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Laboratoriya : Andreea Ilie

Current exhibition
28 February - 4 April 2026
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Laboratoriya , Andreea Ilie
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Laboratoriya marks Andreea Ilie’s first solo exhibition with Jecza Gallery. The exhibition brings together a new body of sculptural works. 

 


 

Guided by the metaphor of the child as soft wax, Soviet ideology transformed the entire world of childhood into a total pedagogical environment. Through extensive research and travels across the former Soviet space, Andreea demonstrates that this laboratory was, far beyond a theoretical metaphor, a concrete architectural reality—a constellation of physical structures in which political aims were translated into matter and space.

 

“As an artist, I am not necessarily interested in a simple condemnation or an extreme nostalgia. What interests me is constructing an archaeological and poetic relationship, a deeply dialectical one. I aim to uncover the overlapping layers: the utopian layer of projection, the layer of historical wear, and the layer of contemporary reappropriation.”
(Excerpt from the interview “Laboratoriya: the ruins of a future once imagined as eternal” given to Igloo magazine, February 2026)

 

The artist’s relationship with this legacy of failed utopia takes the form of an archaeological and dialectical investigation carried out with critical rigor. The works in Laboratoriya thus function both as replicas and reflections: forms extracted from their original contexts and reconstructed by the artist in metal and ceramic. Through this process of essentialization and recontextualization, the formal lines and geometric rigor of the original structures are accentuated, allowing the viewer to experience the tension between the aestheticism of pure form and its ideological function.

 


 

 Visiting Schedule:

The gallery is open Thursday–Saturday, 11 AM–7 PM, by appointment only, so we kindly ask visitors to book their visit in advance. In addition, group guided tours take place every Saturday at 4 PM, also by appointment only

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