More than 200 projects in galleries, alternative spaces, creative hubs, and artists’ studios will be open from 3 to 5 October in 18 cities across the country for White Night of the Galleries (NAG).

The public can see artworks, installations, and performances in spaces across 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).

The official NAG visiting hours are 18:00–00:00 on 3–4 October and 16:00–22:00 on 5 October. Admission is free. Venue-specific schedules are available on the NAG website (noapteagaleriilor.ro), on each city’s event pages, and on NAG’s Facebook and Instagram, organizers said.

This year’s edition centers on the NAG Bucharest focus exhibition, “24 Hour Party People / 2000–2020,” open to the public throughout October at Rezidența9 (Str. Ion Luca Caragiale 32)—a tribute to those whose presence and energy shaped Bucharest’s contemporary culture over the last two decades.

Around the exhibition, the entire month unfolds like a 24-hour loop in slow motion, remixed in real time: openings that end at midnight, community parties with clothes swaps and DJ sets, workshops that reimagine the city in collective zines, talks about the beginnings of hipster culture, fragile friendships, and scenes spilling onto the sidewalks.

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

“24 Hour Party People was an intense, intimate process for me because I got direct access to the hard drives and lives of people I danced with, lived with, explored Bucharest with, and woke up alongside on so many mornings—a big part of my first youth. It will be an exhibition like a documentary film, cut from footage taken by the main characters, following the common body we inhabited together back then,” said Mircea Topoleanu, co-curator and photographer.

White Night of the Galleries began in Bucharest 19 years ago and remains the longest-running event dedicated to Romania’s creative community. Since 2016, with its tenth edition, NAG has expanded nationwide and is now organized through a solid network of local teams in multiple cities.

Written by Aura Marinescu |  3 OCT 2025, 09:19