Over-qualified for the underground

Academic and musician Maria Minerva is edging closer to the mainstream, writes Don O’Mahony

AS WELL as a quirkily written biography, Maria Minerva’s website supplies her CV, an actual résumé outlining her qualifications to date. Earnestly furnished, it could quite easily leave one with feelings of inadequacy.

Born three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Minerva, we are told, graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts cum laude. The 22-year-old then took her art history degree with her to Goldsmiths in London and emerged two years later with an MA in Aural & Visual Cultures.