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Mare Tralla (1967) is an Estonian queer feminist artist and activist, working since the 1990s and focusing mainly on feminist critique and questions of identity, using performance, video, installations and digital technologies.

Tralla studied painting in Estonian Academy of Arts and one of the most significant examples of her early work is the 1995 exhibition „Est.

Fem“, where she participated both as curator and artist. This exhibition is considered to be the first feminist show in Estonia. At “Est.Fem” Tralla exhibited an installation entitled “This is how we gave birth to Estonian feminism” (1995) that brings together the most prominent themes in her work of the 1990s: the position of Eastern European women in transitional societies, expectations for women in newly independent Estonia and the lasting influence of the Soviet period that was perhaps greater than people were willing to admit.

In the end of the 1990s Tralla began increasingly working with