BT Contemporary Art Program 2025 – the exhibition of the selected works
(Contemporar)

Artists:
Delia Avram, Marius Bodea, Adrian Buda, Anca Brânzaș, Celina Cordoș, Corina Păcurar, Daria Langa, Andrei Ispas, Ingrid Farcaș, Greti Papiu, Natalia Lazurca, Eugen Roșca, Paul Robaș, Sergiu Toma, Codruț Zele

The BT Contemporary Art Program, developed by the Cluj Cultural Centre for Banca Transilvania, supports and promotes the contemporary art scene in Cluj through an annual acquisition fund that includes works across multiple media: painting, sculpture, photography, installation and graphic art. For the first time since the program’s inception, the selection for this edition will be presented in a dedicated exhibition hosted at Contemporar.

The exhibition presents the third edition of the program and brings together 15 works by artists connected to the Cluj art scene, selected based on proposals by Andreea Cărăușu & Hunor Vécsei, Mihai Pop, and Florin Ștefan.

The works explore the relationship between image, memory and personal experience. Beyond differences in medium or subject, they can be read as variations on how the artistic gesture constructs affective spaces, at times dense and introspective, at others luminous, fragile, or suspended between reality and imagination, carrying symbolic or deeply personal meanings.

A first visual register emerges through concentrated atmospheres, where images are shaped by subtle contrasts of light and shadow and by human presences immersed in introspection (Marius Bodea, Codruț Zele, Eugen Roșca).

In a related direction, yet more oriented toward scenography and compositional construction, the works of Delia Avram and Sergiu Toma explore painting as a kind of directorial device, evoking the atmosphere of theatre or historical painting.

In the practices of Celina Cordoș, Greti Papiu, Corina Păcurar and Anca Brânzaș, the image unfolds through delicate tonalities and fragile surfaces, where drawing and color become instruments for revealing intimate spaces, inner states and emotional memory. In the paintings of Andrei Ispas and Daria Langa, landscape and exterior space similarly appear as places of filtered light and contemplative distance.

Finally, several practices emphasize the materiality of the image and the slow process of its making, the layered painterly surfaces in the works of Paul Robaș, or the transformation of everyday objects into contemplative presences in the work of Natalia Lazurca, resonate with the manual gestures of embroidery explored by Ingrid Farcaș and Adrian Buda.

Exhibition: March 10 – May 9, 2026

Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 15:00 – 19:00