The coolest 12 art exhibition to see right now in Romania 

Run away from the summer heat into a gallery. Well, in an art gallery, to be more accurate. It is better than by the pool, it is more interesting than the TV and cooler than the air conditioning 🙂 I present you the coolest 12 art exhibition to see right now in Bucharest, Timișoara, Sibiu. 

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In Bucharest

# Bloc Operator 1 / Sandwich Neurohope – (Neurohope Clinic, 13 Pechea St., 5th floor, Wed. – Fri., 12 – 5 pm, open until August 8, 2025)
The artists: Liliana Basarab, Dan Basu, Otilia Boeru, Lucian Bran, Larisa Crunteanu, Giles Eldridge, Catalina Gubandru, Mihaela Moldovan, Razvan Nastase, Daniela Palimariu, Cristian Raduta, Ramon Sadîc, Virginia Toma, Bela Zoltan.
The exhibition marks the first stage of Sandwich Neurohope, a cultural venue that merges two complementary worlds – art and medicine – both pursued with the same passion. A contemporary art gallery housed inside a multidisciplinary clinic: what could feel more natural? 

# Cats are Taking Over (at VILA CATENA, 15 Radu Calomfirescu, Thurs. – Fri. 3-7 pm, Sat. 12-4 pm, open until July 31, 2025)
Artists: Mihaela Ioana Atomei, Liliana Basarab, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Basu, Radu Boeru, Anastasia Calinovici, Tudor Ciurescu, Coady, Vuk Ćuk, Bernat Daviu, Stoyan Dechev, Ecaterina Cristescu Delighioz, Pola Dwurnik, Mari Eastman, Elian, Giles Eldridge, Bianca Ferăstrău, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Dumitru Gorzo, Tobias Hild, Sorin Ilfoveanu, Peter Jecza, Sarah Lucas, Martin Goya Business, Marta Mattioli, Olivia Mihălțianu, Mihaela Moldovan, Nico Mureș, Giuliano Nardin, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Jin Ningning, Radu Pandele, Dan Perjovschi, Alexandru Ranga, Cristian Răduță, Juan Ripollés, Natasha Shulte, Francisc Șirato, Anaïs Touchot, Andrei Tudoran, Gabriela Vanga, Dan Vezentan, Zhang Zhihui, Béla Zoltán.
The exhibition with dozen of cats (painted, sculpted, drawings) by Romanian and international artists – is the inaugural exhibition of Vila Catena’s contemporary art pavilion. 

# Vlad Albu and Roberta Curcă (at GAEP Gallery, on view through July 31)
The artists: The exhibition presents new sculptural pieces from Vlad Albu’ series “Holders”, as well as a body of new works on paper and objects by Roberta Curcă– daily drawings, monthly calendars, seasonal notes, and yearly samplers.
The exhibition: inaugurated last summer, Gaep Presents is a programme of exhibitions that focuses on work by emerging artists and by established collaborators of the gallery other than the artists it represents. In its second year, Gaep Presents takes the form of a duo show featuring two artists that have been part of the mentoring projects for emerging artists Accelerator: Vlad Albu and Roberta Curcă.

# Răzvan Năstase: Human Beeng (solo show at SANDWICH LIBRARY/ Malmaison Studios, 2nd floor, Wed – Fri, 3-7 pm, open until July 31, 2025)
The exhibition: in his most recent series of works, Răzvan Năstase engages with his family’s photographic archive, which spans over fifty years. The faces, transferred onto canvas and reworked through an artistic practice that deliberately cuts through successive layers of color, are recontextualised—transformed from their almost vernacular status into enduring witnesses that accompany the artist throughout his process.

# Radu Pandele’s solo show TIGRULETIGRULE (Ars Monitor, until 4th of September 2025)
The exhbition: TIGERTIGER offers an analysis of key moments in the artistic journey of Radu Pandele, showcasing some of his most representative works from recent years to the present. The selection highlights the originality of the visual language he has refined since the beginning of his career and his unique place on the map of contemporary painting post-2020-both thematically and in terms of the techniques he explores (including computer graphics and 3D modeling, as well as with other methods drawn from street art and tattoo art). 

