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.
FRIDAY
3.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
16:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Behind the scenes
A sneak peek into the process of Movement Laboratory (Netherlands)
16:00 - 18:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
A Selection of Short Films
with Short Film Breaks
19:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Music Social Event
20:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
FRIDAY
3.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
16:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Behind the scenes
A sneak peek into the process of Movement Laboratory (Netherlands)
16:00 - 18:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
A Selection of Short Films
with Short Film Breaks
19:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Music Social Event
20:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
SATURDAY
4.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

12:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Workshop UrbanUP - Generația care schimbă orașul
with FJT Prahova
Minimum recommended age: 15 years
14:00 - 15:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
Movement Workshop
with Movement Laboratory
15:30 - 16:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
(you can expect movement games, individual and group exercises to connect with the spacial environment, music rhythms, and get a peek into dramaturgy and storytelling with your body)
Vinyl Dj Set - triphop & acid jazz
with Tripolar
17:30 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Playdance - instant composition performance
with Movement Laboratory (Netherlands)
20:00 - 20:40
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
SATURDAY
4.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

12:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Workshop UrbanUP - Generația care schimbă orașul
with FJT Prahova
Minimum recommended age: 15 years
14:00 - 15:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
Movement Workshop
with Movement Laboratory
15:30 - 16:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
(you can expect movement games, individual and group exercises to connect with the spacial environment, music rhythms, and get a peek into dramaturgy and storytelling with your body)
Vinyl Dj Set - triphop & acid jazz
with Tripolar
17:30 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Playdance - instant composition performance
with Movement Laboratory (Netherlands)
20:00 - 20:40
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
SUNDAY
5.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

12:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Doodling Workshop: Everything Is Wrong
with Laur Doodles
14:00 - 15:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Minimum recommended age: 15 years
A workshop about the power of mistakes and how they help us see the world differently, focusing not on aesthetic perfection but on expressing emotions and ideas that convey an authentic message.
Ceramic Workshop
with Liliana Basarab
15:30 - 17:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Open to both children and adults.
TALK MARe x Artown The place remembers: GORZO
17:00 - 18:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
A Selection of Short Films
with Short Film Breaks
19:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Music Social Event
20:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
SUNDAY
5.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

12:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Doodling Workshop: Everything Is Wrong
with Laur Doodles
14:00 - 15:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Minimum recommended age: 15 years
A workshop about the power of mistakes and how they help us see the world differently, focusing not on aesthetic perfection but on expressing emotions and ideas that convey an authentic message.
Ceramic Workshop
with Liliana Basarab
15:30 - 17:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Open to both children and adults.
TALK MARe x Artown The place remembers: GORZO
17:00 - 18:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
A Selection of Short Films
with Short Film Breaks
19:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Music Social Event
20:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.



// 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
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