After seeing Alexandru Mâzgăreanu’s Incendies at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, I sat down with the Romanian theatre director to discuss what lies beneath the production’s visceral intensity: inherited trauma, the limits of language, violence and its aftermath, and the unsettling possibility that truth does not always heal.

An interview with Romanian choreographer Alexandra Bălășoiu on mind-moving, a project using dance, performance, and art therapy to challenge psychiatric stigma and rethink mental health through embodied, communal experience.

A close account of working alongside curator Liviana Dan on Transylvania | Extravaganza, tracing how precision, restraint, light, architecture and historical memory become a new grammar for seeing Ștefan Câlția—and Transylvania itself.

A conversation with Mihai Dragolea on documentary filmmaking as an ethical negotiation between presence, power and trust—where the camera is never invisible, reality remains unpredictable, and representation becomes a pact rather than an act of extraction.

A conversation with Dan Perjovschi on four decades of art, journalism and activism, tracing how irony, political vigilance and a radically economical visual language shape the practice of an artist-citizen committed to lucidity rather than decoration.

A look at the 6th Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara, where Bounding Histories. Whispering Tales brings together art, memory and place across three emblematic venues, reaffirming the city’s role in the contemporary art landscape of Eastern Europe.

A journey through ORIGINS: Life’s Epic Journey at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, where immersive digital art and scientific visualisation transform the story of the universe and the emergence of life into a powerful sensory experience.

A cross-disciplinary exploration of the Danube and Oslo Fjord, where artistic and scientific research converge to examine how environmental, cultural and historical narratives shape two interconnected aquatic ecosystems.

A conversation with Ovidiu Șandor on collecting, institution-building and cultural responsibility, tracing how entrepreneurship, patronage and long-term commitment have helped shape Timișoara’s contemporary art ecosystem.

An exploration of UnWorlding by Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, where ecology, militarization and resource extraction converge to question the boundary between nature and culture in the Anthropocene.

A conversation with Diana Marincu on curatorial practice, artistic collaboration and the post-digital condition, exploring how history, aesthetics, language and generational perspective shape contemporary exhibition-making.

A look at Kunsthalle Bega, an experimental art space in Timișoara where curatorial research, artistic production, education and publishing come together to rethink the role of contemporary art institutions.

A look at Simon Denny’s recent practice, where technology, politics and cultural systems are reassembled into provocative installations that expose the structures shaping contemporary behaviour and experience.

A discussion shaped by conversations in and beyond Alex Mirutziu’s studio in 2019.

A look at Between Too Soon and Too Late, where Alex Mirutziu explores the unstable interval between thought and articulation, using Iris Murdoch’s unfinished writings to reflect on meaning as something delayed, tacit and resistant to resolution.

A reflection on Andrei Arion’s practice at Kunsthalle Bega, tracing how fragility, tension and resistance to fixed definitions shape sculptures that function less as illustrations than as incisive tools for thought.