{"id":11937,"date":"2026-09-10T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11937"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:00:29","slug":"southern-romania-over-100-artists-turn-industrial-site-in-ploiesti-into-temporary-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11937","title":{"rendered":"Southern Romania: Over 100 artists turn industrial site in Ploie\u0219ti into \u2018temporary museum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 100 artists from Romania and around the world are presenting their work in Ploie\u0219ti, a city 60km north of Bucharest, ahead of the fifth edition of the annual urban art event Artown NOW<\/em>.<\/p>\n

UZUC, a plant with a history spanning more than 120 years, occupies a site covering 100,000 sqm. More than 3,000 people once worked there, and the plant\u2019s halls produced, among other things, the spheres of the Atomium, Brussels\u2019 famous landmark. Today, the factory continues to operate on a smaller scale, while part of the site has become a hub housing music studios, furniture and automotive workshops, a printing house, and a manufacturer of highway road barriers.<\/p>\n

Now, the urban art festival will activate 50,000 sqm of the total site. The approximately 2,600 sqm covered by murals created for this edition will add to another 100 murals and more than 350 artistic interventions created since 2022.<\/p>\n

The water tower at UZUC<\/p>\n

It will create a museum \u201cthat exists only for as long as it is inhabited,\u201d the organizers explained. \u201cWhile artists and visitors are there, the factory becomes a museum, then returns to its normal rhythm of work. It is temporary because it functions as a museum only for the duration of the event. It is contra-temporary because the traces left behind, namely the murals, sculptures and interventions, remain permanent. And it is contemporary because it brings together artists and practices from today\u2019s art scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

At UZUC, the artists draw inspiration from what the factory itself has to offer. Sculptures, installations, and text and portrait interventions are created from salvaged pieces recovered from the factory halls, giving the site a new identity.<\/p>\n

Spenser Little Photo: Toma Hurduc<\/p>\n

Brazilian artist Adriano Bohra<\/em>, known as Robolito, is carving wood and painting three industrial cylinders, while <\/em> Spenser Little (United States) is shaping metal and has already completed around 20 text and portrait interventions. <\/em> Misha Diaconu (Romania) is sculpting and welding metal, while Ploie\u0219ti-based ceramic artist <\/em> Liliana Maria is adding porcelain to the same work. Italian architects <\/em> Andrea Ariano and <\/em> Pietro Dalbianco are transforming materials found around the factory into chairs, benches, a stage and a DJ booth, while Canadian artist <\/em> Aurelia Bizouard and poet <\/em> Ciprian Apetrei are jointly creating an installation in one of the factory halls.<\/p>\n

Italian artist Giovanni Magnoli<\/em> is also bringing <\/em> Iconosaik to Ploie\u0219ti, a technique that produces hand-painted works precisely replicating the appearance of ancient and Byzantine mosaics. From a distance, they appear to be made up of thousands of tesserae, but the surface is actually painted.<\/p>\n

Dumitru Gorzo’s Continuous Studio<\/p>\n

At the same time, for one month, Romanian artist Dumitru Gorzo<\/em> is moving his studio to UZUC. Continuous Studio is part of a travelling project Gorzo launched in New York in 2019: a temporary studio that moves from one location to another and becomes, each time, \u201ca living space for work, encounters and dialogue.\u201d Ploie\u0219ti is the project\u2019s 11th stop, running until September 30. Here, the public can meet Gorzo while he works in one of the factory halls. Visits are available by appointment on weekends.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 100 artists from Romania and around the world are presenting their work in Ploie\u0219ti, a city 60km north of Bucharest, ahead of the fifth edition of the annual urban art event Artown NOW. UZUC, a plant with a history spanning more than 120 years, occupies a site covering 100,000 sqm. More than 3,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}