The Minsk creative space “Monochrome”, which became a platform for numerous cultural events, has announced its closure.
In a message to its audience today, 30 November, the founders of the independent institution said they had been forced to bring this chapter to an end.
“Three years have flown by like a single moment, filled with events, encounters, and your incredible energy. Unfortunately, circumstances proved stronger than us, and we are forced to put a full stop to this story,” the statement on social media said.
Over the past three years, “Monochrome” was best known as the main venue of the Cinemascope initiative, led by film enthusiasts Volha Nadolskaya and Hera Glik. It hosted regular screenings, retrospectives of world cinema classics, and thematic programmes. The space also held classical music concerts, presentations, discussions, and meetings for like-minded people who formed a stable community around “Monochrome”.
The project’s organisers stressed that it is only the physical venue that is closing, not the idea:
“We are saying goodbye to the premises, but not to the dream. Because what we have created together — a community of like-minded people — cannot simply disappear. We believe that everything will continue. It certainly will,” they said.
The Monochrome space was located at 16/3 Kastrychnitskaya Street.
