Sirje Runge

Sirje Runge (born 19 August 1950) is an Estonian painter and designer associated with Geometric abstraction and minimalist painting. A major 2025–2026 survey exhibition at Kai Art Center presented her work across five decades and highlighted her sustained interest in light, colour, and perception.

Runge emerged within the experimental art and design scene in Soviet Estonia around the turn of the 1970s, and she helped initiate the unofficial 1975 art event Harku ’75 in Harku. Since 2008 she has taught at Tallinn University, including as a professor of fine arts.