August Joost ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Estonia

August Joost (2003) is an artist working mainly in the medium of figurative oil painting. His practice is rooted in recovering ways of looking implicit in the early modern European painting tradition, applied as a method to interrogate the contemporary queer(ed) body. He seeks to understand the violence necessary for a body to conform to a normative ideal and depict a human form burdened by its own meaning. He graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2026 with a degree in painting and has received the EKA Young Artist Stipend 2026, the Young Painter Prize 2025 and the Astrid and Arnold Kalmus Memorial Fond Stipend 2025. He is currently enrolled in the Contemporary Art masters programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts.