Music // Theatre // Visual Arts

The UNAGE Alumni Exhibition Iași 2025 is a project of the National University of Arts "George Enescu" (UNAGE) in Iași, which aims to present, in the public space of Iași, the diversity of forms of artistic expression specific to the concerns of its students and graduates. Now in its second edition, the project includes a selection of images from various bachelor's or dissertation works by graduates of the three faculties of UNAGE, namely the Faculty of Interpretation, Composition and Theoretical Music Studies, the Faculty of Theatre and the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design. 

Information about the institution (faculties, departments and research centers) is presented, as well as photographs from theater and choreography performances, concerts and recitals, visual art works and exhibitions or discursive events, highlighting the plurality of formats and artistic manifestations in which UNAGE graduates express themselves - we learn from the project team. 

165 years after the establishment of modern artistic education in Iași, the National University of Arts "George Enescu" is a reference institution in higher artistic education in Romania, with over 1600 students today and 45 study programs for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, covering the essential fields of art. As an institution of artistic education and research, it has the assumed mission of shaping and cultivating talents, characters and personalities, of training well-trained specialists, who can offer the public a quality cultural act, through a sustained activity of creation and scientific and artistic research, ensuring the progress of Romanian art and culture, in an international socio-cultural context.

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Content editors: Lavinia German, Dalia Rusu-Persic, Andrei Enoiu-Pânzariu, Ioana Bujoreanu

Project coordinator: Cătălin Soreanu

Photos by Cătălin Marinescu

Contemporary artist Mirela Iordache, known for her artistic and interdisciplinary experiments, is now presenting a new solo exhibition. 

The exhibition “Gesture Fluidity” is on display at Art Yourself Gallery in Bucharest and “represents the rhythm, force and spontaneity of the artistic gesture, captures the moment when thought seems to dissolve, and the hands instinctively follow their own path. The works on display are visual echoes of an organic process, in which matter and movement merge into a single matter. The techniques used emphasize the force and dynamics of materials, the interaction of pigments and other materials, with the surface of the canvas highlighting the physical imprint of the gesture from beginning to end” – the artist explains.

“The exhibition investigates the relationship between gesture and work surface in the artistic process.

The pictorial gesture is not only a technical act, but also a projection of an inner state, a dialogue between intention and accident, between order and chaos, between visible and invisible, as the gesture unfolds, the surface of the work becomes a territory of gestural memory, preserving the traces of each impulse, each rhythm of the hand that creates them. 

The viewer is invited to follow this visual flow, to discover the matter and expression of the gesture that seems to flow through the impression of movement it suggests.”

Exhibitions and recognition

Throughout her career spanning almost two decades, Mirela Iordache has participated in over 90 solo, group and collective exhibitions in Romania, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan and the Republic of Moldova. Her works have been selected for prestigious international competitions, such as the Strabag Artaward International Competition and the Triennale Européenne de l’Estampe Contemporaine. 

Her recent projects include “Experiment Inside”, an exhibition presented at the Casa cu Lei in Bistrița-Năsăud, “Aterniger” at the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chișinău, “Aterniger 2” at the Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, “Suspension” (Evangelical Church in Herina) and “Fragmentum Caeli” (Bistrița), which highlight the artist’s interest for the interaction between art, public space and architectural space.