A City in Collage: Bucharest Becomes a Living Map of Artistic Experimentation, October 24–26, at Collage Festival 2025
In a world constantly reshaping itself from fragments, Collage Festival returns to Green Hours between October 24 and 26 with a new edition dedicated to artistic experimentation, dialogue, and exploration. Now in its third year, the festival continues to grow a vibrant community of artists and audiences who see collage not just as a technique, but as a way of thinking — a mirror of contemporary reality where images, sounds, words, and gestures overlap to create new meanings.
This year’s theme, “The New 20’s,” offers a poetic reflection on the present — a decade of fragmentation and reconnection. Through concerts, performances, installations, workshops, and talks, the festival invites the public to take part in an immersive experience where collage expands beyond the visual into the sonic, digital, and performative.
Collage Festival 2025 views collage as a living process of reconfiguring reality. In an increasingly fragmented artistic and social landscape, it transforms multiplicity into a shared language, questioning what we keep, what we let go, and how we reinvent the forms of expression that define us.
Over three days, visitors can explore a multimedia exhibition featuring works by more than 80 Romanian and international artists — both invited and selected through an open call. The program includes 5 concerts, 2 theatre performances, 6 live acts, 3 installations, 2 collage workshops (analog and digital), and open discussions with artists and curators. The festival’s online platform will continue to promote its community through portfolios, interviews, and podcasts, strengthening the sustainability and visibility of this cultural movement.
Program at Green Hours:
Friday, Oct 24 – 19:00 Unity, live performance by Oana Iordăchescu (outdoor); 20:00 curatorial and organizers’ speech (terrace); 21:00 Night Shift by Vlad Benescu (ground floor gallery); 22:00 concert: Iordache – Sorin Romanescu – Tavi Scurtu (club); 23:00 concert: Truthday x Cristiana Dicianu (club).
Saturday, Oct 25 – 12:00–15:00 labyrinth theatre performance with Oana Iordăchescu (outdoor); 15:00–17:00 scanography workshop with Maximilian Ștefănescu (indoor); 16:00–17:00 performance by Cătălin Lungu (terrace); 17:00–18:00 talk: Ion Bârlădeanu & The Making of an Artist with Dan Popescu (terrace); 18:00–19:00 video–music performance Obeah (club); 19:00–20:30 live art & music by Ortaku & Marin Grigore (terrace); 21:00 concert: Trupa ACUM with Dilimanjaro & Andrei Stan (club); 22:30 DJ set Seb (club).
Sunday, Oct 26 – 12:00–15:00 labyrinth theatre performance (outdoor); 15:00–17:00 collage workshops for children (indoor); 17:00–18:00 talk: Collage as Academic and Popular Art with Magda Dragu (gallery); 18:00–19:30 play MOLOY by Doru Drăgoi, with Laurențiu Stan (gallery); 19:00–20:30 live collage performance by Bucharest Collage Collective and Marin Grigore (terrace); 20:30–21:30 concert: Bălașa Percussion & Maxim Belciug (terrace); 22:00 concert: Barbarossa Samba Group (club); 23:00 Wodoo DJ set (club).
In a city where art constantly reinvents itself, Collage Festival stands as a celebration of overlap — a kaleidoscope of voices, rhythms, and images that invite audiences to explore the porous boundaries between arts, media, and perspectives. Here, theatre becomes image, music turns into visual matter, and the public becomes part of a collective act of discovery.
Through this edition, Bucharest Collage Collective and Celula de Artă reaffirm collage as a symbol of contemporaneity — an art of combination, curiosity, and freedom. In a world built from fragments, Collage Festival offers a space for reflection and imagination — a place where everything can be re-envisioned.
Collage Festival 2025 is a project initiated by Bucharest Collage Collective, in partnership with Celula de Artă, co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN).
Bucharest Collage Collective is part of a global movement bringing collage art to the public eye and supporting artists dedicated to this expressive medium. The collective — composed of Ada Moisă, Andrei Stan, Cristiana Bucureci, Daniel Loagar, and Ruxandra Niculae — promotes collage through exhibitions, workshops, and festivals, fostering connections between artists and audiences and asserting the importance of this visual language in contemporary art.