IDA Radio Meets Aktionshaus
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IDA Radio Meets Aktionshaus
On June 20th, Berlin’s Tempelhof district becomes host to a midsummer gathering as Tallinn-based IDA Raadio and Berlin project space Aktionshaus come together. Starting at 17:00 and we will broadcast live via IDA Raadio, beginning at 18:00 CET (19:00 EEST), extending the event beyond the walls of Aktionshaus.
The event is supported by The Cultural Endowment of Estonia & The Embassy of Estonia in Berlin
Set inside Aktionshaus, a former office space transformed into an interdisciplinary space for action as a form of collective artistic research, this „Aktion“ draws inspiration from summer solstice. Throughout, musical performances, audiovisual works, midsummer food and collective habits unfold.
The collaboration between IDA Raadio and Aktionshaus emerges from a meeting of two community-driven cultural platforms that share a commitment to experimental practices and on independent cultural ecosystems. IDA Raadio is an important home for Tallinn’s interdisciplinary scenes and Aktionshaus has established itself in Berlin as a place where new forms of expression take shape.
At the centre of the project is a dialogue between artists. The evening brings together some of the most distinctive voices connected to IDA Radio, including Maarja Nuut, Ajukaja & Mart Avi, Roma Vjazemski, Appelsindans, and The Group Shower, a collaborative project of Robert Nikolajev and Max Graef, as well as performances and installations by Kitkit Para, Ellen Vene, Lilla Lukacs, Charlotte Kehl and Juri Bader, offering experiences for the eye, ear, mouth and mind.
About the artists:
Maarja Nuut
Singer, violinist, composer and electronic artist Maarja Nuut has built an internationally celebrated practice that folds together Estonian folk traditions, looping experiments, archival research and electronic textures. Her performances move effortlessly between ritual and futurism, often carrying a hypnotic quality that feels both ancient and entirely contemporary.
Ajukaja & Mart Avi
Two singular figures of the Estonian underground. Ajukaja, producer, DJ and founder of the wonderfully strange Porridge Bullet label, brings decades of playful experimentation, while Mart Avi moves through avant-pop, dreamlike R&B and distant sonic worlds with cinematic ease.
Roma Vjazemski
Tallinn-based electronic artist Roma Vjazemski has spent more than two decades moving through different musical worlds, from hip-hop and funk into deeply atmospheric folky electronic
music. His recent albums have gained international recognition, culminating in an Estonian Music Award for Electronic Album of the Year. At Aktionshaus he presents a new audiovisual work created in collaboration with visual artist Ellen Vene.
The Group Shower
The collaborative project of Robert Nikolajev and Berlin producer Max Graef, The Group Shower began through recordings made at IDA Raadio’s studio in Tallinn. Combining Nikolajev’s hardware-driven production with Graef’s groove-oriented improvisation, the project creates an organic dialogue between two musical approaches and two scenes. The result sits somewhere between live electronic performance, experimentation and collective jam session energy.
Appelsindans
The duo Appelsindans with Nastia Marykutsa on drums and Les Vynogradov on bass create music that wanders freely between krautrock, dub, post-prog and stranger territories. Built around improvisation and playful exploration, their sound moves from dreamy passages into angular rhythms and unexpected turns. Weird, slightly off-balance and somehow still danceable.
Kitkit Para
Inspired by the chaotic uncertainty of a technologically advanced world and a surreal obsession with Shrek, Hong Kong-born artist KitKit Para creates sculpture, sound installation, drawings, and occasionally performance using upcycled materials, media remnants, mass imagery, and AI-generated audio, his work explores the iceberg layers between individuals and systems. By peeling back the layers of images, identities, and ideologies, Para challenges the polished surfaces of power and structure. He currently lives in Far Far Away, sipping red wine and procrastinating in his swamp.
Charlotte Kehl
Co-founder of Aktionshaus, who works on experimental sound practice and the conceptual and artistic creation of collective spaces. Her musical collaborations — primarily on drums and percussion — include 2Morph, Ruhiges Gewerbe, Lindy Lin, Jürgen Ratan, Gerry Franke, Iris and Yosa Peit.
Lindy Lin
An an electroacoustic composer and audiovisual experimentalist based in Reykjavík. Her work spans the long-term solo project Mirror Stage which blends music, fashion design and theatrical performance, alongside score-based improvisation, the noise rock band Yang Soup, and the feminist trio Sew What. Rooted in Southern Minnan cultural heritage and nostalgic soundscapes, her immersive compositions incorporate field recordings and everyday objects — including the xiao, guitar, sewing machine, clips, and combs — to explore themes of identity, imbalance, and equality. Since March 2026, she’s part of the Aktionshaus team.
Juri Bader
Co-runs Aktionshaus, Beatbude Records & Vertrieb and other imprints. As Jürgen Ratan he has put out ringtones on Tax Free Records and Brew and also works with young adults at the Klang & Schall Zentrale studios.
Lilla Lukács
Budapest-based cultural worker and spatial practitioner, former intern and forever friend of Aktionshaus. Working at the intersections of spatial ecologies and language, she engages in site-specific interventions and score-based explorations, navigating open and accessible ways of understanding. Having lived in Tallinn, this moment becomes a circle dance where all her worlds meet.
Ellen Vene
A visual artist, writer and cultural organizer based in Tallinn, Estonia, and a long-time collaborator and host of IDA Radio. Working across sculpture, installation and sound, her practice explores listening, spatial experience and the emotional qualities of materials. She has been active in the intersections of contemporary art and music.
