Katrin Piile
Katrin Piile (1987) is a painter living and working in Tallinn. She graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with a degree in painting (BA 2010) and has been exhibiting her work since 2006. Her hyperrealistic paintings and drawings are characterized by precise detail, a large volume of work, and intelligent humor.
Piile’s practice focuses on combining technical painting skills, color composition, art history, and various modes of representation into larger, idea-driven series. Her works blend hyperrealism and abstraction, allowing for a playful and critical approach to both subject matter and technique. For example, she portrays abstract color palettes with hyperrealistic precision, creating a balance between hyperrealism’s reputation for mechanical repetition and showiness and abstraction’s qualities of spontaneity and unpredictability.
Katrin Piile has been awarded with Malle Leis Art Prize (2020) and Konrad Mägi Prize (2024).
Recent exhibitions by Katrin Piile include “Symbiosis” (2024) at Tartu Art House with sculptor Art Allmägi, “Nothing and Other Such” (2024) at Haapsalu City Gallery, “Origami” (2023) at Hobusepea Gallery and Pärnu City Gallery with Art Allmägi, and “In Search of Idyll” (2023) at Tütar gallery.
Katrin Piile is represented by Tütar gallery.
