Sandra Jõgeva (1976) is an interdisciplinary artist (BA from the Painting Department at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2000, MA from the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts) who, in recent years, has focused on art-themed documentary films.
The portrait documentary on Mare Tralla was released in 2022, while Art and the Cold War was released in 2024.
Currently in production are The Spirit of Ando Keskküla and Live Fast, Die Old, featuring the artist Raul Meel and his wife, the writer Mari Saat.
Since early 2026, Sandra Jõgeva has had her own art-themed YouTube channel featuring the programme Välja sõit/Fieldnotes, which focuses on endeavours outside the mainstream, both geographically and in other respects.
In terms of Sandra Jõgeva’s artistic activities in recent years the most noteworthy project is Pied-à-terre, which was first exhibited in her studio in Tallinn’s Old Town in October 2025 and was further developed from May to July 2026 in a solo exhibition Do you know what happened to Hanif Kureishi? at MIGA in Tartu. Also, the solo exhibition Servant of the People at the Metropol Gallery in Tallinn in February 2026. Prior to that she took part in the curatorial exhibitions Woman & Woman by Marian Grau (formerly Kivila) at the Pärnu City Gallery in the summers of 2019 and 2021, and a solo exhibition titled Twenty Years Later at the Fahle Gallery in late 2020, coinciding with the exhibition of the installation Seven Deadly Sins at the Solaris Gallery. She also took part in the solo exhibition Seven Deadly Sins at Pärnu Fotofest in 2020, and participated in the 13th Baltic Triennial in Riga in 2018.
In October 2021, the video work My Adventures in the Estonian Social System (co-created with Teet Raudsepp), produced for this occasion, was uploaded to YouTube; in June, Sandra Jõgeva’s third book, the novella One Day in the Year 0 (Rahva Raamat), was published.
Sandra Jõgeva has received the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s Audiovisual Arts Endowment Fund Prize for her debut film Love… (2018), as well as the EFTA Documentary of the Year Award and the Estonian Documentary Guild’s Peer Award Doki Kild for the same film; the Cultural Endowment Visual Arts Prize and targeted grant in 2004 for the work of the Avangard collective, together with Margus Tamm; and the Betti Alver Debut Prize for her collection of short stories Draamapunkt in 2009.