Carl-Robert Kagge Estonian, b. 1989

Carl-Robert Kagge is an artist and graphic designer based in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a BA in Graphic Design (2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art (2020). His practice moves between painting, printmaking, graphic language, and image-based processes, combining silkscreen, spray paint, and layered painterly gestures into hybrid works that test the durability, instability, and transformation of images. Working through repetition, fragmentation, and reprinting, Kagge treats the image as something continuously shifting rather than fixed. His works often begin from abstracted visual fragments, marks, or degraded forms that pass through multiple physical and mechanical processes, where traces of pressure, transfer, registration, and failure remain visible on the surface. Balancing control with accident, his practice explores how images persist, erode, and mutate through circulation and reproduction. The resulting works exist between painting and print: neither fully readable nor fully erased, but suspended in a state of continuous translation.