Kaj Osteroth, born in 1977, lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2006 as a master student of Stan Douglas and completed her master's degree in ethnology and art history at the Free University of Berlin in 2008. In her paintings, Kaj Osteroth tracks down allies and ghosts and dissects broken relationships and the shift to the right in a majority society that tends towards ignorance. She places her figures in intermediate worlds, astonished, outraged, or simply unaware, confronted with an increasingly threatening shift in perception and common sense, set in rural Brandenburg, already knee-deep in brown sauce.

Kaj Osteroth has taken part in numerous (inter)national exhibitions, residencies and workshops with her own or collective and interdisciplinary formats. Her works have been exhibited here, among others: Villa Romana (Florence), Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Bag Factory Artist's Studios (Johannesburg), IG Bildende Kunst (Vienna), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, nogallery, sign/CIAT, after the butcher and HilbertRaum in Berlin.

Her work is accompanied by a wide variety of collaborative formats and practices. The most important and lasting collaboration was with the artist Lydia Hamann from 2007 to 2021. At the suggestion of curator Yvette Mutumba, the feminist painting duo hamann&osteroth was awarded the Villa Romana Prize in 2020.