12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time

12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time
Featuring artist Maja Ruznic
St. Francis Auditorium
June 27, 2025 – January 12, 2026

In a first, the 12th SITE SANTA FE International will extend its presentation beyond SITE SANTA FE to many locations across the city. The expansion into different sites will prompt visitors to further explore Santa Fe and engage with the uniqueness of the city. These partner venues comprise cultural institutions including the New Mexico History Museum including the Palace of the Governors, the Museum of International Folk Art, the New Mexico Military Museum, the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and the St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art, as well as spaces in a public park, a former foundry, an empty storefront, a local toy store, the lounge of a cannabis shop, and more. These locations offer spaces for artists to present site-specific installations (some of which are new commissions for the 12th International), and also create dialogues between figures, artists, and places

As a center for Santa Fe’s performing arts and cultural activities for nearly a century, the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art hosts a new installation by artist Maja Ruznic (b. 1983, Brčko, former Yugoslavia) as part of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International. Ruznic is creating three new large-scale paintings that intervene in the Auditorium’s murals, where the life of St. Francis of Assisi (the patron saint of Santa Fe), is currently depicted in six parts.

For more information about Once Within a Time visit: https://www.sitesantafe.org/en/once-within-a-time/