NATURE AFTER NATURE
Opening | October 1, 2025, 19:00
Dates | October 1 - October 18, 2025, 14:00–19:00.
Venue | Garrison Command, 5 Liberty Square, Timișoara, Romania
Curators | Ileana Pintilie, Raluca Oancea, Cristian Nae
Artists | Dan Acostioaei, Matei Bejenaru, Josépha Blanchet, Ole Blank, Irina Botea Bucan, Eglė Budvytytė, Geta Brătescu, Floriama Cândea, Zoița Delia Călinescu, Lorena Cocioni, Giulia Crețulescu, Suzana Dan, Andreea David, Dragoș Dogioiu, Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter, Constantin Flondor, Lavinia German, Cosmin Haiaș, Michael Höpfner, Mălina Ionescu, Iosif Király, Aurora Király, Ana Kun, Kopacz Kund, Andrei Mateescu, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Martin, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu-Popa, Mircea Modreanu, Ana Maria Micu, Marina Oprea, Raluca Paraschiv, Tudor Pătrașcu, Dan Perjovschi, Dan Vișovan/Bogdan Rața, Claudia Retegan, Catalin Rulea, Sergiu Sas, Ovidiu Toader, Miki Velciov, Mihai Zgondoiu
Parteners | SIMULTAN Festival, AICA Lituania, Galerie itinérante Neli D. Paris, Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu” Iași, ICMA - Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Artă, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Universitatea de Artă și Design din Cluj-Napoca, Forumul Cultural Austriac, Revista ARTA, Asociația Peisagiștilor din România - AsoP, Asociatia Parcul Natural Văcărești, Asociația REC (RESURSE PENTRU EDUCAȚIE ȘI CULTURĂ), Radio Romania International, Asociația T-ACT, Revista Propagarta, Revista ARHITECTURA.
Funded by | Municipality of Timișoara through its Center for Projects
Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration
The exhibition is initiated by ADN • Art Dialog Nature – an interdisciplinary eco-art platform in Romania. Exhibitions, interventions, and debates that reconfigure the relationship between the human and the non-human. The exhibition program will be held in partnership with SIMULTAN Festival and will include a debate, guided tours, and cultural mediation activities.
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Opening | October 1, 2025, 19:00
Dates | October 1 - October 18, 2025, 14:00–19:00.
Venue | Garrison Command, 5 Liberty Square, Timișoara, Romania
Curators | Ileana Pintilie, Raluca Oancea, Cristian Nae
Artists | Dan Acostioaei, Matei Bejenaru, Josépha Blanchet, Ole Blank, Irina Botea Bucan, Eglė Budvytytė, Geta Brătescu, Floriama Cândea, Zoița Delia Călinescu, Lorena Cocioni, Giulia Crețulescu, Suzana Dan, Andreea David, Dragoș Dogioiu, Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter, Constantin Flondor, Lavinia German, Cosmin Haiaș, Michael Höpfner, Mălina Ionescu, Iosif Király, Aurora Király, Ana Kun, Kopacz Kund, Andrei Mateescu, Cătălin Marinescu, Radu Martin, Andreea Medar, Liliana Mercioiu-Popa, Mircea Modreanu, Ana Maria Micu, Marina Oprea, Raluca Paraschiv, Tudor Pătrașcu, Dan Perjovschi, Dan Vișovan/Bogdan Rața, Claudia Retegan, Catalin Rulea, Sergiu Sas, Ovidiu Toader, Miki Velciov, Mihai Zgondoiu
Parteners | SIMULTAN Festival, AICA Lituania, Galerie itinérante Neli D. Paris, Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu” Iași, ICMA - Institutul de Cercetare Multidisciplinară în Artă, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Universitatea de Artă și Design din Cluj-Napoca, Forumul Cultural Austriac, Revista ARTA, Asociația Peisagiștilor din România - AsoP, Asociatia Parcul Natural Văcărești, Asociația REC (RESURSE PENTRU EDUCAȚIE ȘI CULTURĂ), Radio Romania International, Asociația T-ACT, Revista Propagarta, Revista ARHITECTURA.
Funded by | Municipality of Timișoara through its Center for Projects
Cultural project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration
The exhibition is initiated by ADN • Art Dialog Nature – an interdisciplinary eco-art platform in Romania. Exhibitions, interventions, and debates that reconfigure the relationship between the human and the non-human. The exhibition program will be held in partnership with SIMULTAN Festival and will include a debate, guided tours, and cultural mediation activities.
www.instagram.com/adn.arta.dialog.natura
www.facebook.com/people/ADN-ArtaDialogNatura/100023737492236/
The artistic research project “Nature after Nature” explores the territory between art and ecology, approaching the latter not as a technocratic system or an extractive resource, but as a network of practices of care and coexistence between human and non-human agents. Plants, animals, clouds, and soil are therefore not regarded as mere decorative backdrops, but as ontological and political subjects—co-agents capable of relation, affect, and engagement in both artistic and philosophical processes. Space is fractured into “places of dwelling,” time becomes slow, repetitive, rhizomatic. The perspective is one of continuity and entanglement, which captures, in the spirit of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, both moments of hybridization—when human “flesh” flows into the “flesh” of the world—and moments of “reversibility,” when the landscape represented by the artist seems to gaze back.
