Ivan

This exhibition was conceived starting from the Steaua story and serves as an introduction to its presentation at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant. In December 1968, a group of students from the Scenography Department of the Institute of Fine Arts built a Christmas Star from various materials gathered for use in theatre sets and costumes, and set out through the streets of Bucharest to carol their professors. Their journey was abruptly interrupted by the Securitate while they were leaving the building where one of the professors resided, the other one that was accompanying them being brought in for questioning. But the star was saved and it was recently rediscovered and restored. The main initiators of the 1968 Steaua action were Miruna and Radu Boruzescu, a couple of scenographers who emigrated to Paris in the 1970s and went on to have an international career that left a lasting mark on the history of contemporary theatre. The exhibition brings together contributions from artists with whom the Boruzescu family maintained long-term connections, such as Horia Bernea (b. 1938 - d. 2000) and Paul Neagu (b. 1938 - d. 2004), or Iulian Mereuță (b. 1943 - d. 2015) and Doru Covrig (b. 1942 - d. 2022) and also contemporary artists Ioana Mincu (b. 2001), Giulia Crețulescu (b. 1994), and Mono Mihai (b. 1990). Between November 6 and December 14, 2025, the exhibition, curated by Alexandra Croitoru— will be on view at our gallery space in Bucharest. The project continues with a second exhibition at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, running from November 27, 2025, to January 11, 2026, complemented by related events at the New Hall of the Comedy Theatre. ”steaua. young and innocent days” is a cultural project co-financed by AFCN, developed by Miruna M. Boruzescu in collaboration with Maria Mora, Paula Dunker, and Paul Breazu, in partnership with the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, the Comedy Theatre, Ivan Gallery, and other cultural institutions.