Riin Maide's exhibition "Architecture of Margins"

On Wednesday, 11 February at 6:00 PM, Riin Maide will open the exhibition Architecture of Margins at the Draakon Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 8 March 2026.

A marginal note is a note in the margin of a book, manuscript etc.,
also called a side note.

Architecture is a creative practice that shapes the spatial environment needed for living and acting,                                         
                                                                                                                                               the art of construction.

Riin Maide draws on the gallery space to deconstruct the world of scribbles and notes. This results in an installative environment: a sketchy space made out of fragments of memories, notices and observations, combining photography, drawing and installation.

Similarly to notches in a jamb or scratches on parquet indicating that a room has been lived in, a manually underscored line or a handwritten note on the corner of a page signals that a text has been read, that someone has spent time in it, been present in it. 
I am constantly looking for ways to depict spaces and spatial qualities that exist perceptually but have no material form. Margins refer to the realm alongside the fundamental, the projectable and mappable, “at the edges of the page”: memories, feelings and reflections. With Architecture of Margins, I am trying to turn these personal layers into legible drafts, to give the unknown spaces a human scale.
– Riin Maide

Riin Maide (b. 1997) is an artist and scenographer living and working in Tallinn. In her work, she interweaves and juxtaposes spatial and site-specific elements with two-dimensional, often graphic images. Her practice is mostly perception-based, with fragile boundaries and spatial dissonance at its centre. Built elements, installations, scenographic tools and symbols intertwine and blur the lines between the internal and the external, the present and the past, closeness and distance.
Maide graduated with a master’s degree in scenography (2025) and a bachelor’s degree in graphic arts (2020) from the Estonian Academy of Arts’ Faculty of Fine Arts. She has also pursued further training at DAMU’s Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre in Prague, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Maide has received the Edmund Valtman and the Eduard Wiiralt scholarships and was awarded the EKA Young Artist Prize in 2020.

The exhibition is supported by: the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Exhibitions in the Draakon Gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, and Liviko AS.
The gallery is managed by the Estonian Artists’ Association.