The first exhibition, “Nucleu 0010. Inopportune Encounters,” 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) with very affordable rents.

The first three Inopportune Encounters exhibitions resulted from the documentation-visits of three artist-studio locations in Bucharest and one building in Râmnicu Vâlcea. For our fourth exhibition, we visited Arad, where we chose 4 local artists that received studios from the Union to partner with 2 local artists and 2 from Bucharest that do not have studios from the Union of Artists, and the results of the collaborations were exhibited at the central gallery in the city, Galeria Alfa in Arad.

This curatorial program 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.  The events in the project aim to address the lack of affordable creative spaces available to artists, emphasizing that paying for a studio should not mean sacrificing one’s basic needs.

In this context, the 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.”