Maria Kapajeva

Maria Kapajeva is an artist whose work explores questions of identity and gender through states of in-betweenness and transition, often bringing peripheral stories into the visible centre. Her works are held in museum collections such as the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tartu Art Museum. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is a recipient of the Estonian artist salary. Her past exhibitions include By Losing Them, I Become a Whole at Kogo Gallery in Tartu (2025), When the World Blows Up, I Hope to Go Down Dancing at Tallinn Art Hall Gallery (2020) and Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear at Narva Art Residency (2017).