The 19th edition of Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor (NAG) – White Night of the Galleries will unfold over three nights, October 3–5, in Bucharest and 16 other cities across Romania. NAG brings together more than 200 projects hosted in galleries, alternative spaces, creative hubs, and artists’ studios in Bucharest, Alba Iulia, Arad, Brașov, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Galați, Hunedoara, Iași, Mediaș, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Reșița, Sfântu Gheorghe, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, Timișoara, and the Jiu Valley (Petrila and Petroșani).

According to the organizers, official visiting hours are 6:00 p.m. – midnight on October 3 and 4, and 4:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. on October 5. Entry is free. Detailed schedules for each location can be found at www.noapteagaleriilor.ro, as well as on the dedicated event pages for each city and NAG’s official Facebook and Instagram accounts. 

Focus NAG Bucharest: 24 Hour Party People / 2000–2020 at Rezidența9

This year’s edition centers on the Focus NAG Bucharest exhibition, “24 Hour Party People / 2000–2020”, open throughout October at Rezidența9 (32 Ion Luca Caragiale Street). The show pays tribute to those whose presence and energy helped shape Bucharest’s contemporary cultural scene over the past two decades. Once labeled “proto-hipsters,” they were, at the time, simply the coolest people in town.

Around this exhibition, the entire month of October unfolds like a 24-hour loop in slow motion and real-time remix: late-night openings, community swap parties with DJ sets, workshops that rewrite the city into handmade collective publications, discussions about the rise of hipster culture, fragile friendships, and sidewalks turned into sprawling stages.

“This project doesn’t invite a nostalgic flip through a photo album, but rather a visual exercise to remind us all that good times pass, just as the bad ones do. It’s an alternative re-enactment of lived moments, when day and night were an endless loop of events and we were never truly alone,” said Suzana Dan, founder of NAG.

“For me, 24 Hour Party People was an intense and intimate process, because I was given direct access to the hard drives and lives of people I once danced, lived, and wandered through Bucharest with — waking up together on countless mornings. It’s going to be an exhibition like a documentary film, edited from the footage of the main characters, tracing the shared body we inhabited back then,” added Mircea Topoleanu, co-curator and photographer then and now.

About NAG

Launched in Bucharest 19 years ago, Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor remains Romania’s longest-running event dedicated to the creative community. Since its 10th edition in 2016, NAG has expanded nationwide, today being organized through a strong network of local partners across multiple cities.