Post-anthropocentric ethics intersects with an aesthetics that transcends mere representation, a perspective that may be read through the lens of “remediation” as defined by Bolter & Grusin: a remediation aimed not only at reinterpreting previous artistic forms, but at re-discovering nature itself, filtered through centuries of images, layers of scientific knowledge, and technological mediation. The traditional landscape, as the “old medium” of nature offered to vision, is thus deconstructed through “new media” that sustain contemporary artistic strategies and multisensory, participatory experiences.
“Nature after Nature” opens, in this context, a space of reciprocal listening, inviting us to rethink our relationship with the living world not as an inert backdrop, but as a partner in dialogue. From an object of contemplation or an exploitable resource, nature becomes an active agent in the co-production of meaning: bio-art, immersive installations, and eco-activist interventions that integrate living matter and place it in relation to technological instruments and interfaces such as virtual reality. At the same time, the exhibition reconstructs ecological genealogies from Romanian art and brings them into contact with contemporary practices, proposing in Timișoara a way of inhabiting the earth grounded in care and coexistence. Conceived as a living organism, “Nature after Nature” thus brings together transgenerational perspectives that intersect, converse, collaborate, and differentiate themselves within constellations that do not aim to impose a single meaning upon nature, but rather to (re)teach us how to listen to it.
Post-anthropocentric ethics intersects with an aesthetics that transcends mere representation, a perspective that may be read through the lens of “remediation” as defined by Bolter & Grusin: a remediation aimed not only at reinterpreting previous artistic forms, but at re-discovering nature itself, filtered through centuries of images, layers of scientific knowledge, and technological mediation. The traditional landscape, as the “old medium” of nature offered to vision, is thus deconstructed through “new media” that sustain contemporary artistic strategies and multisensory, participatory experiences.
“Nature after Nature” opens, in this context, a space of reciprocal listening, inviting us to rethink our relationship with the living world not as an inert backdrop, but as a partner in dialogue. From an object of contemplation or an exploitable resource, nature becomes an active agent in the co-production of meaning: bio-art, immersive installations, and eco-activist interventions that integrate living matter and place it in relation to technological instruments and interfaces such as virtual reality. At the same time, the exhibition reconstructs ecological genealogies from Romanian art and brings them into contact with contemporary practices, proposing in Timișoara a way of inhabiting the earth grounded in care and coexistence. Conceived as a living organism, “Nature after Nature” thus brings together transgenerational perspectives that intersect, converse, collaborate, and differentiate themselves within constellations that do not aim to impose a single meaning upon nature, but rather to (re)teach us how to listen to it.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
Marina Oprea (within "Notes Between Us", a collaboration between Revista Arta and The Institute of the Present, initiated by Ștefania Ferchedău), Making Kin — What Comes After Nature, November 11, 2025, Revista Arta
Marina Oprea (within "Notes Between Us", a collaboration between Revista Arta and The Institute of the Present, initiated by Ștefania Ferchedău), Making Kin — What Comes After Nature, November 11, 2025, Revista Arta
MY WORKS WITHIN THE PROJECT
weather and communication ... The elevated, 2025, video and painting installation
The video recording is employed to objectively collect unconscious mannerisms exhibited during gardening activities on an apartment balcony. The action entails the repositioning of a pot to a location that is closer to the wall than its original position. This adjustment is made with the objective of optimizing the utilization of the available space. The pot was secured with some strings, which are untied and then tied again. The painted image captures a spontaneous gesture, an unconventional position that appears to exert almost occult forces to maintain a separation between two distinct realms: the urban landscape and the domestic interior. The centrally located plants are the ones that contribute to generating potentiality.
weather and communication ... The elevated, 2025, video and painting installation
The video recording is employed to objectively collect unconscious mannerisms exhibited during gardening activities on an apartment balcony. The action entails the repositioning of a pot to a location that is closer to the wall than its original position. This adjustment is made with the objective of optimizing the utilization of the available space. The pot was secured with some strings, which are untied and then tied again. The painted image captures a spontaneous gesture, an unconventional position that appears to exert almost occult forces to maintain a separation between two distinct realms: the urban landscape and the domestic interior. The centrally located plants are the ones that contribute to generating potentiality.
weather and communication ... The elevated, 2025, video with sound, 1920 x 1080 px., 9m10s
weather and communication ... The elevated, 2025, acrylic on linen, 87 x 155 cm.
Installation Views Photo Credit: Andrei Mateescu