Reconfigurations of the Exhibition Space – Case Study: Cristi Rusu Exhibition at the Plan B Gallery

Abstract

"Reconfigurations of the Exhibition Space – Case Study: Cristi Rusu Exhibition at the “Plan B” Gallery. In this paper I focus on a case study concerning the Cristi Rusu exhibition, The Only Thing I Am Sure about in This Life Lies above My Head, from the Plan B Gallery in Berlin (March 6 – April 11 2020). By integrating some interventions specific to land art in the gallery space (and, therefore, transforming it), Cristi Rusu manages to transgress the conventional limits imposed by the idea of a white cube gallery neutral space. The art gallery’s space functions as a medium for developing artistic discourse as the project tries to detach from the tradition and ideologies already incorporated in a certain place and time, in search for the sublime. Keywords: Plan B Gallery, Cristi Rusu, sublime, the archive, “profane space”, non-site "