Mihkel Maripuu

Mihkel Maripuu (b. 1987) is an artist examining the evolution of visual language in the digital era, addressing its impact on contemporary aesthetics and materiality. His practice interrogates the shifting dynamics between technological systems and organic worlds, tracing moments where the two collapse into one another. Through compressed, multi-layered, and at times aggressively rendered compositions, Maripuu constructs environments in-which digital logic glitches into painterly materiality, creating a space of tension, resistance and reinvention. Through a dynamic, boundary-pushing practice, he defines the intersections between the illusory and material in contemporary art.

His work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions across Estonia and internationally, including Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Greece. He holds a BA from the University of Tartu, Institute of Cultural Research, Department of Painting and an MA from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting.

Maripuu has been nominated for numerous awards, including the AkzoNobel Art Prize (2024, 2019), Kristjan Raud Art Award (2020), Konrad Mägi Art Award (2019) and the Young Painter Prize (2013).