One more week to enjoy the current exhibition SITE & SELF: FRAGMENTS OF SPACES INHABITED at your favourite, one and only artist-run gallery. This art show is realized by second-year MAKK/MACA students Anna Ovtšinnikova, Elo Vahtrik, Fausta Noreikaite, Giulio Cussinato. Framed as an open field of inquiry, the show invites reflection on co-existence within the limits of shared spaces of (be)longing. Photo by Giulio Cussinato
Join us on May 1, 2026, for the opening reception of Site and Self: Fragments of Spaces Inhabited. The exhibition brings together the work of Anna Ovtšinnikova, Elo Vahtrik, Fausta Forekaitė, and Giulio Cusinato. It expands the notion of home (spaces that serve as shelters, holding temporary bodies in relative safety) into the public urban landscape, where those same bodies become increasingly exposed.
A warm invitation to Hayden Daughtry's:
“𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘯”
Opening March 27th at 18:00,
then to be visited 28.03 - 05.04
Mon-Thu By appointment
Fri-Sun 14:00 - 18:00
“A prairie dog town refers to the vast underground networks of tunnels and chambers constructed by prairie dogs across the grasslands. At the surface, these colonies appear as little more than a dispersed field of cone-shaped mounds. Beneath this modest topography, however, lies an extensive and highly organized architecture: a labyrinth of tunnels connecting nesting chambers, waste disposals, listening bays, nurseries, and bolt holes, before branching into distinct wards and family burrows.
Prairie Dog Town takes this subterranean architecture as both structure and allegory. The exhibition turns toward other underground networks—such as those operating within the logic of cartoons—where the burrow becomes a conceptual passage. Moving below the visible surface, tunnels open onto chambers of a more devious nature: spaces where logics conceal themselves, circulate, and multiply.” - H.D.
“Prairie Dog Town” is Hayden Daughtry’s inaugural show in Estonia. Originally from South Carolina, entering the European art scene through the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Hayden lets the uncanny constructs of the outside seep into the gallery, places where it might not otherwise allow. Sometimes a playful veneer might be a scratchcard with an inverse prize. His work takes shape to its surroundings.
To inaugurate the reopening of Uus Rada gallerii, we invite you to “𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴” from the 16th to the 25th of January.
The show features reprises in new configurations by the artists 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘞𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨-𝘙𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯, 𝘙𝘰𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘚𝘪𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯, & 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘫𝘶𝘴. After the sprint, the boot must be tightened again.
Comprising various forms - sculptural, video, pictorial - the exhibition balances a precarious mood between playful suffocation and a tentative step. This tinged-sinister roundabout leads through experimentation of material to a provisional illumination.
The exhibition opens on the 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 and can furthermore be visited from 𝟏𝟕-𝟎𝟏 𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝟓-𝟎𝟏 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.
About The Birds
Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight / @isthisit_gallery
Artists: Anastasiia Krapivina, Kroplya, Denis Kudrjasov, Olev Kuma, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Kertu Rannula, Nora Schmelter, Aidan Timmer and Edvard Vellevoog
Opening 10th June, 6-9pm
(open 11.06-22.06 by appointment, dm @bobbicknellknight )
The curatorial platform isthisit? is excited to present About The Birds, an exhibition at Uus Rada that explores house sparrows, their ubiquity and resilience, alongside their status as invasive pests. Stemming from an interest in how pervasive and common this species of bird has become, and how they have spread all over the world, About The Birds is an exhibition exploring ideas surrounding the home, transformation and change.
Each artist in the exhibition was provided with a custom-built wooden bird house, made specifically for house sparrows. They were given free reign with what to do with the structure, enabling the artists to produce a new work of art that echoes their ongoing practice whilst asking them to reflect on their own relationship to this common bird.
𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄, 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄, 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄, 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄, 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄
Invitation to the exhibition of Nora Schmelter’s two weeks residency.
Saturday, 17.05. 13-18h
Sunday, 18.05. 13-21h*
*with a exhbition finissage starting from 15h with coffee and snacks on Sunday.
Site specific installation.
Mixed media with recorded and live image and sound.
The gallery becomes a point of observation—a space to sit, listen, and watch. But rather than centering the viewer, everything inside the space is pointing to the outside. Interior perception is conditioned by external presence. The forest enters the gallery. Reflections blur the boundary between inside and outside. The only time being inside is from the outside-inside space.
The work moves around cycles, continuity, options, duality, one fragment multiplied. presence. There’s a sense of structure, but it stays open—more suggestion than system. Time is understood less like a straight line, more like stages overlapping—looping, returning, unfolding. A shifting sequence.
Nora Schmelter (1996) is a german artist currently based in Tallinn. In her practice, she explores the aspect of illusion and delusion, time and image, digital and analogue spatiality. Engaging with the perception of various coexisting realities, she works with spatial installations by using different mediums. Her work is often site-sensitive, analysing the location and the format of exhibition-making.
We are pleased to invite you to “In the Heat of Becoming” — a one-night exhibition taking place on Sunday, May 18th, at Raja building, an artists space in the suburbs of Tallinn.
This site-specific exhibition explores states of transition, using Raja´s history as a place of artistic process and transformation as a background for reflecting on cycles of personal rebirth.
Featuring a performance by Fanny Möller, Filippo Cenni and Kateřina Kalinovà the exhibition centers on themes of change, inner shift, and reflection. The performance will begin at 18:00 and lead the audience through the space and its surroundings. Sculpture and painting will be installed throughout the area, with a bonfire as a communal focal point.
The exhibition will be open for one evening only: Sunday, May 18, from 17:00–21:00 at Raja building (Raja 11a, Tallinn)
‘Triptych’ by Mari Männa at Uus Rada gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. Photography: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo @manna.mari@uusrada #echogonewrongmagazine #echogonewrong
We're honoured to take over this account for a while. Can't wait to see you at Uus Rada on 25.04 19:00 for the opening performance of "Put Yourself Out There".
“Put Yourself Out There / Pane end väljale” is a documentary-performative exhibition by Shion Yokoo @shion.yokoo Triin Kauber @triinkauber and Jaana Persidski @jaanap2rsia that explores the culture of job hunting and the possible ways in which a freelance artist can find work. The project reflects the prevailing attitudes in job hunting culture, where the emphasis is on the job seeker’s ability to sell themselves or, if necessary, humiliate themselves, to create an impressive CV that matches the offers, and to have the boldness to find employers and offer themselves to them.
During the exhibition there will be three performative actions:
April 25th 19:00 opening of exhibition
April 27th 17:00
May 1st 19:00 exhibition finissage
Exhibition will be open 25.04 at 19:00 and remain open 26.04-01.05 14:00-19:00.
Operator and montage: Tom Tristan Kidron @tom_tristan_kidron
Technical support: Marko Odar
Special thanks: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Comdecor, Metsvintage, Telliskivi Creative City, Estonian Academy of Arts, and Tallinn University
