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The Multicultural Center of Transilvania University
Bd. Eroilor 29

The Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University of Brașov is a space dedicated to intercultural dialogue, artistic experimentation, and the promotion of academic values through contemporary art and innovative cultural practices. Over the years, the Centre has become a landmark on the city’s cultural map, hosting visual art exhibitions, concerts, talks, performances, and film screenings. With a strong openness to interdisciplinary and international collaborations, the Multicultural Centre supports emerging artistic production while also welcoming established voices from the Romanian and European art scenes. Located in the heart of Brașov, the Centre serves as a bridge between academia, the art world, and the general public.

The Meadow. Reimaging the Cultural Hearth in Fundata

INSTALATIE


Tip eveniment
VERNISAJ la NAG
Perioada Expozitie
03.10.2025 - 26.10.2025
Artists:
Ana Barbu Uzura, Ana Kun, Bogdan Iancu, Cosmin Manolache, Diana Miron, Elena Vlădăreanu, Iuliana Dumitriu, Ionela Ghețe, Irina Botea Bucan, Jane Jerardi, Jon Dean, Katia Pascariu, Laurențiu Coțac, Leandro Pisano, Lila Passima, Mane Hellenthal, Maria Doni,
Curators:
Irina Botea Bucan & Jon Dean

The exhibition presents the outcomes of two year's artistic and cultural work to reactivate the cultural hearth in Fundata through interdisciplinary workshops, community visits, companion films and in-situ installations. Participatory co-created activities included: mixed media, discussion, storytelling, embroidery, contemporary dance, illustration, fanzines, cyanotype, music composition, sound editing, singing, 16mm film, photography, collage, collective story writing and theatre. The title of the exhibition comes from the gesture of children gathering flowers from meadows in Fundata, and then given as gifts to the artists leading workshops, as well as discovering and gathering local medicinal plants with inter-generational members of the community in Fundata; moments of joy, reciprocity and learning together. It also echo's Robert Duncan's poem "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow", in which a meadow is a space of "first permission". How can the cultural hearth re-become an important place for the community, a place for both collective and individual multidimensional development, a place for the "first permission"? The exhibition presents the methodologies and artefacts produced during a two year artistic and cultural work that meant to reactivate the cultural hearth in Fundata through interdisciplinary workshops, community visits, companion films and in-situ installations. Participatory co-created activities included: mixed media, discussion, storytelling, embroidery, contemporary dance, illustration, fanzines, cyanotype, music composition, sound editing, singing, 16mm film, photography, collage, collective story writing and theatre. The title of the exhibition comes from the gesture of children gathering flowers from meadows in Fundata, and then given as gifts to the artists leading workshops, as well as discovering and gathering local medicinal plants with inter-generational members of the community in Fundata; moments of joy, reciprocity and learning together. It also echo's Robert Duncan's poem "Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow", in which a meadow is a space of "first permission". How can the cultural hearth re-become an important place for the community, a place for both collective and individual multidimensional development, a place for the "first permission"?