“Nucleu 0010. Inopportune Encounters,” the first exhibition, launched a series of collaborations between artists from the Nucleu group and those with studios provided by the Union of Visual Artists from Romania (UAPR), drawing attention to the critical need for affordable studios for artists.

The first two Inopportune Encounters exhibitions resulted from the documentation of three artist studio spaces in Bucharest. However, for the third edition, we shifted our focus to Râmnicu Vâlcea, where an old, derelict water plant was transformed by the city hall and the local Union of Artists into four new studios. These studios, offered to only four artists, represent the only ones built by the Romanian Union of Artists since the 1990s.

The curatorial project highlights a critical issue for the contemporary art scene: the increasingly limited access to affordable creative spaces. Framed as a manifesto, it establishes a platform for dialogue and solidarity, centered on the studio as an essential space for creation, reflection, and experimentation.

The studio is presented as a sanctuary for artists—a space removed from the world, where they can freely experiment, destroy, rebuild, discard, and create without the pressure of judgment.

This exhibition does not pursue an aesthetic goal or serve as the final outcome of collaborations. It is not arranged according to conventional standards of “coherence” but instead focuses on the artistic experience rooted in the process of “encounter,” with the purpose of exchanging ideas and exploring the unexpected opportunities that arise from “conversation for the sake of conversation.”