By The NOCA contemporary visual art gallery will host its inaugural exhibition on 17 October, the Bihor County Foundation for the Protection of Historical Monuments (Oradea Heritage) announced on Thursday.
„On 17 October 2025, Oradea will witness a first: NOCA – New Oradea Contemporary Art – opens its doors to the public. It is the city’s first centre dedicated to contemporary visual art and one of the few such spaces in Romania,” reads the Oradea Heritage press release.
The inaugural exhibition, „A sphinx, a beast and a girl; a unicorn, a chimera and a mixed body,” is curated by Suzana Vasilescu and Cristina Vasilescu and brings together works by emblematic artists from the Romanian and European contemporary scene: Apparatus 22, Vioara Bara, Stefan Bertalan, Alex Bodea, Ana Botezatu, Michele Bressan, Rudolf Bone, Christian Jankowski, Marta Jakobovits, Ciprian Muresan, Miron Schmuckle, Ion Tuculescu and Ecaterina Vrana.
The exhibition explores the realm of the fantastic and the hybrid,…
