Triin Kerge
  • Threads of the Canals
  • Scenes from a lost family album
  • Sand and other sediments
  • Hopscotch
  • Mountains as far as the eye can see
  • Siberian Children
  • Waiting lane
  • If /When /How far is close
  • Place of home
  • About
    • Short bio + CV
  • Threads of the Canals
  • Scenes from a lost family album
  • Sand and other sediments
  • Hopscotch
  • Mountains as far as the eye can see
  • Siberian Children
  • Waiting lane
  • If /When /How far is close
  • Place of home
  • About
    • Short bio + CV

​Triin Kerge is an Estonian artist whose practice transforms archival and family images into hybrid narratives that explore absence, inherited traces, and the persistence of memory. She has exhibited internationally and received the Young Artist Award from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Kerge currently lives between Tallinn and Venice.

Education
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2016 – 2020: Estonian Academy of Arts, Photography, Contemporary Art, MA (cum laude)
2018 – 2019: Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Graphic Art, Kraków, Poland (exchange studies)
2011 – 2014: University of South Wales, Documentary Photography, UK, BA
2010 – 2011: Belfast Metropolitan College, Art and Design Foundation, Northern Ireland

Selected exhibitions
2025 I should be able to, Angelo, Jacob Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2024 Scenes, Tartu University Library, Estonia
2024 Foto Tallinn Fair, Kai Art Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2024 The trace we leave behind with Laura Böök, Ars Libera gallery, Kuopio, Finland
2023 Pictures of us with Aksel Haagensen, Kuressaare Raegaleriis
2022 Pictures of You with Aksel Haagensen, Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
2021 Hopscotch with Aksel Haagensen, EKA Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2021 Off We Go! with Aksel Haagensen, Tartu Art House, Estonia
2020 Off We Go! with Aksel Haagensen, ARS Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2020 How/If/When far is close, Tartu University Library Gallery, Estonia
2019 Siberian Children, Tartu Railway Station, Estonia
2017 Place of Home, Warsaw Photo Days: Post Sovieticus, Warsaw, Poland
2017 How/If/When far is close, Positiiv Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Place of Home, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2014 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2013 Newcomers, Hay-on-Wye, Wales


Awards and Scholarships
2025: Riga Photobiennale Special Award, publication of an artist's book
2020: Estonian Academy of Arts Young Artist Prize
2014: Reginald Salisbury Travel Award






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  • Threads of the Canals
  • Scenes from a lost family album
  • Sand and other sediments
  • Hopscotch
  • Mountains as far as the eye can see
  • Siberian Children
  • Waiting lane
  • If /When /How far is close
  • Place of home
  • About
    • Short bio + CV