Exhibition

Echoes

Name: Echoes
Start: 2025-10-15T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-01-19T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Musée Jean-Jacques Henner

Exhibition by Elina Kulich

Some days until 19th January 2026

11:00 - 18:00

Audience type All audiences

The exhibition

Presented at the end of her artistic residency at the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, Elina Kulich's exhibition Échos explores the memory of places through drawing and painting. For five months spent in the studio overlooking the winter garden, this young artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, researched and created around the various historical strata of the building, a former mansion belonging to the artist Guillaume Dubufe, itself built by Roger Jourdain at the end of the 19th century.

In her works, Elina Kulich superimposes temporalities: in black ink, she draws on the motif the rooms of the museum as they look today; in blue ink, she brings back the layout of the place as it was in the Dubufe era, based on old archives, engravings and inventories. The staircases, original architectural elements, become a visual and symbolic thread, conveying memory and transmission. The Dubufe spouses, visitors, objects, receptions of yesterday and cultural events of today intersect in an interplay of pictorial layers.

The exhibition Échos is a sensitive dialogue between past and present, where each stroke awakens the memory of the place and reveals the soul of a house turned museum.

Biography

Elina Kulich is a visual artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. Her drawings explores the relationship between memory, space and transmission through sequential compositions, often created in situ. She teaches morphology and life-model drawing, at the NABA des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Winner of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023) and the Prix GIDE (2024), she has also twice been a finalist in the Prix du Dessin Contemporain (2022-23). Having won the Vedettes de Paris call for projects, her drawings will be printed on the hull of one of their boats in June 2025. She has also won the Bredin Prat scholarship (2023), as well as the Hélène Diamond drawing scholarship (2020). She won the Société Française de Physique comic strip prize (2022), and the Libération-Apaj prize (2017). She was the winner of the Strasbourg C.R.O.U.S. video competition (2018).

Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including Estivales de Sceaux, the Sarcelle printmaking biennial, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Halle de Fontenay, and Galerie Marie de Holmsky. She has also taken part in international projects such as the Venice Biennale (video for architect Inessa Hansch) and the Rencontres Internationales at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She has held residencies at Hamburg's HfBK (ASA program) and at Cartels, in La Défense.