On June 20th, Berlin’s Tempelhof district becomes host to a midsummer gathering as Tallinn-based IDA Raadio and Berlin project space Aktionshaus come together. Starting at 17:00 and we will broadcast live via IDA Raadio, beginning at 18:00 CET (19:00 EEST), extending the event beyond the walls of Aktionshaus.
The event is supported by The Cultural Endowment of Estonia & The Embassy of Estonia in Berlin
Set inside Aktionshaus, a former office space transformed into an interdisciplinary space for action as a form of collective artistic research, this „Aktion“ draws inspiration from summer solstice. Throughout, musical performances, audiovisual works, midsummer food and collective habits unfold.
The collaboration between IDA Raadio and Aktionshaus emerges from a meeting of two community-driven cultural platforms that share a commitment to experimental practices and on independent cultural ecosystems. IDA Raadio is an important home for Tallinn’s interdisciplinary scenes and Aktionshaus has established itself in Berlin as a place where new forms of expression take shape.
At the centre of the project is a dialogue between artists. The evening brings together some of the most distinctive voices connected to IDA Radio, including Maarja Nuut, Ajukaja & Mart Avi, Roma Vjazemski, Appelsindans, and The Group Shower, a collaborative project of Robert Nikolajev and Max Graef, as well as performances and installations by Kitkit Para, Ellen Vene, Lilla Lukacs, Charlotte Kehl and Juri Bader, offering experiences for the eye, ear, mouth and mind.
About the artists:
Maarja Nuut
Singer, violinist, composer and electronic artist Maarja Nuut has built an internationally celebrated practice that folds together Estonian folk traditions, looping experiments, archival research and electronic textures. Her performances move effortlessly between ritual and futurism, often carrying a hypnotic quality that feels both ancient and entirely contemporary.
Ajukaja & Mart Avi
Two singular figures of the Estonian underground. Ajukaja, producer, DJ and founder of the wonderfully strange Porridge Bullet label, brings decades of playful experimentation, while Mart Avi moves through avant-pop, dreamlike R&B and distant sonic worlds with cinematic ease.
Roma Vjazemski
Tallinn-based electronic artist Roma Vjazemski has spent more than two decades moving through different musical worlds, from hip-hop and funk into deeply atmospheric folky electronic
music. His recent albums have gained international recognition, culminating in an Estonian Music Award for Electronic Album of the Year. At Aktionshaus he presents a new audiovisual work created in collaboration with visual artist Ellen Vene.
The Group Shower
The collaborative project of Robert Nikolajev and Berlin producer Max Graef, The Group Shower began through recordings made at IDA Raadio’s studio in Tallinn. Combining Nikolajev’s hardware-driven production with Graef’s groove-oriented improvisation, the project creates an organic dialogue between two musical approaches and two scenes. The result sits somewhere between live electronic performance, experimentation and collective jam session energy.
Appelsindans
The duo Appelsindans with Nastia Marykutsa on drums and Les Vynogradov on bass create music that wanders freely between krautrock, dub, post-prog and stranger territories. Built around improvisation and playful exploration, their sound moves from dreamy passages into angular rhythms and unexpected turns. Weird, slightly off-balance and somehow still danceable.
Kitkit Para
Inspired by the chaotic uncertainty of a technologically advanced world and a surreal obsession with Shrek, Hong Kong-born artist KitKit Para creates sculpture, sound installation, drawings, and occasionally performance using upcycled materials, media remnants, mass imagery, and AI-generated audio, his work explores the iceberg layers between individuals and systems. By peeling back the layers of images, identities, and ideologies, Para challenges the polished surfaces of power and structure. He currently lives in Far Far Away, sipping red wine and procrastinating in his swamp.
Charlotte Kehl
Co-founder of Aktionshaus, who works on experimental sound practice and the conceptual and artistic creation of collective spaces. Her musical collaborations — primarily on drums and percussion — include 2Morph, Ruhiges Gewerbe, Lindy Lin, Jürgen Ratan, Gerry Franke, Iris and Yosa Peit.
Lindy Lin
An an electroacoustic composer and audiovisual experimentalist based in Reykjavík. Her work spans the long-term solo project Mirror Stage which blends music, fashion design and theatrical performance, alongside score-based improvisation, the noise rock band Yang Soup, and the feminist trio Sew What. Rooted in Southern Minnan cultural heritage and nostalgic soundscapes, her immersive compositions incorporate field recordings and everyday objects — including the xiao, guitar, sewing machine, clips, and combs — to explore themes of identity, imbalance, and equality. Since March 2026, she’s part of the Aktionshaus team.
Juri Bader
Co-runs Aktionshaus, Beatbude Records & Vertrieb and other imprints. As Jürgen Ratan he has put out ringtones on Tax Free Records and Brew and also works with young adults at the Klang & Schall Zentrale studios.
Lilla Lukács
Budapest-based cultural worker and spatial practitioner, former intern and forever friend of Aktionshaus. Working at the intersections of spatial ecologies and language, she engages in site-specific interventions and score-based explorations, navigating open and accessible ways of understanding. Having lived in Tallinn, this moment becomes a circle dance where all her worlds meet.
Ellen Vene
A visual artist, writer and cultural organizer based in Tallinn, Estonia, and a long-time collaborator and host of IDA Radio. Working across sculpture, installation and sound, her practice explores listening, spatial experience and the emotional qualities of materials. She has been active in the intersections of contemporary art and music.
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Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße 44, 12099 Berlin, Deutschland, Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße 43, 12099 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
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