The exhibition brings together new works created as part of an artistic research project, based on mutual understanding, experimentation, and exchange between four teams of artists, with and without studios, formed by: Roberta Curcă – Anca Mureșan, Marina Oprea – Nicolae Comănescu, Alexandra Ivanciu – Elena Scutaru, and Diana Miron – Beniamin Popescu.
Nucleu 0000 Association visited artist studios in Piața Amzei and Șelari and invited four young “outsider” artists, without studios — Roberta Curcă, Alexandra Ivanciu, Diana Miron, and Marina Oprea — to collaborate with “insider” artists from the UAP studios: Nicolae Comănescu, Anca Mureșan, Beniamin Popescu, and Elena Scutaru.
Centered around the concept of the studio, "Untimely Encounters" is a creative context meant to foster community and simultaneously raise awareness of existing issues, in the hope of identifying solutions — taking on the dimensions of a manifesto. The studio is an essential space for creation, a place of work and contemplation, away from the world. It allows artists to experiment, to destroy, to build, to discard — free from judgment. This “separate room” we all need for creative development is becoming increasingly inaccessible.
The events within the "Inter-Exterior" project aim to raise awareness about the lack of affordable creative spaces for artists. Renting a studio should not mean sacrificing one's livelihood, reduced to the brink of subsistence by the rapid shifts of neoliberal capitalism. Since 1990, UAP has lost over 50% of its studios and hasn’t received a single new building. With just over 300 studios in Bucharest for 3,000 union artists, and about 300 more across the country for the remaining 3,000, artists are left with no choice but to rent from the private sector at high prices and under unstable, short-term contracts.
The exhibition "Untimely Encounters" is part of the "Inter-Exterior" project, which spans the entire month of October and includes a series of events: two exhibitions, four open studio days, and a conference, all meant to familiarize both the professional audience and the general public with the buildings and artist studios of UAPR in Piața Amzei and Șelari.
