MARU$YA KAZAKOVA, also known as BAБAЯGA [BABAJAHGA], is an artist, designer, and shaman whose multidisciplinary practice exists at the intersection of fashion, visual, mystical, and healing arts.

For over a decade, her practice has evolved across disciplines—from internationally recognized fashion to a broader artistic vision where art, fashion, and spirit exist as interconnected expressions of a single universe. Working across wearable art, paintings, objects, installations, performances, private sessions, and participatory experiences, she explores cultural identity, ancestral wisdom, spirituality, and the living relationship between tradition and contemporary life.

At the heart of her practice is the idea of global reindigenization—an exploration of the shared human impulse to reconnect with ancestral knowledge, cultural memory, and our relationship with the living world. Rather than returning to the past, Kazakova seeks to reinvigorate the unifying core that exists across diverse cultural traditions: a place where, through our differences, we recognize our shared humanity. Her work investigates this meeting point, where ancestral knowledge and contemporary culture converge, and where material, spirit, and lived experience become inseparable.

Born in the Soviet Union and rooted in Slavic–Siberian traditions, her work draws from her own cultural heritage while engaging in dialogue with traditional crafts and knowledge systems from around the world. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Kazakova creates spaces for reflection, remembrance, and the restoration of our relationships—with ourselves, with one another, with our ancestors, with culture, and with the living world. Her work invites deeper presence, connection, renewal, and transformation for individuals and communities.