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Kulterra. A new art gallery. Through these few words we basically said everything.
Nevertheless, in a city with a dynamic evading any concept, a city living by its own rhythm, prone to fabulous crashes and unconceivable expansions, punctual dissolutions and general reinventions, deep amnesias and surprisingly fresh renewals, the opening of a new art gallery is thusly both a normal and an exceptional event. It’s a rule and it’s an exception. It’s predictable and surprising. The usual yet so new...
Contradiction and paradox is in the nature of Bucharest, which seem to live organically, fleeting the plans of architects and urbanists, defying the incapacity of budgets and adjusting its gaps through a communion of individual initiatives.
Kulterra in this sense sets a good example. It is the newest private space for exhibitions from Bucharest, yet it developed on the place of an older cultural (and also private) space. It is literally “underground”, since the approx. 280 squa