonian Academy of Arts, she has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Pascaline Mulliez in Paris in 2016 and at the Marlborough Fine Art Gallery in London in 2014. Her paintings have also been shown in group exhibitions at the Kumu Museum in Tallinn in 2007 and 2012 and at the Tallinn Art Hall (Tallinna Kunstihoone) in 2014. Katrin Koskaru has been a member of L’ahah since 2017.

SOLO SHOW

2020
  • The line of little figures, L’ahah #Moret, Paris, France
2019
  • Get in the shadow ! Get in the shadow ! Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia

2017

  • He fell silent, Egg Visual Art, Livorno, Italy
2016
  • War Poems, Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, France
2014
  • Come To Close Quarters, Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
2006
  • Anna Politkovskaja, Gallery Haus, Tallinn, Estonia

GROUP SHOW

2017
  • Anu Põder. Be Fragile ! Be Brave!, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonie, curator : Rebeka Põldsam
2015
  • House For Hanging, avec Margarita Glutzenberg and Sanja Todorovic, Westminster Waste, London, UK
  • Explosive Standards, La Petite Galerie, Paris, France
2014
  • Can’t Go On, Must Go On, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Estonia
  • PAS(S)AGES, Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, France
2013
  • RCA Show 2013, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • RCA Secret Postcards, Howie street, London, UK
2012
  • Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Summer Show, RCA, London, UK
2011
  • RCA Work In Progress, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007
  • Continuous Past. Signs of the Soviet Era in Recent Estonian Art, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 8am till 5pm, with Alvar Reisner and Elis Saareväli, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

PRICE AND RESIDENCY

2015
  • Résidence, Galerie Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, France
2013
  • Valerie Beston Studio Award
2012
  • SA Archimedes, Kristjan Jaak Grant
2006
  • Faculty of Fine Arts Graduate Grant
2004
  • Margaret Kevendi Grant

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS REVIEWS

2016
  • Marie Maertens, « Les abstractions de Katrin Koskaru », Connaissance des arts, February 2016.
  • Lucien Rieul, « Notre rencontre avec Katrin Koskaru », Les jeudis arty, April 2016.
2014
  • Hunter Braithwaite, entretien, Kunst.ee and Art:icurate
2013
  • People de la Muse a typical Artist poem 2013, publication par les étudiants diplômés du département peinture du Royal College of Art, London
2005
  • 22+Young Estonian Artists, éd. Karin Laansoo

FORMATION

2011 — 2013
  • Royal College of Art, Londres, MA Painting
2002 — 2005
  • Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, BA
1998 — 2002
  • Tartu Art College, Textile Design, Diploma

Katrin Koskaru

Contemporary

Painting

Estonian artist born in Estonia. 

Themes
Abstraction, société

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