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Roman Minin — monumental artist
Temporary stained-glass compositions on the windows of your museum's public spaces — designed personally for each museum, mounted and removed without a trace.
Request a proposal See past projects ↓Exhibition halls are booked years ahead. Windows are free. I turn the windows of entrance halls, foyers, cafés and passages into monumental stained-glass works using professional adhesive film. The museum refreshes its space without touching a single gallery wall.
Projects of this kind are regularly supported by cultural grants and sponsors. I am ready to prepare the funding application together with your museum.
The miner's world is the heart of my art. I grew up among the mining towns of Donbas, and my series Plan of Escape and Miner's Folklore turn the lives of miners into monumental images of light. In 2020 my stained-glass installation was created at Le Bois du Cazier — the mining memorial museum near Charleroi, on the site of the former colliery. Right now two of my monumental works, Lumière des mineurs and Sens du travail minier, are on view at the Centre Historique Minier in Lewarde, the largest mining museum in France — across its glazed entrance and the historic machine hall, inaugurated in October 2025. If your museum keeps the memory of coal, industry and labour, this project speaks its language — in light.
Roman Minin is a Ukrainian monumental artist — a rare specialist in a discipline that is disappearing worldwide and today taught in very few places. He trained in the Ukrainian school of monumental art at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (M.A. in Monumental Art), and carries forward a lineage few still hold: the traditions of Ukrainian monumental and folk art and of Byzantine painting, joined in a language of his own. In 2021 he received Ukraine's First State Prize of Monumental Art (the Repin Prize) for a new direction he calls transmonumentalism.
Born into a family of miners in eastern Ukraine, he has devoted his work to the world of the mine — in series such as The Plan of Escape from the Donetsk Region and Miner's Folklore, shown from the Saatchi Gallery in London to the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. He works as a professional organiser of space, reading a building's architecture, its energy and its modular rhythm before he designs. Museums and hosts describe the same discovery: film stained glass is a simple, reversible change that transforms a space — its light, its atmosphere and its mood — and lends the mining profession a sense of ceremony and wonder.
He lives and works in Belgium. Full portfolio: mininpro.art
Tell me about your windows — I will answer with an idea sketched for your museum. No obligation at this stage.
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