Bucharest's cultural landscape has been refreshed with the launch of a startup dedicated to art, creativity, and transformation with the opening of the private art gallery ARSMONITOR.
Located in the Casa Presei Libere building-originally named the Iosif Visarionovici Stalin Printing House Complex and, after de-Stalinization, the Vladimir Ilici Lenin Printing House Complex, a Soviet propaganda edifice built between 1952 and 1957 on the site of the former royal racetrack-ARSMONITOR art gallery stands as a testament to the power of art and private initiatives to revive spaces steeped in history.
The historical significance of the building, combined with its provocative Soviet legacy, necessitates renewal. In this context, the ARSMONITOR team meticulously renovated and reimagined a space of over 200 square meters, preserving its historic charm while infusing it with the aesthetics and technical requirements of a contemporary art gallery. This process, which began in May, took nearly half a year to complete.
