“Site & Self: Fragments of Spaces Inhabited” at Uus Rada Gallery

Exhibition opening 01.05 at 6:00 PM

Artists participating in the exhibition: Anna Ovtšinnikova, Elo Vahtrik, Fausta Noreikaite, Giulio Cusinato

Graphic design: Elo Vahtrik

Drawings: Giulio Cusinato

The exhibition explores the relationship between urban space and the individual, focusing on how environments are experienced, navigated, and internally recorded. The city is approached not as a fixed structure, but as something continuously shaped through perception, object, movement, memory, and different forms of inhabitation.

Framed as an open field of inquiry, the show invites reflection on co-existence within the limits of shared spaces of (be)longing. “Site” appears in fragments: streets, surfaces, transitions, overlooked details. “Self” emerges as observer, documentalist, and inhabitant, negotiating, questioning, and/or passing by these environments.

Extending from questions of home, spaces that function as shelters holding temporary bodies in relative safety, to public urban landscapes where that same body becomes increasingly exposed, this shift from interior to exterior reveals a tension between protection and visibility, and highlights the instability of boundaries between private and public space.

Situated within Uus Rada Gallery in Tallinn, a student-run space positioned slightly outside the main institutional circuits of the city, the exhibition also reflects on its own site of presentation. The gallery becomes part of the same spatial inquiry it hosts, where access, visibility, and movement are quietly negotiated. Rather than functioning as a neutral container, the exhibition space extends the conditions it examines, situating the works within a threshold between institution, everyday passage, and shared urban terrain.

The exhibition is open: 

01.05.2026-16.05.2026 
Fri-Sun 16:00-20:00; 
During the week, upon appointment

We thank the Department of Fine Arts for their support.