Urban Art Annual: Official Closing


Sunday, 12.10, Ploiești
UZUC Factory
Time 12:00
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
10.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

16:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Performance Covor plante poezie
with Ioana Marchidan (dance) & Denis Bolborea (music) & Ana-Maria Pop (performer)
19:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Music Social Event
20:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
SATURDAY
11.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

10:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Workshop “Empathy and Solidarity in Urban Inclusion”
with local communities & NGOs
11:00 - 13:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Photo-Walk în UZUC
with Ruxandra Lipan
12:00 - 15:00
UZUC
A workshop about seeing differently: we explore Uzuc with our cameras, our eyes, and our intuition. We are not seeking the perfect image, but the story behind it, the traces of time, the quiet of the walls, and the way the place still breathes.
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
FRIDAY
10.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

16:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Performance Covor plante poezie
with Ioana Marchidan (dance) & Denis Bolborea (music) & Ana-Maria Pop (performer)
19:00 - 20:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Music Social Event
20:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
SATURDAY
11.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

10:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Workshop “Empathy and Solidarity in Urban Inclusion”
with local communities & NGOs
11:00 - 13:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Photo-Walk în UZUC
with Ruxandra Lipan
12:00 - 15:00
UZUC
A workshop about seeing differently: we explore Uzuc with our cameras, our eyes, and our intuition. We are not seeking the perfect image, but the story behind it, the traces of time, the quiet of the walls, and the way the place still breathes.
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
Rocket Building Workshop
with Caravana ROSPIN
14:00 - 20:00
UZUC
Fundraising Workshop “The Science of Asking”
with Livia Florea
14:00 - 15:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
A workshop for those who want to turn an idea into reality. Starting from the values behind cultural projects, participants explore how to find funding sources, principles for crafting a compelling pitch, and ways to speak convincingly about their own artistic endeavors. An exercise in clarity and courage, about cultivating confidence in what you do and finding the right language to persuade.
Psychogeography Workshop
with Sorina Dumitru & HUBS Association
15:30 - 17:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Human experience is almost never dimensionally exact. The paths we find through a city are only a sequence of landmarks to which we attach memories. Participants are invited to cut out and assemble spatially inexact maps that tell a personal story. The cut-outs don't even need to come from the same city.
Exhibition Finishing “Echoes from nowhere”
curator Mihai Zgondoiu
15:00 - 22:00
Pavilion N1
Exhibition Opening “Genius Loci: reconstrucția memoriei”
Artown NOW x architecture department, “Carmen Sylva” High School, Ploiești
15:00 - 22:00
Pavilion N3
Mădălina Pavăl Acoustic Concert
Intimate concert with Mădălina Pavăl Trio
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.
Rocket Building Workshop
with Caravana ROSPIN
14:00 - 20:00
UZUC
Fundraising Workshop “The Science of Asking”
with Livia Florea
14:00 - 15:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
A workshop for those who want to turn an idea into reality. Starting from the values behind cultural projects, participants explore how to find funding sources, principles for crafting a compelling pitch, and ways to speak convincingly about their own artistic endeavors. An exercise in clarity and courage, about cultivating confidence in what you do and finding the right language to persuade.
Psychogeography Workshop
with Sorina Dumitru & HUBS Association
15:30 - 17:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
Human experience is almost never dimensionally exact. The paths we find through a city are only a sequence of landmarks to which we attach memories. Participants are invited to cut out and assemble spatially inexact maps that tell a personal story. The cut-outs don't even need to come from the same city.
Exhibition Finishing “Echoes from nowhere”
curator Mihai Zgondoiu
15:00 - 22:00
Pavilion N1
Exhibition Opening “Genius Loci: reconstrucția memoriei”
Artown NOW x architecture department, “Carmen Sylva” High School, Ploiești
15:00 - 22:00
Pavilion N3
Mădălina Pavăl Acoustic Concert
Intimate concert with Mădălina Pavăl Trio
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
12.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

10:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Ideas Lab for Reimagining Industrial Spaces
with Matei Ietam
13:00 - 14:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
Participants are invited to discuss, observe, and map ways in which warehouses, factories, and abandoned spaces can come alive again. A collective exercise in urban thinking and imagination, seeking new meanings for the city's built past.
Ceramics Workshop
with Baad Clay
14:30 - 16:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
A workshop on the role of bas-relief in mural art and the expression of form. Participants will create four tiles with different relief techniques, exploring how light, texture, and touch can transform a surface into a story.
Workshop Paper Making - plantable paper
with Argaia
16:30 - 18:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
A workshop about cycles and new beginnings. We start with a brief history of paper and move to the act of recreating it from simple, recycled materials, giving it life through embedded seeds. In the end, the paper is planted, grows, and transforms, a complete cycle that speaks to care, resources, and the ways we can give back to nature.
Closing DJ Party
with Robert & Ana
18:00 - 22:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
We organize curatorial tours on request for groups, also during weekdays. Please contact us for more details.
SUNDAY
12.10
Curatorial Tours
in UZUC Factory
*once every 2h
supported by

10:00 - 21:00
Str. Marin Brutaru 14
Ideas Lab for Reimagining Industrial Spaces
with Matei Ietam
13:00 - 14:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
Participants are invited to discuss, observe, and map ways in which warehouses, factories, and abandoned spaces can come alive again. A collective exercise in urban thinking and imagination, seeking new meanings for the city's built past.
Ceramics Workshop
with Baad Clay
14:30 - 16:30
Artown NOW Warehouse
A workshop on the role of bas-relief in mural art and the expression of form. Participants will create four tiles with different relief techniques, exploring how light, texture, and touch can transform a surface into a story.
Workshop Paper Making - plantable paper
with Argaia
16:30 - 18:00
Artown NOW Warehouse
A workshop about cycles and new beginnings. We start with a brief history of paper and move to the act of recreating it from simple, recycled materials, giving it life through embedded seeds. In the end, the paper is planted, grows, and transforms, a complete cycle that speaks to care, resources, and the ways we can give back to nature.
Closing DJ Party
with Robert & Ana
18:00 - 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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