Merilin Talumaa is a curator, art historian and cultural manager from Tallinn. She has graduated from the Department of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is also a graduate of Environmental studies from University of Tartu.
Her practice has evolved around research about artists' studio and work environments and notions of migration and belonging. Her recent on-going projects include Roots to Routes (since 2020) – a curatorial initiative gathering a community of artists, curators and cultural producers - as well as the books Your Time Is My Time, Mousse Publishing and Roots to Routes, 2023 and Artists' spaces : 16 studio visits, Estonian Academy of Arts Press, 2017, both of wich she produced in collaboration with Annika Toots.