16/06/2026
From Resource to Landscape:
Roșia Montană between Memory, Activism, and Regeneration
Thursday — June 25, 2025 · Anca Poterașu Gallery · Free admission
Starting from the exhibition Fragments of Poetic Nature, the evening brings together a documentary screening and a public discussion focused on Roșia Montană: its memory, the civic struggle that helped protect it, and the questions that remain open following its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021.
📎Film Screening · 5:30 PM
Children of Uranium (2009)
Directed by Adina Popescu & Iulian Ghervas
Băița Plai was a mining settlement established in the Apuseni Mountains around uranium extraction for the Soviet nuclear program. Through the testimonies of former miners and local residents, the documentary revisits this community, examining the social and environmental impacts of extractive industries and the long-term costs of an economy built on resource exploitation.
📎Public Discussion · 7:00 PM
Iulian Bisericaru, Ștefania Simion, Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Iulian Bisericaru, Ștefania Simion, and Ștefan Ghenciulescu will discuss a place that has survived, yet is still searching for its direction. They will reflect on the consequences of two decades of civic resistance and on the role of art at a moment when political and social narratives seem to have reached their limits.
Roșia Montană is a territory of overlapping layers—Roman, industrial, socialist, and post-socialist—carrying a recent history shaped by the clash between two irreconcilable visions of value: the gold beneath the ground or the land itself.
Its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021 marked the end of an important chapter, but the story remains open.
On June 25, we invite you to join a conversation about what comes after a victory. About how a place that has survived can redefine itself, even as its future remains uncertain. And about what art can do when the arguments have been exhausted.
