Maria Ader (b. 1984, Tallinn, Estonia) graduated from the Department of Arts, University of Tartu in 2008. She accomplished her studies at the East London College in 2009-2010 and completed a MA in Painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2011. Her artistic practice works on improvisation and pop tones. Maria’s large abstract paintings create a new sensorial space where traditions and contemporaneity embody a sense of timelessness. Inspired by urban environments (graffiti) as well as body art, her artworks becomes an act of creation where the potential of a new reality is released.