# “The Thin Thread Line” /SAC Berthelot (26.06 – 16.08.2025)
The artists: Justin Baroncea & Cristian Matei, Marie Bovo, Nicolae Comănescu, Iulian Cristea, Călin Dan, Suzana Dan, Diana Drăghici, Elger Esser, Maria Ghement & Alexandra Müller, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ana Ionescu, Louis Karem Jamaal, Albert Kaan, Alicja Kwade, Julian Lennon, Ana Ion Leonte, Dragoș Lumpan, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Ruxandra Nițescu, Marcel Odenbach, Andra Panait, Marlon Red, Haleh Redjaian, Mircea Suciu, Virginia Toma, Dominika Trapp, Marco Verhoogt, Jorinde Voigt, Nives Widauer, Thomas Zitzwitz. 
The exhibition: is part of a series of interconnected exhibitions organized by /SAC in 2025, which proposes a subjective and collective exploration, even about our reactions (with the whole range of emotions and thoughts) and what we can do as individuals in the face of and in the midst of this increasingly tense period, when the way democracies and values ​​look like in society is being de/re-constructed/defined.

# Ioana Băltan & Arina Bican “Aprons, Lipstick and Everything Unsaid” (at IOMO Gallery, July 10 – August 10).
The artists. Ioana Băltan’s large-scale paintings delve into beauty standards, body image, and contemporary femininity. Through opulent, unsettling scenes, she exposes the soft brutality behind the idealized female figure and its social media mirror. Arina Bican – working across painting, ceramics, and drawing, Arina explores femininity, domestic rituals, and everyday anxieties. Her works transform familiar objects into vessels of inner tension, marked by obsessive fears and fragile lucidity.

# Alex Manea, “I Go I Go I Go” (Gallery Studio 76 & Celula de Artă – 10-27 of July 2025, Combinatul Fondului Plastic). The exhibition brings together a series of works from the Last Lines project, in which Alex Manea proposes a deep reflection on the last form of communication of people on the verge of suicide – the farewell note. Made entirely of melted plastic, the works imitate handwritten dictando sheets, in vivid colors. 

# “The Soft Geometry of Color – Yvonne Hasan & Alma Redlinger” (Sector 1 Gallery, until 23rd of August 2025, Combinatul Fondului Plastic). What draws attention in these two artistic approaches is a subtle, inherent complementarity that runs through the subjects, the ideational space and the formal aspects of the works.

In Timișoara

# The Third Space Curated by 2nd World – organized by Galeria Catinca Tabacaru
Collateral Exhibition to the 6th Art Encounters Biennial (French Institute, Timișoara
until July 15, 2025). 
The artists: Youssra Raouchi (Morocco), Najaax Harun (Somaliland), Terrence Musekiwa (Zimbabwe), Xavier Robles de Medina (Suriname), and Marta Mattioli, Mara Verhoogt, and Ovidiu Toader (Romania).
The exhibition examines a generative zone of cultural enunciation, one where identity is not fixed in binary oppositions but continuously renegotiated through translation, hybridity, and encounter.

# Art Encounters – Bounding Histories, Whispering Tales features over 60 artists and five specially commissioned works, many of which address themes of historical trauma, contemporary crises, and the possibilities of reparation and solidarity.
The artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ana Adam, Alle Dicu, Marina Abramović & Ulay, Bora Baboçi, Maja Bajević, Mona Benyamin, Željka Blakšić, Pavel Brăila, Geta Brătescu, Brief Histories (Isak Berbic, Fawz Kabra), Cian Dayrit, Christine Cizmaș, Marieta Chirulescu, Clément Cogitore, Lorena Cocioni, Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Jošt Franko, Robert Gabris, Alicia Mihai Gazcue, Ladislava Gažiová, Jean Genet, Liam Gillick & Anton Vidokle, Karpo Godina, Maria Guțu, Petrit Halilaj, Veronika Hapchenko, Sky Hopinka, Loredana Ilie, Siniša Ilić, Joan Jonas, Hassan Khan, Dana Kavelina, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Kapwani Kiwanga, Ana Kun, David Maljković, Jumana Manna, Teresa Margolles, Silvia Moldovan, Alban Muja, Oscar Murillo, Andrei Nacu, Marina Naprushkina, Eduardo Navarro, Christian Nyampeta, Mila Panić, Manuel Pelmuș, Gavril Pop, Raluca Popa, Ghenadie Popescu, The Resurrection Committee (Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea), Larissa Sansour, Ștefan Sava, Selma Selman, Larisa Sitar, Bojan Stojčić, ŠKART, Nora Turato, Johanna Unzueta, Mark Verlan, Cecilia Vicuña, Rosario Zorraquin.

In Sibiu 

# Roman Tolici “Noua Speranță“ (New Hope) (Mobius Gallery & Brukenthal Museum / at Art Contemporary Museum, streetTribunei 6, 17th of July to 17th of August 2025).
The exhibition: brings together a selection of recent works, created over the past five years, which represent a profound reflection on the major transformations that have redefined the contemporary world, both at the macro, social and political level, and at the micro level of individual experiences.

Photography: Camil Aliman / dreamingof.net