The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Apocalypse Now and Then, a solo presentation by Romanian artist Andra Ursuţa. The show will be on view at the Foundation’s Project Space, a former slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra between June 24th and October 31st, 2025. Apocalypse Now and Then combines new and existing works by Ursuţa, including the debut of the artist’s cast bronze sculptures, as well as a selection of forms in glass and a variety of media. By displaying work both inside and outside the Slaughterhouse, Ursuţa creates a kind of viewing experience that is inspired by historical museums and archaeological sites in Greece and throughout the Mediterranean and is informed by the ancient artifacts and sculptural remnants that are housed within them.
Andra Ursuţa: Apocalypse Now and Then
Both familiar and absurd, the artist’s sculptures are assembled from fragments of work and detritus from her studio—using digital and analog
technologies—and suggest objects from a civilization that no longer exists.
About the artist
Andra Ursuţa (b. 1979) was born in Salonta, Romania, a town on the Romanian–Hungarian border, and left for the United States in 1997. She
moved to New York in 1999 and received a BA in Art History and Visual Arts in 2002 from Columbia University. From 2018 to 2019, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Vanilla Isis, was presented at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy. Alps, which was on view in 2016 at the New Museum, marked the artist’s first museum show in New York. Ursuţa’s work has been the subject of
About the DESTE Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra
In 2008, the Municipality of the Island of Hydra granted DESTE the island’s old slaughterhouse. The recently restored and renovated building retains the features and traits of the past, preserving the original elements of its old identity while serving as a unique exhibition space. Functioning as the DESTE Project Space, Slaughterhouse since 2009, every summer the Foundation invites a single artist or team to stage a unique, site-specific exhibition on the island.