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New cultural spaces in Romania Even as creative industries have been going through a second pandemic year and dealing with all the uncertainty around public access to events and performances, we’re seeing new cultural spaces opening up across the country. By Oana Vasiliu includes choreographers Alexandra Balasoiu, Cristina Lilienfeld, Cosmin Manolescu, and Valentina De Piante.
KULTERRA (104-106 STIRBEI VODA STREET) Kulterra is the newest private exhibition space in the capital city, developed on the site of an older cultural space, using the entire area of about 280 square metres that occupies two floors below street level. Thanks to the technology that was used to arrange its interior, Kulterra is a versatile, modular gallery, where several events can be organised and managed simultaneously.
ELISABETA THEATRE/ALHAMBRA GARDEN (13 CONSTANTIN MILLE STREET)
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Check out this underground art gallery in Bucharest: Kulterra
The Elisabeta Theatre started hosting cultural evenings in the Alhambra Garden, which
n Bucharest, new cultural spaces include
AREAL (2 ANASTASIE SIMU STREET)
celebrated 105 years since its inauguration
Malmaison, located in the former Secu-
AREAL opened in March 2021 as a new space
in 1916. The official opening took place on
ritate prison, AREAL, a new space dedi-
for choreographic development. The space
August 26-27, with two events, a pop-opera
cated to choreographic development, and
provides direct support to projects initiated
concert, and a Cuban party with live music
private exhibition space Kulterra Gallery. In
by its founders and aims to increase the
and dancing.
addition, the Alhambra Garden has reopened,
cohesion of the choreographic sector, as well
and several subway stations have been trans-
as to develop and attract new audiences for
historical monuments, along with the former
formed into exhibition spaces.
contemporary dance.
Capitol Cinema. The two spaces had their mo-
MALMAISON (137C CALEA PLEVNEI)
space have been coordinated by a team that
Starting in 2021, activities at AREAL
The Alhambra Garden is part of a set of
ments of glory in the interwar period, when they were among the most coveted leisure
The story of the Malmaison building begins with the Barracks of the Horse Guards Regiment, built in the 19th century at the order of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, ruler of the United Romanian Principalities. The building was later transformed into a military prison, and then, after World War II, it became a communist transit prison and investigation centre for anti-communist bourgeois intellectuals and elites. A group of artists and art galleries have revamped the space, thus turning the Malmaison Workshops into an art community and a common space for artists, workshops, projects, and galleries in Bucharest.
A former military prison is currently an art space in Bucharest
