On Thursday, September 11, at 6 pm, Katrin Piile will open her solo exhibition “Nothing Blooms Always – After Still Life” at Tütar gallery.
Art historian Andreas Trossek writes in the exhibition text: “It is difficult to find a match for the technical virtuosity of the painter who was awarded the Konrad Mägi Prize in 2024. Katrin Piile’s painting is an excellent example of a decoy image, a convincingly familiar optical illusion (trompe l’oeil) on a two-dimensional canvas surface – a fleeting sensation where an optically recognizable image suddenly becomes spatial in the mind, and picture and space merge into one. As viewers, we instinctively believe that what we are seeing is true, even though our reason tells us it cannot be so.”
Katrin Piile graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a degree in painting in 2010, although she has been exhibiting her work since 2006. Piile became a member of the Estonian Painters Association in 2019 and joined the Estonian Artists Association in 2023. In 2020, she was awarded an art prize by the heirs of Malle Leis, renowned during her lifetime as a master floral painter. In 2024, Katrin Piile received the Konrad Mägi award, the oldest and highest professional honor for painters in Estonia, which, according to regulations, can be awarded only once in a lifetime.
Exhibition text: Andreas Trossek
Graphic design: Ott Metusala
“Nothing Blooms Always – After Still Life” will remain open until October 19 and is free to the public.
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
