The Brașov Art Museum is currently hosting Where the Sky Burns, a solo exhibition by visual artist Diana Serghiuță, under the curatorial vision of Mihai Zgondoiu.

The Artist & her Art

Featuring Diana Serghiuță’s latest body of work, the exhibition marks a meaningful return to her native Brașov (Romania). For the first time, the local audience is invited to experience her art in a dedicated solo presentation. Currently living and working in Arad, the artist brings with her a rich, symbolic visual language shaped by personal mythology and introspective exploration.

Running through August 18, 2025, the exhibition leads viewers into an evocative world where timeless symbols—such as the serpent, fire, and the tear—are reimagined through a distinctly contemporary artistic vocabulary. "The artist transforms these archaic symbols into a personal alphabet, rich in ambiguity and meaning. Each work becomes both a philosophical inquiry and a meditative space, where the act of looking turns into a rite of passage," explains Alexandra Ilnițchi-Ardelean, responsible for Communication and PR at the Brașov Art Museum.

"Beyond the dense, gestural painting and the ethereal, almost sacred sensuality of her drawing, the exhibition invokes cultural memory, recovering forgotten meanings in a world increasingly consumed by material reality," she adds.

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Born in 1985 in Brașov, Diana Serghiuță is a visual artist whose work delves into the intricate and vulnerable dimensions of the human psyche. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design in Timișoara, with a focus on Painting, she completed her Master’s studies in 2010, followed by a PhD in Visual Arts at UVT in 2016.

Her artistic approach gives shape to emotional and psychological states that reside at the threshold between reality and imagination. Serghiuță’s compositions open up intimate, symbolic spaces—laden with personal references and veiled narratives—where memory and identity intersect. Her visual language is infused with a contemporary, feminine sensibility, reinterpreting fragments of her own life into poetic, often enigmatic forms. She currently lives and works in Arad, Romania.

Mihai Zgondoiu (born 1982, Mediaș) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, independent curator, and gallerist, with a PhD in Visual Arts from the National University of Arts in Bucharest (UNArte). He currently teaches as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara (UVT).

Zgondoiu is the founder of Atelier 030202, a contemporary art space in Bucharest dedicated to experimental practices, and co-founder of the visual culture magazine PROPAGARTA. Actively engaged in both the academic and independent art scenes, he lives and works between Bucharest and Timișoara.

Photos by Brașov Art Museum 

Music // Theatre // Visual Arts

The UNAGE Alumni Exhibition Iași 2025 is a project of the National University of Arts "George Enescu" (UNAGE) in Iași, which aims to present, in the public space of Iași, the diversity of forms of artistic expression specific to the concerns of its students and graduates. Now in its second edition, the project includes a selection of images from various bachelor's or dissertation works by graduates of the three faculties of UNAGE, namely the Faculty of Interpretation, Composition and Theoretical Music Studies, the Faculty of Theatre and the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design. 

Information about the institution (faculties, departments and research centers) is presented, as well as photographs from theater and choreography performances, concerts and recitals, visual art works and exhibitions or discursive events, highlighting the plurality of formats and artistic manifestations in which UNAGE graduates express themselves - we learn from the project team. 

165 years after the establishment of modern artistic education in Iași, the National University of Arts "George Enescu" is a reference institution in higher artistic education in Romania, with over 1600 students today and 45 study programs for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, covering the essential fields of art. As an institution of artistic education and research, it has the assumed mission of shaping and cultivating talents, characters and personalities, of training well-trained specialists, who can offer the public a quality cultural act, through a sustained activity of creation and scientific and artistic research, ensuring the progress of Romanian art and culture, in an international socio-cultural context.

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Content editors: Lavinia German, Dalia Rusu-Persic, Andrei Enoiu-Pânzariu, Ioana Bujoreanu

Project coordinator: Cătălin Soreanu

Photos by Cătălin Marinescu

Contemporary artist Mirela Iordache, known for her artistic and interdisciplinary experiments, is now presenting a new solo exhibition. 

The exhibition “Gesture Fluidity” is on display at Art Yourself Gallery in Bucharest and “represents the rhythm, force and spontaneity of the artistic gesture, captures the moment when thought seems to dissolve, and the hands instinctively follow their own path. The works on display are visual echoes of an organic process, in which matter and movement merge into a single matter. The techniques used emphasize the force and dynamics of materials, the interaction of pigments and other materials, with the surface of the canvas highlighting the physical imprint of the gesture from beginning to end” – the artist explains.

“The exhibition investigates the relationship between gesture and work surface in the artistic process.

The pictorial gesture is not only a technical act, but also a projection of an inner state, a dialogue between intention and accident, between order and chaos, between visible and invisible, as the gesture unfolds, the surface of the work becomes a territory of gestural memory, preserving the traces of each impulse, each rhythm of the hand that creates them. 

The viewer is invited to follow this visual flow, to discover the matter and expression of the gesture that seems to flow through the impression of movement it suggests.”

Exhibitions and recognition

Throughout her career spanning almost two decades, Mirela Iordache has participated in over 90 solo, group and collective exhibitions in Romania, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan and the Republic of Moldova. Her works have been selected for prestigious international competitions, such as the Strabag Artaward International Competition and the Triennale Européenne de l’Estampe Contemporaine. 

Her recent projects include “Experiment Inside”, an exhibition presented at the Casa cu Lei in Bistrița-Năsăud, “Aterniger” at the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chișinău, “Aterniger 2” at the Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, “Suspension” (Evangelical Church in Herina) and “Fragmentum Caeli” (Bistrița), which highlight the artist’s interest for the interaction between art, public space and architectural space.