The artists of Ateliere Malmaison are in talks with the company that manages the building at Calea Plevnei 137, but the new options proposed by its management are “unacceptable”, according to curatorial.ro. The lease could be for a fixed term, so there would be no guarantee and the rent would be double, or this fact cannot be confirmed.

After months of cleaning and setting up the space and attracting more than 17,500 visitors over three years, members of the Malmaison Workshops community have called it quits.

Those who own workshops and galleries on the first floor of the building do not currently have a lease. There are two years left for the residents of the second floor. Contracts were dated based on how the space was occupied, hence the gap.

Former military barracks, then a military school for officers, a military tribunal, a prison during the Antonescu regime and a security detention center at the beginning of the communist regime, the 180-year-old building has been a cultural circle for several years for the city’s tourists. It has become a reference point among artists, it is visited by professionals from the country and abroad, as well as spectators of different ages and with different tastes. And the community does not want to fall apart.

Two weeks ago, it was brought to the attention of the public that dozens of artists and exhibition spaces here risk losing their spaces.

At that time, the Atelierele Malmaison community requested recognition of its activity by the state, using measures to ensure continuity of activity in the long term, preferably in the premises at Calea Plevnei 137C, building B, managed by Iprochim SA, a company whose main shareholder is the Ministry of Economy , entrepreneurship and tourism. The spaces rented by artists and galleries have different surfaces and the prices are the same.

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