Urban Art Annual: Official Opening


Friday, 12.09, Ploiești
Factory UZUC
Time 17:00
Urban Art Annual
12 SEPT - 12 OCT
2025
Urban Art Annual
12 SEPT - 12 OCT
2025
Urban Art Annual
12 SEPT - 12 OCT
2025
Sculptures
Urban Art Annual
12 SEPT - 12 OCT
2025
Sculptures
Urban Art Annual
12 SEPT - 12 OCT
2025
Urban Art Annual
12 SEPT - 12 OCT
2025
Exhibitions
Urban Art Annual
GENIUS LOCI: The Spirit of Place, The Temple of Time
Artown NOW is an Urban Art Annual event conceived as a public mechanism for civic imagination, transforming spectators into co-authors, turning neutral spaces into places of meaning, and bringing co-presence as a practice of existence into the city, from the self to the collective.
When an artistic gesture takes root in a place, the place transforms. It becomes sacred through creation, attention, and care, acquiring form, duration, and promise. In this way, artistic intervention functions as a ritual of founding, and each work reconfigures the relationship between space and community, turning a fragment of the city into a microsystem of meaning. Here, images assume their full role, as material formations and instruments for activating collective memory. They attract and distract, summon certain spirits and dispel others, protect the place while simultaneously exposing it. From this emerges the urban pilgrimage: a work becomes a destination, and the journey toward it becomes a practice of presence.
Schedule
19.09
Curatorial Tour
in UZUC Factory
*every hour
18:00 - 20:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Film Screening
“CLASAT” directed by Horia Cucuta & George ve Gänæaard
with Short Film Breaks
20:00 - 22:00
Hala Artown NOW
20.09
Curatorial Tour
in UZUC Factory
*every hour
16:00 - 19:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Artist talk & Screening of the video art work
“CALLING” produced by Alexandra Dumitrescu & Ana-Cristina Irian
with Alexandra Dumitrescu & Ana-Cristina Irian & Visual Arts Forum Association
19:30 - 21:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
21.09
Curatorial Tour
in UZUC Factory
*every hour
11:00 - 15:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Creative Collage Workshop
with Artown team
open to both children and adults
14:00 - 16:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
DJ Day party
Daytime Extended Edition with Andu Simion & Tea Bee
15:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Schedule
19.09
Curatorial Tour
in UZUC Factory
*every hour
18:00 - 20:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Film Screening “CLASAT” directed by Horia Cucuta & George ve Gänæaard
with Short Film Breaks
20:00 - 22:00
Hala Artown NOW
20.09
Curatorial Tour
in UZUC Factory
*every hour
16:00 - 19:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Artist talk & Screening of the video art work “CALLING” produced by Alexandra Dumitrescu & Ana-Cristina Irian
with Alexandra Dumitrescu & Ana-Cristina Irian & Visual Arts Forum Association
19:30 - 21:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Schedule
21.09
Curatorial Tour
in UZUC Factory
*every hour
11:00 - 15:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Creative Collage Workshop
with Artown team
open to both children and adults
20:00 - 22:00
Hala Artown NOW
DJ Day party
Daytime Extended Edition with Andu Simion & Tea Bee
15:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse



// AeuL // Artez // Arzoiu Beatrice // Beatrice Von Babel // Alex Baciu // Oana Barbonie // Cătălin Bătrânu // Line Bordoiseau // Sînziana Cadar // CHEKOS // Comic Blues // Andrei Costache // Andra Achim // Raluca-Ilaria Demetrescu // Ecaterina Poca // Ana Toma // Maria Staicu // Emily Eldridge // Dumitru Gorzo // Loreta Isac // Albert Kaan // Kitra // KSELE // Federico Lamas // Andrei Leontin // Elléna Lourens // Alina Marinescu // Alberto Montes // Razvan Nastase // NeSpoon // NULO // OCU // Adrian Piciorea // Plan B // Dmitri Potapov // Pren // Slava Ptrk // Lea Rasovszky // Soare Valentin // Laura Șoneriu // Aer Wear x Andreea Esca, by Sweet Damage Crew // Ciprian Tauciuc // Ovidiu Toader // Twee Muizen // Alexia Vulpe // Wuper
Meet the artists


Let’s wander through the city.
Open Calls
Artists
A permanent, open invitation for muralists, street artists, illustrators, visual poets. For anyone who uses public space as a canvas for imagination, memory, protest, or play. Send us your portfolio and your ideas. Selection takes place throughout the year.
Walls
Do you have a free wall? Register it in our program and let it become a meeting place between the city, art, and community. Submissions are open year-round, with selection taking place continuously.






