Becoming After Ruin: Autumn exhibitions and public programme in Bucharest

We are happy to announce Suprainfinit Gallery’s autumn programme, developed under the framework of the project Becoming After Ruin and in partnership with Odessa Fine Arts Museum and the Museum of Recent Art (MARe) in Bucharest. 

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Becoming After Ruin approaches ruins, rebirth, and conservation from a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing forth the importance of topics such as: re-emergence and becoming in the context of war in and through the arts, war-time damage to heritage and the environment, rebuilding urban imaginaries as a method of resilience in Europe’s peripheral cities. The project aims to engage the public in a dialogue on the role of socially- and environmentally-sensitive imagination in processes of reconstruction and to increase the visibility of Ukrainian arts and culture locally in Bucharest.

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Exhibitions open September 26th at Suprainfinit Gallery and in the gallery vitrine SEQUENCE

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At the nucleus of the project are two exhibitions by Ukrainian artists Daria Koltsova and Vitaly Yankovy, opening Thursday, September 26th. 

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Daria Koltsova’s exhibition In the splendour of fallen suns will showcase new works by the artist in the interior space of the gallery. The exhibition blends stained-glass with blown-glass sculptures in an immersive environment. It continues the artist’s previous reflections on the fragility of memory and landscape, fusing personal and art historical references. 

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Occupying the vitrine of the gallery, SEQUENCE, Vitaly Yankovy’s mixed-media installation home is where the haunt is / the haunt is in landscape is an eerie reflection on the hybridity of landscapes and public space. Metal structures of mass-produced furniture quietly intrude the forest scenery and unsettle the image of a pristine wilderness. 

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Public programme across several venues in Bucharest

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The exhibitions will present an associated public programme consisting of collective walks, lectures, talks, and film screenings from September to November 2024. The public programme expands the curatorial framework towards other disciplines such as museology, art history, film, and cultural theory, a curatorial method that Suprainfinit has forged in the past four years and that will be extended with the involvement of the Odessa Fine Arts Museum. 

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The first event of the public programme invites Oleksandra Kovalchuk, co-founder of the NGO Museums for Change and deputy director of the Odessa Fine Arts Museum. In the format of a live discussion, the event introduces the local audience in Bucharest to the challenges that museums in Ukraine have faced since the beginning of the Russian invasion. The discussion will take place at the Museum of Recent Art (MARe) on Saturday, September 28th. 

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The Becoming After Ruin project is implemented by Suprainfinit Gallery with support of IZOLYATSIA foundation, Trans Europe Halles and Malý Berlín and co-financed by the ZMINA:Rebuilding program, created with the support of the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors.

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Project co-financed by AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not to be held responsible for the content of the project, nor for the ways in which the results of the project might be used. Those are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the grant. 

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